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[osdn everything] April 07, 2003
Date: Mon Apr 07 2003 - 04:45:27 EDT
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April 07, 2003 EVERYTHING SERIES
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Slashdot
Hypernova Erupts as Global Telescopes Scramble
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/06/2228206
An anonymous reader writes "The remarkable Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment [[0]ROTSE] telescopes have [1]tracked a 2 billion year old hypernova, from which an intense gamma ray burst reached earth on March 29. From Carl Akerlof, the ROTSE investigator: "The optical brightness of this gamma ray burst is about 100 times more intense than anything we've ever seen before." To underscore how the sun never rises on this automated telescope network, the observations switched rapidly from New South Wales in Australia back to Fort Davis, Texas, over a 12 hour burnout of the collapsing black hole." Links
Apple Updates Professional Video Lineup
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/06/2132229
[0]BlueGecko writes "Amid surprisingly little fanfare, Apple today
updated their entire professional video lineup, including [1]DVD Studio
Pro 2 (including a greatly improved menu editor and improved
compression abilities), [2]Final Cut Pro 4 (enhanced real-time editing,
more customizable workflow, and an improved titling interface), and
[3]Shake 3--the first version of Shake to be Mac OS X-only and now
sporting enhanced rotoscoping tools and the ability to work directly
with Photoshop layers. Combine this with [4]Logic and you've got an
entire professional movie studio on your Mac."
Links
0. mailto:webmaster@orangeinsider.com
1.
http://www.apple.com/dvdstudiopro/newversion/
2.
http://www.apple.com/finalcutpro/
3.
http://www.apple.com/shake/
4.
http://www.apple.com/software/pro/logic/
Endless Liquid Refreshment
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/06/1730231
[0]rabtech writes "I'm very lazy. As part of that continuing effort,
I've come up with a guide for installing a [0]soda fountain in the
house. I've detailed how to get the equipment, hoses, and supplies, as
well as how to install and calibrate the system. Now you won't ever
need to move for lack of liquid refreshment! My next project: Food
Replicator."
Links
0. http://www.boneville.net/soda/
Ethical Dilemmas Related to Technology
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/06/1849215
[0]Anonymous Coward writes "I have a relative who will be teaching a
college class on the topic of ethical dilemmas brought about by new
technology. Unfortunately, he doesn't keep up with technology news, so
he's not sure what the most relevant dilemmas are. For example, 'If
robots came alive, would we be justified in killing them?' is one that
might come up if nothing more relevant were suggested. (OK, it might
not be that bad, but you get the idea. He was using Netscape 4.76 on
system 9 until last week.) So, what are the most relevant ethical
dilemmas brought up by technology? Note that I am looking for ethical
dilemmas, e.g. 'Is Activity X moral?' rather than legal dilemmas like
'Is the DMCA constitutional?' Now is your chance to guide the young
minds of the future toward stuff that matters."
Links
0. mailto:pingswept@yahoo.com
Fishing for Ideas
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/06/1756210
FyreWyr writes "Whether Microsoft is searching for [0]new ideas, or
supporting inventors outright is up for grabs, but they're stabbing at
it with $300,000 for 12 spanking ideas (that's $25k each). But as with
everything Microsoft, the devil's in the details, or rather, the fine
print. At first, you'd swear it was "Brought to you by VISA" - the logo
is ubiquitous - but the very last statement in the [1]contest rules
reads: "The sponsor...is Microsoft ... VISA...have not sponsored or
offered this contest in any way". They also retain a spectrum of
rights, and responsibily [2]suggest that you go out and patent really
good ideas first. Okay, how much does that [3]cost again? (see end of
[4]this article)."
Links
0.
http://www.ideashappen.com/
1.
http://ideashappen.msn.com/rules.htm
2.
http://ideashappen.msn.com/pitch.aspx
3.
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/qs/ope/fee20030101.htm
4.
