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[osdn everything] March 08, 2003
Date: Sat Mar 08 2003 - 04:45:27 EST
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March 08, 2003 EVERYTHING SERIES
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Slashdot
Speeding up Evolution
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/218229
DaytonCIM writes ""We can rebuild him. Make him stronger... faster..." Slate.com has a great article on [0]next generation gene research that promises to build "Supermen" or "Superwomen" out of us all. Insulin-like Growth Factor genes to make us stronger without ever visiting a weight room. EPO to generate more red blood cells and enable us to run "forever." Engineered human "Blood" to speed up evolution, so that we become less susceptible to disease and injury." Links
0. http://slate.msn.com/id/2079406/
Interplanetary Superhighway
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/215211
rotenberry writes "The current issue of Caltech's Engineering and
Science magizine contains the article "[0]Next Exit 0.5 Million
Kilometers - A Caltech/JPL collaboration explores the 'Interplanetary
Superhighway.'" which describes "...the Interplanetary Superhighway -
'a vast network of winding tunnels in space' that connects the sun, the
planets, their moons, and a host of other destinations as well. But
unlike the wormholes beloved of science-fiction writers, these things
are real. In fact, they are already being used." However, it takes a
very long time to get there."
Links
0. http://pr.caltech.edu/periodicals/EandS/articles/LXV4/exit.html
The US DoD and the GSA Join the Liberty Project http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/1610252
An anonymous reader writes "The [0]Liberty Alliance Project announced
today that the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) and the U.S.
Department of Defense (DoD) have joined the Liberty Alliance in its
pursuit to develop open and interoperable standards for electronically
managing identity information."
Links
0. http://www.projectliberty.org/
Dawn of the Airborne Laser
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/2047241
Yonzie writes "As you may have heard, there are a number of competing franchises working on a functional laser weapon. [0]Popular Science has an interesting story about `[1]The Wall of Fire', an airborne laser designed to fit in the belly of a [2]747. Apparently, this is powerful and precise enough to destroy enemy intercontinental and intermediate-range missiles in mid-flight. I can imagine the use of laser turrets as protection against missiles, but I really can't see the use of a laser mounted in a 747. IMHO, it's way too slow compared to the missiles, and will not be able to scramble fast enough." This is the big daddy of the [3]JSF laser that we've mentioned before. Links
0.
http://www.popsci.com/
1.
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/aviation/article/0,12543,424266,00.html
2.
http://boeing.com/commercial/747family
3.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/27/1455215&tid=126Lofgren Introduces BALANCE Act to Modify DMCA http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/2013228
Infonaut writes "Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D - CA) introduced H.R. 1066, [0]The Balance Act. It seeks to clarify 'that America's historic principles of fair use - protected under Section 107 of the Copyright Act - apply to analog and digital transmissions.' Apparently Lessig is on board, as are several associations and other organizations. If you like what you see, [1]encourage your representative to support the bill." Links
0. http://www.house.gov/lofgren/congress/digital_rights.htm
Windows Rootkits
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/1938225
GuidoJ writes "[0]The Register is running an article by [1]Kevin
Poulsen of [2]SecurityFocus Online about [3]rootkits in Windows NT.
While rootkits are a well-known issue in Unix and Linux systems, they
have rarely been found on compromised Windows machines. According to
the article, Windows NT backdoors have always been 'trivial', and they
have caused enough havoc already. Imagine what a stealthy rootkit could
do!"
Links
0.
http://www.theregister.com/
1. mailto:klp@securityfocus.com
2.
http://www.securityfocus.com/
3.
http://www.theregister.com/content/55/29638.htmlTechnologies that Have Exceeded Their Expectations? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/2111215
drfunch asks: "With the recent 'passing' of Pioneer 10 after over 30 years of service, I wonder what other technologies have far exceeded expectations. One example from my own experience is my trusty HP calculator, which is still going strong after 21 years. What technologies or devices have gone far beyond your expectations?"
