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[osdn everything] March 25, 2003
Date: Tue Mar 25 2003 - 04:45:27 EST
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March 25, 2003 EVERYTHING SERIES
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Slashdot
Robots!
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/2342222
[0]i4u writes "Sony introduces at the [1]Robodex 2003 it's new version
of the humanoid Robot SDR-4X. The [2]Sony SDR-4X was introduced last
year. The new version [3]SDR-4X II has improved movement functions,
safety functions and conversation capabilities. The new speech
processor supports continuous speech recognition with about 20,000
words. The Sony SDR-4X II is about 580x190x270mm in size and weighs
about 7kg. [4]Sony Japanse Press-Release. See also the new robot
Toshiba announced - the [5]ApriAlpha."
Links
0.
http://www.i4u.com
1.
http://www.robodex.org/
2.
http://www.i4u.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=13
3.
http://www.i4u.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=255&mode=&order=0&thold=0
4.
http://www.sony.co.jp/SonyInfo/News/Press/200303/03-0324/
5.
http://www.i4u.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=252&mode=&order=0&thold=0
Hacker Leaks Unreleased CERT Reports
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/2339240
Call Me Black Cloud writes "A hacker calling himself "Hack4Life"
[0]swiped 3 unpublished vulnerability reports from a company working
with CERT and posted them to the Full Disclosure mailing list. A couple
of days later, he did it [1]again (while promising weekly leaks). Wired
also has a [2]story, including a [3]link to one of the postings."
Links
0.
http://news.com.com/2100-1002-993375.html?tag=fd_ots
1.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,962679,00.asp
2.
http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,58106,00.html
3.
http://lists.netsys.com/pipermail/full-disclosure/2003-March/004526.htmlDesigners - Are You Influenced By What You Read? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/2346233
[0]Silent_E asks: "A student of mine is writing a paper on how
Stephenson's _The Diamond Age_ offers a good educational model for
distance learning. She has been asked by publishers to justify looking
at fiction as a way of talking about 'the real world.' That dialogue
made me wonder whether Slashdot folks currently or recently coding or
doing hardware design are, or have been, directly inspired by what
they've read in Science Fiction?"
Links
0. http://emrigsby AT yahoo DOT com
Portable Pioneer Adam Osborne dead at 64 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/25/0032236
douglips writes "Yahoo News has [0]the story. He's best remembered for the blunder of announcing that his next version of the Osborne portable computer was so much better, that nobody bought the current version and the company died quickly. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon." Links
Watching Kids Via Mobile Phone
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/2247201
Joe the Lesser writes "This BBC article says how parents could soon keep a much closer eye on what children are up to on their way to and from school thanks to a [0]mobile monitoring system. It will send text alerts to their mobile phone if the child deviates too far from that route or takes too long getting there." Links
0. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2869337.stm
Office Depot: Windows XP Apps Must Be Microsoft-Approved http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/2125236
An anonymous reader writes "According to an [0]article at The Inquirer, by May 30th [1]Office Depot will only be carrying computer products that have been certified by Microsoft and carry the 'Designed for Windows XP' logo. This may be an initial glimpse at how Microsoft could introduce Digital Restrictions Management by ensuring all retail hardware and software products are approved by Redmond." Links
0. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=8472
Red Hat 9 To Be Released March 31
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/1947249
[0]Garfunkel writes "Looks like Red Hat is breaking tradition and
skipping 8.1 and 8.2 and [1]jumping directly to 9.0 RHN subscribers get
it a week ahead on March 31st. Available to the rest the world a week
later (April 7)." The website refers to the upcoming release simply as
"9" -- which doesn't rule out future point releases, but could it be?
