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Slashdot
The Case Against Intellectual Property
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/14/1914236

[0]dhilvert writes "[1]David Levine and [2]Michele Boldrin argue that
current IP laws [3]encourage an inefficient rent model and stifle the potential for [4]innovation without intellectual monopoly. Levine teaches at UCLA and maintains an [5]Economic and Game Theory page." Links

    0. mailto:dhilvert@auricle.dyndns.org
    1. 
http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/david.htm
    2. 
http://www.econ.umn.edu/~mboldrin/index.html
    3. 
http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/papers/ip.ch1.pdf
    4. 
http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/papers/ip.ch2.pdf
    5. 
http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/

iTV Standard v1.1 Released
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/14/1929210

[0]mbstone writes "The iTV Standards Initiative this week [1]announced
the release of version 1.1 of its proposed [2]iTV Production Standards, an open XML-schema-based scheme for interactive TV. In other words your set-top box or PC TV card would use the proposed standard to let you click on something displayed on your TV screen, for example, to answer a poll or buy the product featured in a commercial." Links

    0. mailto:mbstone@NoSpaM.wgn.net
    1. 
http://www.itvstandards.org/iTVPublic/news.aspx
    2. 
http://www.tvspy.com/nexttv/nexttvcolumn.cfm?t_nexttv_id=1121&page=1&t_content_cat_id=10

Computer Scientists Rally for Reliable Voting System http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/14/1948247

[0]Kim Alexander writes "Silicon Valley computer scientists, led by
Stanford professor David Dill are asking Santa Clara county to purchase a new computerized voting system only if it provides a voter verified paper trail. Their [1]concerns are based on the lack of adequate testing of these voting systems, and the fact that the software is closed-source and proprietary. Requiring a voter-verified paper trail will mitigate many of these problems. Dill's '[2]Resolution on Electronic Voting' has been endorsed by prominent computer scientists from all over the country, including Ron Rivest. Counties all over California and the US are going through a similar process. Patriotic nerds who want to do something to help protect our fundamental right to vote with confidence that our votes will be counted can help by contacting their state and local reps, writing letters to supervisors and getting informed!"
Links

    0. mailto:kimalex@calvoter.org
    1. 
http://www.calvoter.org/cvfnews
    2. 
http://verify.stanford.edu/evote.html

A Tale in the Desert
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/14/2231246

Do you need help?

Sandy99 writes "A Tale in the Desert is a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game (mmorpg) that has been in development for 4 1/2 years and goes live tomorrow. There is no killing in this game. It is all about cooperation to unlock the knowledge of Egypt. A basic overview is at [0]the official site. Discussion forums are at [1]atitd.net. Maps of Egypt and construction knowledge are at [2]atitdmaps.com. Everything has been produced by a handful of independent developers and a bunch of volunteers. This is also the first mmorpg to debut with both windows and linux clients."
Links

    0. 
http://www.atitd.com/
    1. 
http://www.atitd.net/
    2. 
http://www.atitdmaps.com/

More on the Mars Ice Cap
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/14/190221

[0]bfwebster writes "In a striking example of how a preliminary (but
wrong!) scientific conclusion can persist for decades, [1]Space.com has a story about how [2]the south polar ice cap on Mars is mostly water, not mostly carbon dioxide (dry ice), as has been stated since the late 1960s. The new finding is based on analysis of Mars Observer readings that show that the souther polar ice cap is too warm at certain seasons to be dry ice. This finding has negative implications both for those claiming that [3]liquid flow structures on Mars were caused by C02 instead of H20, as well as those who were hoping to [4]use all that CO2 for terraforming."
Links

    0. 
http://bfwa.com
    1. 
http://www.space.com/
    2. 
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mars_ice_030213.html
    3. 
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0104/01co2gullies/
    4. 
http://science.howstuffworks.com/terraforming2.htm

'Selfish Routing' Slows the Internet
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/14/1827216