GDC: 10 Reasons NOT to Make MMOGs
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/165210
[0]Warrior-GS writes "Gordon Walton, who helped create such games as Ultima Online and the Sims Online, is at the Game Developers Conference [1]giving a seminar on "Ten Reasons You Don't Want to Run a Massively Multiplayer Online Game". GameSpy has been [2]providing coverage of GDC, with several game previews and several conference reports. They also have a [3]hands-on report of the Nokia N-Gage from four of their editors, and a somewhat unorthodox report of the [4]Game Developer Choice Awards, where Metroid Prime was named Game of the Year. The convention continues through Saturday." Links
0.
http://www.gamespy.com
1.
http://www.gamespy.com/gdc2003/top10mmog/
2.
http://www.gamespy.com/gdc2003/
3.
http://www.gamespy.com/gdc2003/ngage/
4.
http://www.gamespy.com/gdc2003/awards/
RPG Sorcery PDA Reviewed
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/05/2256251
shiroi_kami writes "I finally received my long-awaited (and pre
ordered) CD-ROM and immediately loaded the game up on my IPAQ (I didn't
even look at the PC Extras)." shiroi_kami has written some other PC
game reviews; here's his first of a Pocket PC game. Read on below for
his thoughts on [0]Sorcery PDA.
Links
More on SCO vs. IBM Lawsuit
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/187239
Colin Stanners writes "SCO has held a TeleConference and put up a
[0]page with information on their lawsuit against IBM. The key phrase
(from their [1]complaint) is: 'It is not possible for Linux to rapidly
reach UNIX performance standards for complete enterprise functionality
without the misappropriation of UNIX code, methods or concepts to
achieve such performance, and coordination by a larger developer, such
as IBM.' Their page also includes a Q&A, presentation, and exhibits,
although these are mostly licensing agreements and not code." Bruce
Perens had an [2]interesting comment on the situation, more than one
group is trying to [3]organize a boycott, and Newsforge has a [4]story
based on SCO's press conference this morning. Newsforge and Slashdot
are both part of OSDN.
Links
0.
http://www.sco.com/scosource/
1.
http://www.sco.com/scosource/complaint3.06.03.html
2.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?cid=5456337&sid=56225&tid=123
3.
http://www.pclinuxonline.com/
4.
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/1728239
Freshmeat
123mp3 2.1.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115443/
123mp3 is a frontend to BladeEnc and cdparanoia that produces MP3s from selected tracks on a CD in one automated process. Support for CDDB is also available.
Aldo 0.0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115499/
Aldo is a Morse code tutor. It generates some strings of chars using a random number generator, and translates and sounds these strings in Morse code. You must catch the code and check what you have heard. It has 6 skills and 4 speeds.
ALT Linux 2.2 (Master)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115446/
ALT Linux is a set of Linux distributions which are based on Sisyphus, an APT-enabled RPM package repository which aims to achieve feature completeness, usability, and security in a sensible and manageable mixture.
apteryx 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115457/
apteryx is a shell script which acts as a simple wrapper for the commands apt-cache search and apt-get install which are used in the GNU/Linux distribution Debian to search for and install new packages. It uses apt-cache to search for the words given at the command line and then displays the results in a simple menu-based interface in the terminal. From this list, the user can select a package and install it.
Arno's IPTABLES Firewall Script 1.7.3RC2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115464/
Arno's IPTABLES firewall script was originally derived from Seven's
(single-homed) IPTABLES script. The biggest differences are that this
script has support for dual-homed machines, support for masquerading
(NAT), support for ethernet ADSL/DSL modems (for both static and
dynamically assigned IPs), support for all IP protocols, and support
for VPNs like IPSEC (Freeswan). It also features (stealth) portscan
detection, extensive user definable logging with rate limiting to
prevent log flooding, port forwarding, optimizing the throughput of
your internet connection, protection against SYN/ICMP flooding (DoS
attacks), support for UPnP, and much more. It's easy to configure and
highly customizable. It additionally includes a filter script
(fwfilter) to make your firewall log more readable.
asciijump 0.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115441/
asciijump is an ASCII art game about ski jumping.
