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[osdn everything] March 26, 2003
Date: Wed Mar 26 2003 - 04:45:27 EST
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Slashdot
False Information A-Okay in Primary FBI Database
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/26/0237257
blamanj writes "The FBI's [0]National Crime Information Center (NCIC), which compiles a huge database on criminals, arrest warrants, missing persons, etc., no longer has to put up with the [1]pesky problem of ensuring the data is accurate. I guess the Justice Department isn't particularly concerned with justice anymore." The full text of the provision which the main FBI criminal database will no longer have to adhere to is: "Each agency that maintains a system of records shall ... maintain all records which are used by the agency in making any determination about any individual with such accuracy, relevance, timeliness, and completeness as is reasonably necessary to assure fairness to the individual in the determination." Links
0. http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cjisd/ncic.htm
Deathmatch for Dollars?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/26/028217
[0]quixado writes "[1]You Play Games is an online wager service where
you can bet and earn money for each kill or injury to opponents. You
can even cap how much money you can lose in a 24 hour period. [2]Return
to Castle Wolfenstein is the first title. The press release can be
found [3]here. [4]More info here too. And they said that spending days
on end playing first person shooters wouldn't pay off..."
Links
0.
http://www.collectivedetective.org
1.
http://youplaygames.com/
2.
http://www.idsoftware.com/games/wolfenstein/rtcw/
3.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030304/latu045_1.html
4.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5423630.htm
Harvard Open Source Courseware
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/26/0139241
[0]mpawlo writes "[1]Gnuheter reports that the [2]Berkman Center for
Internet and Society releases the [3]H20 courseware software as open
source. Two years and 1 million USD are invested in the software so
far... The software has been tested at Harvard Law School, but should
be suitable for other disciplines than law."
Links
0.
http://www.pawlo.com/
1.
http://www.gnuheter.com/article.php?sid=2328
2.
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/
3.
http://h2o.law.harvard.edu/
Slashback: Security, Telephony, Solicitude http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/23/2035250
Slashback with more on Linux telephony, Mailblocks' terms of service, the scary disease known as SARS, the status of civilian GPS accuracy and more -- read on for the details.
Gnutella2 Specifications
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/25/2144240
An anonymous reader writes "After lots of heated debate regarding
Gnutella2, ([0]first story and [1]more recent story), the
specifications have finally been [2]released. There is a [3]mirror
here. Let the debates begin."
Links
0.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/06/1316251&tid=95
1.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/1551251&tid=95
2.
http://www.gnutella2.com/gnutella2_draft.htm
3.
http://www.kiwiuk.net/gnutella2_draft.htmSpirited Away Set for 800 Theatre Rerelease http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/25/2040249
[0]Robotech_Master writes "According to [1]the website of Jerry Beck, a
20-year-animation industry veteran and one of the co-founders of
Streamline Animation, when Spirited Away won the Oscar, it also "won
the right to be re-released to 800 theatres this Friday. Disney will be
announcing plans to re-release the Japanese masterpiece in theatres
later today." When I emailed Beck to ask him his source, he said it was
someone within the Disney publicity department and it would be made
public sometime today. According to Spirited Away's [2]numbers page at
[3]Rotten Tomatoes, it peaked during its first run at 151 screens.
Wonder how it'll do this time around?"
Links
0.
http://www.eyrie.org/~robotech/
1.
http://www.cartoonresearch.com/news.html
2.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/SpiritedAway-1116064/numbers.php
3.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/Mandrake Linux 9.1 (Bamboo) Is Available! http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/25/204225
Not to load you up with Mandrake, but joestar writes "Mandrake Linux
9.1 (Bamboo) is now officially available at a number of FTP mirrors.
This version appears to be a key release for MandrakeSoft and includes
many [0]new features such as a new simplified installation procedure,
ZeroConf network support, Wi-Fi support, NTFS partition resizing and a
brand-new... MandrakeGalaxy theme. It's very beautiful and the whole
thing has apparently very few bugs, which is a good news. A full
presentation is available at [1]Mandrake's website, download is
available from their FTP page [2]as usual. As I see it, it's certainly
the most important Mandrake release since version 7.0..." Update: 03/25
21:44 GMT by [3]T: And if you like the distro, you can do both yourself
and Mandrake a favor by ordering [4]box sets straight from them, or
joining [5]Mandrake's Club.