Smaz writes "[0]Science Blog reports that a little love could speed things up on the Net. "Self-interest can deplete a common resource. It seems this also applies to the Internet and other computer networks, which are slowed by those who hurry the most. Fortunately, say computer scientists at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. , there is a limit to how bad the slowdown can get. And after developing tools to measure how much the performance of a particular network suffers, they say, the way to get improved performance on the Internet is the same as the way to maintain air and water quality: [1]altruism helps." Links

0. http://www.scienceblog.com/community/index.php

http://www.scienceblog.com/community/article1018.html

Goodbye, Dolly
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/14/1755200

goombah99 writes "Dolly, the famous cloned sheep has been put to death after being diagnosed with a progressive lung disease, according to many [0]reports. This follows on earlier reports that she was prematurely aging, including developing arthritis. While one should be cautious about drawing conclusions from a single data point, its interesting to speculate." Here is a link to her [1]birthplace courtesy of [2]Captain Large Face
Links

    0. 
http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/02/14/dolly_obit030214
    1. 
http://www.roslin.ac.uk/
    2. 
http://.ofni.tnargnahtanojdivad. .ta. .todhsals.

Do you need more help?

Power Laws, Weblogs, and Your Given Name http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/14/1512257

[0]gummint writes "After contemplating the blogsphere and pondering
whether [1]"diversity plus freedom of choice creates inequality", consider an old-media domain name: the one your parents gave you. How did they choose it? How many other persons have the same one? Get
[2]some facts, or [3]a lot of facts. Or just comment anyway. The good
news is that the extent of inequality can change massively over time: the popularity of the most popular given names has decreased dramatically since the Industrial Revolution." Links

    0. 
http://www.galbithink.org
    1. 
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/11/1740233&tid=149
    2. 
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=366240
    3. 
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=286288

Some Geek Guides for Dating
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/14/1336211

An anonymous reader sends in this: "In honor of upcoming V-day, here are some geek guides for help in finding your geeky match: [0]Guy's Guide to Geek Girls, [1]Girl's Guide to Geek Guys, [2]advice from a she-geek, [3]Engineer Your Love Life and [4]Bart's Dating Guide for Geeks. And for those of you who are absolutely hopeless, well, there is always [5]Coincidence Designs... It's not too late, so good luck!" Another [6]reader has some good news: "An article in [7]Discover magazine reports on research done by scientists at the [8]University of Toronto about how males attract mates. The [9]cited article claims that when males are young, the show offs are actually the ones who are least likely to succeed later on. This causes a "revenge of the nerds effect:" the football players burn out but the nerds become sexy!" And if all else fails, you can try a [10]Valentine's Day Form Letter. Links

    0. 
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~masterma/GuideToGeekGirls.html
    1. 
http://college.antioch.edu/~totally/geek.html
    2. 
http://web.mit.edu/luminea/www/geekdate.html
    3. 
http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/1285/syspaper.html
    4. 
http://www.linuxhelp.ca/guides/geekguide/
    5. 
http://www.coincidencedesign.com/
    6. mailto:goondaddee@yahoo.com
    7. 
http://www.discover.com/mar_03/breakmen.html
    8. 
http://www.utoronto.ca/
    9. 
http://www.proulxresearch.org/papers_how_males_mate.htm
   10. 
http://valentine.uacs.ca/formletter.php

Satellite Hackers Charged Under DMCA
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/14/1424247

RexHavoc writes "'Invoking the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a federal grand jury has [0]indicted six people on charges of developing software and hardware designed to hack into paid TV satellite transmissions.' My guess is that for those who haven't already plead guilty, they will have a tough time proving that they had good intentions, unlike Dmitry Sklyarov's e-books case." Links

0. http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-984408.html

Freshmeat
AlberT-cache 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112985/

Can we help you?

AlberT-cache is a fast and portable gcaching system for PHP.

cadaver 0.21.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112976/

cadaver is a command-line WebDAV client. It supports resource upload/download/display, namespace operations (copy/move), collection deletion/creation, property manipulation, and locking operations.