BASHISH 1.9.17
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115525/
Bashish is a theme-engine using bash and other POSIX shells to customize nearly all aspects of the terminal: title, colors, prompt, font, background, etc. It has a modular design which makes it easy to add features (and it does have a lot) while keeping good performance.
BHL 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115474/
BHL is an Emacs mode which enables you to convert plain TXT files into HTML, LaTeX, and SGML (Linuxdoc) files. The BHL mode handles common font-styles, three levels of sections, any kind of lists, tables, URLs and horizontal rules. BHL handles a table of contents: you can browse the toc, insert the toc where you want, and update the sections' numbers with one keystroke.
Bluebeard 1.0b6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115511/
Bluebeard locates and downloads single- and multi-part file attachments on the Usenet forum network. It is robust, able to handle between 1-4 simultaneous downloads, and supports however many queued downloads you want to throw at it. It is able to piece together multi-part attachments and handle popular encoding formats, including UUE and yEnc. Decoding is automatic and quick.
Camino 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115454/
Camino (formerly Chimera) is a Web browser that has a Cocoa user interface, and embeds the Gecko layout engine. It is intended to be a simple, small, and fast browser for Mac OS X.
Connect 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115467/
Connect is a GNUstep frontend to pppd.
Crystal Space 0.96r003
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115447/
Crystal Space is a free and portable 3D engine written in C++. It supports a large number of 3D features.
DoctorJ 4.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115470/
DoctorJ is a set of applications that analyze Java code. Documentation is verified for compliance with the standard and for accuracy against the code, beyond what javadoc does. Statistics for a file or project can be generated, including the number of lines of code per class and method, and the overall total. A syntax analyzer is in development.
Dragon Lair alpha_build_07_03_2003
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115514/
Dragon Lair is a knowledge base system based on Topic Maps Technology. Data Elements are represented as topics and subjects and put into relationships with each other. Since these relations are data independent, Dragon Lair can be put on top of an existing database or be used as a graphical representation of a new data source. Dragon Lair "sits" directly upon the Dragon Breath framework for reliable and easy data manipulation, sanity check, and data exchange.
Ganglia 2.5.3 (Monitoring core)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115534/
Ganglia provides a complete real-time monitoring and execution environment that is in use by hundreds of universities, private and government laboratories, and commercial cluster implementors around the world. It can be used to easily monitor hundreds of computers in real-time across a university campus or across the world.
gperiodic 2.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115487/
gperiodic is a program for browsing the periodic table and looking up data for different elements. It also features a non-graphical interface.
Graphical certification authority 0.3.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115450/
Graphical certification authority is an interface for managing RSA keys and certificates, and the creation and signing of PKCS#10 requests. It uses the OpenSSL library and a Berkeley DB for key and certificate storage. It supports importing and exporting keys and PEM DER PKCS8 certificates, signing and revoking of PEM DER PKCS12, and the selection of x509v3 extensions. A tree view of certificates is presented.
gtk2-ssh-askpass 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115495/
gtk2-ssh-askpass is a small ssh-askpass replacement written in GTK 2. It features a fullscreen ask dialog and a translucent background.
isp4you 0.8.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115488/
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.
Java Aspect Components 0.9.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115469/
JAC is a Java framework that provides some facilities to achieve
Aspect-Oriented Programming and to separate concerns when programming
(distributed) applications (for instance, the persistence or
authentication aspects can be considered independently from what the
application is doing). It provides a runtime execution environment that
supports Aspect-Oriented applications written with the JAC framework
that provides visualisation, administration, and configuration tools
for the applications and for their aspects.
