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[osdn everything] February 23, 2003
Date: Sun Feb 23 2003 - 04:45:27 EST
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February 23, 2003 EVERYTHING SERIES
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Slashdot
Retro-Computing with FPGAs
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/22/2259233
[0]zoid.com writes "I ran across a couple of really interesting
projects using Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) processors. First
is the [1]C-ONE project that is a reconfigurable computer. The default
mode is a C64 compatible one, but the machine just boots the FPGA from
an IDE device at power on, so it could theoretically be pretty much
anything. The second one is the [2]FPGA Arcade. This site is about
recreating gaming hardware from the past in modern programmable
devices. They currently have Pacman, Space Invaders and Galaxian
implemented in FPGAs."
Links
0. mailto:choward@zoid.com
1.
http://c64upgra.de/c-one/
2.
http://www.fpgaarcade.com/
Palm PDA Roundup
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/22/2224259
[0]Melvin writes "[1]Hardware Extreme has a [2]roundup featuring some
of the top [3]PalmOS based PDAs in the market (and a few coming out in
the 2nd and 3rd Quarter). Being a geek's gadget, :) I would recommend
you guys to check out this roundup if you are planning to get a new
Palm PDA."
Links
0.
http://www.hwextreme.com
1.
http://www.hwextreme.com/
2.
http://www.hwextreme.com/reviews/misc/showcase10
3.
http://www.palmsource.com/NEAT Comet Crossing: Internet Telescopes http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/22/207210
An anonymous reader writes "During a large solar coronal mass ejection,
this week's [0]NEAT Comet crossing, gave some spectacular film footage.
While no comet with such a small nucleus has ever survived that kind of
close solar approach (one-fourth of Mercury's orbit) without
fragmenting, this one did-- and is now [1]outward bound on its 370
century roundtrip. These new comet discoveries have filled the log
files of the now [2]70 big robotic telescope projects, most of which
are being connected to the internet. The largest ($3 M) research-class
one [3]for public use--the Hawaiian [4]Faulkes Project--will [5]see
first light in 45 days."
Links
0.
http://www.astrobio.net/news/article381.html
1.
http://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/hotshots/2003_02_12/
2.
http://alpha.uni-sw.gwdg.de/~hessman/MONET/links.html
3.
http://www.faulkes-telescope.com/images/Physics_world_D_Faulkes_article.jpg
4.
http://www.faulkes-telescope.com/
5.
http://www.faulkes-telescope.com/How_it_will_work.htm
HDTV via GNU Radio
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/22/1958243
NortonDC writes "[0]High Definition TV has been successfully captured
in its native data stream from an over the air broadcast by a software
defined radio that is Free and open source from the [1]GNU Software
Defined Radio project."
Links
0. http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuradio/images/hdtv-samples.html
The Taste of Pain
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/22/193242
An anonymous reader writes "The more the human genome is unraveled and
previously non-genetic based attributes are now associated with a
specific genetic function, such as [0] physical and emotional pain and
[1]taste, it seems, to me, that our personalities appear to be much
less influenced by out environment and more by our genes." A [2]related
article links your [3]sense of taste to your risk for cancer, heart
disease, etc.
Links
0.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993423
1.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993396
2.
http://www.psycport.com/stories/comtex_2003_02_14_up_0000-3435-.dsthealthcare_01.xml.html
3.
http://www.nature.com/nsu/010222/010222-13.html
Reason on IP Protection and Creativity
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/22/1837229
rnturn writes "A long but interesting [0]article over at
[1]Reasononline discusses a paper written by a pair of economists and
published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (!) and the
reactions to it of several other economists. A snippet from the
article: 'Moreover, U.S. court decisions in the 1980s that strengthened
patent protection for software led to less innovation. "Far from
unleashing a flurry of new innovative activity," Maskin and Bessen
write, "these stronger property rights ushered in a period of stagnant,
if not declining, R&D among those industries and firms that patented
most."' Not exactly news to most readers but it appears that their
paper is making waves in economic circles."