Links
0. mailto:jay@@@jayandcarissa...com
Building A Better Inbox (Updated)
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/190256
vudujava writes "[0]c|net is reporting that a new free (Update: not
free, actually, read more for details.), [1]web based email service is
opening it's doors today. They promise to deliver "100% spam free"
email to their users by using a challenge-response system to all
incoming, first-time mail. Catch the entire story [2] here. Although
the idea isn't new, it shows that we are notching up the "war on
spam"." Alert reader George Hotelling points out this [3]post on
Politech which may give you pause when it comes to the new mail
service's Terms of Service. And [4]kraksmoka writes "As reported on
this [5]article on MSNBC : 'Hotmail subscribers are now limited to
sending only 100 messages a day "in an effort to prevent spammers from
using Hotmail to spread spam,” said Lisa Gurry, MSN lead product
manager.'"
Links
0.
http://news.com.com/
1.
http://www.mailblocks.com/
2.
http://news.com.com/2010-1071-992911.html?tag=nl
3.
http://politechbot.com/p-04580.html
4. mailto:grantstern@@@mac...com
5.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/890012_asp.htm?0cv=CB20
Beep! Beep! You have Broken the Law.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/1746219
medscaper writes "Authorities in China are using computers to [0]spam
mobile phones of law-breakers until they turn themselves in.
Apparently, lots of illegal advertisements as stickers with
mobile-phone numbers listed are placed around large cities and are
becoming an eyesore. So, the authorities call the cell phones
incessantly with recorded messages that demand the "businessmen" to
turn themselves in."
Links
0. http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-993822.html
Microsoft To Teach Undergrads About Secure Computing http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/170259
gcondon writes "The Register is reporting that Microsoft is teaming up with the [0]University of Leeds [1]to teach students how to write secure code. Given the sheer number of programming errors that can lead to security vulnerabilities, it probably makes sense to learn from the company that has [2]tried them all." [3]UndercoverBrotha points out that University of Leeds is one of several venues: "Microsoft is planning to offer [4]11-week courses at Universities around the world." Links
0.
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/
1.
http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/29899.html
2.
http://www.securityfocus.com/microsoft
3.
http://codemonkey2600 AT yahoo DOT com
4.
http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,79579,00.html
Freshmeat
Audacity 1.1.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117368/
Audacity is a cross-platform multitrack audio editor. It allows you to record sounds directly or to import Ogg, WAV, AIFF, AU, IRCAM, or MP3 files. It features a few simple effects, all of the editing features you should need, and unlimited undo. The GUI was built with wxWindows and the audio I/O currently uses OSS under Linux. Audacity runs on Linux/*BSD, MacOS, and Windows.
AutoUpdate 4.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117356/
AutoUpdate is a Perl script which performs a task similar to Red Hat's up2date or autorpm. It can be used to automatically download and upgrade RPMs from different HTTP(S) or (S)FTP sites, while also handling dependencies. Moreover, it can also be used to keep a server with a customized (Red Hat) distribution plus all clients up to date.
BioCoRE 3.3.24
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117375/
BioCoRE is a collaborative work environment for biomedical research, research management, and training. It offers scientists (working together or alone) a seamless interface to a broad range of local and remote technologies such as discipline-specific and general tools, data, and visualization solutions. It features powerful yet easy-to-use tools, among them co-authoring papers and other documents, running applications on supercomputers, sharing molecular visualization over the Internet, notifying project team members of recent project changes by email, chatting, keeping a lab book, and other practical features.
BKchem 0.4.2-pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117343/
BKchem is a chemical drawing program written in Python.
ConvertAll 0.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117336/
ConvertAll is a unit conversion program in which units can be combined with multiplication and division operators and can be squared, cubed, etc. The interface is graphical, allowing the units to be selected from lists and the conversions to be made in both directions. Non-linear units (such as temperatures and gauge sizes) are supported. The unit data file can be easily modified to add additional units. ConvertAll is based on the PyQt library.
CRUX 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117392/
CRUX is a lightweight, i686-optimized Linux distribution targeted at experienced Linux users. The primary focus of this distribution is "keep it simple", which is reflected in a simple tar.gz-based package system, BSD-style initscripts, and a relatively small collection of trimmed packages. The secondary focus is utilization of new Linux features and recent tools and libraries.