CensorNet 3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112973/

CensorNet is an Internet management tool that is designed to control and monitor individuals accessing Internet resources on a local area network. It features the ability to control users and machines, filter content on keyword, file extension, and MIME type, give audit trails and reports, schedule access, and limit bandwidth. It is compatible with NT/Active Directory user authentication, and can be adminstered using a Web interface. It is ideal for schools and businesses.

Chemical Development Kit 20030213 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/112990/

The Chemical Development Kit (CDK) classes are Java utitility classes for chemoinformatics and computational chemistry. They are a complete re-write of the CompChem classes that were the basis of JChemPaint, a Java Editor for 2D chemical structures, and of JMDraw, a Java package for the graphical layout of 2D chemical structures.

ChomboVis 3.11.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113023/

Can't find what you're looking for?

ChomboVis is a program for visualization of 2D and 3D AMR data sets. It is layered on top of the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) and provides a graphical and programmable user interface for interacting with the data set.

Consultant Communicator 3 beta 6 (Testing) http://freshmeat.net/releases/113004/

Consultant Communicator (ConsultComm) is a lightweight, cross-platform program that allows anyone managing multiple projects, clients, or tasks to effectively keep track of exactly how much time has been spent on each project.

CrisoftRicette 1.0pre13 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112974/

CrisoftRicette is a simple PHP application to build your personal archive of cooking recipes in a MySQL database. The interface has international support.

Digest 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112726/

Digest generates HTML index pages and image previews for collections of images. It is fast and simple, and it creates HTML that is compact, quick-rendering, and does not rely on JavaScript or CSS.

Dustismo 1.92
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113015/

Don't know where to look next?

Dustismo contains a standard sans-serif TrueType and a serifed Roman TrueType font good for most applications. It contains most common glyphs (about 360 for the sans-serif and 470 for the Roman). The sans-serif font has associated italics, bold, and bold italics.

EXACT 1.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112977/

EXACT is a program that implements POP Before SMTP Relay Authentication. It will work as is with Exim, and configuration instructions are provided in this file. It will work with Sendmail and Postfix without problems. POP Before SMTP Relay Authentication is commonly used on systems that provide both IMAP or POP services and SMTP services, to authenticate users for mail sending based on their previous authentication against an IMAP or POP server.

FiveBSD 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112962/

FiveBSD is a theme for FreeBSD 5.x desktops. The daemon drawing is one of the author's own.

Fle3 1.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113006/

Fle3 is a Web-based learning environment. More specifically, it is a server program for computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL). The Fle3 Knowledge Building tool allows groups to carry out dialogues, theory building, and debates by storing their thoughts into a shared database. While knowledge building, groups may use knowledge types (also called thinking types) to scaffold and structure their dialogues. Fle3 WebTops can be used to store items such as files and notes, organize them in folders, and share them with others. The Fle3 Jamming tool is a shared space for collaborative construction of multimedia data.

floppyfw 2.9.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112978/

Confused? Frustrated?

floppyfw is a router and simple firewall on one single floppy. It uses Linux basic firewall capabilities, and has a very simple packaging system. It is perfect for masquerading and securing networks on ADSL and cable lines, using both static IP, DHCP, and PPPoE, and provides a simple installation, which usually involves editing of only one file on the floppy.

FreeMarker 2.2rc1 (Lazarus)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112975/

FreeMarker allows Java servlets to keep graphic design separate from application logic, by encapsulating HTML in templates. Templates generate HTML dynamically, using data provided by the servlet. The template language is powerful and intuitive, the compiler is fast, and the output approaches the speed of static HTML pages.

ftpcluster 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112979/

ftpcluster integrates a number of individual FTP servers into a single large server. You can think of it as a network disk array with FTP as the access protocol.