Links
0. http://www.reason.com/0303/fe.dc.creation.shtml
Apple is Going Out of Business ... Again http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/22/152252
gsfprez writes "Its been a while ... and strangely, the world almost
seemed empty without the constant drumbeat of how Apple is on the verge
of going out of business. If you're a fan like i am, then you're in
luck, because this [0]Canadian tech journalist didn't get the memo that
Apple's been going out of business longer than most tech journalists
have been in business. And besides, someone needs to [1]let Robert
Thomson know: when writing a story on how Apple is about to die, [2]you
[3]have [4]to [5] call [6] them "beleaguered". Come on, that's [7]Tech
Journalism 101, people. In any case, he brings up no new points to
bolster his argument: he confuses his personal inability to use
third-party software that works fine for most of us with legitimate bad
third-party support, and uses this to draw his illogical conclusion.
Illogical because it's the same reasons/unrealized conclusions that
were the staple of tech journalism from 1985-1999."
Links
0.
http://www.canada.com/technology/story.html?id=C4573230-4B60-4F1D-9901-D1B26D4D2C6C
1. mailto:rthompson@nationalpost.com
2.
http://www.businessweek.com/1997/05/b351227.htm
3.
http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_679.html
4.
http://www.fool.com/community/views/2001/view010503.htm
5.
http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_762.html
6.
http://www.itworld.com/Comp/4011/CWSTO58604/
7.
http://www.lowendmac.com/musings/1998.shtml
Build Your Own Weather Balloon
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/22/1711242
[0]Leeji writes "Here is an interesting read about one geek's
[1]project to build and launch a weather balloon. The flight recorder
is a small $200 [2]Soekris Engineering computer running [3]Bering
Linux. It also uses a Garmin GPS, HAM packet radio, an automated Aiptek
Pencam Trio digital camera, army surplus batteries, and lots of [4]geek
duct tape."
Links
0.
http://slashdot AT leeholmes DOT com
1.
http://shark.dls.net/~jmeehan/balloon/
2.
http://www.soekris.com/
3.
http://leaf.sourceforge.net/mod.php?mod=userpage&menu=904&page_id=21
4.
http://www.perl.org/"Clone Wars" Cartoon Shorts on Cartoon Network http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/22/1456232
[0]snilloc writes "[1]Starwars.com announces that [2]Cartoon Network
will carry [3]"Star Wars: Clone Wars" cartoon shorts in order to bridge
the gap between Episodes 2 and 3. I guess this means we won't be seeing
the Clone Wars in Ep3, as many of us had hoped. On the bright side, we
get our SW fix in twenty 2-3 minute shorts. We can only hope against
hope that they won't suck."
Links
0. mailto:jlcollins@@@hotmail...com
1.
http://www.starwars.com/
2.
http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/
3.
http://www.starwars.com/eu/news/2003/02/news20030220.html
>From DRM to Rights Management Services
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/22/1441237
[0]miladus writes "[1]Microsoft has formed an academic [2]Think Tank on
Trustworthy Computing. The Academic Board is to advise Microsoft on
'security, privacy and reliability enhancements in[...] products and
technologies so that Microsoft can obtain critical feedback on product
and policy issues related to its Trustworthy Computing.' An
[3]interview with two members of the board is an interesting read,
especially concerning the global implications of privacy. Of note, is
the absence of DRM discussion. But DRM shows up as 'Rights Management
Services' in the promised [4]Widows Rights Management Services to be
released later this year. it will deliver a 'platform-based approach to
persistent policy rights for Web content and sensitive corporate
documents of all types'"
Links
0.
http://www.miladus.org/mt
1.
http://www.microsoft.com/
2.
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2003/Feb03/02-20TWCAABPR.asp
3.
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2003/Feb03/02-20TWCBoardasp
4.
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2003/Feb03/02-21RMSForWindowsServerPR.asp
Freshmeat
A Joint Monitoring System 1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113929/
AJMS (AKA "AMS") displays syslog messages in realtime through a standalone Java client or in a browser. It offers straightforward configuration and integrates easily into any existing syslog environment.