CVSspam 0.2.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117328/
CVSspam sends email when a change is commited to the CVS repository. Syntax-highlighted diffs describe the changes made, and hyperlinks to Bugzilla and ViewCVS/Chora are generated where possible.
dartool 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117396/
dartool effectively deals with the annoyance caused by recruiters reposting the same positions every day on DICE. Doing so renders the time period selection on the site nearly worthless, and makes job seekers lives much more difficult by forcing them to weed through all of the posts they've already seen. This program addresses the problem by building a cache of already seen posts, and creating a local Web page each time it is run that only lists positions that haven't been seen before. It was tested with MySQL, but should work out of the box with any DBI-compliant database.
DataVision 0.7.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117339/
DataVision is a reporting tool similar to Crystal Reports, written in Java. It supports multiple data sources (JDBC, text files) and output formats (HTML, XML, PDF, LaTeX, comma- and tab-separated data files, and DocBook). It lets you design reports with a drag-and-drop GUI. Report descriptions are stored as XML.
DCP-Portal 5.4 (Final)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117316/
DCP-Portal is a content management system with advanced features like Web-based update, link, file, member management, poll, calendar, etc. Its main features include an admin panel to manage the entire site, a smart HTML editor to add news, content, and annoucements, the ability for members to submit news/content and write reviews, and much more.
Deep Saturated 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117334/
Deep Saturated is a theme with deep saturated colors and reliefed buttons. It looks smooth and mysterious.
execline 1.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117355/
execline is a very light, non-interactive scripting language, which is similar to a shell. Simple shell scripts can be easily rewritten in the execline language, improving performance and memory usage. execline was designed for use in embedded systems, but works on most Unix flavors.
fBuilder Plus 2.4.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117364/
fBuilder Plus is a Web-based utility for building and configuring your ipchains/iptables-based Linux firewall. It includes a Firewall Creation Wizard, edit, insert, and delete capabilities for firewall rules, rule shifting, support for DHCP clients, DMZ creation through firewall wizard, NAT capabilities, support for IP aliases, custom protocols, user defined chains, limit matches, automatic log rule creation, state checking, log reporting, email alerts, and export capabilities.
FFTW 2.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117318/
FFTW is a fast C FFT library. It includes complex, real, symmetric, multidimensional, and parallel transforms, and can handle arbitrary array sizes efficiently.It is typically faster than other freely available FFT implementations, and is even competitive with vendor-tuned libraries (benchmarks are available at the homepage). To achieve this performance, it uses novel code generation and runtime self optimization techniques (along with many other tricks).
FLP-i18n 1.051
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117389/
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.
Free Realty 2.7 pre 5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117366/
Free Realty is a PHP/MySQL set of scripts based upon Jon Roig's original Open Realty project. Jon's description of the package, "... so easy even a real estate agent can use it.." is the ultimate goal of this project.
Horst The Cyborg 0.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117330/
Horst The Cyborg is a single-server, single-channel IRC bot written in C.
HTTP-WebTest 2.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117377/
HTTP-WebTest is a Perl module which runs tests on remote URLs or local Web files containing Perl/JSP/HTML/JavaScript/etc., and generates a detailed test report. This module can be used "as-is" or its functionality can be extended using plugins. Plugins can define test types and provide additional report capabilities. This module comes with a set of default plugins, but can be easily extended with third-party plugins.
Hydrogen 0.7.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117365/
Hydrogen is a simple real-time Drum machine/sequencer. It features a graphical user interface based on Qt 3, a sample-based audio engine, OSS/Jack/Export to disk audio drivers, ALSA MIDI input, ability to import/export XML-based song files, 64 ticks per pattern, 16 voices with volume, mute, solo, and pan capabilities, and import of samples in wave, au, and aiff format.