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-04-23-009-04-NW
Still More on Global Warming
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/06/1749231
[0]hype7 writes "The Daily Telegraph is [1]running a piece on the
world's temperature. Apparently, it was a lot hotter in the middle
ages: "A review of more than 240 scientific studies has shown that
today's temperatures are neither the warmest over the past millennium,
nor are they producing the most extreme weather - in stark contrast to
the claims of the environmentalists.""
Links
0. mailto:emptyskies@ m a c.com
Anger as a Software Design Philosophy
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/06/1733235
[0]Chilliwilli writes "Spending more time cursing your code than
writing it? Well now there's an answer. [1]feckfeck (a language in the
vein of [2]Whitespace and [3]Brainf*ck) will help you get back that
precious time by converting your foul words into code. You've heard the
hype surrounding VLIWs, well here are FLIWs (4 letter instruction
words). The great thing is the more angry you get the more code you'll
write. For those programmers on performance related pay this is great
news."
Links
0. mailto:chilliwilli@chilliwilli.co.uk
1.
http://www.chilliwilli.co.uk/ff/
2.
http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/whitespace/index.php
3.
http://esoteric.sange.fi/brainfuck/
Review: Cowboy Bebop
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/06/1720217
Fans of the excellent [0]Cowboy Bebop anime series have been eagerly awaiting the [1]movie, released on Friday in major U.S. cities. [2]The critics seem to like it overall, and, skimming through the reviews, the ones who dislike it seem to do so for the usual reason: it's a cartoon. Links
0.
http://www.animefu.com/index.pl?node_id=4831
1.
http://www.sonypictures.com/cthe/cowboybebop/
2.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/CowboyBebopTheMovie-1116623/IBM & CERN openlab for DataGrid Applications http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/06/157259
[0]Jules V.D. writes "[1]CERN and [2]IBM today [3]announced that IBM is
joining the [4]CERN openlab for DataGrid applications to collaborate in
creating a massive data-management system built on Grid computing.IBM's
innovative storage virtualization and file management technology, will
play a pivotal role in this collaboration, which aims to create a data
file system far larger than exists today to help scientists at CERN
understand some of the most fundamental questions about the nature of
matter and the Universe."
Links
0.
http://jules.vo-dinh.com
1.
http://www.cern.ch/
2.
http://www.ibm.com/
3.
http://info.web.cern.ch/info/Press/PressReleases/Releases2003/PR02.03EOpenlabIBM.html
4.
http://proj-openlab-datagrid-public.web.cern.ch/proj-openlab-datagrid-public/
Exploit Found in Seti@Home
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/06/156217
Jamie noted that an [0]Exploit was found in Seti@Home and there is code
exploiting the hole actually running about in the wild. [1]Patches are
available for those of you not interested in running a public warez
server or DoS client ;)
Links
0. http://spoor12.edup.tudelft.nl/SkyLined%20v4.2/?Advisories/Seti@home
Freshmeat
31337 recoder 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118750/
31337 recoder is versatile recoding program. Its purpose is encoding text and data to non-human-readable forms and decoding from these forms. It supports Base64, ROT, escaped hex, and octal. It can also recode single bytes to any numeric system from binary to 36-ary.
6nome 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118679/
6nome is a theme based on the GNOME logo. It has rounded corners and embossed title text, and features the gnome footprint as the menu button.
ALE 0.4.0p1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118769/
ALE aligns and merges several similar images from a digitizing device (such as a digital camera or scanner) into a single image. This may have the effect of producing a relatively alias-free image (sometimes called "anti-aliasing").
Alzabo 0.71
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118781/
Alzabo is a two-fold program. Its first function is as a data modelling tool. Through either a schema creation interface or a custom Perl program, it allows a programmer to create a set of schema, table, column, etc. objects that represent a data model. Alzabo is also capable of reverse engineering an existing data model. Its second function is as a RDBMS-to-object mapping system. Once you have created a schema, you can use Alzabo classes to access its data. These classes offer a high-level interface to common operations such as SQL SELECT, INSERT, DELETE, and UPDATE commands.