Links
0.
http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/9.1/91PR.php3
1.
http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/9.1/features/
2.
http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ftp.php3
3.
http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
4.
http://www.mandrakestore.com/
5.
http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/club/
TEACH vs. DMCA Showdown Looming
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/25/1940259
[0]TVmisGuided writes "A copyright showdown between the DMCA (Digital
Millennium Copyright Act) and the Teach (Technology Education and
Copyright Harmonization) Act is brewing that will have serious
implications on the future of higher education on-line. The [1]article
from Chronicle.com spells out the upcoming brouhaha. IMO, this will be
one of the strongest litmus tests of the DMCA since it was signed into
law in the U.S."
Links
0. mailto:awjump@@@sprintmail...com
Intel Patents Anti-Overclocking Technology http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/25/1825201
VCAGuy writes "It appears that Intel has pantented a crystal-locking technology to lock processors to the processor's clock speed. [0]The Inquirer has a story about it, and you can read the patent description from the [1]USPTO. Let's hope AMD doesn't try to copy this..." Links
0. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=8518
First Mandrake 9.1 Review Out
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/25/1621234
icantblvitsnotbutter writes "With [0]Mandrake Linux 9.1 [1]right around
the corner, it's [2]OSNews first out of the gates with [3]a review of
this desktop-oriented distro's latest release. The review is actually
pretty bland, skimming the surface to linger on some of Eugenia's pet
peeves. Having used 9.1 in a production environment since beta 3, I can
say that the improvements to the installation and the signature
Mandrake tools are much-appreciated. Don't forget that [4]Mandrake Club
members get their own set of mirrors, as well as being eligible for
extras like the voting process that selected the packages for the 9.1
release." Update: 03/25 18:29 GMT by [5]T: [6]anyweb also points out a
[7]review of Red Hat Linux 9 on the same site, writing "an informative
article -- well I had to say that, I wrote it ;-)"
Links
0.
http://www.mandrakelinux.com/
1.
http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/cooker/2003-02/msg10376.php
2.
http://www.osnews.com/
3.
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3116
4.
http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/club/
5.
http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
6. mailto:anyweb@hotmail.com
7.
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3119
Freshmeat
align 1.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117519/
align is a general-purpose text filter tool that helps vertically align columns in string-separated tables of input text. It also includes width, another general-purpose text filter tool that helps you work with the printing width or length of lines of input text.
Apache Ant 1.5.3beta1 (stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117447/
Ant is a Java based build tool, similar to make, but with better support for the cross platform issues involved with developing Java applications. Ant is the build tool of choice for all Java projects at Apache and many other Open Source Java projects.
Atari Running on Any Machine 0.8.0beta1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117431/
Atari Running on Any Machine is a virtual machine that allows you to run existing and develop new Atari ST/TT/Falcon applications on your computer.
Autopilot UAV 2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117496/
autopilot is a command and control system for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. It provides hands-off flight controls for helicopters and simple "moving map" control for the ground station. Manual control is similar to operation under IFR with three axis EFIS.
BEJY 1.1.1.42
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117471/
BEJY is a modular server application. It has functionality similar to inetd and some helper classes/functions to ease the implementation of new protocols. It provides a generic multithreaded TPC/IP server implementation with optional SSL support, covering the complete connection and thread management. Each supported service provides its protocol implementation(s), where the protocol dependend handling is done. The current version comes with HTTP, SMTP, POP3, and IMAP protocol implementations. The HTTP protocol implementation also contains a servlet engine, a JSP engine, a handler to invoke CGI, and other useful things.
BHL 1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117435/
BHL is an Emacs mode which enables you to convert plain text files into HTML, LaTeX, Texinfo, SGML (Linuxdoc), and TXT files. The BHL mode handles common font-styles, three levels of sections, any kind of lists, tables, URLs, horizontal rules, and Wiki names. BHL handles a list of links (lol) and a table of contents (toc): you can browse the lol and the toc, insert the toc where you want, and update the sections' numbers with one keystroke.