IP-Accounting Grapher 0.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117397/
IP-Accounting Grapher is a PHP script that outputs IP-Accounting information collected by Linux IP accounting on a hourly, daily, and monthly basis.
Issue Manager 0.8.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117376/
The Issue Manager is a simple product for managing (structuring, editing, prioritizing, categorizing) issues. It is primarily used to manage information.
Jabber Gadu-Gadu Transport 1.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117363/
The Jabber Gadu-Gadu transport provides Gadu-Gadu protocol support (which is a very popular proprietary instant messaging protocol in Poland).
Jess 6.1RC1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117358/
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.
jMax 4.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117369/
jMax allows one to interactively design dataflow circuits. The basic data types that can go through are integers, symbols, lists, etc. It is an event-driven system and has been used for MIDI processing. A second part of the system (DSP) allows a continuous signal to flow through a circuit, which is most useful for PCM sound (ie. microphone, sound files, etc). The system is extensible by using shared libraries, you may add data processor types, data types, GUI elements, device types, and more. Data processors may also be designed as circuits and reused.
Kalyp 0.3.3-alpha (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117322/
Kalyp is a fantasy-based roguelike game written in Java. Its design is based on traditions set by popular roguelike games, especially Nethack. It is single player and runs in a text terminal. The project focuses mostly on the Artificial Intelligence engine for the non-player characters. Most of the game design will be done in scripting, as the core engine written in Java will handle user interface, rulesets, basic actions, and try to hold it all together.
Languenet 1.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117324/
Languenet is a PHP application originally written for Language departments of Universities, allowing users to register for educational courses online and administrators to manage course data, add grades, print certificates, and more. The whole program is accessible by a simple browser. It is currently only available in German.
lanoche 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117333/
'lanoche' makes writing reports about Linux on different laptops a little easier. It generates a hardware report about laptop specific features in HTML. It is a small shell script, using programs like 'free', 'apm', and others to get hardware information. Currently no hardware libraries are used, but you may find a short survey of libraries and other hardware detection tools. The name LaNoChe is an acronym of "LAptop or NOtebook CHEck".
libquantum 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117342/
libquantum is a C library for the simulation of a quantum computer. It provides an interface for a quantum register and for all important quantum operations. An efficient model for decoherence allows an analysis of quantum computation under a realistic environment.
LinCVS 1.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117323/
LinCVS is an easy-to-use graphical frontend for the CVS-client. It supports CVS versions 1.9 and higher. It can check out a module from and import of a module to a repository, update or retrieve the status of a working directory or single files, and perform common operations like add, remove, commit, diff against the repository, or view the log messages in list form.
Log Watcher 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117387/
lwatch is a log parser/analyzer written in C with the PCRE library. It is small and efficient. You are able to define your own colors using regexp patterns. The biggest advantage compared to other tools written in Perl is its speed.
Login Anomaly Detection System 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117383/
The Login Anomaly Detection System (LADS) detects anomalies in logins and logouts and is able to perform various actions in response.
LUFS Userland Filesystem 0.9.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117354/
LUFS is a hybrid userspace filesystem framework supporting many "exotic" filesystems (localfs, sshfs, ftpfs, httpfs, socketfs, freenetfs, and nutellafs) transparently for any application. It can be regarded as doing the same job as the VFS (virtual filesystem switch) in the kernel: it is a switch, distributing the filesystem calls to its supported filesystems. However, LUFS filesystems are implemented in userspace. This would be a drawback for local filesystems where the access speed is important, but proves to be a huge advantage for networked filesystems where the userland flexibility is most important.
Monkey HTTP Daemon 0.6.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117362/
Monkey HTTP Daemon is a small and fast Web server for Linux written in C. Its features include language support, GET, POST, and HEAD methods, CGI, PHP4 , a config file (optional for every user), a mime.types file, virtual hosts, the ability to deny URLs and IPs, to run as a different user (such as nobody), serve users home directories, and more.