JPluck 0.9 beta 4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115484/
JPluck allows users to convert Web sites to Plucker documents. It creates Plucker documents ready to be installed and read.
jRSVP 1.1.4-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115518/
jRSVP is a Java 1.4 tool for Rapid Serial Visual Presentation, a technique for extremely fast reading. It uses the Multivalent library for parsing input documents, and is able to read PDF, PS, HTML, man pages, and other documents. It displays texts on a word-by-word or sentence-by-sentence basis and features a file history and bookmarks.
junkie 0.3.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115521/
Junkie is a stable GTK2 FTP client for the X Windows system. It has features such as queueing files, downloading/uploading of whole directories, caching of directories, drag and drop, a site manager, preferences (and a configure library), and an event-based FTP library, which means that the client should be stable and not slow the user interface down much.
Katie snapshot-18
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115479/
Katie is a revision control system, somewhat like a cross between CVS
and NFS, that was inspired by Rational ClearCase. The three most
interesting features are that the repository is mounted as a filesystem
(rather than being copied to a local workspace), that all versions of
all files (even deleted ones) are accessible through this filesystem
(so the "katie diff" command is a convenience rather than a
necessity like "cvs diff"), and that directories are
versioned (just like files are). It is functional enough to be
self-hosting, but there is much work still to go before it will be a
generally useful tool. Features that are implemented already include
VOBs, elements, branches, dynamic views, view-extended pathnames,
config specs (including auto-make-branch rules), labels, hard links,
and symbolic links.
KMLDonkey 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115520/
KMLDonkey provides integration for the MLDonkey P2P software and KDE 3, in the form of a Kicker applet, ed2k protocol handling for Konqueror, and a control panel applet to bring it all together.
Launch.app 1.0pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115453/
Launch.app is a small program for executing applications, based on the WINGs library (a part of WindowMaker). It features a command history, executing applications as different users (e.g. root), and tab completion.
Mambo SiteServer 4.0.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115449/
Mambo SiteServer is a dynamic Web content management tool that is capable of building sites from several pages to several thousand. It comes complete with 10 built-in modules, a WYSIWYG editor, site statistics, an admin interface, multi language support, custom module support, and more.
Mono Project 0.22
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115455/
Mono Project is an Open Source implementation of the various ECMA and .NET framework technologies for Unix and Windows. The project includes a compiler, a class library, and a CLI runtime engine.
motion 3.1.6 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115509/
motion uses a video4linux device for detecting movement. It makes snapshots of the movement which can be converted to MPEG movies in realtime (or later for low CPU usage), making it usable as an observation or security system. It can take actions like sending out email and SMS messages when detecting motion.
MyAddressbook 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115458/
MyAddressbook is an address book in C for the console. It is simple enough, but has all basic functions of usual addressbook and it is quite comfortable in use. The output format can be easily changed to fit a user's needs.
MyDNS 0.9.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115497/
MyDNS is a free DNS server for Unix which was implemented from scratch and is designed to serve DNS data directly from a MySQL or PostgreSQL database.
Netjuke 1.0b17
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115490/
Artekopia Netjuke is a cross-platform Web-based audio streaming jukebox powered by PHP 4 and an increasing choice of databases. MP3, Ogg Vorbis, ASF/WMA, and other music file formats are supported. Artekopia Netjuke aims to enable small organizations or communities run a private "mp3.com-like" Web site to access the music they legitimately own, distribute, or are granted access to. It supports most audio players, language packs, optional file downloads, media protection schemes, multi-level security, shared and private playlists, random playlists, images, etc. It also features an unusual, easy-to-use installer module to get you started in minutes.
OSSP mm 1.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115481/
OSSP mm is a 2-layer abstraction library which simplifies the usage of shared memory between related processed under Unix platforms. It both hides all platform dependent implementation details (allocation, locking, etc.) when dealing with shared memory segments and provides a high-level malloc-style API for a convenient way to work with data-structures inside those shared memory segments.
