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[osdn everything] March 30, 2003
Date: Sun Mar 30 2003 - 04:45:27 EST
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Slashdot
Michigan First With A Law That Could Outlaw VPNs
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/30/0524244
[0]zaren writes "Holy frell, Taco, we're gonna be criminals! I was
checking out [1]Freedom to Tinker after reading the posting about that
[2]multi-state anti-VPN-style legislation, and I saw a new posting that
says that Michigan has ALREADY passed such legislation, and it goes
into effect on [3] MONDAY, MARCH 31, 2003 . Guess I better tighten down
the base station and batten down the hatches..."
Links
0. mailto:holdthis@mail.com
1.
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/
2.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/1541230&tid=103
3.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/mileg.asp?page=getObject&objName=mcl-750-540c-amended
Martin Michlmayr Wins DPL
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/30/053219
Strike writes "The votes for the new Debian Project Leader are in and the tallying is over, [0]results here. Martin Michlmayr comes out on top, winning 4-0 going head to head against the other three candidates (with the fourth win being over "no candidate"). Last year's DPL Bdale Garbee came in 2nd, with Branden Robinson and Moshe Zadka coming in 3rd and 4th. Michlmayr's [1]platform can be seen here." Links
0. http://www.debian.org/vote/2003/vote_0001
Copy-Protected CDs Going Mainstream
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/30/0232245
bmarklein writes "According to this [0]CNET article, Arista is going to start shipping copy-protected CDs in volume. Looks like the discs will include DRM'd Windows Media files in the second session. No mention of which titles will be affected, but Arista is the home of Santana, Whitney Houston, Pink, TLC and Kenny G." Links
0. http://news.com.com/2100-1027-994565.html?tag=fd_top
Shuttle Missions Will Be Monitored From Space http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/30/0055259
[0]los furtive writes "According to this [1]news article NASA has made
an agreement with the U.S. military so that all future shuttle missions
will be monitored by [2]National Imagery and Mapping Agency
satellites."
Links
0.
http://{clamothe} {at} {essentus.com}
1.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/03/29/1048653889612.html
2.
http://www.nima.mil/
Free IPv6 Subnets Are Going Away
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/29/2329228
[0]ar32h writes "The [1]6bone is going to be [2]phased out soon. This
means all of us who have IP addresses or subnets beginning with 3ffe
from tunnel brokers like [3]Freenet6 are going to be sorry out of
luck." According to the linked phaseout plan, "It is anticipated that
under this phaseout plan the 6bone will cease to operate by July 1,
2006, with all 6bone prefixes fully reclaimed by the IANA," but there
are a number of sub-deadlines along the way.
Links
0.
http://slashdot.org/~ar32h/
1.
http://www.6bone.net/
2.
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-fink-6bone-phaseout-00.txt
3.
http://www.freenet6.net/
The Museum of Unworkable Devices
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/29/2158217
Jippy_ writes "The quest for perpetual motion has been going on since at least the 11th century according to [0]this site, and scientists have been getting it wrong ever since. Take a gander at some of the most valiant efforts (and ultimately the biggest failures) in trying to beat the laws of physics through the last 1000 years, along with other impossible inventions and devices." Links
0. http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/unwork.htm#cheng
Security-Fix Sendmail 8.12.9 Released
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/29/2052215
[0]bahamutirc writes "Yet another security problem was discovered by
Michal Zalewski in Sendmail 8.12.8, 'a buffer overflow in address
parsing due to a char to int conversion problem which is potentially
remotely exploitable.' Apparently somebody jumped the gun and posted
before Sendmail had a chance to notify anyone, so they had to release
it today. [1]Go grab your source." Here's the [2]CERT advisory.
Links
0.
http://bahamutirc.net/
1.
http://www.sendmail.org/8.12.9.html
2.
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-12.htmlEDS Silent On New CEO's IT Consulting Past http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/29/1925239
[0]theodp writes "Slate [1]reports on the [2]press release issued by IT
consulting giant EDS to announce new CEO Michael H. Jordan that
curiously doesn't show Jordan to have any experience in the IT
consulting field. In the late '90s, [3]Jordan helped create IT
consulting firm Luminant, took it public, and served as chairman of its
board for 21 months. Luminant raised $80+ million from its IPO and paid
$422 million to buy businesses as part of its pure-play roll-up
strategy before filing Chapter 11 and having its assets sold for a mere
$3 million. Slashdot readers may remember Luminant as the wacky
workplace of [4]My Fake Job, in which an ex-"Late Night" writer
described 17 days he spent faking a job at the dot-com."