Moto 0.19.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117400/
Moto is a server-side scripting language much like PHP or ColdFusion. The difference between Moto and other server-side scripting languages is that Moto pages can run interpreted (like PHP) or be natively compiled into dynamically loadable Apache modules (an entire Web site could be compiled into one .so file). It comes with a full suite of objects and functions for state and session management, MySQL and PostgreSQL database connectivity, and a slew of utility classes like stacks, hashtables, string buffers, etc. There is also an included interface definition language for exposing C functions to Moto. All object allocation occurs in a shared memory segment, so maintaining state in objects between page views is a snap.
MrPostman 1.0RC4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117348/
MrPostman is a Java program that acts as a POP mail server to interface your favorite mail client with Web Mail services like Yahoo! or Hotmail. It is designed so that new Webmail services can be written and used as plugins.
MyFTPAdmin 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117357/
MyFTP Admin is a Web-based GUI to easily view and administer users and groups for the ProFTPD server. It allows you to manage users and groups, view transfer logs (both uploads and downloads) and error logs, and view disk capacity.
network traffic volume capture to postgresql 1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117337/
This is a Unix daemon that captures traffic packet size, source, destination, and times and saves this data into a postgres database in near real time, from which traffic reports may be made. It does not save the actual data or headers. Works on ethX or cooked devices like ppp0. It uses Postgres embedded SQL to insert the data, pcap to capture traffic, and pthreads to capure and write at the same time. It is written in C++ using STL. Pcap filters can be specified on the command line. Logs go to syslog.
nut 7.21
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117391/
nut is nutrition software to record what you eat and analyze your meals for nutrient composition. The database included is the USDA Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release 15, which contains 6,220 foods. This database contains values for vitamins, minerals, fats, calories, protein, carbohydrates, fiber, etc., and includes the essential polyunsaturated fats, Omega-3 and Omega-6. Nutrient levels are expressed as a percentage of the Daily Value, the familiar standard of food labeling in the United States, but also can be fully customized. Recipes can be added. The program is completely menu-driven and there are no commands to learn.
nxtvepg 2.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117326/
nxtvepg is a decoder and browser for Nextview - a subscription-free electronic TV program guide in the analog domain. Nextview currently is broadcasted in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and France and covers the schedules of all major TV networks in these countries. nxtvepg is an X11 application with a GUI based on Tcl/Tk and uses the bttv driver for data acquisition through a TV tuner card.
OpenNA Linux RC2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117393/
OpenNA Linux is a full, professional quality Unix OS with rock-solid stability and industrial-strength networking. Highly secure, very fast, and modern Linux operating system, it is intended for those who want to install and run a Linux server for mission critical tasks in a high security environment.
OS X XWhois 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117345/
XWhois is an OS X whois client which automatically selects the appropriate server for most whois queries. It also returns the SOA information for the given domain and supports the new .com registration system and RIPE-based XXXX-RIPE requests.
Penguin Greetings 0.7.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117344/
Penguin Greetings is a Perl CGI application to implement Internet greeting cards on Linux and other Unix-based systems. It is intended to make ecards more like email. Cards are sent as multipart MIME email. The text of the card is included and the Reply-to field contains the card sender's email so that recipients can reply to the card even with a text-only email client. The HTML for the cards and the creation screens are stored in templates so that users can easily customize the look of the program. Penguin Greetings incorporates Embperl so that full Perl expressions can be incorporated in to templates for server-side processing. Access to the card creation functions can be optionally restricted to users in an htpasswd file to avoid giving world wide access to your server. The emailing function and data storage are carried out by a separate daemon program which allows for cards to be mailed on specific dates and improves security and logging.
Percival Network Monitoring System 1.1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117370/
Percival is a network monitoring and capacity planning frontend to RRDtool. It features a themeable Web interface, and support for MIB2, Cisco, Linux, and Windows. Configuration is stored in a hierarchical database, which supports on-the-fly editing, links, and multiple users.