Galmast 1.5 RC1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112992/

Galmast is a space strategy game similar in nature to Microprose Master Of Orion. It allows the colonization of planets and researching of technology as well as ship design and battles. It is written in Waba/Java and is targeted towards grayscale PDAs.

Genuts Breaker 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112993/

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Genuts Breaker is a remake of the popular classic Break-Out game. The object of the game is to avoid losing your ball and to catch it with your racket. Sometime a new ball will appear. Six levels are available.

GSpeakers 0.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113003/

GSpeakers is a GNOME loudspeaker design program built with the Gtkmm 2.0 toolkit.

Historical Event Markup and Linking Project 0_5.3-dev http://freshmeat.net/releases/112988/

Historical Event Markup and Linking Project (Heml) comprises an XML schema for historical events, and xslt/Java, which transforms conforming documents into useful and possibly new views, including charts, time-lines, and maps generated in SVG. It is not meant to be the one and only language for marking up historical events, however it does aim to be a most information-rich interchange format for historical data, and thus add an historical component to the growing movement for a 'Semantic Web.'

Impact 0.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112999/

Impact is a finite element program based on an explicit time stepping algorithm. It can be used to simulate dynamic events such as car crashes or other large deformation events. It is written in Java and is kept very simple, to make it intuitive to use and easy to change and extend. It is very flexible and can handle several different input and output formats.

Java Picture Organizer 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112624/

Do you need help?

Java Picture Organizer lets users build collections of images that they can search, browse, display, and share with others. An HTML exportation facility allows Web pages to be generated.

JChemPaint 1.9.4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112991/

JChemPaint is a Java 2 program for drawing 2D chemical structures like those found in most chemistry textbooks.

Jess 6.1b2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113010/

Jess is a fast, light rule engine and scripting environment written entirely in Java. You can build Java software that has the capacity to "reason" using knowledge you supply in the form of declarative rules. It is supplied as a programmer's library, making it ideal for embedding in larger applications. It is free for academic use and can be licensed for commercial use.

JZlib 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113007/

JZlib is a re-implementation of zlib in pure Java. The first and final aim for hacking this was to add packet compression support to pure Java SSH systems.

KricketScoreboard 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112983/

Do you need more help?

KricketScoreboard is a program for keeping scores of cricket matches. It also gives you nice features like how the match is progressing, batting and bowling statistics, etc.

Linux Security Auditing Tool 0.6.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113012/

Linux Security Auditing Tool (LSAT) is a post install security auditing tool. It is modular in design, so new features can be added quickly. It checks inetd entries and scans for unneeded RPM packages. It is being expanded to work with Linux distributions other than Red Hat, and checks for kernel versions.

Loggerithim 6.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112996/

Loggerithim is a monitoring package. It allows you to monitor your systems graphically, proactively spot problems, perform postmortems, throw alerts when bad things happen, predict future needs, and automate routine administration tasks.

MathGen 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112965/

MathGen is a random simple math problem generator. From the operators, format, etc. specified on the command line, it generates LaTeX and optionally PostScript files that can be used as math worksheets.

minEguE 1 (Russian)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112969/

Can we help you?

minEguE is a theme based on screenshots of QNX/Amiga.

Nemein.Net 1.8.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113020/

Nemein.Net is a Web-based Professional Services Automation suite including project management, time tracking, document management, sales force automation, direct marketing, help desk, and a group calendar. It runs on the Midgard application server.

Niggle Web Application Framework 1.1pre15 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113022/

The Niggle Web Application Framework is built on top of the Java Servlet API. It is based on a rigorous separation between presentation, data persistence/validation, and the dispatching logic in your application. It allows you to specify the "messy stuff" externally -- presentation is encapsulated in HTML page templates, and your metadata (the definitions of record, fields, data sources, and restrictions on fields) is defined in external XML configuration files. Web apps built on Niggle are astonishingly terse. There is a free example of a full-featured message board servlet built on top of Niggle in 600 lines of Java code. (Note that Niggle can be configured to work with the following template engines: Freemarker, WebMacro, Velocity.)

noffle 1.1.4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113024/

noffle is a news (nntp) server optimized for few users and low speed dial-up connections to the Internet. It adds offline reading capabilities to existing news readers.