ActivePerl Build 805, based on Perl 5.8.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113944/
ActivePerl is a binary package containing the latest build of ActiveState's distribution of Perl. It includes new documentation and tutorials for using Perl, and the Perl Package Manager, which makes installing modules faster and easier. The Windows package provides additional features to take advantage of that platform. ActivePerl is available for Linux (RPM and Debian), Solaris, and Windows.
aEGiS t0xirc 1.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113938/
t0xirc is a PHP class that enable applications to interact with the popular IRC bot Eggdrop. It can be used to include a list of connected users on a Web page, or even to write a CLI PHP script that runs in the background and gives some intelligence to idle bots.
Anthill Pro Build and Release Management Server 2.0.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113864/
Anthill Pro is an automated manager for the build and release process of software development. It can provide daily reports of an overnight build, with automated test runs, a revision log which lists newly implemented features. Anthill Pro adds to the already robust feature set of the open source version of Anthill. Anthill Pro is easy to use in heterogeneous environments since it allows you to use different JDKs and different classpaths to build different projects. It also provides robust support for project dependencies, allowing you to rebuild all dependent projects with the latest version of a dependency. Every project can store its latest artifacts in Anthill's built-in repository, and Anthill gives you the ability to rebuild any previously built version.
BasicLinux 2.00
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113918/
BasicLinux is a multi-purpose mini-Linux that boots from DOS or Win9x and runs in a RAM disk. It can dial an ISP, browse the Web, send/receive mail, and download files. It can boot from a floppy, or be installed to a permanent Linux native partition (where X and GCC may be added using standard packages from Slackware).
Binc IMAP 1.0.24-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113977/
Binc IMAP is a simple xinetd/tcpserver based IMAP server with support for Maildir. It is very easy to install and use.
bogofilter 0.10.3.1 (Current)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113973/
Bogofilter is a Bayesian spam filter. In its normal mode of operation, it takes an email message or other text on standard input, does a statistical check against lists of "good" and "bad" words, and returns a status code indicating whether or not the message is spam. Bogofilter is designed with fast algorithms (including Berkeley DB system), coded directly in C, and tuned for speed, so it can be used for production by sites that process a lot of mail.
BPhpWebmail Frontend 1.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113961/
BPhpWebmail Frontend is an easy-to-use and easy-to-install Web mail frontend. It features support for multiple POP and IMAP servers, Inbox, Outbox, Sent, and Saved folders, and an address book.
cgi-exec 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113969/
cgi-exec preprocesses data from an HTML form and redirects the data to a CGI script specified in a database located next to cgi-exec. It acquires the input from the browser, regardless of method; decodes the input into plain text; places that input into environmental variables corresponding to the fieldnames designated in the HTML form; searches a database to determine the name of the script to be executed to process the form data; spawns the script, after appropriate headers are emitted; and prints out footers after the return of the script. The environment is protected by disallowing the overwriting of existing variables.
Checky 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113972/
The Checky plug-in for Mozilla, Phoenix, and Netscape is a simple interface for Web content and resource developers to free and commercial online Validator and Checker services. With Checky, you can easily set up, combine, and use 18 online validator and checker services. Simply choose your services with Checky-Agent, then browse to a Web resource and press F10 to display the results of the selected services in a new browser tab or window. Service interfaces are available for HTML, XHTML, CSS, RDF, RSS, XML, SGML, WAI, 508, and various viewers, valets, and purifiers.
Cherokee 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113926/
Cherokee is a tiny, ultrafast, lightweight Web server. It is implemented entirely in C, and has no dependencies beyond a standard C library. It is embeddable, extensible with plug-ins, and supports on-the-fly configuration by reading files or strings.
Corruption Corrector 1.0 RC1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113974/
Corruption Corrector (CCorr) is a program designed for fixing corrupt files. It is for situations when you have (downloaded) many copies of the same file, but all of the copies are a bit corrupt. If the corruptions are in different parts of the file, it is possible to combine the good bytes from each file and get an uncorrupted copy of the file.