Cerberus Helpdesk 1.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117485/
Cerberus Helpdesk is an email response system built to diminish the need for redundant, time-consuming human interaction with your customers. The system is built to allow your support/sales/billing/etc. department to react quickly to inbound customer email inquiries. It was written originally as a trouble ticket system.
CVSps 2.0b7 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117463/
CVSps is a program for generating 'patchset' information from a CVS repository. A patchset in this case is defined as a set of changes made to a collection of files, and all committed at the same time (using a single 'cvs commit' command). This information is valuable to seeing the big picture of the evolution of a cvs project. CVSps allows you to see history of committed patchsets, restrict by author, date range, files affected, branches affected. CVSps can generate a diff of a given patchset.
DireqCafe 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117439/
DireqCafe is a full featured and complete open-source Internet cafe system for use with the LTSP thin client solution.
Download4J 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117503/
Download4J is pure Java component (Servlet + JavaBean) that allows you to download files. It can be integrated into any JSP/Servlet application. You can download files from any folder, ZIP archive , or Database (Oracle, IBM DB2, MySQL, etc.). You can count and set a maximum limit for download hits, and HTTP authentication (login/password) can be applied to each of the downloads. Configuration is done through an XML file.
Easysoft ODBC-ODBC Bridge 1.2.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117442/
The Easysoft ODBC-ODBC Bridge allows applications on one machine to access ODBC data sources on another. It supports multiple concurrent connections from multiple clients to multiple target databases. The principle application is to enable access from Linux and Unix platforms to remote ODBC databases. For example, Apache/PHP programs on Linux can read/write data held on MS SQL Server on Windows, and Perl programs can read/write data held in a MS Access database. Supported applications include Applixware, Open Office, Python, Rexx/SQL, mnGoSearch, OpenLDAP, and Oracle sqlplus. Supported platforms include Linux, MacOSX, IBM zSeries, Windows and various Unix flavors.
EPM 3.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117504/
The ESP Package Manager (EPM) is a simple tool that generates software and patch distributions in various formats, including AT&T software packages ("pkg") used by Solaris, Debian ("dpkg"), HP-UX software packages ("swinstall" or "depot"), IRIX Software Manager ("inst" or "tardist"), portable (installation and removal scripts with tar files), and Red Hat Package Manager ("RPM").
Fade to Blue 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117416/
Fade to Blue is a blue fade-in, fade-out animated cursor scheme for XFree 4.3. All included cursors fade in and out once every 1.2 seconds, from a brilliant blue at 100% opacity all the way down to 50% opacity. There are 20 frames of fading goodness per cursor.
Freecell Solver 2.8.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117441/
Freecell Solver is a 100% ANSI C program that automatically solves games of Freecell, and several similar Solitaire variants, as well as games of Simple Simon. It can also be compiled as a library for use within third-party applications.
FUDforum 2.3.9RC1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117461/
FUDforum is templatable forum with i18n support based on PHP and either MySQL or PostgreSQL. It features a user/group management system, a multi-lingual spell checker, both flat and thread message views, a private messaging system with mult-iuser forwarding capabilities, poll file attachments, and much more. It is an extremely fast and scalable forum that can fulfill the needs of both small and large forum operators.
GKrellM giFT 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117512/
GKrellM giFT is a GKrellM plugin which monitors active giFT transfers by showing their progress.
gmencoder 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117468/
Gmencoder is a GNOME 2 frontend to mencoder. It supports an output codec for video (lavcodec) and one for audio (lame). It support postprocesing, cropping, scale, subtitles ripping, and multiple encoding passes.
GNU Source-highlight 1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117518/
GNU Source-highlight produces a document with syntax highlighting when given a source file. At the moment, it handles Java, C/C++, Prolog, Perl, PHP3, Python, Flex, and ChangeLog as source languages and HTML and XHTML as output formats.