AquaLess 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118742/
AquaLess is a text pager for Mac OS X that is intended to replace the less command. It allows you to browse lengthy text output from Unix command line tools in a separate window, so you can keep working in the terminal while you read.
Bauk PI 1.66 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118722/
Bauk is a high performance HTTP server for UNIX-like operating systems. It brings together a rich set of features with real configurability and ease of administration. Some of Bauk's features include virtual hosts, URL aliases, execution of CGI programs, HTTP authentication: Basic method, network traffic per virtual host quotas, connections per client IP number quotas, directory browsing, server host name aliases, access restriction by IP address, configurable HTTP log format, multiprocess architecture, simple configuration, easy administration, flexibility and much more.
BINS photo album 1.1.21
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118790/
BINS is a valid HTML 4 photo album generator with support for internationalization, EXIF, and customizable charset encoding, including UTF-8 (Unicode). Albums can contains other sub-albums. The appearance of the album can be fully personalized by using template and configuration parameters. The number and size of scaled pictures can be chosen in pixels or percentage of the original image. Several description fields (date, location, etc.) can be associated with the pictures, and you can add additional description fields. A command line utility or a GTK+ GUI can be used to set or edit description fields. BINS can use the EXIF data structure found in some pictures to automatically fill some fields (most notably, date and time) and to produce a page providing all information available on the picture, as well as the DigiCam settings when the photo was taken. All image meta-data are stored in XML files.
BIRD 1.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118786/
BIRD is a dynamic routing daemon for UNIX-like systems. It should support all routing protocols used in the contemporary Internet, such as BGP, OSPF, RIP, and their IPv6 variants (except for OSPFv3 which is still under development). It also features a very flexible configuration mechanism, and a route filtering language.
BookmarkManager 0.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118721/
BookmarkManager is an online bookmark manager and is meant as a replacement for a browser's bookmark system. It runs on a servlet container, and needs no database. It uses the Prevayler system for storing its data.
Bugzero 2.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118778/
Bugzero is an easy-to-install Web-based bug, defect, issue, and incident tracking system. It can be customized to fit software, hardware, and help desk support situations. It is platform and database system independent (based on Java). It supports multiple projects, group-based access, automatic bug assignment, file attachment, email notification, metric reports, and workflow. It also features advanced search capability, a comprehensive bug audit trail, CVS version control integration, and an easy to use system administration tool for project configuration and user account management.
CD Catalog 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118767/
CD Catalog is a CD indexing program. If you have lots of CDs and you want to keep track of them, you can simply run 'cdcat' to index the current CD, or 'cdcat -f file' to find a file in the already indexed CDs ('file' can be a regexp, and after '-f', you can specify some grep arguments, such as '-i' for case insensitive search). You can also browse the current indexed CDs, change the device (if you have more than 1 CD-ROM drive), delete a catalogue entry, list all entries or index the current CD under a different name than the one specified by it's label (just altering the name is also possible).
CL-BibTeX 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118775/
CL-BibTeX is a replacement for the BibTeX program, written in Common Lisp. The aim is to enable the user to format bibliographic entries using Common Lisp programs, rather than using the stack language of BibTeX style files. A compiler that transforms BibTeX style files into comprehensible Common Lisp programs is included.
CleanIce 1.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118782/
CleanIce is a simplistic, semi-flat theme engine for GTK+ 2.x, based on the ThinIce and Clean engines of old. The GTK+ 2.x engine has many benefits over the original theme. The arrows are more consistent, the colors are slightly revised to be more usable, etc.
cvsplot 1.6.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118794/
Cvsplot is a Perl script which analyses the history of a CVS-managed project. The script executes on a set of files, analyses their history, and automatically generates graphs that plot lines of code and number of files against time.
cwdaemon 0.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118784/
cwdaemon is a small daemon which uses the PC parallel or serial port and a simple transistor switch to output Morse code to a transmitter from a text message sent to it via the UDP protocol.