DBMAIL 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113928/
The DBMAIL package replaces the normal UNIX mailing system. All email and user data is stored in a database. You can create an unlimited number of email accounts, which can be checked using the POP3 or IMAP protocol. Users can maintain their own set of email addresses. It is more scalable, more secure, and faster than traditional mail systems. DBMAIL has storage drivers for PostgreSQL and MySQL, and it has authentication drivers for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and LDAP.
distcc 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113924/
distcc is a program that distributes compilation of C code across several machines on a network, resulting in speed increases of 1.5 to 10 times. It does not require machines to share a filesystem, have the same libraries or header files, or superuser privileges.
Dive tools for Linux 0.1.7 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/113970/
Divetools is a set of tools to read out a dive computer. In addition it includes a conversion program that makes UDCF files out of thet dump and a Plotting tool that produces nice PostScript pages for your loogbook. It supports the Suunto EON and Uwatec Aladin Series dive computers.
Enemies of Carlotta 0.19 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113979/
Enemies of Carlotta is a simple mailing list manager. It tries to mimic the ezmlm software somewhat, but is written completely from scratch in Python. It has a less restrictive license than ezmlm and qmail, and is smaller and simpler than GNU Mailman.
FLP-i18n 1.045
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113939/
FLP-i18n (Flaimo's Little Package) is a collection of PHP classes for internationalization. It formats date and time strings, replaces keywords, converts measurement units between SI and the US Customary System, and more.
gitty-gitty 2.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113953/
gitty-gitty, the (general | GNU) template generation tools, are a set of scripts for creating a whole set of sources which may already be compiled and installed using the GNU development tools. Think of gtgt as a program which is able to create an already compilable, very sophisticated "hello world" program, written in C or C++ and constituted by a main program, two internal modules (classes), and one static and one shared library, and this complex "Hello World" is already fully embedded into the GNU autoconf/automake development environment. By using gitty-gitty, you will get a template of sources for the main cases you might meet, and which you can also use as examples for automake, autoconf, etc.
GNOME Installation Guide 22/02/2003
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113955/
The GNOME Installation Guide was written to help unfamiliar users install a stable GNOME system that includes more than the default applications. It teaches readers how to compile GNOME on their own instead of installing precompiled packages. It also covers installation of extra GNOME programs, both those hosted by the GNOME project and those which are not.
gonvert 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113976/
gonvert is a conversion utility that allows conversion between many units such as CGS, Ancient, and Imperial. It supports many categories like length, mass, numbers, and more. All converted values are shown immediately as you type. It is easy to add/change your own units. It was written in Python and uses pygtk and libglade.
Gst-Player 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113920/
Gst-Player is a full-featured media player for GNOME 2 using the GStreamer multimedia framework. Features include support for a wide range of media formats (both video and audio), support for fullscreen playback, and audio output to a range of sound systems and sound servers.
hdup 1.6.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113978/
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).
HTun 0.9.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113983/
HTun is a VPN (Virtual Private Network) interface that allows you to create a fully bidirectional IP-layer VPN over an HTTP proxy or just over port 80, allowing you to bypass restrictive firewalls and use any IP-based service you desire.
J-Pilot 0.99.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113949/
J-Pilot is a full-featured desktop organizer application for the Palm Pilot that runs under Linux and UNIX. It includes support for datebooks, addresses, memos, todos, expenses, and has plugin support. It uses the GTK+ libraries.
jEdit 4.1pre11 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113968/
jEdit is an Open Source text editor written in Java. It has many useful features, such as syntax highlighting, bracket matching, regular expression searching, multiple file search and replace, folding, and keyboard macros. jEdit also includes a powerful plugin architecture that allows more than 80 plugins to be downloaded and installed from within the editor.
Kannel WAP and SMS Gateway 1.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113927/
Kannel is a WAP gateway. It attempts to provide this essential part of the WAP infrastructure freely to everyone so the market potential for WAP services, both from wireless operators and specialized service providers, will be realized as efficiently as possible. It also works as an SMS gateway for GSM networks. Almost all GSM phones can use it to send and receive SMS messages, so this is a way to serve many more clients than just those using a WAP phone. Kannel was among the first WAP gateways to be certified as WAP 1.1 compliant by the Open Group, responsible for certifications of WAP Forum specifications.
lgsp 1.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113956/
LGSP (the Little GNU Site Preparer) is an environment for creating the initial version of a site. You write your wishes into the LGSP configuration file, and you are not only able to determine the whole logical structure but also the outfit of your site. By evaluating this configuration file LGSP automatically generates all demanded files of your site, and these pages already respect the wished visual design. For generating and editing such configuration files, LGSP also offers a full elaborated WYSIWYHC HTML frontend (What You See Is What You Have Configured).