Packet Excalibur 1.0.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115475/
Packet Excalibur is a multi-platform graphical and scriptable network packet engine with extensible text-based protocol descriptions. It is a network tool designed to build and receive custom packets. Packet Excalibur allows you to decide packet attributes from the physical layer to the top, to sniff and spoof packets with a single interface, to build scripts in the GUI, and to define additional protocols in simple text files.
Pathalizer 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115463/
Pathalizer is a tool for visualizing the paths most users take when browsing a Web site. This information can be used to decide how to improve the navigation of the site, and for determining which parts are most worth improving and keeping up to date. It generates a directed, weighed graph from an Apache log, but could easily be modified to analyze any list of events.
Pebrot 0.5.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115486/
Pebrot is an MSN messenger text client implemented with Python 2 (not 1.5). It also has a pretty curses-based interface.
picoSQL 1.3beta (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115468/
picoSQL is an Italian RDBMS. Because it derives from a commercial project, it is already robust, fast, and rather complete.
picoSQL 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115466/
picoSQL is an Italian RDBMS. Because it derives from a commercial project, it is already robust, fast, and rather complete.
Poco 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115478/
Poco is a very small content management system for small-scale websites. It allows you to manage a site for other people in the following way: you give trusted users password-protected write access to some parts of some pages (for example, for blocks of text or small chunks of HTML) but you still manage the main pages yourself.
Project-based Calendaring System 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115526/
PbCS is a calendaring system which is very useful for project managers or managers that plan time for other people. Plain overviews of scheduled appointments make it easy to schedule new appointments.
PXL 2000 fonts 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115491/
pxl2000 is a dot matrix font for the X Window System (X11). It is designed to make text readable and eye-pleasing in (reverse color) xterm/rxvt terminal windows. By providing visually distinct glyphs for L, l, 1, 7, |, I, i and 0, O, Ø, o, ø, it is particularly well-suited for displaying program code. It is also suitable for ASCII art and code poetry and text-based net.art. pxl2000 is ISO 8859-15 (ISO 8859-1 with the Euro symbol) encoded and available in four different sizes: 9x18, 10x20, 11x22, and 12x24 pixel sizes, thus providing 113, 102, 91, or 85 characters per line on a 1024x768 display.
PyKota Print Quota System 0.99
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115528/
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 Desktop Server 0.4.16
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115460/
The Python Desktop Server is a combined Weblog authoring tool, XMLRPC/SOAP server, and news aggregator. It allows one to read RSS news feeds, post to a community server (such as Radio Userland or any Python Community Server installation), and includes tools for Weblog and homepage management. It features a Web interface, a built-in Web server, extensibility through scripts that connect via XMLRPC or macros, and a plugin architecture.
Rolo 003
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115440/
Rolo keeps track of contacts and displays with a text-based menu. It strives to be a well-constructed tool for complementing text-based email programs. It utilizes the vCard version 3.0 format for storing its contacts and interfaces with the end-user through an NCurses front-end.
rubrica 1.0.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115473/
rubrica is an address book written using GTK+ and GNOME. It allows you to add personal data (name, surname, address, etc.), Web links, email addresses, telephone numbers, job information (company where contact works, company infos, contact's assigment, etc.) and notes. XML is used to store the data. It can import addressbooks from GnomeCard and export to HTML.
Ruby FormValidator 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115508/
FormValidator is a Ruby port of Perl's Data::FormValidator library. It makes it easy to validate data coming in from HTML forms by providing a robust set of methods to handle required fields, dependent fields, filtering, constraints, tainting, and defaults. Its modular design allows you to easily add your own filters and constraints and also lets you to keep validation data outside of your CGI scripts.