GNUstep 0.8.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117470/
GNUstep is a set of general-purpose Objective-C libraries based on the OpenStep standard developed by NeXT (now Apple) Inc. The libraries consist of everything from foundation classes, such as dictionaries and arrays, to GUI interface classes such as windows, sliders, buttons, etc.
Goben 0.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117482/
Goben is a GTK+ 1.2 GUI for playing Go. It allows any combination of human vs computer, computer vs computer, or human vs human play, and supports any board size from 5x5 to the full 19x19. Computer players are controlled via GTP for compatibility with GNUGo and other GTP talking Go programs.
Gpasman 1.9.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117459/
Gpasman is a password manager. People working with the internet have to remember lots of passwords. Saving them in a textfile is not a secure idea. Gpasman is a GTK solution to this problem since it saves the password information encrypted, so now you have to remember only one password instead of ten (or more).
GXMame 0.32
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117453/
GXMame is a frontend for XMame which uses the GTK library to provide the same GUI as mame32. It can control xmame with almost all options.
Hatari 0.30
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117484/
Hatari is a portable Atari ST emulator using SDL based on WinSTon and UAE's CPU core.
hdup 1.6.6 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117493/
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).
IceWM Menu Config 2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117498/
IceWM Menu Config is a GUI menu configuration program for IceWm. It is based on QT 3.1.0-free (or above). Cut and paste and Drag-n-Drop are available.
Interactive BDD Environment 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117456/
IBEN is a tool used for teaching Reduced Ordered Binary Decision Diagrams. It allows the student to work with ROBDDs without learning a complex C or C++ interface to an ROBDD package. One can enter the expressions interactively, and view the result as a graph or ask questions about the ROBDD, such as the number of nodes in the ROBDD.
ITracker 1.5.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117454/
ITracker is a Java J2EE issue/bug tracking system designed to support multiple projects with independent user bases. It supports features such as multiple versions and project components, detailed histories, issue searching, file attachments, dynamic reports with charts, and multiple email notifications.
Java Serialization to XML 2 0.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117430/
Java Serialization to XML 2 allows you to convert Java objects into streams of XML and back again. Using it is as easy as replacing "ObjectOutputStream" with "JSX.ObjectWriter" to convert objects to XML, and replacing "ObjectInputStream" with "JSX.ObjectReader" to convert XML into objects. JSX subclasses Java's serialization classes, so it can be used in their place with the same simple power. This allows you to check and correct your distributed, persisted, and logged object data, and process it with XSLT, SAX, and DOM. JSX handles all objects, complex object graphs, new classes, old classes, and evolving classes. JSX even handles classes that do not implement the "Serializable" interface.
JFtp 1.21
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117443/
JFtp is a Swing Java network and file transfer client. It supports FTP with its own FTP API, SMB using jcfis, SFTP using j2ssh, and local file IO using the j2se library. It includes many advanced features such as recursive directory up/download, browsing FTP servers while transferring files, FTP resuming, browsing the LAN for Windows shares, and more. The FTP API is separated from the GUI and can also be used in third-party applications or in a commandline mode. It should ideally be launched in a Web browser via Java Web Start (contained by the Java 1.4 plugin) but can also be started locally.
jpop 0.34
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117517/
Jpop is a Java replacement for Winpopup. It allows popup messages to be sent to any machine which is capable of running Java. It also adds functionality to the basic popup messages, like clipboard sharing.
kbarcode 1.1.90 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117464/
KBarcode is a barcode and label printing application for KDE 3. It can be used to print everything from simple business cards up to complex labels with several barcodes, such as article descriptions. KBarcode comes with an easy-to-use WYSIWYG label designer, a setup wizard, batch import of labels (directly from the delivery note), thousands of predefined labels, database managment tools, and translations in many languages. Even printing more than 10,000 labels in one go is no problem for KBarcode. Additionally, it is a simple xbarcode replacement for the creation of barcodes. All major types of barcodes like EAN, UPC, CODE39, and ISBN are supported.