LinuxTrade 3.30 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113946/
LinuxTrade is a curses (text-based) implementation of the Scottrader Java application, plus additional features inspired by the excellent MedVed QuoteTracker Windows program, plus its own set of unique features. It is lightweight, yet full featured. It can save a session to a file and replay it. It has portfolios, real time quotes, charts with live updates, time and sales, fundamental and technical indicators, top ten and market movers, news articles, alerts, and Level 2 market depth indications from Archipelago and the Island Book.
LooperDB 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113963/
LooperDB is a secure, multithreaded alert database used primarily for network/security management. It is indended to be used as a central MoM (manager-of-managers) platform to collect, consolidate, and correlate event messages. When coupled with looper, LooperDB can provide the framework for a sophisticated alert management infrastructure.
Makepasswd 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113937/
Makepasswd generates pseudo-random passwords of a desired length. It is expected that it will be able to generate its crypted equivalent (at least MD5).
mathplot 0.8.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113936/
mathplot is an interactive function grapher. It supports equations, inequations, displaying tangent, finding roots, extrema, and the intersection of 2 functions, and much more.
mboxstats 0.92
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113889/
mboxstats creates top-10 lists of the messages in a mailbox (top writers/subjects/messages per day, etc.).
mrtg 2.9.27
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113672/
The Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) is a tool to monitor the traffic load on network-links. MRTG generates HTML pages containing GIF/PNG images which provide a live visual representation of this traffic.
MRX Ramdisk 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113965/
MRX Ramdisk is a simple ramdisk creation tool. It writes the current system binaries and snapshot to /boot/ramdisk.gz, with automatic library dependency tracking.
Naamah 1.07
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113954/
Naamah is a Web application that stores the ID3 tags from your MP3s and details of your audio CDs in a MySQL database. It scans drives for MP3 files and can generate LaTeX listings.
netcount 0.4a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113942/
netcount is a command line PPP traffic logging and statistics display tool for Linux. Logging is done via a small shell script which is called during the ip-up, ip-down, and system startup processes and from cron, while analysis and printing is done by a program written in Python. Statistics can be made on a per-call, daily, and/or monthly basis.
OPEN DESIRE 10.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113861/
Open DESIRE is a modeling/simulation language for dynamic systems and neural networks, a runtime compiler, and an experiment-protocol script for simulation studies. It supports up to 20,000 differential equations or matrix/vector operations.
OpenH323 Gatekeeper 2.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113923/
The OpenH323 Gatekeeper is a free H.323 gatekeeper based on the OpenH323 project. You can use it to manage a Voice-over-IP network and let endpoints (e.g., Netmeeting) communicate through symbolic names. It also has an external interface for billing and other applications. It runs on a number of Unix versions (including Linux and Solaris) and Windows.
Outlook save as text/CSV to Unix mailbox 1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113991/
These tools convert mail folders saved from Outlook as text or CSV into standard mbox files.
pam_pwcheck 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113988/
The pam_pwcheck is a PAM module for password strength checking. It makes additional checks upon password changes, but it doesn't make the change itself. It only provides functionality for one PAM management group: password changing. This module works in the following manner: if enabled it calls at first the Cracklib routine to check the strength of the password; if crack likes the password, the module does an additional set of strength checks.
pdftohtml 0.35
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113993/
pdftohtml converts Portable Document Format files to HTML. This release converts text and links. Bold and italic face are preserved, but high level HTML structures (like lists or tables) are not yet generated. Images are ignored in the current version (but you can extract them from the pdf file using pdfimages, distributed with xpdf).
PennMUSH 1.7.7p9 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113958/
PennMUSH is a MUD server that is often used for running social or role-playing games, with an extensive internal programming language. It runs on Unix systems, Windows, and MacOS.