Darwin's Tic Tac Toe 0.5.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118753/
Darwin's Tic Tac Toe uses simple evolutionary techniques to evolve a set of randomly-connected Neural Networks, with random weights, to play Tic Tac Toe (Norts and Crosses). To speed up the process, it has been written in a client-server architecture. Clients can connect to the server and grab a small batch of neural networks, do some processing, and send the results back to the server.
DBMonster 0.0.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118733/
DBMonster is a tool which helps database application developers with tuning the structure of the database, tuning the usage of indexes, and testing the application performance under heavy database load. DBMonster generates as much random data as you wish and puts it into an SQL database. It provides a very pluggable interface and is trivial to use.
Dropbear 0.28
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118748/
Dropbear is an SSH2 server, designed to be usable in small memory environments.
ElyCA 0.19 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118712/
ElyCA is yet another implementation of a Certification Authority and a Registration Authority. It is written in Python and uses MySQL as its database.
FastParser 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118741/
Fast Parser is a high performance Java XML parser. Benchmarks measure it to be up to 100%+ 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.
fastutil 2.60
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118762/
fastutil provides type-specific Java maps and sets with a small memory footprint, which feature much faster (2 to 10 times) access and insertion. The classes implement their standard counterpart interfaces (e.g., Map for maps) and can be plugged into existing code. Besides the usual features, fastutil provides reference-based containers (which do not use equals() to compare objects) and linked structures. Most iterators provided by fastutil classes are bidirectional, or even implement the standard list iterator interface.
GAUL 0.1843
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118796/
The Genetic Algorithm Utility Library (GAUL) is a programming library for evolutionary algorithms. Both steady-state and generation-based evolution is supported, together with the island model. GAUL supports the Darwinian, Lamarckian, and Baldwininan evolutionary schemes. Standard mutation, crossover, and selection operators are provided, while code hooks additionally allow custom operators. It provides data structures and functions for handling and manipulation of the data required for a genetic algorithm. Additional stochastic algorithms are provided for comparison to the genetic algorithms. Much of the functionality is also available through a simple S-Lang interface.
GKrellM giFT 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118772/
GKrellM giFT is a GKrellM plugin which monitors active giFT transfers by showing their progress.
gnokii 0.5.0rc2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118800/
gnokii is a Linux/Unix tool suite for Nokia (GSM) mobile phones. It provides a virtual Hayes-AT compatible modem to allow data calls to be made to a modem or ISP as well as providing a phone book, and SMS and ringtone management. Phones supported include recent models such as the 6310, 6510, and 6210, and older phones like the 3110, 3810, 8110, 5110, 6110 and their derivatives.
GNU TeXmacs 1.0.1.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118744/
GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific text editor, which was inspired by both TeX and GNU Emacs. The editor allows you to write structured documents via a "wysiwyg" and user friendly interface. The program implements high quality typesetting algorithms and TeX fonts. It is also possible to use TeXmacs as an interface to computer algebra systems. Finally, TeXmacs supports the Guile/Scheme extension language, which makes it possible to adapt the user interface to specific needs, and even to extend the editor.
Gnupg Crypto Apache Module alpha_0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118739/
This project is a GPG crypto module for Apache, that provides GPG functionality to Web pages via an XMLRPC interface.
grsecurity 2.0-pre1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118804/
grsecurity is a complete security system for Linux 2.4 that implements a detection/prevention/containment strategy. It prevents most forms of address space modification, confines programs with least privilege via its process-based MAC system, hardens syscalls, provides full-featured auditing, and implements many of the OpenBSD randomness features. It was written for performance, ease-of-use, and security. The MAC system has an intelligent learning-mode, and all of grsecurity supports a feature that logs the IP of the attacker that causes an alert or audit.
grsecurity 1.9.9f (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118803/
grsecurity is a complete security system for Linux 2.4 that implements a detection/prevention/containment strategy. It prevents most forms of address space modification, confines programs with least privilege via its process-based MAC system, hardens syscalls, provides full-featured auditing, and implements many of the OpenBSD randomness features. It was written for performance, ease-of-use, and security. The MAC system has an intelligent learning-mode, and all of grsecurity supports a feature that logs the IP of the attacker that causes an alert or audit.
GtkPCCard 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118732/
GtkPCCard is an application for managing PC cards, also called PCMCIA cards. It allows users to safely insert, eject, suspend, and resume PC cards. In addition, they can view extensive information about PC cards installed on their system.
I am not a doll 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118689/
I am not a doll is a theme which is a full vision of Ayanami Rei from the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Ice Sound Manager 2.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118726/
Ice Sound Manager was designed to ease the management of sound events, sound themes, and the IceSound server in the IceWM window manager. It is also intended to be an improvement upon the noble but primitive icesndcfg. The main improvements over icesndcfg include a support for sound event "themes", more comprehensive help, easy management and configuration of the IceSound server, a cleaner GUI interface, automatic starting of the IceSound server, and a more conservative approach to disk space usage.
IcePref2 2.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118728/
IcePref2 is an updated, overhauled, improved, and perfected version of the original IcePref (which was abandoned by the original author). This new version includes many new features and bugfixes, and is a sub-project of the IceWM Control Panel project. It is optimized for IceWM 1.2.2 and better.
IceWM Control Panel 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118724/
IceWM Control Panel is a full-featured, GTK-based control panel for IceWM. It features an IceWM theme designer, Ice Sound Manager (for sound events), IcePref2, and tools to manage desktop wallpaper, cursors, keys, window options, and more. IceWM Control Panel has a familiar, Windows-like Control Panel user interface.
IceWM Theme Designer 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118730/
IceWM Theme Designer is an intuitive program for designing and editing IceWM themes. It features a comfortable user interface and full drag-and-drop support. It includes English and Spanish translations.
imgv 2.5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118740/
imgv is free image viewer that runs on everything from MS-Windows to Linux to BSD and more. It includes standard features (file/directory browser, slideshows, zoom in/out, flip/rotate, etc.) and special features (multi-view, adjustable thumbnail sizes, image playlists, remote image loading, MPEG movie support, a customizable interface, and much more).
IPTables-tutorial 1.1.17
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118780/
IPTables-tutorial is a tutorial which explains how to install and set up iptables and netfilters on Linux. It takes you through a usable example file step by step, and helps you understand its basic functionality. The tutorial currently contains 6 different example scripts that may be used freely under GPL licensing terms.
ispbs 2.3.b4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118793/
ispbs (internet service provider billing system) is a free user management and billing system designed for ISP, hosting, and voip providers. It uses functions of PHP, Java, MySQL, and shell scripts. Its main features include automated invoicing, client search by name/account name/credit card number/business name, automatic email or paper billing, balance tracking, past due balance reminder, suspend and unsuspend customer, automatic account creation and removal, support for hosting, dial-up, DNS zone, email account, or voip, administration of an unlimited number of Unix servers, a Web-based interface, qmail support, multiple customizable packages, and more.
ispell-uk 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118785/
ispell-uk is a Ukrainian dictionary for ispell.
Jay's Iptables Firewall 0.9.95 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/118761/
Jay's Iptables Firewall is a bash script that allows one to easily install and configure a firewall on a Linux system. It was initially written for use on a home LAN, but can be extend to any type of network. It features support for multiple (external/internal) interfaces, TCP/UDP/ICMP control, masquerading, synflood control, spoofing control, port forwarding from specific interfaces, VPNs (like vtun), ToS (bandwith managment), denying hosts (IP or MAC address), ZorbIPTraffic, Spyware list IP, Pre/Post scripts, log options, and more. The firewall is able to launch custom iptables rules, and the configuration of the firewall is assisted by an optional, interactive, curses-based Perl script.
JSVN 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118759/
JSVN is a Java graphical front-end to the Subversion revision control system.
libConfuse 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118738/
libConfuse is a configuration file parser library written in C. It's goal is to be easy to use and quick to integrate into existing code. It supports sections and (lists of) values (strings, integers, floats, booleans, or other sections), as well as some other features (such as single/double-quoted strings, environment variable expansion, functions, and nested include statements). It makes it very easy to add configuration file capability to a program using a simple API.
libferris 0.9.97
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118754/
libferris is a virtual filesystem that exposes hierarchical data of all kinds through a common C++ interface. Access to data is performed using C++ IOStreams and Extended Attributes (EA) can be attached to each datum to present metadata. Ferris uses a plugin API to read various data sources and expose them as contexts and to generate interesting EA. Current implementations include Native (kernel disk IO with event updates using fam), xml (mount an xml file as a filesystem), edb (mount a berkeley database), ffilter (mount an LDAP filter string) and mbox (mount your mailbox). EA generators include image, audio, and animation decoders.
LinkBrowser 1.22
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118802/
LinkBrowser is a program for browsing the links in HTML documents and downloading the files that they reference. Basically, this program is like a normal Web browser, but instead of rendering the HTML it just shows a table of all the files that the html references. The files can be downloaded in batches.
livarot 0.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118751/
livarot is a set of C++ classes to compute voronoi diagrams of polygons, do usual operations on polygons (boolean operations, offsets), and create, fill or stroke paths (polyline, bezier, cubic). Rasterization is done with anti-aliasing in 32bit argb.
LJChk 0.0.17
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118752/
LJChk is a script for working with livejournal servers via the XMLRPC over HTTP protocol. Functions include continous checking for friends' updates, monitoring changes in a friends list, posting both in your own journal and in community journals, with the ability to use all the options available through the livejournal Web interface, and auto-posting quote lists with references to other users' posts.
Lyman 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118745/
Lyman is a program to manage your collection of song lyrics. You can search for songs by their title, artist, album, the release year, or parts of their lyrics.
MMMpg123 0.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118725/
MMMpg123 is a CGI jukebox program compatible with Apache that can be used to play/queue MP3 files on a server using mpg123 or a similar player.
modplug-xmms 2.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118737/
Modplug-XMMS is a fully featured, complete input plugin for XMMS which plays MOD-like music formats. It is based on the mod rendering code from ModPlug, a popular Windows MOD player.
myServer 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118774/
myServer is a free and easy-to-configure Web server. It is multhithreaded and supports multiprocessor machines.
OmniChex 2_12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118527/
OmniChex is an Web-based information management tool that allows users to manage information securely using hyperlinked checklists. Users can preview and print or email checklists.
Onyx 4.4.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118766/
Onyx is a powerful stack-based, multi-threaded, interpreted, general purpose programming language similar to PostScript and Forth. It can be embedded as an extension language into other applications, and was designed to have a small memory footprint. It is among the smallest embeddable interpreters available.
Openline 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118791/
Openline is an open source version of Hotline, a PC/MAC client/server application that provides users the ability to create and manage a desktop community. The application has file uploading and downloading, instant messaging, a bulletin board, threaded news, and public and private chat.
OpenSceneGraph Editor 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118797/
OpenSceneGraph Editor (OSGEdit) is used to compose complex scenes based on individual models using the OSG library. It is focused on making scenes for use in OSG-based programs.
PhpDig 1.6.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118773/
PhpDig is a PHP search engine that uses a MySQL database backend. It features indexing of both static and dynamic pages, spidering of almost all links in HTML content, in hrefs, areamaps, and frames, and full text indexing. The search results appearence is skin-able, using a very simple templates system. It can index PDF and Office files using external tools.
PhrozenClock 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118731/
PhrozenClock is a Gtk-based clock application, similar to the clocks available in KDE and Windows. It has many advanced features, including foreign language support. Spanish language support is implemented.
picoSQL 1.4beta (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118758/
picoSQL is an Italian RDBMS. Because it derives from a commercial project, it is already robust, fast, and rather complete.
picoSQL 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118756/
picoSQL is an Italian RDBMS. Because it derives from a commercial project, it is already robust, fast, and rather complete.
Python/Tk Empire Interface 1.18.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118734/
The Python/Tk Empire Interface (PTkEI) enables you to connect to empire 4.x.x (Wolfpack) servers. Empire is a real-time war game with long tradition. You can find out about Empire and currently running servers and other clients at its homepage. This client is an example for a truly portable cross-platform GUI, known to run on Unix, X11, Win32 and Mac. Additionally you do not give up any command line power as a player, but you have to to learn the empire commands to make use of this GUI client.
PyTone 1.12.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118736/
PyTone is a music jukebox written in Python with a curses-based GUI. While providing advanced features like crossfading and multiple players, special emphasis is put on ease of use, making PyTone an ideal jukebox system for use at parties.
qmail-ldap 20030401
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118763/
qmail-ldap is an extension to stock qmail-1.03 to get all user account information from an LDAP database. Its primary target is POP toasters with thousands to millions of users, such as in ISP, FreeMail, and Corporate environments. It features full SMTP/POP3/IMAP server clustering for scaling and high availablity. Additionally there are state-of-the art spam filters, TLS SMTP encrytion, and mailbox quotas. A migration path for Netscape Messenger and Software.com's Post.Office installations is provided.
RasterImageManipulator 1.025
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118801/
RasterImageManipulator is a free program for image processing and fractal exploration. It has many features for customizing the appearance of fractal images. These include special filters, a palette editor, gradient palette creator, and animated palette cycling.
Shell Environment for Oracle 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118743/
Senora (Shell Environment for Oracle) intends to become your primary Oracle shell. In contrast to sqlplus, it is extensible via plugins which add new commands and incorporate them into Senora's help system. For example, the DataDictionary plugin allows one to reverse-engineer code from the DataDictionary, and the Tuning plugin provides commands for profiling and performance analysis.
SiteBar 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118746/
SiteBar is a multi-user bookmark database that lets users view, add, and maintain links from anywhere. It's intended as a Mozilla/Netscape sidebar, but can also be used in a main browser window.
Slackware Live CD 2.9.0.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118771/
Slackware Live CD is a 200MB live Linux distribution on CD that is based on Slackware. It features many add-ons, including the scripts required to create your own live CD.
SMS Server Tools 1.10.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118770/
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.
taglog 0.1.38
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118795/
Taglog is designed for anyone who spends most of their day sitting at a computer, working on various projects. You can make notes about what you do, as you go along, associating them with the projects you work on. At the end of the week you can produce a report of how your time was spent, broken down by project for booking purposes. You can view previous entries, by date, or by project. You can enter the actions you intend to take, associate them with a project, and mark them as active, or complete.
TclCurl 0.10.4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118749/
TclCurl provides a binding for libcurl. It makes it possible to download and upload files using protocols like FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, LDAP, telnet, dict, gopher, and file.
Teromail 0.3.53
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118783/
Teromail is a summarizing Web mail client with smart search. All output is valid XHTML Basic, and the code base is small. SSL is always on. The user interface is simple and tested.
TTY-Grin 0.5.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118727/
TTY-Grin is a screen-orientated interactive news and email client with support for MIME and other message format extensions, multiple news servers, IMAP, PGP/MIME, and Maildir.
Tux Math Scrab*le 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118757/
Tux Math Scrab*le is a math version of the popular board game for children 4-10. The game features drag-and-drop tiles for the user, while Tux moves his own. The game challenges young people to construct compound equations and consider multiple abstract possibilities.
UPPAAL Timed Automata Parser Library 0.30 http://freshmeat.net/releases/118729/
The UPPAAL Timed Automata Parser Library (libutap) is the parser library used by UPPAAL. It includes a type checker and supports the TA, XTA, and XML file formats.
Veejay 0.3.3rc4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118764/
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.
Velocity editor plugin for Eclipse 1.0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/118792/
Velocity editor plugin for Eclipse provides an editor for the scripting language of Jakarta's template engine Velocity. The editor is implemented as an plugin for the Eclipse platform.
VUX 0.4.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118765/
VUX is an Ogg and MP3 utility that plays songs according to a rating system designed to keep track of user-listening habits. It does this by making play choices based on a rating system with thresholds that change as the overall ratings change. The thresholds are based on average rating and standard deviation. Ratings increase when you play complete songs and decrease when you skip them. The ratings scorefile is plain text for manual editing.
WAPbuddy 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118799/
WAPbuddy is a very simple PHP script which helps people build extremely simple WAP sites to upload ringtones and whatnot to their cellphones. It includes an Apache .htaccess file to handle MIME type definitions for cellphones.
XMLTV 0.5.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118747/
XMLTV is a set of programs to process TV (tvguide) listings and manage your TV viewing. It stores the listings in an XML-based format and most of the programs are filters which read and/or write XML. There are backends to download TV listings for Canada, the USA, Britain, Austria, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Finland, New Zealand, Spain, Italy, and the Netherlands. It also includes some filter tools to sort, grep, print, and munge listings, and two end-user programs to plan a week's TV viewing.
ZorbIPtraffic 0.07
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118760/
ZorbIPtraffic shows the IP traffic on a network interface in real time. It can display traffic statistics for each IP on your internal network, and it summarizes the total traffic for each IP per year, per month, and per day. All information is stored in a MySQL database, which makes it easy to search the traffic measurements for a specific day. ZorbIPtraffic only works if you use iptables.
Newsforge Reports
GNU for Windows?
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/02/170248
- Lee Schlesinger - One of the first things many people think of when
they hear "open source" is Linux. True, Linux is probably the most
visible and most ambitious open source project, but there are thousands
of open source applications out there, and some of them even run under
- gasp! -- Windows.
GNU & Linux - Setting the Record Straight http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/31/1527206
- Clinton Goveas - I was reading Richard Stallman's interview in a local Linux monthly the other day and was struck by an important point he was trying to make. The operating system we have all come to love, is not Linux! Let me explain...
Linux Advisory Watch - April 4, 2003
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/04/2018249
- Benjamin D. Thomas - This week advisories were released for sendmail, dietlibc, krb4, mutt, lpr, kernel, apcupsd, samba, eterm, evolution, dhcp, openssl, vsftp, kerberos, eog, enetbpm, and mysql. The distributors include Caldera, Conectiva, Gentoo, Immunix, Red Hat, SuSE, Slackware, Trustix, and Yellow Dog.
Newsforge Newsvac
Book review: Hacking Exposed Fourth Edition
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/0055201
LogError writes "With every edition this books keeps getting better and better. I can recommend it to anyone interested in computer security, as it will certainly give you a real-world course on the subject. Read more at Help Net Security."
Migration: Not for the Faint of Heart
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/06/2130253
Anonymous Reader writes "OSNews editor Adam Scheinberg wrote an interesting editorial as a reaction to yesterday's LinuxWorld article about Linux migration."
A personal review of ALT Linux Junior
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/06/2128225
David @ Virtual Sky writes "Product reviews have been done to death on the Net. But I just had to share with you my opinion regarding the ALT Linux distribution, Junior v2.2. Not a very famous Linux distribution -at least in North America- but well worth your attention, especially if you're a newcomer to the world of Linux. Or, if you're curious about the Linux OS but just waiting for that one Linux OS that will make your experience the most ...
Apache 2.0.45 Released
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/06/2127216
Apache 2.0.45 was released on the 2nd April 2003. This release addresses recent security issues in Apache 2.0.44
Too Much Free Software
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/05/1521221