Orbital Eunuchs Sniper 1.28
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112995/

Can't find what you're looking for?

Orbital Eunuchs Sniper is a simple game in which the player must control an orbital laser to prevent harm from coming to the VIPs (in blue squares) in the form of human threats (in red squares). Avoid killing the neutral humans, however, or else you may be 'retired'.

OSS2 for AOLServer 2.31
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113013/

OSS2 is a Web Application Framework for AOLServer which makes life a little bit easier in creating and deploying Web applications. The system consists of several parts: a security layer, a templating manager, a database layer, and a connection manager.

Pan 0.13.3.93
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113021/

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.

PDFGo 1.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113019/

The PDFGo.com PDF Java Library is a pure Java component for PDF file parsing and visualization, letting you view PDF files on the Web without the need of Acrobat Reader.

Perl HL7 Toolkit 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112987/

Don't know where to look next?

Perl HL7 Toolkit provides a number of Perl libraries and scripts for developing HL7-capable applications in Perl.

PHPBalanceSheet 0.0.1 pre-alpha
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112984/

PHPBalanceSheet is an effort to implement a Web-based accounting package using PHP.

phpCodeCabinet 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113016/

phpCodeCabinet allows developers to store code snippets from any language. Features include user-defined categories, syntax highlighting, an extensive search engine, a theme-based interface, user authentication, and code/category ownership privileges.

prometeo 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113017/

Prometeo is a modular, extensible proxy. It supports HTTP, FTP (with SSL support), and SSL modules. Modules can be added or removed at runtime and everything can be configured through a Web interface.

python3ds 0.22 (Usable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113002/

Confused? Frustrated?

python3ds is a small set of Python routines for reading 3ds archives. It features support for animations, textures, and collision detection, and it is compatible with pyopengl and pygame.

python3ds 0.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112998/

python3ds is a small set of Python routines for reading 3ds archives. It features support for animations, textures, and collision detection, and it is compatible with pyopengl and pygame.

QDBM: Quick DataBase Manager 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112980/

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.

Regular Statement String 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112513/

Regular Statement String (RSS) provides several libraries in C, Java, and COM to implement and demonstrate the key-value development method using well-designed "strings" (RSS) as the media.

RSSLibJ 0.1.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112982/

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

School Scheduler 4.0 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112529/

School Scheduler is a CMS for high schools which features a calendar for scheduling rooms and personal appointments.

SciLab 2.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112966/

Scilab is a matrix-based scientific software package resembling Matlab and Xmath. Scilab contains hundreds of built-in mathematical functions, sophisticated data structures (including polynomials, rationals, linear systems, lists, etc...), a high-level interpreter and a macro language, and excellent graphics. Thanks to full dynamic link capability, C and Fortran programs can be added as new functions.

Server-side FileManager 3.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112968/

Server-side FileManager is a Java servlet which implements FileManager. You can use this servlet for remote site management: upload/download files, copy/move files, edit files, etc. Its main advantage is that it uses only the HTTP protocol for access to your host, which allows it to work through most firewalls.

SpamX 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113018/

Do you need help?

SpamX is a small application which cleans unwanted email from your POP3 mail account. It does so by logging in directly to your server and deleting messages on the spot, without having to download them locally. It also includes bouncing back to spammers.

SURVIVOR 0.9b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112997/

SURVIVOR is yet another systems monitor. It consists of a POSIX-thread based scheduler written in C++ running arbitrary checks in a flexible, heterogeneous, bureaucratic, and convoluted environment. It maintains proper state, history, sanity, and attitude, and allows interaction via Web, command, and two-way messaging interfaces.

white_dune 0.21pl3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113001/

VRML97 (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) is the ISO standard for displaying 3D data over the web via browser plugins. It has support for animation, realtime interaction and multimedia (image, movie, sound). Dune can read VRML97 files, display and let the user change the scenegraph/fields, and load and store x3d (next generation VRML xml format) files if configured to work with the nist.gov x3d translators. It also has support for stereoscopic view via "quadbuffer"-capable stereo visuals.