PhotoPnMTools 1.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113967/
PhotoPnMTools is a simple toolkit for processing photographic images using improved algorithms. It is based on Poskanzer's PPM toolkit. It contains resizing, sharpening, and contrast / saturation / color balance filters. It can be used for cropping, color editing, and making Web albums.
PHPReports 0.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113971/
PHPReports is a PHP report generator that uses XML report layout files to generate PHP code and show a report.
pysmb 0.4.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113919/
Pysmb is an experimental SMB/CIFS client library written in Python without any native code dependencies. Tested to run on Python 1.5.2, 2.1, and 2.2, it can upload, download, copy, rename, remove, and list files and directories.
QFaxReader 0.2-5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113925/
QFaxReader is a monochrome multipage tiff files visualization utility.
Rolo 001
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113990/
Using the vCard format as the data storage structure, Rolo will keep track of your contacts and display them to you with a curses frontend.
RRDtool 1.0.41
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113670/
RRDtool is basically the time-series graphing and data storage/management component of MRTG, broken out and `done right'. `done right' means that RRDtool is magnitudes faster than MRTG and extremely configurable.
Script Identifier 2003-02-22 08:22 (Neural Network Weights) http://freshmeat.net/releases/113941/
Scriptid is a program and a library that can be used to determine whether a given text file contains code of a specified programming language. The current release can tell whether a file contains vbscript or not. It should be possible to extend this to any number of other languages. It is important to also download the latest neural network weights update file.
Script Identifier 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113940/
Scriptid is a program and a library that can be used to determine whether a given text file contains code of a specified programming language. The current release can tell whether a file contains vbscript or not. It should be possible to extend this to any number of other languages. It is important to also download the latest neural network weights update file.
SHFS 0.29-2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113922/
SHFS (Shell Filesystem) is a simple and easy-to-use Linux 2.4 kernel module which allows you to mount remote filesystems using a plain shell (ssh/rsh) connection. It supports some nice features like number of different caches for access speedup, target system optimizations, etc.
shntool 1.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113930/
shntool is a multi-purpose WAVE data processing and reporting utility that supports various lossless file formats with helper programs. These include SHN (via shorten), FLAC (via flac), AIFF (via sox), APE (via mac), OFR (via OptimFROG), LPAC (via lpac), and WV (via WavPack). It features len, fix, md5, join, split, cat, cmp, conv, info, and strip modes.
Sodipodi 0.31
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113950/
Sodipodi is a general purpose vector drawing application which uses a subset of W3C SVG as its file format. It uses an advanced imaging engine, with antialised display, apha transparency, and vector fonts.
SoulSeek for Linux 1.0.0pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113964/
Soulseek (http://www.slsk.org) is a communication and file-sharing system. It is quite similar to Napster: it lets you exchange files, search for files, chat with other users in public and in private, browse their files, and get recommendations for music. SoulSeek for Linux is a GUI client for the system written in Python/wxPython. It includes all the major functionality: chat, searches and downloads.
SwingPBC 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113952/
SwingPBC (Swing Project Budget Consolidator) is a desktop application that complements WebPBC, serving as a thick- client on a desktop PC. It allows small to medium-sized companies to perform budget consolidations on their projects, and is especially suitable for managers that need to review and analyse budget data that has been entered by different departments. It directly accesses a central PBC database and performs consolidations locally.
Tapestry 2.4-alpha-3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113987/
Tapestry is a rich, component-based object model for developing dynamic, robust, highly interactive Web applications. Applications are constructed in terms of Java objects, methods and properties, instead of URLs and query parameters. It builds and interprets all URLs, dispatching directly to application-specific "listener" methods. It includes complete source code, documentation, tutorials and a complete example J2EE application.
Tapestry 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113985/
Tapestry is a rich, component-based object model for developing dynamic, robust, highly interactive Web applications. Applications are constructed in terms of Java objects, methods and properties, instead of URLs and query parameters. It builds and interprets all URLs, dispatching directly to application-specific "listener" methods. It includes complete source code, documentation, tutorials and a complete example J2EE application.