PHP TroubleTicket 0.2.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117327/
PHP Trouble Ticket attempts to adress the need for a centralized means of problem reporting and tracking in multi-user environments (medium to large companies, development groups, etc.). It helps to direct problem reports to the responsible administrator(s), keep track of the status of a problem being worked on, and offers an up-to-date list of recent changes applied. PHP Trouble Ticket aims to be widely configurable, easy to use even for the not technically inclined and multi-language capable.
php-dbi 20030324
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117340/
php-dbi attempts to emulate the Perl database abstraction layer by implementing the methods provided by the object-oriented Perl DBI. It also allows the usage of placeholders, unlike most of the native PHP database functions.
phpExifRW 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117320/
phpExifRW is a pure PHP class to read, write, and transfer EXIF information that most digital cameras produce. This class overcomes the problem of most distributions that do not add Exif extensions in their default installation of PHP.
PHPlist 2.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117360/
PHPlist is a set of PHP pages that implement a mailing list system. It uses MySQL for storing the information. Particular aspects of the system include posting to the mailing list via a Web page. It is thus a kind of "announcements" list. It can deal with very large email address lists. Users can sign up to multiple lists. If a message is sent to multiple lists, they will only receive one copy of the email. If people sign up, they can identify the geographical location they're in allowing messages to be sent only to a subset of these. You can add place holders in your email that will be replaced with personal details (such as the person's name).
Poppy 4.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117350/
Poppy is a small Perl script that will individually retrieve only the headers of mail messages from a POP3/IMAP server and then allow you to view, save, or delete each. This is especially good for systems with limited resources like limited disk space, slow connectivity, or no GUI. It is also good for managing your mailbox when your normal mail reader is setup not to delete mail off the server or is having problems downloading large emails.
Postfix-Cyrus-Web-cyradm-HOWTO 1.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117378/
The Postfix-Cyrus-Web-cyradm-HOWTO document guides you through the installation of the Postfix mail transportation agent (MTA) and the Cyrus IMAP server. The goal is a fully functional high-performance mail system with user administration via Web-cyradm, a Web interface. Data like virtual users, aliases, etc., are stored in a MySQL database.
SKYRiX ZideStore Server 0.9.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117367/
The SKYRiX ZideStore server is a native client integration server for the SKYRiX groupware. Users can access the contact, appointment, and task database using Outlook, Evolution and almost any iCalendar compatible client (for example Apple iCal or Mozilla Calendar).
Smeagol 0.18
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117382/
Smeagol is an easy-to-use httpd with CGI support and some other nice features. Its design goals were simplicity and the absence of bloat.
SoX 12.17.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117349/
SoX is the Swiss Army knife of sound processing tools. It converts audio files among various standard audio file formats and can apply different effects and filters to the audio data.
Stunnix Perl-Obfus 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117321/
Stunnix Perl-Obfus is a unique solution for protecting your valuable intellectual property from possible Perl source code piracy/studying/rework. It's an advanced and extremely reliable obfuscator for the Perl source code. It converts the Perl source files (.pl and .pm) into highly mangled and obfuscated forms, making them extremely difficult to study, analyse, reuse, or re-work for competitors or customers, while fully retaining functionality of the original source code. It's not a compiler to machine code, and the obfuscated form will still be the usual Perl source code, and so will work on all platforms the original source worked on.
Tapestry 2.4-alpha-5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117361/
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.
TextMaker beta rev 378
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117352/
TextMaker is a word processor that launches quickly, needs little memory, does not require complicated setup, and has the full feature set of a modern high-end word processor. It reads and writes Microsoft Word 6/95/97/2000/XP files.
The Card Community Project Software Tools 1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117373/
The Cards Community Project is an economic system that does not use currency. Its software tools are used to typeset little 'cards' (which look like business cards) from plain-text emailable originals. A person's card tells others about her or his needs and abilities. Community members do things freely for one another, without asking for payment, and without bartering. No one keeps score; each person simply takes care that her or his own life is balanced and unexploited. This system encourages cooperation and sharing. People who participate are under no obligation to provide any service, or to continue playing, and there is no possibility of debt or obligation.