ZynAddSubFX 1.0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112971/

ZynAddSubFX is a powerful real-time, multi- timbral software synthesizer for Linux. It has microtonal capabilities, and the instruments it creates sound like those from professional keyboards. It includes effects like reverb, echo, chorus, and phaser.

Newsforge Reports
Linux Advisory Watch - February 14th 2003 http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/14/1139257

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 w3m, wml-net, hypermail, postgresql, lynx, python, pam_xauth, fileutils, and mozilla. The distributors include Conectiva, Debian, Mandrake, and Red Hat.

Do you need more help?

Open Source in Mexico - Part Two
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/12/0146222

By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - While attending CONSOL 2003, I quickly realized that the Open Source movement in Mexico is just barely starting to discover business -- or perhaps it's the other way around. In many ways, the idea of Open Source is much more political in Mexico than in the U.S., and there is a uniquely Mexican holdback to Open Source adoption that is, sadly, a reflection of some of the worst aspects of Mexican corporate and ...

Call for parallel and distributed processing conference papers: http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/12/141246

By Barbara French, Tekrati - With the 2003 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications February 17 call-for-papers deadline approaching, Rajat P. Garg, Ph.D. with Sun Microsystems, encourages the open source community to file submissions and offers some suggested topics. You are invited to submit a draft paper of about 5 pages and/or a proposal to organize a technical session/workshop. All ...

Newsforge Newsvac
Open source threatens Java servers
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/14/1828234

Open-source software has already shaken up the operating systems business. Now, Java server software makers are feeling the heat.

Zope 2.6.1 Released
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/14/1826206

FEBRUARY 11, 2003 Zope Corporation announced the release of Zope 2.6.1, the latest version of the award-winning open source application server. The new release represents the successful global collaboration of community developers, as it is the first to contain a majority of enhancements from the Zope community.

Wireless e-mail/PIM for Domino on Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/14/1824205

SolutionPlanet writes "If you are running Lotus Domino on Linux and have been looking for a wireless email solution, you need to look no further.

Can we help you?

Corporations Targeted in Download Fight
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/14/1427233

The Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America are sending a six-page brochure this week to Fortune 1000 corporations with suggested policies _ including a sample memo to workers warning them against using company computers to download songs and movies. The brochure also carries a clear threat: Stop workers from stealing copyrighted materials or be sued.

Text service warns of attacks
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/14/1425209

Londoners are getting a text message service that will tell them what to do if terrorists attack the capital. The City Alert Texting System (Cats) will warn people where attacks are taking place and pass on information about what to do to people caught in an incident.

Intel Offers a Peek at Future CPU Designs http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/14/1424214

Chip giant tells plan for Madison, next-generation Itanium processor, due later this year.

Verizon seeks to delay ID'ing user
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/14/1423252

Verizon Communications struggled Thursday to convince a skeptical judge that it should not be forced to reveal the name of a customer alleged to have downloaded more than 600 songs over the Internet.

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Opera "borks" Microsoft
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/14/1423215

Anonymous Reader writes "In a news release today, Opera software has declared war on Microsoft Corporation. The company has released a special version of its popular browser designed to ridicule Microsoft websites."

It's Time for CodeCon 2.0
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/14/1337238

CodeCon: cool software and projects, real-life developers and all at a reasonable hour.

New Linux support policies are ominous
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/14/1336259

Red Hat and Mandrake are cutting support for older versions of their Linux distributions... The results will be a security nightmare for the Internet, says Jon Lasser.