Ryth(M)Aid + GUI 0.0.1a10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115502/
Ryth(M)Aid + GUI generates a drum, bass, and piano track according to a given set of chords. It is useful for instrument players who want to practice playing to certain harmonies. It uses tse3 for MIDI sequencing and GTK+ for a GUI.
salias 0.3.0 (C)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115529/
salias is a wrapper for programs that allows arguments to those programs to be aliased. For example, salias could expand "gpg -r friends --encrypt" to "gpg -r bob -r frank --encrypt". This is more useful than using simple environment variables, as other programs calling the wrapped-program don't have to worry about searching environment variables. Also, salias deals well with things needing repeating prefix options, such as with GnuPG's "-r" option (as shown in the example stated).
ShowImg 0.8-Beta2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115461/
ShowImg is a feature-rich image viewer which can display numerous
formats, including JPEG, PNG, GIF (animated) and MNG. It consists of a
tree view frame, a directory/preview frame, and a view frame. The
(larger) view frame can be exchanged with the (smaller)
directory/preview frame. It can preview and display images from
multiple directories and search for identical images. ShowImg also
features a full-screen mode, zooming, sorting, drag'n'drop with
Konqueror, and support for images in compressed archives (.zip).
Simple File Manager .022
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115434/
Simple File Manager is a PHP-based file manager that allows files to be uploaded, renamed, edited, and deleted. It can also create sub-directories, require authentication, restrict the files and directories that can be edited, specify disk space quotas and maximum file sizes, and more.
SISC 1.7.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115482/
SISC is an extensible Java-based interpreter of the algorithmic language Scheme. It uses modern interpretation techniques and handily outperforms all existing Java interpreters (often by more than an order of magnitude). In addition, SISC is a complete implementation of the language. The entire R5RS Scheme standard is supported. This includes a full number tower including complex number support and arbitrary precision integers and floating point numbers, proper tail recursion, hygienic macros, and full support for first-class continuations (not just the escaping continuations found in many other systems).
SlackCheck 2.00
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115477/
SlackCheck allows users to keep many Slackware machines up to date with the latest packages. All upgrades are performed from single machine though SSH (or RSH). It generates an upgrade script and list of non-standard packages for every machine.
SoQt 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115480/
SoQt is a GUI toolkit for using Coin/Open Inventor with Qt. The design focus is on RAD (Rapid Application Development) for 3D graphics applications.
Spotter 2.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115504/
Spotter is software that can check students' answers to symbolic and numerical problems in math and science. It recognizes an answer regardless of the form it's in, and the instructor can put in helpful hints as responses to frequently-occurring mistakes. Symbolic answers can be input in a notation closely resembling normal human math notation (e.g., xy rather than x*y, and sin x instead of sin(x)). Spotter runs as a Perl CGI application on a Web server; the student doesn't need to install any software.
TBFirewall 3.1 (Iptables)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115503/
TBFirewall is a front-end created to control firewall rules. Its config files are constructed in the form of tables. TBFirewall is designed to connect one or more local networks to another, forming an internetwork, but it can also run without problem in other network models.
trickle 1.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115445/
trickle is a lightweight, portable, per-application bandwidth shaper. It works in collaboration, has peak detection, and does smoothing. trickle works entirely in userland and does not require root to run. It has been developed on OpenBSD and is known to run on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris.
Working Overloaded Linux Kernel 4.0s-rc2 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/115444/
The Working Overloaded Linux Kernel (WOLK) project provides stable and development kernels for either server or testing purposes. These kernels provide a server kernel and also a service for developers and end users who can't be up-to-date with the latest kernels/patches but want to test new kernel features. Patches may be added upon request.
Xplanet 0.95a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115496/
Xplanet is a C++ program which is similar to xearth, but draws the earth or another planet with user-supplied maps. It renders the image in the root window or an X window. Azimuthal, Mercator, Mollweide, orthographic, and rectangular projections can be drawn, and clouds can be optionally overlaid.