Kernel Graphic Interface 0.9 cvs (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/117452/
KGI (Kernel Graphic Interface) has three main goals. The first is to provide an in-kernel framework for video card drivers that allows 3D accelleration on the console in Linux, *BSD, and other OSes. The second goal is to provide video card drivers with full accelleration that run on all supported OSes with only a recompile. The third goal is to provide a flexible virtual console layer that allows easy switching between multiple keyboards, multiple displays, and multiple virtual consoles per display. Together with the GGI library, it can offer full 3D accelleration, and a very flexible development platform for games and window managers.
Kernel Mode Linux 2.5.66_001 (For Linux 2.5) http://freshmeat.net/releases/117478/
Kernel Mode Linux is a technology which enables the execution of user programs in a kernel mode. In Kernel Mode Linux, user programs can access kernel address space directly. Unlike kernel modules, user programs are executed as ordinary processes (except for their privilege level), so scheduling and paging are performed as usual. Although it seems dangerous, the safety of the kernel can be ensured through such methods as static type checking, software fault isolation, and so forth.
LambdaTensor 1.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117506/
LambdaTensor is a CMU Common LISP library for efficient symbolic and numeric higher-rank sparse tensor multilinear algebra. Originally written to do some specialized calculations in extended supergravity theories, it is especially well suited to interactively work with exceptional Lie algebras and Lie groups, all the way up to the largest (248-dimensional) exceptional Lie group E8.
LCARStrek 1.3-corrected
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117445/
LCARStrek is a Star Trek skin, using the LCARS interface from the Federation Star Ships (heavily used in The Next Generation and Voyager series). It has rounded borders and hover (mouse-over) effects, be aware that it may look and feel quite unusual or strange, but keep in mind that this is an interface design which was not originally designed for the 21st but the 24th century.
Libxml 2.5.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117449/
Libxml is the XML C library developed for the Gnome project. The library code is portable (to Linux, Unix, Windows, embedded systems, etc.) and modular; most of the extensions can be compiled out. Libxml implements a number of existing standards related to markup languages, including the XML standard, Namespaces in XML, XML Base, Relax NG, RFC 2396, XPath, XPointer, HTML4, XInclude, SGML Catalogs, and XML Catalogs. In most cases, libxml tries to implement the specifications in a relatively strict way. To some extent, it provides support for the following specifications, but doesn't claim to implement them: DOM, FTP client, HTTP client, SAX, and DocBook SGML. Support for W3C XML Schemas is in progress.
Linux 2.5.66 (2.5)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117474/
Linux is a clone of the Unix kernel, written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance. It has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix kernel, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory management, and TCP/IP networking.
LTOOLS 5.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117434/
The LTOOLS are a set of command line tools for reading and writing Linux ext2 and ext3 filesystems from DOS, Windows, Solaris, or Linux. They are useful for dual-boot configurations and system recovery. It also includes an Explorer-like interface in a Web browser, and includes a method of providing remote access to filesystems. A Java interface is also included.
mgetty+sendfax 1.1.30
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117488/
The mgetty package contains an intelligent getty for allowing logins over a serial line (such as through a modem) and receiving incoming faxes. The companion program sendfax is used for sending faxes from the commandline or from other applications. The third main component is vgetty/vm which can be used with a voice-capable modem to implement an answering machine, a voice menu system, and similar things.
Miscellaneous Unix scripts 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117437/
This is a collection of (mostly) Unix scripts for general use. The package consists of scripts to aid system administration, text processing, and more. They can mount devices via a menu, open documents in new Netscape windows, justify ASCII text, split files into many parts and restore then, print PS files with 4 pages per sheet, convert encodings and UTF-8, trim Unix mailboxes, adjust system time, and maintain databases of files on media.
My Personal Books Library 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117510/
MPBL is a curses application fitted for console used for simple books listing. It allows you to keep a database with a listing of books with the following criteria: Name, Author, Year, and Loaner.
mySiteMaker 3.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117499/
mySiteMaker is a collection of CGI tools to rapidly create Web interfaces to database tables. It includes a Web-based configuration tool that automatically generates search, results, and edit HTML screens. The search screen is easy to use and allows the data to be exported in a variety of formats.