Links
0. mailto:theodp@aol.com
1.
http://slate.msn.com/id/2080538/
2.
http://www.eds.com/news/news_release_template.shtml?rowid=3236
3.
http://www.redherring.com/mag/issue76/mag-lighting-76.html
4.
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/527981
Live From Rubi-Con 5!
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/29/1923226
npongratz writes "[0]Rubi Con 5, the premiere upper midwest security conference, is going on right now. Wanna get in on a piece of the action without leaving your computer? [1]We are serving up [2]streaming audio of the events, direct from Room B of the conference. Check out the exciting RC5 [3]schedue and feel free to hammer away!" Links
0.
http://www.rubi-con.org/
1.
http://www.wi2600.org/
2.
http://www.wi2600.org:8000/listen.pls
3.
http://www.rubi-con.org/decaffeinated/schedule.htmlFirst Certified DivX/DVD Player Released http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/29/1727254
An anonymous reader writes "According to [0]this article, a company
named KiSS Technology announced at CeBit that they are releasing the
first certified DivX DVD players, the DP-450 and DP-500! They are
supposed to be able to playback ALL versions of DivX content and
digital rights management. I'm completely stoked on this, I would buy
one of these in a snap. This could make the purchase of dvd burners
slow down in my opinion." (And Yes, it plays Ogg Vorbis, too.) Ebay
imports, anyone?
Links
0. http://news.designtechnica.com/article105.html
Freshmeat
Too Much Free Software
http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/774
The plethora of Free Software applications available today, none working perfectly, is a problem which stands in the way of major adoption of Linux on the desktop. In order to conquer the desktop, we have to stand united.
Aorta 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117922/
Aorta is a load-balancing clustered P2P application. It executes Tasklets (which have the ability to split themselves into sub tasks that can be executed in pararell). A typical cluster contains of a LAN with 1-256 computers, each one running aorta. A Tasklet can be of any type ranging from encoding MP3s to rendering Web pages for high speed/heavily loaded Web sites. You can make functions calls to C/C++, applications like Matlab, etc.
AutoDia 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117923/
AutoDia is a Perl application designed to allow the easy creation of XML diagrams from various data sources. The output is meant for use with Dia (or any XML parser). AutoDia supports any language through the use of handlers, and a good handler for Perl as well as a simple handler for C++ are included.
Binc IMAP 1.1.2-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117885/
Binc IMAP is a simple xinetd/tcpserver based IMAP server with support for Maildir. It is very easy to install and use.
CCZE 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117919/
CCZE is a robust and modular log colorizer with plugins for apm, exim, fetchmail, httpd, postfix, procmail, squid, syslog, ulogd, vsftpd, xferlog, and more.
cdwrite 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117947/
cdwrite is the shell for creation of data and audio disks, especially compilations. It uses mkisofs and cdrecord for data and cdparanoia and cdrdao for audio.
CollegeLinux 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117925/
CollegeLinux is a new, stand-alone operating system based on Slackware. The aim of this experimental Linux distribution is to provide to RKC students and the student population at large an operating system which is easy to install and use, and which provides an alternative to the traditional commercial operating systems.
cweb 3.64
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117879/
CWEB is a software system that facilitates the creation of readable programs. It was originally developed by Donald E. Knuth as he wrote the TeX typesetting system. It can be used to write programs of superior quality, produce state-of-the-art documentation, greatly reduce debugging time, and maintain programs easily as conditions change.
DBIx::Perform 0.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117945/
DBIx::Perform emulates the Informix Perform character terminal-based database query and update utility. Given a screen-description file in the style of the original's, it presents a curses-implemented form for handling a table. If the local version of DBD::whatever supports the column_info method, it can generate such a description file from the schema.
DocBase 1.6 Beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117908/
DocBase is an easy and fast documentation system. It includes an internal Web rich text editor. All documents and attachments are stored in a MySQL database. It includes versioning, locking, and a classification system.