The Tamber Project 1.2.3 (Pogo)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117359/
The Tamber project is a free, componentised n-tier website engine that uses open languages such as XML and JavaScript. In a nutshell, content is stored in separate XML files, in databases, or other data objects; business functions are carried out by JavaScript and ASP; and presentation is controlled by an XSL transformation, which allows for delivery over multiple channels such as HTML, WAP and email. Currently Tamber contains modules that support; automatic locale detection, search engine tracking and optimisation, e-commerce catalogues; shopping carts and order management, secure sign in, data access and conversion services, advanced session management, content managemt tools and forums.
TM4J 0.8.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117379/
TM4J is a topic map processing toolkit and a set of topic map processing tools. Topic maps are an ISO standard for the interchange of information structures which can be used to represent ontologies, business data and processes, individual knowledge and opinions, and more. The goal of the TM4J project is to develop high-quality, Open Source software for the creation, manipulation, and exchange of topic maps.
w3pw 1.00
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117338/
w3pw is a Web based password wallet manager written in PHP. The encrypted information is stored in a MySQL database.
web-cyradm 0.5.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117390/
web-cyradm is a Web-based tool to admin the Cyrus IMAP Server and partially the Postfix MTA with a nice and fast frontend written in PHP. It supports multiple virtual domains, setting quotas, and mapping email adresses to mail accounts.
white_dune 0.22beta45 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117335/
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.
WineX 3.0 RC 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117319/
WineX is a version of Wine that aims achieve full Linux compatibility for games developed using DirectX APIs.
Wing IDE 1.1.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117384/
Wing IDE is a development environment for Python. It includes a graphical networked debugger, a powerful source code editor, and a project manager. Some of the IDE's productivity features include auto-completion, source index menu, goto-definition, syntax highlighting, and auto-indentation. An optional Emacs mode and many customization options make the IDE easy to adopt. The Standard edition also includes a source code browser that speeds the process of understanding and navigating Python code.
X-Itools 0.5.97 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117341/
The goal of the X-itools project is to propose an alternative to products like Exchange or Lotus Notes/Domino. They are composed of several modules, and this project has been under development for several years. Modules include a shared public and private agenda, a flow-chart, task, and post-it manager, a visitors and associated badges manager, a password and history manager (with the ability to encrypt things other than passwords), a holiday manager (to manage public vacation days, illness periods, absence periods according to country profiles), a shared public and private address book, an incoming and outgoing phone calls manager, and a global management module.
Xpdf 2.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117386/
Xpdf is a viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. (These are also sometimes also called 'Acrobat' files, from the name of Adobe's PDF software.) The Xpdf project also includes a PDF text extractor, PDF-to-PostScript converter, and various other utilities. It runs under the X Window System on UNIX, VMS, and OS/2. The non-X components (pdftops, pdftotext, etc.) also run on Win32 systems, and should run on pretty much any system with a decent C++ compiler. Xpdf is designed to be small and efficient. It can use Type 1, TrueType, or standard X fonts.
zpop3d 0.8.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117353/
zpop3d is an RFC 1939-compliant POP3 server. It features virtual domains support, POP before SMTP, and secure mailbox updates. It runs through tcpserver, xinetd, or the like.
Newsforge Reports
New Word-compatible Linux word processor beta available for free download
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/137236
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - The press release begins, "What does Linux need to succeed on the desktop? A fully Microsoft-compatible office suite, most people would say. TextMaker for Linux, the word processor from German software vendor SoftMaker, might very well be the first building block towards this goal."
Open Source in Government Conference Wrapup http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/21/1130206
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - The Open Standards/Open Source for National and Local eGovernment Programs in the U.S. and EU conference held in Washington DC March 17 - 19 was attended by nearly 500 people, not counting speakers. Microsoft representatives made a presentation about their Shared Source program, and that drew a handful of protesters, but both Microsoft and the protestors were minor sideshows that had little to do with the "meat" of ...