Object Relational Membrane 0.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117507/
The Object Relational Membrane is a Python package that provides the functionality of an object relational layer like EJB or other persistence storage systems. It is a thin compatibility layer between SQL table layouts and Object Oriented Python. While providing a good deal of functionality, it tries to be as small and simple as possible. It works with PostgreSQL and MySQL.
OpenPGP Public Key Server 0.9.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117487/
The OpenPGP Public Key Server allows users to store and lookup PGP/GPG public keys from the server's database. Additionally, it can synchronize with other servers to make a distributed, replicated database of public keys. This package provides only the server side. The client side is usually an OpenPGP application (like GnuPG or PGP), although you can use a simple HTML form to allow queries from a Web page.
PCS Vision Uploader 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117472/
PCS Vision Uploader is a program written in PHP that allows you to send files to your Sprint PCS Vision Phone. Filetypes include jpg, png, mid, qcp, and wbmp.
Perl HL7 Toolkit 0.61
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117475/
Perl HL7 Toolkit provides a number of Perl libraries and scripts for developing HL7-capable applications in Perl.
phpVideoPro 0.4.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117438/
phpVideoPro is a program to manage your collection of DVDs, Video CDs, and video tapes. It stores all data in a database, and provides you with features for adding/changing entries, displaying lists, printing labels and lists, and more. An online help system is built-in to guide you when necessary. Support for multiple languages is provided (English, German, French, Polish, Bulgarian, Swedish, etc.), and supported databases include MySQL and PostgreSQL.
PSMON 1.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117467/
psmon is a Perl script which can be run as a stand-alone program or a fully functional background daemon, capable of logging to syslog with customisable email notification facilities. The user defines a set of rules in an Apache-style plain text configuration file. These rules describe what processes should always be running on the system, and any limitations on concurrent instances, TTL, and maximum CPU/memory usage of processes. psmon scans the UNIX process table and, using the set of rules defined in the configuration file, will respawn any dead processes, and slay or "deal with" any aggressive or illegal processes.
Pyndex 0.2a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117491/
Pyndex is a simple and fast full-text indexer implemented in Python. It uses Metakit as its storage back-end. It works well for quickly adding search to an application, and is also well suited to in-memory indexing and search. It can handle phrase queries and has a Bayesian classifier component. It performs best in applications involving a few thousand documents, but its scaling is mostly limited by available memory.
Python Desktop Server 0.4.18
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117436/
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.
Qmail Auditor 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117455/
QMail Auditor provides simple a method for auditing emails. It is easy to configure and uses regular expressions as rules.
Radeox 0.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117451/
Radeox is a Wiki markup rendering engine written in Java. It is part of the weblog and Wiki tool, SnipSnap.
Skaringa r1p8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117489/
Skaringa is a framework for Java and XML language binding. It transform Java objects into XML documents and back, and can generate XML schema definitions for a Java class. It is designed for simplicity, supporting a wide range of types, and speed.
Smart Cache 0.85 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117477/
Smart Cache is full-featured pure Java proxy cache server. It can cache any pages and make them available for offline browsing. Other features include a URL filter, cookie filter, ability to fake User-Agents, Referer, and Cookie headers, Web forwarder (accelerator) mode, background downloading, multiple logs, fast operation, very configurable garbage collection, cache directory structure copies server structure, and cached files are ready for use (no headers inside).
SnipSnap 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117450/
SnipSnap is an easy to install and use Web log and Wiki engine written in Java. It has no external dependency on Web servers or databases, as both are built-in.
SNMP Trap Translator 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117494/
SNMPTT is an SNMP trap handler written in Perl for use with the NET-SNMP/UCD-SNMP snmptrapd program. Received traps are translated into friendly messages using variable substitution. Output can be to STDOUT, text log file, syslog, MySQL (Linux/Windows), or a Windows ODBC database. User defined programs can also be executed.
Spam-X 3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117433/
Spam-X is a very unique and effective proactive approach to spammers. Not only does it act as a spambot tarpit by trapping a spambot into requesting page after page of random, fake email addresses, it also acts as though it were on a very slow link by taking a full minute to send each page of sixty random mailto: links. It outputs extremely minimal HTML in an effort to minimize its bandwidth impact, while at the same time allowing you to flood a visiting spambot's database with thousands of worthless email addresses and consume a great deal of the spambot's time. Placing a small or hidden link to the Spam-X script above any valid mailto: links on your site will hopefully trap the visiting spambot and prevent it from actually harvesting your valid email addresses.
