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[osdn everything] April 10, 2003
Date: Thu Apr 10 2003 - 04:45:27 EDT
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Slashdot
Cell Phones Companies Fight Number Portability
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/09/2314233
andy1307 writes "[0]The Washington Post is [1]reporting that wireless companies are opposing mobile number portability. According to the law as it is being written, customers would be able to transfer wired phone numbers to a wireless service. Not surprisingly, Verizon is the wireless company opposing the law." Links
0. http://www.washingtonpost.com/
WLANs As Spam Conduit
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/09/2021212
[0]Saint Aardvark writes "According to [1]this article, a honeypot was
recently set up on two wireless LANs. 25% of the connections observed
were deliberate, and 71% of those were to send spam. Even more reason
to take care of your ether." These statistics should be taken with a
salt lick...
Links
0. http://saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com
Federal Judge Rules Against Reverse-engineering http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/09/2321254
[0]zurab writes "A federal judge in Boston threw out a challenge to the DMCA brought by the ACLU for a Harvard Law School student. Ben Edelman decided to ask court's permission to reverse-engineer the Internet filtering software made by [1]N2H2 in fears of being sued by the company. Of interest is a quote from the ruling: "there is no plausibly protected constitutional interest that Edelman can assert that outweighs N2H2's right to protect its copyrighted material from an invasive and destructive trespass." [2]Full story on Yahoo." Links
0.
http://www.active-link.com/
1.
http://www.n2h2.com/
2.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=528&e=1&cid=528&u=/ap/20030409/ap_on_hi_te/digital_copyright_acluWhen Should a Consultant Question Decisions? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/09/2134202
bay43270 asks: "Presumably, companies hire consultants because they need technical expertise. At some point (if not on a daily basis) a consultant is asked to do something that isn’t in the best interest of the company (and therefore may not be in the best interest of the consultant in the long run). The consultant must ask 'do I just say "yes sir" and go to work, or do I try to explain things? If so, how hard do I push?' When should a good consultant question a decision, and how does the situation differ with contract programmers?"
Implementing VisiCalc
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/09/1930248
David Leppik writes "The author of VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet program, has [0] an article about how it was designed. VisiCalc is why businesses started to take the Apple ][ (and personal computers in general) seriously. It also changed accounting forecasts forever, which triggered the investment boom that brought us the "greed is good" era. Oh, and you can still [1] download VisiCalc in case you run DOS or Windows and have 27,520 bytes to spare." Links
0. http://www.frankston.com/?name=ImplementingVisiCalc
Microsoft Commits to Using Opteron
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/09/1852221
the_1000th_Monkey writes "According these articles at [0]The Inquirer,
[1]Infoworld, and [2]The Register Windows XP and Windows Server 2003
will support AMD's 64-bit Opteron processor. Beta releases can be
expected in the middle of this year. Here is MS's official [3]press
release."
Links
0.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=8827
1.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/09/HNwinopteron_1.html
2.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/61/30171.html
3.
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2003/Apr03/04-09AthlonOpteronPR.asp
Congress to Make PATRIOT Act Permanent
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/09/1534234
955301 writes "As if it was unexpected, the New York Times (free
reg...) has an article on attempts by our Congressional Republicans to
[0]eliminate the expiration of the Patriot Act. Everyone may thank
Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah for getting this 9/11 snowball rolling, and
the general population for our current leadership." There's another
story in the [1]SF Chronicle.
Links
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/09/international/worldspecial/09TERR.html
End of The Von Neumann Computing Age?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/09/1824253
olafo writes "Three recent Forbes articles: [0]Chipping Away, [1]Flexible Flyers and [2]Super-Cheap Supercomputers cite attractive alternatives to traditional Von Neumann computers and microprocessors. One even mentions we're approaching the end of the Von Neumann age and the beginning of a new Reconfigurable computing age. Are we ready?" Links
0.
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2003/0414/206.html
1.