Draco 0.99.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117720/
Draco is a framework for creating dynamic Web sites and Web applications. It is structured around a simple but powerful paradigm for a clean separation of code and markup. It provides a programming environment which offers much of the functionality required by dynamic Web sites, including features like automated session management, persistence, events, and task scheduling.
dvipng 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117876/
This program makes PNG graphics from DVI files as obtained from TeX and its relatives. Its benefits include speed; it is the fastest bitmap-rendering code for DVI files. On a fairly low-end laptop, it takes less than a second to generate 150 one-formula images. Furthermore, it does not read the postamble, so it can be started before TeX finishes. There is a -follow switch that makes dvipng wait at EOF for further output, unless it finds the POST marker that indicates the end of the DVI. It supports PK and VF fonts, color specials, and more.
e3 2.42
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117912/
e3 is a full-screen, user-friendly text editor with an interface similar to that of either WordStar, Emacs, Pico, Nedit, or vi. It's heavily optimized for size and independent of libc or any other libraries, making it useful for mini-Linux distributions and rescue disks. The assembler version supports Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Win9x, QNX, Atheos, BeOS, ELKS, and DOS. There is also a separately distributed version written in C which supports some other Unix versions and CygWin. It is also possible to use regular expressions by using child processes like sed. e3 has a built in arithmetic calculator.
Ebotula 0.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117883/
Ebotula is an IRC bot for administration tasks in one or more channels. He has four access levels. The top level is the bot master. In this level have a user complete acces of all functions. The next level is the channel owner. He is the administrator in one channel. The other both are friends and other users. The bot is a multithread applikation and can execute simultaneously more commands. The data are contained in gdbm hash files.
eXtended Account Managing Software 0.0.12 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117899/
eXtended Account Managing Software (XAMS) allows Administration of Unix, Web, FTP, DNS, and email accounts to manage a provider's typical userbase. Especially focusing on email account management, it enables you to easily create accounts, set aliases, and delegate domain administration to 2nd party resellers or customers. It uses PHP with MySQL or PostgreSQL as a backend, and is therefore able to manage tons of email accounts independently from your Unix/Linux accounts. Exim for SMTP and Courier for POP/IMAP are fully supported, but postfix, Cyrus, and qmail can be used too.
EzSDK 4.65
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117904/
EzSDK is a PHP SDK which includes a PHP source code generator, a library of PHP classes, and an application environment consisting of premade supporting modules. The modules handle user application and data access security, DB compatibility (with MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle, etc.), a built-in GUI interface with an interactive desktop, and more.
galculator 1.0rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117915/
galculator is a GTK 2 based scientific calculator supporting algebraic mode as well as RPN. Features include arithmetic operations plus precedence handling, full keypad support, trigonometric functions, power, square root, natural and common logarithm, constants (e, PI), and inverse and hyperbolic functions. It supports different number bases (decimal, hexadecimal, octal, and binary) and angle bases (radiant, degree, and grad).
gimp-print 4.3.12 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117946/
Gimp-Print is a collection of very high quality printer drivers for UNIX/Linux. The goal of this project is uncompromising print quality and robustness. Included with this package is the Print plugin for the GIMP (hence the name), a CUPS driver, and two drivers (traditional and IJS-based) for Ghostscript that may be compiled into that package. This driver package is Foomatic-compatible and provides Foomatic data to enable plug and play with many print spoolers. In addition, various printer maintenance utilities are included. Many users report that the quality of Gimp-Print on high end Epson Stylus printers matches or exceeds the quality of the drivers supplied for Windows and Macintosh.
gnatsperl 0.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117910/
gnatsperl is a collection of Perl modules providing a Perl interface to the gnatsd daemon (GNU gnats issue tracking system). It is intended to allow developers to more easily create tie-in applications to gnats.
gperiodic 2.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117895/
gperiodic is a program for browsing the periodic table and looking up data for different elements. It also features a non-graphical interface.
GrubConf 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117943/
GrubConf is a graphical GRUB configuration editor. It provides an easy to use interface allowing effortless modification of OSes and the flexibility to configure the most obscure options. It is designed to require minimal user interaction while providing tools for the most adventurous user.
Hardware Monitor applet 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117914/
The Hardware Monitor applet is an applet for the Gnome panel which tries to be a beautiful all-around solution to hardware monitoring. It also tries to be user-friendly and generally nice and sensible, integrating pleasantly with the rest of your Gnome desktop.
iCalendar 1.031
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117893/
iCalendar generates ICS files for importing events into iCalender compatible programs.
IceWM Control center 2.0pre
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117948/
The IceWM Control Center allows you to run various tools for configuring IceWM's options.
Icon Peeper 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117937/
Peeper is an image discovery tool. With it, you can find all those deeply buried icons laying around your computer.
Java YEnc Decoder 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117897/
jyenc decodes files encoded with yEnc. It's meant to be used by others as a component in their own projects to support yencoded files.
JFtp 1.22
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117898/
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.
KPlayer 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117896/
KPlayer is a KDE media player based on mplayer. It provides video, audio, and subtitle playback from files, URLs, DVDs, VCDs, and audio CDs, and features various player controls and a status display.
KSimus 0.3.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117930/
KSimus is a KDE tool for simulation, automation, and visualization of technical processes. It is also useful for education and experiments in the scope of logical and automatic control circuits. The main feature of KSimus is the use of component libraries (packages) which makes extending KSimus easy for developers.
LAM/MPI 6.5.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117936/
LAM/MPI is an implementation of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) parallel standard that is especially friendly to clusters. It includes a persistent runtime environment for parallel programs, support for all of MPI-1 (except MPI_Canceling sent messages), and a good chunk of MPI-2, such as spawn, one-way communication, C++ bindings, and MPI-IO.
LameBrain 0.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117935/
LameBrain is a LAME-based MP3 encoder with the following features: drag-and-drop batch file processing, CD ripping with FreeDB support, and saving of encoding settings in "profiles," which can be loaded for later use.
Lmule 1.1.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117888/
Lmule is a Linux port of the eMule file sharing client that uses the wxWindows class library. It supports downloading, uploading, searchomg, adding ed2k links, statistics, a shared files tab, a messages tabs, and friend management.
netrik 1.6.0 (alpha)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117924/
Netrik is an advanced text mode WWW browser. Its purpose is to give access to as much of the Web as possible in text mode, without forsaking any comfort.
OpenOffice.org 1.1 Beta (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117884/
OpenOffice.org is the Open Source project through which Sun Microsystems is releasing the technology for the popular StarOffice productivity suite.
PHP 4.3.2 RC 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117891/
PHP is a widely-used Open Source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. Its syntax draws upon C, Java, and Perl, and is easy to learn. PHP runs on many different platforms and can be used as a standalone executable or as a module under a variety of Web servers. It has excellent support for databases, XML, LDAP, IMAP, Java, various Internet protocols, and general data manipulation, and is extensible via its powerful API. It is actively developed and supported by a talented and energetic international team. Numerous Open Source and commercial PHP-based application packages are available.
PHPki 0.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117950/
PHPki is an Open Source Web application for managing a Public Key Infrastructure within a small organization. It provides a mechanism for the centralized creation and management of digital certificates for use with S/MIME-enabled email cilents. It will not create server, browser, or code signing certificates. PHPki was specifically designed to set up a multi-agency PKI for HIPAA compliance.
phpQLAdmin 2.0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117913/
phpQLAdmin was designed to administrate a Qmail-LDAP server with an easy-to-use Web interface. It allows you to control the server with the Qmail-LDAP/Controls patch, add/remove domains, add/remove/edit users, change attributes for all domain members, and set passwords, quotas, mailhosts, mail addresses, alias addresses, forwarders, and more. The application's language is configurable (except for the control part) and contains translations for English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Japanese. It supports Ezmlm mailing lists.
Powermanga 0.75
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117901/
Powermanga is an arcade 2D shoot-em-up game with 41 levels and more than 200 sprites. It runs in 320x200 or 640x400 pixels, with Window mode or direct to screen (DGA) and support for 8, 15, 16, 24, and 32 bpp.
PTlink IRCd 6.14.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117918/
The PTlink IRC daemon integrates some of the most advanced features needed to manage an IRC network into the stable core from Hybrid IRCd. It is fully integrated with PTlink IRC Services and PTlink Open Proxy Monitor, providing a great platform for anyone starting an IRC network.
PyKota Print Quota System 1.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117900/
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.
QTParted 0.1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117892/
QTParted is a Partition Magic clone. It uses libparted for raw disk access, so you need parted installed to use it. The goal of QTParted is to fully wrap all function of parted and create a user friendly PM clone for Linux.
REBComm 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117934/
REBComm is a commandline program for GNU/Linux that lets the user upload and download files from the RCA eBook REB1100 reader device through a USB connection. It aims to provide much of the same functionality as the eBook Librarian software in Windows. It can be used to send user-generated content to the device.
Remote Arpwatch 0.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117886/
Remote Arpwatch collects ARP tables from remote devices using SNMP and checks them for changes. It is very useful for detecting problems and malicious users in networks with routers that don't support static ARP tables.
replimenu 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117882/
replimenu is a small menu program mainly for configuration/installation scripts. It's not as powerful as "dialog" but it's small, does the job, and is very customizable. replimenu does not use curses.
RxLinux 1.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117903/
Rxlinux is a modular system. The base system fits in 25M of RAMdisk. Extra packages (software) can be installed on demand in RAMdisk. The /var partition which contains the application data can reside either on a hard disk or in RAMdisk. Rxlinux can be configure as a Web server, an X11 terminal, a database server, an openmosix cluster node, etc. It is distributed as a 10M bootable ISO file. You can configure it to include more packages in the ISO if you don’t want to download extra software at boot time.
Sendmail 8.12.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117933/
Sendmail is a Mail Transfer Agent, which is the program that moves mail from one machine to another. Sendmail implements a general internetwork mail routing facility, featuring aliasing and forwarding, automatic routing to network gateways, and flexible configuration.
SILC 0.9.9 (Toolkit)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117921/
SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) is a protocol which provides secure conferencing services in the Internet. It can be used to send any kind of messages, in addition to normal text messages. This includes multimedia messages like images, video, and audio stream. All messages in the SILC network are encrypted and authenticated, and messages can also be digitally signed. SILC protocol supports AES, SHA-1, PKCS#1, PKCS#3, X.509, OpenPGP, and is being developed in the IETF. The software is delivered as SILC Client for end users, SILC Server for system administrators, and SILC Toolkit for application developers.
Simplisite Site Generator 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117938/
Simplisite is a small and easy-to-use tool that helps you in your Web site creation. It generates the well-structured site from templates and lets you separate content from markup. With this software you can easily and quickly update and maintain your Web site.
Siproxd 0.3.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117894/
Siproxd is a SIP proxy for SIP based softphones hidden behind an IP masquerading firewall. It includes an RTP data stream proxy for incoming audio data (outgoing RTP data should be handled by IP masquerading by the firewall). Multiple local users/hosts can be simultaneously masqueraded. All configuration is done via one simple ASCII text file.
Sizzle (the DVD author) 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117911/
Sizzle is a reasonably smooth Cocoa GUI wrapper for dvdauthor, mplex (from mjpeg-tools), and mkisofs (from cdrecored) which makes it very easy to author reasonably simple DVD Video discs.
SlakbootIBS 9.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117942/
SlakbootIBS is a replacement set of boot scripts and utilities for starting and dynamically configuring Slackware Linux. IBS makes it easier for administrators to configure new installations and simplifies operations when multiple servers are deployed.
Solomon MySQL Web Interface 2.1.4 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/117939/
Solomon is a Perl Web frontend to MySQL tables. It displays table contents in an HTML table, which can be embedded in predesigned Web pages and customized to fit the look and feel of a site. You can use it for a todo list, an address book, an inventory database, a guestbook frontend, etc. It comes with the Solomon module, a Perl module for high-level access to DBI, which is the core of the frontend. It supports table ordering, data modification, deletion, insertion, searches, and data hiding, and gives the administrator detailed control over the display of database content.
Stenciltools 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117907/
StencilTools is a collection of miscellanous utilities, useful for text generation/manipulation and related tasks. It includes the following programs: count, which generates sequentially numbered strings; csvconv, which converts CSV files; linkget, which extracts links from HTML documents; memory, which implements file based hashtables; and rot13, a Rot13 encoder/decoder.
synergy2 1.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117917/
Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems without special hardware. It's intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s). Just move the mouse off the edge of a screen to move to another screen; keyboard and mouse input is then redirected to the other screen. Synergy also lets you cut and paste between systems and it makes screen savers activate/deactivate in concert.
TinyDYN 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117890/
TinyDYN is a package of client and server software for operating dynamic DNS services. It enables anyone to run dynamic DNS services using strong authentication or to be a client of someone using TinyDYN as a dynamic IP management system. The clients can communicate directly by UDP with the server, by email, or by any other transport the admin can imagine, as the mechanism is quite straightforward.
Unicode Font Info 1.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117928/
Unicode Font Info is a font inspection tool designed for Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar. It includes full support for Unicode 3.2 allowing you to easily navigate huge fonts with tens of thousands of supported glyphs representing most of the languages and scripts used in the world.
unrar 3.20 Beta 2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117905/
unRAR is a utility to extract, view, and test the contents of an RAR archive, version 1.50 and above.
Veejay 0.3.3rc3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117926/
Veejay is a video tracker/editing tool for Linux, which is similar in concept to FastTracker and ProTracker but for video. You can make video samples and line them up on a pattern. You can set looptype, playback speed and do a number of effects or transitions on them while playing back from multiple video sources in realtime. The project emphasizes direct (user) interaction. It is possible to navigate through video samples, define various types of looping, increase and decrease playback speed, and navigate through the effect chain to apply a chain of effects using the keyboard while the interface keeps track of what you are doing.
vlorb 1.0pre9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117906/
vlorb is a high quality Audio CD-to-Ogg Vorbis audio file ripper and encoder. It features CDDB support, VorbisGain support, easy configuration, and flexibility.
WebGUI 5.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117944/
WebGUI is a content management framework built to allow average business users to build and maintain complex Web sites. It is modular, pluggable, and platform independent. It was designed to allow the people who create the content to manage it online, rather than content management taking up the time of busy IT Staff. Whether you are building a consumer site, an intranet, or an extranet, WebGUI has something to offer.
WormScan 1.5.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117902/
WormScan is a utility written in Java for the purpose of reporting attempted attacks on your Apache Web server. It was written to be able to support an unlimited number of worms. It is, however, very extendable, and can easily be configured to search and report on just about anything that can be found in your Web server's log files. The reports themselves are customizable, and can easily be modified to suit your needs. Numerous configuration options let you tweak the performance and the output.
X-Itools pre1-0.5.98 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117877/
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.
yahoo2mbox 0.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117932/
yahoo2mbox retrieves the messages from Yahoo! Groups archive and stores them in a local file in mbox format.
yappa-ng 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117927/
yappa-ng is an easy to use online PHP photo gallery. It has a comfortable and elaborate album-oriented photo album administration Web interface. Each picture can be viewed in many different sizes with resizing created automatically on the fly. It has complete user selectable language support, and supports password protected albums, hit counters for albums and images, album info, image captions, gallery overview, different themes, and a 'Top 10 images' ranking system for each photo album.
YASM 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117880/
YASM is a complete rewrite of the NASM assembler. It is designed from the ground up to allow for multiple syntaxes to be supported (e.g., NASM, TASM, GAS, etc.) in addition to multiple output object formats. Another primary module of the overall design is an optimizer module.
Newsforge Reports
Linux Advisory Watch - March 28th, 2003
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/111207
- By Benjamin D. Thomas - This week, advisories were released for openssl, apcupsd, bonsai, krb5, lpr, mutt, heimdal, kernel, ecartis, glibc, mysql, bitchx, mod_ssl, netpbm, rxvt, zlib, evolution, samba, kerberos, ethereal, and file. The distributors include, Caldera, Debian, Guardian Digital's EnGarde Secure Linux, Gentoo, Mandrake, NetBSD, Red Hat, SuSE, Trustix, and Turbolinux.
Gordano - an "Exchange Replacement" that predates Exchange http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/14/1320221
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - The company Web site says, "Gordano has provided robust and secure messaging for over eight years and continues to innovate and lead the market. Since 1994, the Gordano Messaging Suite has been deployed in over 20,000 organizations in 120+ countries and supports over 54 million Email accounts. These companies and users have enjoyed the benefits of low cost of ownership of our solution allowing them to reduce their ...
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 turning a steady profit. And lately he's been making waves with plans to move a prominent state government agency entirely to Linux.
Newsforge Newsvac
VA Software Joins Open Source Software Institute
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/29/1925237
Oxford, MS - March 26, 2003 - The Open Source Software Institute (OSSI) announced today that VA Software (Nasdaq: LNUX) has joined the open-source advocacy group as a corporate member and sponsor. OSSI (www.oss-institute.org) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote the development and implementation of open-source technologies and methodologies within the U.S. Federal government and academic communities. Note: VA Software owns ...
Microsoft Antitrust Lawsuit Settlement Appeal To Be Heard http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/29/1136254
A federal appeals court will consider whether a settlement in the antitrust lawsuit brought against Microsoft by the U.S. Justice Department and state attorneys general was consistent with the public interest.
Fujitsu preps Linux-based robot
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/29/1135203
Fujitsu has launched a humanoid robot - based on a real-time version of the Linux operating system. The HOAP-2 is driven by an Intel Pentium III running at 700MHz. It is half a metre high and weights 7kg, and is scheduled to ship to Japanese consumers in July (Fujitsu will begin taking orders next month).
Sun Drops Its Linux Distribution
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/29/1133257
Anonymous Reader writes "In a major strategy shift, Sun Microsystems Inc. officials said it will stop offering its own customized version of Linux and will instead turn to several other standard Linux distributions."
Japan seeks new OS [ or anything but Microsoft ] for networked home appliances http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/29/1130218
NZheretic writes "The Japanese Consumer electronics makers and the government are teaming up to make sure the coming generation of Internet-connected home appliances will not depend on Microsoft Corp. for an operating system. In working out the standards they plan to adopt for networked appliances by 2007, manufacturers and the industry ministry plan to make use of either Linux or the domestically developed TRON operating system."
PlumpOS Released: Successor to clump/os http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/29/1123256
Bruce Knox, openMosix Project writes "At last, the successor to the highly popular clump/os has arrived. With a new name, a new author, a new logo, and based upon openMosix, PlumpOS has finally been released.
Distro Release: First Look At SuSE Linux 8.2 http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/29/0145247
Once again I find myself checking out the newest SuSE release, and to tell you the truth, I really enjoy it. My personal computer is running Slackware (yes, I upgraded to 9.0 immediately), and I wouldn't trade it for any other distribution in the world, but I've got to say is that SuSE is still at the top of their game. When you look at all the desktop distros out there such as Mandrake, Lycoris, and Red Hat, they all really have their endearing ...
Enterprise Linux at Tipping Point
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/2012240
In 2004, Linux adoption will skyrocket, according to a recent study by Forrester Research titled "The Linux Tipping Point." Based on interviews with a wide array of firms, the study concludes that while "enterprise support remains a concern," most respondents are continuing with plans to adopt Linux.
Witnet Launches Linux Remote PC Mobile Access http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/204206
Eric Stevenson writes "Mun Su Han, President of Witnet International (OTCBB: WTNT), said they've completed development of the Linux version of their mobile remote access software "Mobilick." But can this upstart out of Korea bring the Linux version of its mobile remote access software into play?"
Revolution OS DVD gambles on CSS-Free
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/1957226
J.T.S. Moore writes "Today on Wired.com there is an article about the release of the Linux documentary film REVOLUTION OS as a CSS-encryption free DVD: http://wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,58253,00.htm l REVOLUTION OS is being released CSS-Free and Region Free to call attention to the abusive nature of Digital Rights Management. J.T.S. Moore, Bruce Perens, and Eric Raymond are quoted extensively in the article by Michelle Delio. REVOLUTION OS ...
Thinkgeek
Cube Goodies: Portable Mini Fridge
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/5d57/
Gadgets: LightWedge Reading Light
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5cf2/
Gadgets: Binary Code Watch
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/5cf3/
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/
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
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5d8a/
Gadgets: WristLinx Communicator
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/5db8/
Gadgets: Laser-Sighted MiniTemp
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5d95/
Computing: Labtec Axis 712 Digital USB Headset http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/speakers/headsets/5de1/
Computing: Fly Fan USB Fan
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5dee/
Computing: Antec LanBoy Aluminum PC case http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5de9/
Computing: UV-Treated 80mm Cooling Fans
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5e01/
Computing: Viewsonic Airpanel Wireless 15" LCD http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/display/lcd/5df4/<