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Sourceforge
Revival/2k 1.0.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=252151

Revival/2k has released a new version of the Extended Web-Interface. v1.0.1 is now available. Revival/2k is a modular network interface system that allows multiple web applications (forums, mail, login, etc), internet servers (NNTP, POP3, etc) and a Telegard/Renegade styled

    telnet server all using the same DBs, and shareing information. The
    initial release of the WIGUEST module has also been made. v0.1.0 is
    also available, and requires the The extended web-interface v1.0.1 or
    later to operate. WIGUEST is a guestbook system for Revival/2k. V1.0.1

adds support for GuestBook type modules. If you're seeing this outside of the Revival/2k project, you can visit Revival2k at http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/revival2k

DVArchive V2.0 available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=252110

DVArchive allows you to turn your PC into a "Virtual ReplayTV" that can download shows and serve them back up to your ReplayTVs as well as automated schedules and the like. DVArchive V2.0 is a major update with lots of bug fixes, lots of new features and a drastically rewritten infrastructure/plumbing. DVArchive V2.0 is now available You can read more about DVArchive at it's home page http://dvarchive.sourceforge.net DVArchive V2.0 makes some serious changes in your DVArchive.xml and Local.guide files. Please read the CHANGELOG.txt before running it and if you are upgrading, be sure to backup your Local.guide and DVArchive.xml files first. If this will be your first use of DVArchive, please review the README.txt before running it. -- Gerrys Plea :-) *** PLEASE READ THE CHANGELOG.txt and README.txt *** Most questions folks have asked are answered in the CHANGELOG.txt or the README.txt or TROUBLESHOOTING.txt. Please check them over before you report a problem

it's good for you (quick resolution) and the community in general (saves resources for the new issues). Thanks in advance! -- A brief summary of new features: * Support for Replay 4xxx and 5xxx units * New, efficiant/clean/single window interface - Combined single window DVR Explorer - Context sensitive menus (regular and popup) - Full Drag and Drop support * Ability to store show files using the shows title (vs numbers) in your local guide * New XML based guides (no more guide corruption) * Fixes to eliminate lockups * Ability to remotely turn ReplayTV off (to free up time and speed up downloads) * Ability to edit ALL information about a show (including date/time, ratings, etc) * Periodic renegotiation of time offset (so that DVA keeps working even if your computers clock drifts over time - useful when DVA is left running all the time) There is really a lot more - the item about a new User interface is deceptive as this has literally dozens of changes/enhancements contained in it.

FreeGuide TV Guide 0.5.2-1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=252113

This include channel sets and movie highlighting as well as a fixed NA grabber. (The files uploaded when this release was named 0.5.2 contained some minor Windows bugs which have now been fixed.) FreeGuide is a TV guide. Download TV listings from the Internet, view them offline, create a personalised TV guide and choose favourites. It uses the XMLTV tools to grab listings for the UK, USA, Canada, Norway, Sweden, Germany and New Zealand.

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ntfsprogs 1.7.1 (stable) released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=252138

This release includes urgent bug fixes! Upgrade from 1.7.0 and 1.7.0beta is essential. See the ChangeLog for details. (Note ntfsprogs was formerly linux-ntfs.) The goals of this project are: create a new Linux kernel driver for the NTFS file system (v1.2 and later 3.0), user space utilities (e.g. format, ntfs check, etc.) and a library to avoid code duplication and provide access to NTFS to other GPLed programs.

Tiki 1.5 -Regulus- RC2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=252439

This is a new release candidate before the 1.5 release. Lot of bugs and problems found in the RC1 version have been fixed in this new release. Tiki is a CMS system based on a Wiki, it has all the features a regular Wiki application has and a lot more. Tiki uses PHP and templates via Smarty.