SQL ToolBox 0.5b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117481/
SQL ToolBox is a database administration and code generation tool that features a graphical user interface, compatibility with JDBC databases, a code generator for EJBs, and CSV and XML data support. Its JBuilder and NetBeans integration supports a database browser and a SQL editor with syntax highlighting and syntax checking.
Stuffed Tracker 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117465/
Stuffed Tracker is used to track Return on Investment. It might be very useful for any site that uses advertising to attract visitors and that have some sort of ordering process (registration, selling products, etc.). With the help of the Stuffed Tracker, the site owner can learn how many visitors that came from online advertising were converted into customers, as well as the actual return on investment for every advertising campaign. Stuffed Tracker also provides referrer-based tracking.
tenc 0.5beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117486/
tenc converts your audio cd tracks into Ogg Vorbis files. It uses information gained from freedb.
tentakel 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117440/
Tentakel is a simple program that executes the same command on many hosts in parallel using ssh or rsh. It is designed to handle different types of remote systems and unavailable hosts.
Webfish Linux 1.0pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117444/
Webfish Linux is aimed at servers, routers, and customised workstations for experienced Linux users. It attempts to get away from the bloat factor of many common distributions, and does not include large amounts of binary packages or a package manager. It is based on a small base set that provides kernel, gcc, Perl, sed, awk, bash, ethernet tools, etc. (basically, all that is required to run a base system and compile software but not any software itself).
Workrave 1.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117516/
Workrave is a program that assists in the recovery and prevention of repetitive strain injury (RSI). The program frequently alerts you to take micro-pauses and rest breaks, and restricts you to your daily limit. It currently runs on GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows (using GTK/Win32).
xine xine-ui 0.9.20
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117469/
xine is a free multimedia player. It plays back CDs, DVDs, and VCDs. It also decodes multimedia files like AVI, MOV, WMV, and MP3 from local disk drives, and displays multimedia streamed over the Internet. It interprets many of the most common multimedia formats available--and some of the most uncommon formats, too. All those features come in a reusable library (xine-lib) which can easily be embedded in your applications.
XiStrat 0.6.59
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117515/
XiStrat (aka 'Extended Strategy') is in particular about turn-based, networked multiplayer, non-cooperative, zero-sum, abstract strategy board games (e.g., Chess, Go, Reversi variants, etc.) on 3D-visualized polyhedra and contains a server, client GUI, autoplayer engine, utilities, and documentation. Related recreational modern mathematics (single agent, cellular automata, graph/group/complexity/knot theory, discrete geometry, algebra, combinatorics, and mathematical physics) is also dealt with.
Yet another nV Configurator 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117501/
YanC (Yet another nV Configurator) is a small tool which you can use to change the nVidia-specific settings (almost) as easily as with the Windows drivers. You can edit the settings for the AGP-Support, the Cursor Shadow, the nVidia-Logo, for Digital Vibrance Control and, of course, TwinView. Furthermore, YanC offers the possibility to run your OpenGL applications (e.g., games) with your favourite settings for antialiasing, anisotropic texture filtering, and vsync to blank without difficult commandline operations.
zExtranet Portal System 1.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117448/
The zExtranet Portal System is a Zope-based portal and dynamic Web site system that features static HTML, dynamic articles, polls, shopping carts, a meeting planner, appointments, calendars, contact management, file sharing, a time-off/sick planner, an RSS newsfeed manager, forums, shift management, asset management, expense management, reminders, timed events, and collective lunch ordering. It also features an authentication system.
Newsforge Reports
Make big money! Deliver 'The Linux experience!'
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/15/0145211
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Okay, maybe not big money, but Massachusetts-based Open-Pc founder/CEO Morgan Lim says he's not getting rich, but turning a steady profit. And lately he's been making waves with plans to move a prominent state government agency entirely to Linux.