Traffic tool Troll 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113960/
The Traffic Tool Troll is a traffic monitoring and managing skript. Traffic statistics are generated by port, hour, day, month, and year. You can define a special period for your needs. The script is written in Perl and uses iptables and MySQL to get and store the traffic.
Trash Can 3.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113943/
Trash Can is a command line recycle bin for Linux/*NIX-based systems. ksh, bash, or zsh is needed. It can remove files and restore them in their original path, delete single files from the trash can, automatically delete 'core' and 'dead.letter' files, automatically purge the trash over X days old, empty the trash, and display the disk usage and stored files. It is compressed to take up less room, and entire directories can be restored/deleted. It will prompt the user if restoring over an existing file. An installation script is included.
ttylinux 3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113966/
ttylinux is a minimalistic Linux distribution that can fit in 4 MB of disk space. It contains software needed to log into an ISP by modem or ISDN, surf the Web, and provide Web content to the world. The minimum hardware requirement is a 386SX with 10 MB of RAM for a ramdisk setup or 5 MB of RAM for a hard disk setup.
Usermin 1.000
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113932/
Usermin is a Web interface that can be used by any user on a UNIX system to easily perform tasks like reading mail, setting up SSH, or configuring mail forwarding. It can be thought of as a simplified version of Webmin designed for use by normal users rather than system administrators.
Videograb 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113982/
Videograb is a simple deamon used to capture images continuously from a video4linux device, and save them in .ppm or .jpeg format.
web2ldap 0.11.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113996/
web2ldap is a full-featured LDAP client written in Python and designed to run as a stand-alone Web gateway or under the control of a web server with FastCGI support (e.g., Apache with mod_fastcgi).
Webmin 1.070
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113931/
Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any browser that supports tables and forms, you can setup user accounts, internet services, DNS, file sharing and so on.
wxDialer 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113934/
wxDialer is a simple program written in wxPython/Python that allows you to make and recieve phone calls on your modem.
XDB-Money 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114000/
XDB Money is a simple Web-based personal finance tracker that can keep track of multiple accounts and multiple transactions, grouping these transactions into categories for reporting facilities.
XOSD 2.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113999/
XOSD is a simple library to display shaped text on your X display, like a TV On Screen Display. It also contains an XMMS plugin, and a simple example program that can display system logs overlayed on your desktop.
yappa-ng 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113997/
yappa-ng is an easy to use online PHP photo gallery. It has a comfortable and elaborate album-oriented photo album administration Web interface. Each picture can be viewed in many different sizes with resizing created automatically on the fly. It has complete user selectable language support, and supports password protected albums, hit counters for albums and images, album info, image captions, gallery overview, different themes, and a 'Top 10 images' ranking system for each photo album.
ZoneMaster 0.99.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113921/
ZoneMaster is a tool for zone file and name server management. It consists of a library that can configure BIND and a Web-based user interface that is used to access the data that is stored in a database. A bootstrap script allows you to initialize the database with all necessary information retrieved from an existing configuration. All modifications are saved as jobs in the database, and a job handler makes the necessary changes from time to time. The user interface is based on XSLT-stylesheets and can be easily modified.
Newsforge Reports
How to bring more commercial applications to Linux
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/21/1830208
- By Matija Suklje - What most of you have probably already noticed is that Linux lacks commercial "professional" applications (e.g. Photoshop, flash MX) and commercial games. And that is the main reason why most "dual-booters" and potential Linux users don't (fully) migrate to this astounding OS. And why doesn't the Linux community get any greater confirmation from the commercial industry? Because they think that we, the Linux users, wouldn't ...
Education 'portal' for Linux launched
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/21/1534259
- by Tina Gasperson -With the slogan, "Who you are...What you need" Linux advocate Jonathan Hughes launched the Linux in Education portal on February 20th. The site is designed specifically to provide teachers and other people involved in education with tools, resources, and information about implementing Linux.
Linux Advisory Watch - February 21st, 2003 http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/21/1111251
- 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 mod_dav, w3m, cups, php, mysql, openssl, mailman, syslinux, nethack, bitchx, util-linux, apcupdb, pam, shadow-utils, and imp. The distributors include ...