Xrefactory 1.6.0.pre0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115459/
Xrefactory is a refactoring browser for Emacs and XEmacs providing multiple projects support, source browser, intellisense code completion, refactorings for safe symbol renaming, parameter manipulations, function/method extraction, field encapsulation, moving of fields/methods, etc. It is based on full pre-processing, parsing, and static analyzing of sources. It works for C and Java languages, and contains stand-alone cross referencer, and a generator for HTML documentation.
yaws 1.01 (Main)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115506/
Yaws is a high performance, light-weight, threaded HTTP 1.1 Web server targeted for the generation of dynamic content. It is written in Erlang, and the server side dynamic content is generated by Erlang code embedded in the HTML code.
Newsforge Reports
The U.S. as a second-class Linux citizen
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/1343204
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Here's a quote from an article at The Economic Times of India: "Some PC manufactures such as HP sell PCs without software giving the option to chose an operating system to customers from the home segment. Others like Compaq are choosing to load Linux, the free operating system on to their computers." Why aren't U.S. citizens given this same choice?
SCO follows David HannumÂ’s 'sucker' theory in lawsuit against IBM http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/1728239
- by Tina Gasperson - Apparently taking to heart the adage, "There’s a sucker born every minute", SCO yesterday filed a lawsuit against customer IBM, stating that big blue violated Unix licensing agreements by allegedly using and encouraging other companies to use the source code for AIX in Open Source projects. My god, McBride. Are you really that desperate for funds? It sure sounds like it, according to what you said in your teleconference ...
Linux Advisory Watch - March 7th, 2003
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/1124250
- by: Benjamin D. Thomas - This week, advisories were released for sendmail, php, slocate, mhc, eterm, tcpdump, snort, OpenSSL, tg3, squirrelmail, and im. The distributors include Conectiva, Debian, FreeBSD, Gentoo, Mandrake, NetBSD, Red Hat, Slackware, SuSE, and Yellow Dog.
Newsforge Newsvac
SCO: IBM Suit Not About Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/207259
The legal action the SCO Group brought against IBM on Thursday has nothing to do with Linux or the open-source community, Darl McBride, CEO and president of the SCO Group, stressed in a media conference on Friday morning.
Red Hat: An Appraisal and Outlook
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/1717229
Ever since the market bubble burst, Red Hat has been struggling to regain its initial glow of excitement. Although it claims prestigious accounts (Amazon, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Cisco and others), enterprise IT loyalty to a specific Linux distribution and distributor is less locked in than with proprietary systems.
A tale of two licenses: Part 1 (MS EULA) http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/1714246
rjmatm writes "What restrictions are you accepting when you click through that license agreement?"
Microsoft issues first-ever dividend
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/178249
A.Guru prasadh writes "SEATTLE: Microsoft is issuing its first dividend on Friday, shelling out more than $850 million to shareholders, from the smallest investor right up to co-founder Bill Gates."
Mitchell Baker of mozilla.org on Browser Innovation, Gecko, and the Mozilla project http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/171251
Anonymous Reader writes "Mitchell Baker, mozilla.org's Chief Lizard Wrangler, has written an article about browser innovation and the future of the World Wide Web. Lots of stuff about cross-platform technologies and open Web standards, with some interesting comments about Apple's new Safari browser."
Camino 0.7 Released
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/1651203
Anonymous Reader writes "MozillaZine reports that Camino 0.7 has been released. Camino is the new name for Chimera, the open-source Mozilla-based browser for Mac OS X."
PCLinuxOnline initiates community boycott of SCO http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/1641215
Yama writes "PCLinuxOnline has responded to the SCO lawsuit against IBM by initiating a community boycott of the company and its products. They have set up fora to collect evidence to use in the courtroom, and also to discuss possible community responses. See their front page for details.
IPCop 1.2.0 released
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/1638203
IPCop Firewall is a Linux firewall distribution geared towards home and SOHO (Small Office/Home Office) users. The IPCop interface is very user-friendly and task-based. IPCop offers the critical functionality of an expensive network appliance using stock, or even obsolete, hardware and OpenSource Software.