Review: NetOp gives Linux control of remote Windows desktops http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/18/1217226
- By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols - From where many Linux users sit, Linux needs third-party remote control software, such as Danware Data A/S's NetOp Remote Control 7.5, like a fish needs a bicycle. After all, with networking built in from the ground up and programs like telnet and SSH, Linux comes with remote control. But if you need to troubleshoot and administer Windows PCs from your Linux workstation or just run the occasional Windows program ...
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."
Newsforge Newsvac
SonicBlue to Fade Away
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/25/1629203
Anonymous Reader writes "The success of the Rio and ReplayTV lines were tempered by a company fighting fiscal difficulty and repeated lawsuits from the entertainment industry. In the end, SonicBlue decided to capitulate to the realities of the market it helped build and shut its doors. http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2003/sonicblue. html"
Licensing 6.0's 'small step'
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/25/2025251
Changes to Microsoft's server licensing regime are a step in the right direction, but will not quell lingering anger over Licensing 6.0, an analyst says. Two weeks ago Microsoft quietly changed its server licence model to charge for actual rather than potential use.
Mandrake Linux 9.1 (Bamboo) is available! http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/25/205220
Gael Duval writes "MandrakeSoft, a leading provider of Linux solutions for the enterprise and for individuals, today announced the immediate availability of Mandrake Linux 9.1 "Bamboo" for x86 processors. This new release is one of the most advanced and powerful Linux systems currently available, with cutting-edge features such as Apache 2, NTFS partition resizing, ACPI power-management, "Zeroconf" network support, WiFi support, and much more. ...
OpenOffice.org, StarOffice gaining momentum, expert says http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/25/202230
Michael S. Mimoso writes "Solveig Haugland scoffs at those who believe that Microsoft Office will rule forever. "OpenOffice.org and [Sun Microsystems Inc.'s] StarOffice will become as widely used or more so than Microsoft Office is now," she predicted in a recent interview with SearchEnterpriseLinux.com. The two rivals to Microsoft Office will win business users over with their lower cost, ample support and ease of use, she said. Haugland isn't ...
Upgrading under Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/25/1710237
When you install a run-of-the-mill Linux distribution package such as RedHat or SuSE on your PC, you will get a collection of applications in addition to the bare operating system. The number of applications varies between several hundred and more than a thousand.
While War looms, Open Source makes big strides in US State legislatures http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/25/1955223
Jeff Gerhardt writes "At 6pm pt, 7pm mt, 8pm ct, and 9pm et.... Kevin Hill, Jeff Gerhardt, Doc Searls (Linux Journal), Arne Flones and Russ Pavlicek; are back live tonight. We have a great show lined up tonight on The Linux Show!
uClinux ported to Motorola ColdFire MCF5282 http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/25/1728214
SnapGear reports that they have recently completed porting uClinux to the Motorola ColdFire MCF5282 processor, after working closely with Motorola to complete the port. The MCF5282 port is based around the uClinux patches to the 2.4 Linux kernel.
Red Hat Linux 9 - World's First Look at Shrike http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/25/1958227
Anonymous Reader writes "The first review of Red Hat Linux 9 (Shrike) is out and about! Not many changes since the third beta, most visible change is the new cursor theme, Gnome 2.2.0+CVS fixes (as found on 2.2.1) and a refined and good looking installation. With Mandrake, SuSE and Red Hat, all releasing between a few days apart, this seems this is going to be a big month with many important Linux releases!"
Debian Security Advisory: mutt
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/25/177248
Core Security Technologies discovered a buffer overflow in the IMAP code of Mutt, a text-oriented mail reader supporting IMAP, MIME, GPG, PGP and threading. This problem allows a remote malicious IMAP server to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted mail folder.
X-Tools for XScale
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/25/172214
Microcross announced that the latest version of its GNU X-Tools XScale Toolsuite (v3.0) now fully supports all current Intel XScale variants.
Thinkgeek
Books: High Score! The Illustrated History Of Electronic Games
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/nonfiction/5e26/
Computing: LED Light Sticks
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5e66/
Cube Goodies: Activision 10-in-1 TV Games http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/5d41/