Newsforge Newsvac
QUIK Computing announces release of Ace Operator v 1.0b
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/22/148248
QUIK Computing is pleased to announce the release of Ace Operator version 1.1.0b. Ace Operator is an instant messaging call center solution that can be accessed from web pages.
Book Review - Cisco Secure Virtual Private Network http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/22/144200
Mirko Zorz writes "This publication is designed to give the readers basic knowledge of planning, administering and maintaining Virtual Private Networks. It does provide some general VPN related information, but as it is a written reference for the Cisco Secure Virtual Private Networks courses, book will be of a great use to the readers wanting to enable VPN with their Cisco products. Read more at Help Net Security."
MontaVista Software Enables New Intel® Network Processors http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/22/142233
SAN JOSE, Calif., Intel Developer Forum, Feb. 20, 2003 — MontaVista Software Inc., the company powering the embedded revolution, announced that MontaVista™ Linux® Professional Edition will support the new Intel® IXP420, IXP421 and IXP422 network processors unveiled at the Intel Developer Forum that opened earlier this week in San Jose, Calif.
'Information Rights Management' To Debut in Office http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/22/140246
Anonymous Reader writes "Information Rights Management in Office 2003: "IRM is a persistent file-level technology from Microsoft that allows the user to specify permission for who can access and use documents or e-mail messages, and helps prevent sensitive information from being printed, forwarded, or copied by unauthorized individuals," according the early Beta 2 text. "Once permission for a document or message has been restricted with this ...
dW Live in New Orleans Linux sessions
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/22/1359230
Anonymous Reader writes "If you are lucky enough to be able to get to one conference this year, plan to get to the IBM developerWorks Live. Its in New Orleans this year so you can have lots of fun after the BOFs. Here are just a few of the 27 sessions available for Linux developers. DB2 - Linux at its Best, DB2 and Borland Kylix: Cross-platform Development on Windows AND Linux using C++, Developing PHP and Open Source, Database Applications for ...
Mini-Review of Red Hat 8.1-beta3
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/22/1357212
Gentu writes "OSNews features a favorable review of Red Hat 8.1-beta3, a beta released just a few days ago. The article discusses the installation process, the updated desktop and the applications included within it and noted how rapidly the company is outclassing its Linux competitors and how the Red Hat 8.x releases start to compete with the big OS players in the corporate desktop and server market."
New Linux Support Policies are Ominous
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/22/1355218
Red Hat and Mandrake are cutting support for older versions of their Linux distributions... The results will be a security nightmare for the Internet.
Interview with Judy Novak
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/22/1350212
Mirko Zorz writes "Judy Novak is the co-author of the acclaimed "Network Intrusion Detection 3/e". Read her opinion on intrusion detection, open source, the disclosure of vulnerabilities and more."
Desktop Linux Products on Parade
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/22/0423208
Attendees of the Desktop Linux Summit here have spent the past two days reveling in the growing number of games, PCs, software applications, and peripherals that are now compatible with the underdog operating system.
Aqua Data Studio 2.0 for Linux Released
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/21/1956210
JohnLH writes "AquaFold, Inc today announced the latest version of Aqua Data Studio, it's universal database tool for building, managing and maintaining enterprise relational databases. Aqua Data Studio includes support for all major database platforms such as Oracle 8i/9i, IBM DB2, Sybase Adaptive Server, Microsoft SQL Server and the open source databases MySQL and PostgreSQL. Developed with the Java programming language, Aqua Data Studio ...
Thinkgeek
Electronics: Mustek MDC-3500 Digital Camera
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/cameras/5ca0/
Computing: iGesture Keyboard
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5ccd/
Computing: Roll-Up Keyboard
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5a7f/
Gadgets: InkLink Handwriting System
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Cube Goodies: Hubzilla - 4 Port Firewire Hub http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/5b55/
Caffeine: Warp Mints - Green T - Lemon/Lime http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/candy/5cd0/
Electronics: Gruvstick MP3 Player
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/mp3/5cac/
Gadgets: Portable Lie Detector
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets