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[osdn everything] April 03, 2003
Date: Thu Apr 03 2003 - 04:45:27 EST
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April 03, 2003 EVERYTHING SERIES
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Slashdot
Post-crash Salary Survey
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/03/018202
[0]MrRules writes "It's that time again; [1]the 2002 salary survey's
are out. This year there's an interesting twist: [2] SAGE, [3] SANS and
Sun's [4]BigAdmin site have combined to run the largest global
participation sysadmin salary survey ever done. What I like is that
this is different to those surveys done by HR departments -- this is
real data on how you spend your time, by sysadmins for sysadmins. It'll
be interesting to see how things have changed over the past 18 months."
Links
0. mailto:geoff-slashdot@sysadmin.com.au
1.
http://www.sage.org/salsur
2.
http://www.sage.org/
3.
http://www.sans.org/
4.
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/
Acadia Streaming Patent Contested
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/02/2259251
[0]Anonymous Coward writes "Since last year Acadia Research has sent
hundreds of letters to various porn web sites to arrange royalty deals,
picking on the small fry before trying to take on well-heeled companies
such as Disney. However, many small fries refused, and now 40 firms
have joined forces and are embroiled in a suit with Acadia. Fish &
Richardson (a prominent intellectual property law firm) have taken
their case. The best part? CEO Paul Ryan's obvious
sour-grapes-syndrome, he goes from describing the web porn industry as
a "billion-dollar industry" where the money is to a "sideshow" that's
"maybe 1% of our potential revenues". [1]Check it out here"
Links
0. http://people.tamu.edu/~jennyr/index1.html
Microsoft Wants to Take on Google
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/02/2251204
[0]blenderking writes "We do view Google more and more as a competitor.
We believe that we can provide consumers with a better product and a
better user experience. That's something that we're actively looking at
doing,", says Bob Visse, director of marketing for Microsoft's MSN
Internet services division, said. Full article at: [1]Yahoo. This could
have fit in with yesterday's April Fool's stories..."
Links
Slashback: India, Kartoo, Orbs
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/31/1827245
Slashback with corrections and updates on backyard coasters, the Associated Press' (not CNN's) interview with Steinhardt, Open Source and Free software in India, the Kartoo visual search engine, how you too can assemble some pulsating glassy spheres. Read on for those details and more.
DNA, Fifty Years To the Day
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/02/1749211
An anonymous reader writes "Today being the [0]fiftieth anniversary
(April 2, 1953) of the [1]Watson-Crick double-helical, [2]DNA discovery
[to quote, 'We wish to put forward a radically different
structure...'], there is an interesting tally of [3]completed gene
sequences here, and ones still [4]being worked, including the [5]Ames
strain of the anthrax bacteria. It also [6]appears that the only
lifeforms not using DNA for code storage are a few viruses like the
common cold."
Links
0.
http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:YSdmTf6EcwYC:biocrs.biomed.brown.edu/Books/Chapters/Ch%25208/DH-Paper.html+watson+crick+nature&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
1.
http://www.nature.com/genomics/human/watson-crick/
2.
http://www.dnaftb.org/dnaftb/
3.
http://www.tigr.org/tdb/mdb/mdbcomplete.html
4.
http://www.tigr.org/tdb/mdb/mdbinprogress.html
5.
http://www.usmedicine.com/article.cfm?articleID=419&issueID=39
6.
http://www.astrobio.net/news/article416.htmlBSA IDC FUD
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/02/1940243
[0]truthsearch writes "News.com.com is reporting that a 'study,
commissioned by the [1]BSA and conducted by IDC, found that in general,
[2]nations with the lowest piracy rates had the largest IT sectors. The
study, which examined 57 countries, predicted that a 10-point reduction
in the rate of piracy over four years could generate 1.5 million jobs
and $64 billion taxes worldwide.' The BSA, er... Microsoft, will use
this study to convince governments to crack down on piracy. 'Overall,
the countries that have the poorest record of IP rights have slower
rates of IT growth,' BSA CEO Robert Holleyman said. Oh, and the
countries with the most oppression have had the slowest IT growth, but
that can't be the cause, nah."
Links
0.
http://www.mattschwartz.net
1.
http://www.bsa.org/
2.
http://rss.com.com/2100-1028-995011.html?type=pt&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news
Mozilla's Major New Roadmap
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/02/2013222
[0]kerz writes "[1]mozilla.org today released a new version of it's
famed [2]roadmap, this time with some pretty major changes. First and
foremost, they plan on ditching the large Mozilla suite in favor of
[3]Phoenix and [4]Minotaur. Secondly, they have plans to change the
milestone cycle to allow for more time to fix the Gecko layout engine
to be smaller and more efficient. [0]MozillaZine has the scoop..."
Links
0.
http://www.mozillazine.org/
1.
http://mozilla.org/
2.
http://www.mozilla.org/roadmap.html
3.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/phoenix/
4.
http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/minotaur/Photographer Fired For Digitally Altering Photo http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/02/1650258
[0]bewert writes "A sign of things to come? Is this kind of thing
happening without anyone catching it? This short article notes that war
photog Brian Walski was [1]fired for combining elements from two photos
to make one with 'better composition'. Here is the '[2]Editor's Note'
detailing the transgression. It's not really highlighted on their front
page ;) I wonder how often this type of Photoshopping is done without
anyone noticing it? To paraphrase Pink Floyd, "Mother, should I trust
the government?"..." Another submitter points out an article
[3]examining digitally altered magazine covers. Slashdot has done
several stories on unnoticeable digital alterations; here's [4]1, [5]2,
[6]3 old stories to peruse.
Links
0.
http://exerscape.com
1.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/04/02/national0956EST0597.DTL
2.
http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/showcase/la-ednote_blurb.blurb
3.
http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=15422
4.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/21/0117252&tid=149
5.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/01/11/0756243&tid=126
6.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/01/13/1515202&tid=129
Public Standards: C# 2, Java 0
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/02/1826258
[0]TheAncientHacker writes "While Java coders wait for SUN to be
willing to accept any public standards for the Java language and
runtime, Microsoft's C# and its underlying CLI, already standardized by
ECMA, are [1]about to get a second certification. This time by by the
granddaddy of certification groups, the ISO."
Links
0. mailto:TheAncientHacker@ho[ ]il.com ['tma' in gap]
New XCOR Rocket Engine Passes First Test http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/02/1750247
apsmith writes "[0]XCOR Aerospace just successfully [1]test-fired their new liquid oxygen/kerosene rocket engine. This is significantly more powerful than the engines used in the XCOR [2]EZ-Rocket vehicle, and will be further developed for use in the [3]Xerus suborbital vehicle. XCOR is one of the serious [4]X-Prize contenders, and partly funded by John Carmack of [5]Id and [6]Armadillo Aerospace (Carmack's in-his-free-time X-prize contender)." Links
0.
http://www.xcor.com/
1.
http://www.xcor.com/XR4K5-firstfire.html
2.
http://www.xcor.com/ez.html
3.
http://www.xcor.com/suborbital.html
4.
http://www.xprize.com/
5.
http://www.idsoftware.com/
6.
http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/
Freshmeat
Abbot 0.8.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118341/
Abbot is a framework for testing Java GUIs. It lets you launch an application or GUI component, play back user actions on it, and examine its state. Tests may be coded or scripted. The editor supports recording user actions into a script, exploring the component hierarchy, running the script, and other features you'd expect from a script editor. Test scripts are JUnit extensions.
AFT 5.08b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118350/
AFT (Almost Free Text) is a document preparation system. It is mostly free form, meaning that there is little intrusive markup; AFT source documents look a lot like plain old ASCII text. It has a few rules for structuring your document, more to do with formatting your text than embedding lots of commands, and it produces all types of output (HTML, XHTML, LaTeX, roll-your-own XML, etc.). All that needs to be done is to edit a rule file. You can even customize your own rule files for specialized output.
Aorta 0.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118364/
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.
AstaStuSito 0.3 beta1 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118372/
AstaStuSito is a very simple utility, written in the PHP language, that helps Web site administrators to manage a Web site.
Async Blockreport 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118328/
Async Blockreport processes sendmail logs and produces reports of the messages blocked using DNSBLs for each system user. Blockreport can be set up as a cron job to mail these reports to your users periodically, providing them with an idea of how much spam they would be getting if the spam filters didn't work, and also telling them if any false positives occurred.
Binc IMAP 1.1.3-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118326/
Binc IMAP is a simple xinetd/tcpserver based IMAP server with support for Maildir. It is very easy to install and use.
Bonita 2.0_beta1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118321/
Bonita is a flexible cooperative workflow system based on the workflow model proposed by the ECOO Team, which incorporates the anticipation of activities as a more flexible mechanism of workflow execution. This flexibility allows a considerable speed increase in the design and development phases of cooperative applications. The workflow engine is built on EJB (Enterprise Java Beans), using Jboss as the application server. The system offers a comprehensive set of integrated graphical tools for performing the process conception and definition, the instantiation and control of this process, and the interaction with the users and other applications.
curl and libcurl 7.10.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118298/
curl and libcurl is a tool for transferring files using URL syntax. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, DICT, TELNET, LDAP, FILE, and GOPHER, as well as HTTP-post, HTTP-put, cookies, FTP upload, resumed transfers, passwords, portnumbers, SSL certificates, Kerberos, and proxies. It is powered by libcurl, the client-side URL transfer library. There are bindings/interfaces to libcurl for more than a dozen languages and environments.
Customer-Touch CRM 1.5.1pre
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118315/
An easy to use and install CRM for small to medium farms.
CVSPermissions 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118302/
CVSPermissions is a toolkit that will allow CVS administrators to set up directory level access control in CVS for multiple CVS users. This toolkit is a collection of shell scripts and CVS configuration to achieve the access control functionality.
DB Web Admin Build 5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118376/
DB Web Admin provides simple access to Oracle databases and applications through the Web. It shows existing users, processes, and system locks, and also allows users to kill sessions and execute SQL queries. PL/SQL and JSP versions are included.
devlabel 0.29.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118312/
Devlabel is a program which dynamically creates symbolic links to disk/partition names. It uses the disk's and/or partition's unique identifiers to keep the symlink pointed to the correct location even if the underlying partition's name has changed. So, regardless of whether /dev/sdb6 becomes /dev/sdc6, devlabel figures this all out and points the symlink to the correct data.
Dexters Versatile Server 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118283/
Dexters Versatile Server is a simple server with optional support for HTTP fetching, ECHO, UDP, TIME, real time chat, and more.
Eclipse Project 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118327/
Eclipse is a kind of universal tool platform - an open extensible IDE for anything and nothing in particular. The real value of Eclipse comes from tool plug-ins that "teach" Eclipse how to work with things - java files, web content, graphics, video, etc. Eclipse allows you to independently develop tools that integrate with other people's tools seamlessly.
FastParser 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118238/
Fast Parser is a high performance Java XML parser. Benchmarks measure it to be up to +400% faster than Xerces and the JDK1.4 integrated parser. It is ideal for Web services (SOAP) and XSL. The core parsing package (without DOM) is very compact. It features SAX Level 1 and 2 compliance, JAXP compatibility, namespace support, integration with JXMLPad for real time parsing, modular libraries, an embedded device mode (including minimal memory usage), optional XML Comment support, CDATA support, the ability to include any node type with a custom NodeFactory, and a walker for easily navigating through XML trees. Many API samples and benchmark tests are included. JDK1.1 or later is required.
Fiasco microkernel 1.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118357/
Fiasco is a microkernel with real-time capabilities running on x86 PCs. It is compatible with the L4 microkernel, which has set standards in microkernel performance and functionality. Fiasco is a fully-featured and secure L4 implementation with excellent real-time properties. It can run L4Linux, a port of the Linux kernel to the L4 interface which executes completely in user mode.
GNOME Assistive Tech Service Provider Interface 1.1.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/118159/
at-spi is a part of the Gnome Accessibility Project. It provides a Service Provider Interface for the Assistive Technologies available on the GNOME platform, and a library against which applications can be linked.
gspeakfreely 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118356/
Gspeakfreely is a VoIP system with a flexible component system. It implements a set of audio processing components which can be connected to each other or mixed together. The most important components are net in/output, which implement VoIP functionality and the OSS-DSP in/output component. Additionally there is a ISDN in/output component that allows making actual phone connections, and a file input component that can also play Internet radio streams. Also included is a fading plugin, that can for example fade incoming calls into your music. New components can be developed for specific purposes, and combined with existing ones.
Gubby 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118349/
Gubby keeps track of changes in your procmail log file, and will in real time display in which folders new email has been placed. Mailboxes are read using a specified external mail user agent. Output is normally displayed in a nice and colorful curses environment, but can also be printed to the standard output from the command prompt.
Historical Event Markup and Linking Project 0_5.5-dev-20030402 http://freshmeat.net/releases/118338/
Historical Event Markup and Linking Project (Heml) provides an XML schema for historical events and a Java Web app which transforms conforming documents into hyperlinked timelines, maps and tables. It aims to provide a most information-rich interchange format for historical data, and thus add a historical component to the growing movement for a 'Semantic Web.'
Impact 0.2.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118355/
Impact is a finite element program based on an explicit time stepping algorithm. It can be used to simulate dynamic events such as car crashes or other large deformation events. It is written in Java and is kept very simple, to make it intuitive to use and easy to change and extend. It is very flexible and can handle several different input and output formats.
Inti 1.0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118306/
Inti is a set of integrated C++ foundation classes for developing GTK+ applications on Linux. It comes with more than 330 classes that wrap most of the objects found in the GTK+ libraries. It has its own system of signals and slots, and has a standard string compatible UTF-8 string class, a full set of example programs, a C++ version of the GTK+ demonstration program, and an extensive tutorial. It unleashes the power of GTK+ with a state-of-the-art C++ GUI toolkit. It makes developing applications easy, intuitive, and efficient, and is designed to work nicely with the GNU toolchain, and take advantage of the standard C++ features provided by the GNU compiler.
Inti-GConf 1.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118303/
Inti-GConf is the second module in the Integrated Foundation Classes library, an Inti binding for GConf (the GNOME Configuration System). It makes accessing the GConf database from your Inti applications easy and intuitive. Its API and documentation are complete and it comes with several examples.
Java Serialization to XML 2 0.8.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118301/
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.
Jaxe 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118305/
Jaxe is a Java XML editor with a graphical document-oriented interface. It is configurable with an XML schema and a configuration file. It supports validation at element insertion, and is customisable with Java modules. There is an HTML preview with an XSLT stylesheet. Examples include XHTML strict and a Docbook article.
JFtp 1.23
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118330/
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.
Kpl 3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118342/
kpl is a KDE program for two- and three-dimensional graphical presentation of data sets and functions (plotter). Multidimensional nonlinear parameter fits of functions to data sets can be performed using the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm. General linear least square parameter fits are also possible. A DCOP interface can be used to control Kpl by other applications and scripts.
Linux-BG Spell Checker Package 0.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118322/
Linux-BG Spell Checker is a Web front-end to the aspell program used in the Linux-BG project. It consists of a server, a client, and an example. It can be used in a CMS, a news service, or other types of Web systems in which it is important to have correct spelling.
LogStream 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118276/
This project intends to provide C++ programmers with an easy interface to logging facilities such as stderr, log files, syslog, and others that might come in handy later on. The interface is provided by global std::ostream objects similar to cout and cerr, allowing programmers to easily port programs to this library. One of it's main features is the ability to define debug levels, for which only inferior levels would be output. This project came from the need to have a really simple interface for debugging that required very few changes to existing code that uses cout and cerr.
Logtalk 2.15.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118335/
Logtalk is an open source object-oriented extension to the Prolog programming language. Integrating logic programming with object-oriented and event-driven programming, it is compatible with most Prolog compilers. It supports both prototypes and classes. In addition, it supports component-based programming through category-based composition.
log_analysis 0.42
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118314/
log_analysis is a log file analysis engine that extracts relevant data for any of the recognised log messages and produces a summary that is much easier to read. It can be configured to recognize entirely new log types. log_analysis natively understands about 100 different kinds of syslog messages, as well as sulog and wtmp messages for Linux, Solaris, and OpenBSD. It also has optional continuous monitoring capabilities, with both text and GUI modes.
Mah-Jong 1.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118381/
Mah-Jong is a set of three programs comprising a networked Mah-Jong game, a graphical client for humans, and a basic computer player. The game can be played by four humans, by a human and three computer players, or any other combination. The version of Mah-Jong is that generally called Chinese Classical. It should not be confused with the solitaire games such as xmahjongg.
morsetrainer 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118333/
Morsetrainer is a program for learning Morse code. It shows you a Morse coded letter and requires you to type the corresponding decoded letter. The codes of incorrect answers will be asked more frequently and vice versa. Display frequencies are saved so that you will keep learning the codes you need when you start your next session.
netcount 0.7b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118347/
netcount is a command line PPP traffic logging and statistics display tool for Linux. Logging is done via a small shell script which is called during the ip-up, ip-down, and system startup processes and from cron, while analysis and printing is done by a program written in Python. Statistics can be made on a per-call, daily, and/or monthly basis. Also part of the package is nstat, an X utility to display connection status, to hang up, and to start and terminate pppd.
Otak 1.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118344/
Otak provides a visual interface to command line programs that don't have one, that allows users to select arguments from a menu. For example, it can be used as an address book program with Mutt (the default), or as a phone book with SMS sending software, or even as a list of hosts for SSH or FTP.
passlogd 0.1e (Alpha)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118370/
passlogd is a purpose-built sniffer for capturing syslog messages in transit. This allows for backup logging to be performed on a machine with no open ports.
PHP Thumbnail AutoIndex 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118334/
PHP Thumbnail AutoIndex is a thumbnail-index generation script designed to be a companion to mod_autoindex for Apache. It generates a thumbnail "gallery" of images contained in a directory, which is much like what mod_autoindex generated indexes.
PHP-Nuke 6.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118324/
PHP-Nuke is a Web portal and online community system which includes Web-based administration, surveys, access statistics, user customizable boxes, a themes manager for registered users, friendly administration GUI with graphic topic manager, the ability to edit or delete stories, an option to delete comments, a moderation system, referer tracking, integrated banner ad system, search engine, backend/headlines generation (RSS/RDF format), Web directory like Yahoo, events manager, and support for 20+ languages.
phpCDLabelPS 0.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118336/
phpCDLabelPS creates labels for your CDs. It is currently only useful for data CDs (MP3 CDs included). After you provide some basic information, it reads the directory structure and creates a Postscript file out of it. The "look and feel" is controllable via a template and a frontend.
prtunnel 0.1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118296/
prtunnel tunnels a TCP connection through to a remote server using an HTTP or SOCKS5 proxy. It is useful if you are behind a proxy and want to use a program that doesn't have native proxy support.
psycopg 1.1.3 (StablePlus)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118339/
psycopg is a PostgreSQL database adapter for the Python programming language. Its main advantages are that it supports the full Python DBAPI 2.0 and it is thread safe at level 2. It was designed for heavily multi-threaded applications that create and destroy lots of cursors and make a conspicuous number of concurrent INSERTs or UPDATEs. The psycopg distribution includes ZPsycopgDA, a Zope Database Adapter.
PycURL 7.10.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118309/
PycURL is a Python module interface to the cURL library. PycURL can be used to fetch objects identified by an URL within a Python program.
SCPA 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118313/
SCPA (Squirrelmail Courier PHP Administrator) is a collection of PHP scripts which provide improved functionality for Squirrelmail, a popular WebMail interface. Using SCPA, you can change your password, add new users to a domain, and remove users from a domain, features which weren't present in SquirrelMail running with Courier-IMAP. It supports multiple domains, as used by Postfix.
SISC 1.7.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118352/
SISC is an extensible Java-based interpreter of the algorithmic language Scheme. It uses modern interpretation techniques and handily outperforms all existing Java interpreters (often by more than an order of magnitude). In addition, SISC is a complete implementation of the language. The entire R5RS Scheme standard is supported. This includes a full number tower including complex number support and arbitrary precision integers and floating point numbers, proper tail recursion, hygienic macros, and full support for first-class continuations (not just the escaping continuations found in many other systems).
SKYRiX Core Libraries 4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118323/
The SKYRiX Core library package is a set of Objective-C libraries which contain various extensions to Foundation, a streaming library comparable to java.io, MIME parsers and generators, an IMAP4 implementation, LDAP classes, and classes for handling iCalendar entities. These libraries form the basic Web infrastructure for the SKYRiX groupware server.
SMATCH 0.45
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118307/
SMATCH is an experiment in finding Linux kernel errors. There are two main parts to Smatch. The first is a patch to the gcc sources to print out a lot of information. The second part is a collection of Perl scripts and libraries to analyze the information.
SMS Server Tools 1.10.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118348/
The SMS Server Tools were made to send and receive SMS from one or many GSM modems. They include a send/receive daemon and some sample scripts to build an SMS email gateway and for logging into an SQL database. The daemon waits for files in an outgoing spool directory and sends them. It puts all received SMS in an incoming spool directory, and can call any external program for incoming or outgoing notification.
snapshot 1.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118299/
snapshot is a set of Perl scripts for creating, accessing, and managing a repository of directory snapshots. Multiple snapshots of a directory can exist in a repository representing the state of that directory at different times. A snapshot repository can be local or remote, with remote servers accessed using SSH.
Socks Server 5 1.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118351/
Socks Server 5 is a socks server for the Linux platform which supports the Socks protocol versions 4 and 5.
tcshrc 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118367/
The tcshrc package provides a well-organised set of configuration files that make full use of the advanced and often unknown features of the tcsh shell. Features used are a comprehensive prompt setting, advanced "set"s and "alias"es, bindkey support for the function keys, and intelligent completion. A Makefile is included for a safe installation procedure.
The Magic Notebook 1.4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118345/
The Magic Notebook is a CGI script which allows the user to store and organize notes in as many topics as are desired. Uses include contact information, to do lists, lists of books to read, status information for different projects, a list of "things to do when thus-and-such happens", keeping track of things you need to tell people, and for the advanced user an editable quote of the day. The Magic Notebook is intended to give Webmasters a new attraction with little extra work.
TkMan 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118379/
TkMan is a graphical, hypertext manual page and Texinfo browser for UNIX. TkMan boasts hypertext links, (optional) outline view of man pages, high quality display and superior navigational interface to Texinfo documents, a novel information visualization mechanism called Notemarks, full text search among man pages and Texinfo, incremental and regular expression search within pages, robust yellow highlight annotations, and more.
TopologiLinux 3.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118373/
TopologiLinux is an easy to install Linux distribution that is designed to be run from any Windows computer without requiring repartitioning. It mounts itself using a loop-back device and can be run from a DOS, Windows 9x, or Windows 2000/XP system with an NTFS or FAT partition. It is based on Slackware 9 and contains some extra packages like the new Alsa sound drivers, Licq, and Wine.
Trusted Debian 0.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118300/
The Trusted Debian project aims to create a highly secure but usable Linux platform. It brings together security solutions including kernel patches, compiler patches, security related programs, and techniques.
WDialog 2.00
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118319/
WDialog is a system to make dialog-centric Web applications. It imitates the behavior of widgets found in GUIs, but acts in an HTML/HTTP environment. It uses its own XML-based UI language, but callbacks are coded in a normal programming language: either O'Caml or Perl. WDialog is written in Objective Caml, an ML variant.
Whale 0.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118371/
Whale is a GNOME 2 application which provides a simple interface for creating playlists and storing songs on your Apple iPod. For example, you can add a song by simply dragging the file from Nautilus to the Whale window.
XDrawChem 1.6.9 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118360/
XDrawChem is a program for drawing chemical structures. Features include fixed length and fixed angle drawing, a ring tool to automatically draw rings, automatic alignment of structures in reactions, and structure diagram generation. It can access structures in the NCI database by name, CAS number, or formula. It can predict 1H NMR, 13C NMR, and simple IR spectra. XDrawChem can work with its native file format, ChemDraw files, and any format supported by OpenBabel (MDL Molfile, CML, etc.).
YASM 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118304/
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.
Yerase TNEF Stream Reader 1.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118358/
ytnef is a program to decode TNEF streams (winmail.dat). Unlike other similar programs, it can also decode meeting requests and create VCal entries for easy import. It can also create vCard entries from contact cards and vTodo entries from task entries. It also has a Perl script that can be used in procmail recipes to automatically reformat incoming mail appropriately.
zpop3d 0.8.8.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118308/
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
Who's your favorite Linux hardware vendor?
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/1323227
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - The traditional answer to this question is, "I assemble my own workstations and servers," because early Linux adoptors tended to be tinkerers and do-it-yourselfers. But times are changing, and an increasing number of both large and small computer vendors have learned that Linux is no longer an "upstart" operating system, but a serious market force. Do you have a favorite Linux hardware vendor? If so, we'd like to ...
How open source developers can get more U.S. government contracts http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/25/1539222
- By Alexander Perry - Why is government procurement a challenge for Open Source? Ironically, it is because the US government's acquisition policy has been shaped over many decades to try to get the best value for money. For-profit corporations with proprietary solutions are expected to try to make as much money as they can from a limited amount of development. Thoughtful tinkering and optimization, over many decades, has built stacks of ...
Free Software Foundation debuts Shared Source program http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/1219237
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Cambridge, MA, April 1 - "We've learned that only a few nut-case programmers ever alter source code, so we have developed a new license, the GSSPL [GNU Shared Source Public License] to meet the needs of the vast majority of computer users," said Free Software Foundation founder Richard M. Stallman at a press conference earlier today. He also said, "The fact that Microsoft is now the FSF's prime sponsor has nothing ...
Newsforge Newsvac
The IBM / MS PC Pissing Contest
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/03/0510215
Eric Peterson writes "The computing industry is fueled by egotism, revenge, and by avarice. After a decade of monopolistic shenanigans, heroic recovery, obscure legal proceedings, political pandering, and courtroom antics, the PC industry still boils down to one thing: a pissing contest between Microsoft and IBM."
MontaVista Linux Powers Zultys
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/03/059202
Patricia Colby writes "MontaVista Linux Powers New IP Phone and Enterprise Media Exchange, Provides Robust Platform for Zultys ZIP 4x4 and MX1200. SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 31, 2003 MontaVista Software, Inc., the company powering the embedded revolution, and Zultys Technologies, which designs and manufactures products that integrate telecommunications and data communications for enterprise networks, today announced that MontaVista Linux® ...
ROCK Linux to become TCPA-approved
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/03/056259
An anonymous coward writes "Today, esden announced that ROCK Linux will be TCPA-approved. IBM volunteered to carry the costs."
Hitachi Plunks Money into MVD's PowerCockpit http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/03/0419229
Press Flack writes "Hitachi has invested in Mountain View Data (MVD) in a move expected to speed the adoption of MVDs PowerCockpit server management technology and network storage software on Hitachi hardware.
Red Hat Linux 9 Technical Changes
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/02/2346213
Over the past eight years or so, I've been excited each time a new version of Red Hat Linux gets released. During the past few years, people have even been writing reviews of each release. As a general rule, I've been dissatisfied by the superficialities, inaccuracies, and irrelevancies in the reviews often times performed by someone who does not have intimate knowledge of Red Hat Linux. A systems administrator needs an in-depth review that ...
Biotech group's $1m Linux cluster
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/02/2342227
IBM Australia has won a $1 million deal to supply a Linux supercomputer cluster platform and bioinformatics tools for biotechnology research in Victoria.
NVIDIA's Latest Drivers and the Quadro FX http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/02/201255
Augustus writes "LinuxHardware.org just published a review looking at NVIDIA's latest driver. "Monday, NVIDIA took the next step in their strive to own the Linux video market with the release of their 1.0-4349 drivers. These drivers represent a first in the Linux driver market, a utility that not only installs the drivers on any distribution, but also keeps the driver up-to-date. We now take a look at this new utility and the drivers themselves. ...
MontaVista Linux Consumer Electronics Edition 3.0 Now Shipping http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/02/2124212
Patricia Colby writes "Industrys First Embedded Linux Platform For Consumer Electronics Boasts Dynamic Power Management, Rich Networking Support and Consumer-Grade Reliability. SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 31, 2003 MontaVista Software Inc., the company powering the embedded revolution, today announced the immediate availability of MontaVista Linux® Consumer Electronics Edition (CEE) 3.0. CEE is the first quality Linux operating system and ...
Exec says Sun is a Linux believer
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/02/1958257
Michael S. Mimoso writes "The perception that Sun Microsystems Inc. is a reluctant supporter of Linux is just plain wrong, according to Jack O'Brien, Sun's group manager for Linux strategy and marketing. Sun's Linux operating system for Intel x86 servers is an integral part of Sun's mix-and-match platform strategy, he said. With Linux and the different versions of Solaris, Sun offers users many choices of architectures."
Red Hat Linux 9 Review
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/02/1936245
This is by no means a technical review - it is just a summary of my experience as I was going along, installing and configuring a Red Hat Linux 9 machine. I installed the standard "workstation" installation on my 2 year old desktop machine. I like Gnome at home, KDE at work, but this review only covers my experience with the default Gnome installation.
Thinkgeek
Interests: Megatokyo Endgames - Pirogoeth Poster
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/megatokyo/coolthings/5e98/
Books: The Matrix & Philosophy: Welcome To The Desert Of The Real http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/nonfiction/5d52/
Books: The Book Of Overclocking
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/nonfiction/5d46/
Books: Pattern Recognition
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/scifi/5d4a/
Computing: Zalman CNPS7000-Cu CPU Cooler http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5e55/
Computing: Multi-Fan Speed Controller
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5e51/
Computing: Zalman Silent 400W Power Supply http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5e4c/
Computing: Half Keyboard
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5e2b/
Computing: Zalman VGA Heatsink w/ HeatPipe http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5e5e/
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/
Sourceforge
BSpam-0.5 released (A probabilistic spam filter in perl)