'Lock in Software,' not 'Proprietary Software' http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/18/1230223
- By Brendan Scott - In July last year I wrote a paper which argued that the total cost of ownership of free software would, in the long run, always be lower than that of equivalent software created under different models. One of the problems I grappled with when writing that paper was how to name those different models. At the time I adopted a term which appeared to be used widely, that of “proprietary software”. I now ...
Newsforge Newsvac
Shawn Gordon of theKompany.com branches into music
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/25/0221207
Anonymous Reader writes "Southern California's Shawn Gordon, founder of theKompany.com, is seeking to do with the recording industry what he has done with software: bring together the best of the free and the best of the commercial, with the result providing something for everyone."
Ark Linux H20: Simple and (Nearly) Complete http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/25/0218257
Anonymous Reader writes "OSNews reviews the latest version of Ark Linux, the offspring of Bernhard "Bero" Rosenkraenzer, a former Red Hat employee and KDE hacker."
Open source making headway in Texas government http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/25/0215205
Joe Barr writes "In the war between proprietary and free/open-source software in state and local government over the past two years, Texas has established itself as ground zero. Texas Senate Bill 1579, for example, which seeks to ensure that free/open-source software is given a level playing field when competing with proprietary products in state agencies, was deemed important enough to recently get posted by Slashdot. This week, I'm reporting ...
Why should software be free?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/25/0211238
Anonymous Reader writes "Linuxlookup.com has a pretty good article up on free software, here's a sniplet:
Microsoft Asks Colleges to Teach Hacking http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/1849245
Microsoft is working with a number of universities in several countries to set up courses that teach students how to write secure code, the company said Friday. The University of Leeds in England is the first to announce such a course.
Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 Review
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/1846210
Gentu writes "OSNews features the first review of Yellow Dog Linux found on the net. The article goes through installation, appearance and more."
Linux Enhances Shakespeare
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/1741208
Opening in Norwich UK this week and subsequently visiting Cambridge is makb3th from theatre company pirateutopia.org. The show is very much Linux-powered using aalib, XDirectFB, VLC and more to set the piece (an adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth) on an off-shore data haven.
GMOME, KDE Developers' Open Statement on XFree86 http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/1726254
We acknowledge the dedication of the XFree86 project in providing us a free and innovative implementation of the X11 industry standard, something we benefit from on a daily basis. Therefore, we want to share our joint point of view with the community.
A Warped View of Monopoly
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/1645233
NZheretic writes "A commentary by Joe McKendrick at ENT Magazine on Bill Gates, OS/2, Linux and Monopoly includes "ENTs own survey of 800 Windows enterprise sites found that 37 percent of enterprise sites are running Linux on servers. Plus, Linux even appears to be gaining a foothold in Microsofts ancestral homeland -- the desktop. The survey finds that 25 percent of the sites surveyed have Linux running on client machines. Just 18 percent run ...
Windows XP Desktop GUI available for Linux http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/1644223
XPde a desktop environment (XPde) and a window manager(XPwm) is available for Linux. It tries to recreate the Windows XP interface. XPde is another interesting attempt to make Linux more approachable for "mainstream" computer users who are familiar to the Micrsoft Windows environment.
Thinkgeek
Cube Goodies: Activision 10-in-1 TV Games
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/5d41/
Cube Goodies: Atari Classics 10-in-1 TV Games http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/5d39/
Computing: IQeye3 Network Camera
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/netcams/5e3b/
Electronics: FM Transmitter
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/audio/5dab/
Computing: UV-Treated Rounded Cables
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5e1f/
Computing: 4-D Optical Mouse
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5e45/
Books: Revolution OS DVD/VHS
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/nonfiction/5dd5/
Gadgets: Wireless PenCam