SCons 0.11 is now available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=251609

SCons alpha release 0.11 is now available for download. SCons is a software construction tool (build tool, or substitute for Make) implemented in Python, based on the winning design in the Software Carpentry build tool competition (in turn based on the Cons build tool). IMPORTANT: Release 0.11 contains the following interface changes: - The default suffix for static object files when using gcc has been changed to ".os" to allow shared and static object files to exist side-by-side in the same directory. - When no command-line targets are specified, the default behavior is now to build all derived files in or below the current directory (like Make). This can be disabled by explicitly specifying "Default(None)" in an SConscript file. - Setting the BUILDERS construction variable now clears previous Builder attributes from the construction Environment. - An "env" argument has been added to the strfunction() method of Python function Actions. See the release notes for more information about these changes. This release adds the following features: - A new CacheDir() function and related command-line options --cache-disable, --cache-force and --cache-show support the ability to share derived files between builds. - Support for the IRIX platform and SGI MIPSPro tool chain. - Support for the PharLap ETS tool chain. - Support for compiling with Microsoft VC++ when running Cygwin Python. - New AddPreAction() and AddPostAction() functions. - Python function Actions can now include the contents of construction variables in their signatures. - A new strfunction() method has been added for external command Actions. - The SConscript() function now takes optional "build_dir" and "duplicate" keyword arguments that make it easier to set up a build directory. - The same Win32 object files can now be linked into either shared or static libraries. The following fixes have been added: - Fixed many (not all) situations when interrupts (CTRL-C) wouldn't actually stop a build. - Libraries in the LIBS construction variable can now explicitly include a library prefix and suffix. - The Win32 scons.bat script now has DOS-standard CR-LF line endings. - Fixed how the Environment.Append() method works BUILDERS (and other dictionaries). - Fixed how a file prefix is added when the target isn't specified. - Better error messages whene a BuildDir is read-only. - A platform or tool module can now be directly imported even after it's been included in a construction Environment. - The output of -c -n is now correct when a target is a directory. Performance has been improved as follows: - Added support for caching values when use --implicit-cache. The following changes have been made to the SCons packaging: - Added new --standard-lib, --standalone-lib and --version-lib options to the "setup.py install" command to make it easier to install the SCons build engine (library) into different locations. If no explicit library installation location is specified, the SCons "setup.py" script now looks for an existing SCons build engine in these three locations and prefers where the build engine was installed previously. The documentation has been improved: - Eliminated description of some deprecated keywords. - Updated description of BuildDir() to try to explain more clearly how to set up a build directory.

FinkCommander (GUI for Fink package mgr) v. 0.5.0 http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=251651

Version 0.5.0 of FinkCommander has been released. It has a number of significant new features, including a package browser, which provides a Finder-like interface for viewing the files intalled on your system by a particular Fink package. FinkCommander is a graphical user interface for the Fink software packaging system for Mac OS X. It provides an intuitive front-end to the Fink command-line tools for downloading and installing Unix software. If you have version 0.4.3 installed, you will need to move it to the trash before installing this version.

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Freevo version 1.3.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=251680

Freevo is a Linux application that turns a PC with a TV capture card and/or TV-out into a standalone multimedia jukebox/VCR/PVR/HTPC/DVR/set top box. It uses MPlayer to play and record audio+video. It is optimized for use with a TV+remote. There is a new stable binary release (1.3.1) available on SourceForge.net's download page. It includes a number of important changes from the last stable release (1.3.0). The binary release now includes all external libraries (e.g. SDL) and applications (e.g. MPlayer). The current version is useful for watching/recording TV, AVIs, DVDs, playing MP3/OGG, viewing images.

AOLserver 4.0 beta 2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=250769

The second beta release of AOLserver 4.0 is available. In addition to bug fixes, this includes enhancements for international and Win32 support. AOLserver is a multithreaded, Tcl-enabled, massively-scalable and extensible web server tuned for large scale, dynamic web sites. AOLserver also includes complete database integration and a dynamic page scripting language.

Tiny COBOL Compiler release 0.60
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=250879

The Tiny COBOL compiler project is developing a COBOL compiler for use on Linux; it generates GNU x86 assembler code. With this release, improvements have been made in the following areas: locking for relative files, better support of print files (write after and before advancing) and bet