Windows servers seek to unseat Unix, Linux http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/1636223
One of the first battlegrounds facing Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 after its April 24 launch is the hotly contested world of mid-range servers.
Stay tuned: China's first homegrown CPU is about to go 64-bit. http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/1634253
One of the country's most promising start-ups, BLX IC Design Corp., Ltd., told EE Times Wednesday (March 5) that it is closing in on a 500-MHz microprocessor that it will market toward China's leading server vendors, including Legend Group and Dawning Technology.
Thinkgeek
Books: BOFH Series - 3 Pack/Bundle!
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/humor/5daf/
Cube Goodies: GeoMAG from Italy
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/5c82/
Electronics: i2eye Broadband Videophone
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/phones/5d7f/
Electronics: Si-5 Portable Speakers
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/audio/5bb3/
Computing: Latte Mini PC
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/handhelds/5d5b/
Electronics: SoundPaX Portable Stereo Speakers http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/audio/5d02/
Computing: Ratpadz GS Mousing Surface
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/3745/
Computing: Griffin PowerMate
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5ca2/
Cube Goodies: Smart Mass Thinking Putty
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/5ac8/
Books: GPF 2 - Gone With The Windows
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/humor/5cad/
Books: BOFH 2 - Son Of The Bastard
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/humor/5ca5/
Books: GPF 3 - And The Geek Shall Inherit The Earth http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/humor/5cb0/
Books: BOFH 3 - Bride Of The Bastard
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/humor/5ca8/
Books: BOFH 1 - Bastard Operator From Hell http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/humor/5c9b/
Books: User Friendly - Version 1.0
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/humor/5cb2/
Gadgets: Candela Rechargeable Lamps
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5cf5/
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
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5d08/
Sourceforge
bogofilter-0.11.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=257794
The bogofilter package implements a fast Bayesian spam filter along the lines suggested by Paul Graham in his article "A Plan For Spam" . It is written in C. Supported platforms: Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and OS X. Version 0.11.1 is available, including a number of enhancements and bugfixes. See the NEWS-0.11 file for details.
drjava-20030304-2327 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=257786
DrJava is an integrated Java development environment that supports interactive evaluation of expressions. This development release of DrJava provides a significant number of bug fixes, in preparation for an upcoming beta release. The changes include improvements to saved Interactions histories, improved undo support, key binding fixes, and various user interface bug fixes. Please test this release by following the "more download options" link on our home page.
Tcl/Tk 8.4.2 release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=257762
The Tcl Core Team is pleased to announce the 8.4.2 releases of the Tcl scripting language and the Tk toolkit. This is the second patch release of Tcl/Tk 8.4. See http://www.tcl.tk/ for details.
Axualize 1.1.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=257007
After successful beta testing, version 1.1.0 is now official. Axualize is a language for building application from objects using an XML dialect. Axualize is schema driven and infinitely extendable. Axualize is currently implemented in Java but the Axualize schema does not dictate a specific platform. The 1.1.0 release adds support for Ruby, JavaScript and BeanShell scripting, as well as other enhancements. 1.1.0 Added: - Built in "Ruby" scripting support through BSF and JRuby
- Built in "JavaScript" scripting support through BSF and Rhino - Built in "BeanShell" scripting support both through BSF and as the natively supported scripting environment. - MrRoboto class which aids in creating Axualize documents which implement simple java.awt.Robot actions. The MrRoboto class implements KeyListener, and MouseListener and is simply registered as such for each component which will be recorded. - new BSF schema so to aid creating documents which utilize both standard and BSF namespaces. changed: - ProcessHandler has been refactored to behave more like HttpHandler.
IlohaMail 0.7.10 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=257047
IlohaMail 0.7.10 has been released. This version includes security fixes (also released in 0.7.9-2), three new languages (Korean, Standard Portuguese, Catalan), APOP support, improved handling of RFC822 attachments as well as minor fixes to the IMAP and SMTP libraries. This is the most recent update to the sta