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2003/0414/206a.html
2.
http://www.forbes.com/home/2003/03/25/cz_dl_0325star2.html?partner=altavisSell Your Computers, Keep Paying MS For Licenses http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/09/1711238
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft Licensing 6.0 requires a company to pay up on software maintenance when the computers that are covered under the license are sold off. Here's the kicker though: MS is no longer obligated to provide maintenance even though the contract is paid up! Read the [0]Infoworld article." Links
0. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/04/14gripe_1.html
WSJ Reviews High End Universal Remotes
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/09/1450204
An anonymous reader writes "[0]Walt Mossberg is at it again - this time comparing the [1]Philips Pronto and the [2]Harmony SST-768. These remotes have [3]both [4]been featured on Slashdot before." Links
0.
http://ptech.wsj.com/solution.html
1.
http://www.pronto.philips.com/
2.
http://www.harmonyremote.com/
3.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=98/10/10/1649256&tid=126
4.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/17/1423219&tid=129
Freshmeat
Alvaro's Messenger 20030409 - (0.80rc1) (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119126/
Alvaro's Messenger is a Tcl client for MSN Messenger. It has many features, including multi-language support, smileys, email notification, an alarm, sound, support for 'ñ', tildes, accents, dieresis, and other special characters, address book, group managing, and file transfers.
AMANDA 2.4.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119145/
AMANDA (Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver) is a backup system that allows the administrator of a LAN to set up a single master backup server to back up multiple hosts to a single large capacity tape drive. AMANDA users native dump and/or GNU tar facilities and can back up a large number of workstations running multiple versions of Unix. Recent versions can also use SAMBA to back up Microsoft Windows 95/NT hosts.
antixrist 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119097/
antixrist is a satanic black-and-white theme with a wallpaper created by the author. It is pretty simple and stylish, and uses the ttf "FontError" (not included in the package because of copyright restrictions).
AtariSIO 0.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119117/
AtariSIO is a Linux kernel driver module plus a small set of tools that implement the Atari 8-bit (400/600/800/XL/XE) computer series SIO protocol. The kernel driver handles the low-level parts and provides a simple interface for user space applications. This package contains two tools: atariserver, an Atari disk drive emulator (similar to SIO2PC or APE for MSDOS), and atarixfer, a tool to transfer disk images to/from a connected Atari disk drive.
Averist 1.7.5.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119171/
Averist is a module that adds an authentication layer to any CGI application written in Perl. It supports initial authentication through CGI (form), and it can use CGI (hidden form fields) or cookies for reauthentication after a configurable timeout. It can also use a DBM file, a flat file database, or an SQL database for storing session tickets for increased security. The username and password check at the initial authentication can be done via a DBM file, an LDAP directory, a NIS database, the passwd database, a passwd-style file, or an SQL database. Averist is written in Perl for easy customization and expansion.
AweMUD 0.1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119169/
AweMUD is a MUD server for use with fantasy-settings. Features include skill-based character development, fully dynamic objects and characters, and custom worlds. The engine will eventually have completely interactive rooms (items can be placed under benches, doors can be destroyed), complex magick, and interactive NPCs.
Background Buddy 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119170/
BackgroundBuddy is an automatic wallpaper changer for GNOME 2.x, FluxBox, WindowMaker, and XFCE that supports multiple directories as well as subdirectories in those multiple directories and runs as a daemon.
backup2l 1.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119085/
backup2l is a command line tool for generating, maintaining, and restoring backups on a mountable file system. The main design goals are low maintenance effort, efficiency, transparency, and robustness. In a default installation, backups are created autonomously by a cron script. It supports hierarchical differential backups with a userspecified number of levels and backups per level.
Bauk PI 1.69 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119082/
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.
bengsaver 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119059/
bengsaver is a screensaver for KDE. It shows bouncing balls or bee swarms, with collision detection.
Bernhard's Bootable Linux CD 0.7.7 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/119070/
BBLCD is a toolkit which allows you to build your own bootable Linux CDs. It copies everything from a "master" to the CD-ROM. It is independent of the distribution you use as a master.
Bewm Background 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119033/
Bewm Background features a CG chick and nuclear weaponry.
Big Faceless Report Generator 1.1.6 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/119073/
The Big Faceless Report Generator is a Java component for creating PDF reports from XML. The Extended Edition includes a PDF reader for importing & editing functionality. Using JSP, ASP, XSL, or similar, creating dynamic PDF documents directly from a database is now as easy as HTML. It supports digital signatures, TIFF, Unicode, spot and calibrated color, CSS2 stylesheets, float positioning, form fields, JavaScript, tables, HTML-style syntax, hyperlinks, graphs and charts, TrueType and Type1 fonts, encryption/password protection, OCR support, and barcodes.
Broccoli18 PIC18F Programmer 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119181/
Broccoli18 is a suite of programming tools for the PIC 18F series of microcontrollers made by Microchip. Features include ability to read and write code memory, data EEPROM, ID bytes, and configuration word. A simple circuit connecting the PIC to the PC parallel port is required.
Bulb for K-Jofol 0.1-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118994/
Bulb for K-Jofol is a K-Jofol theme.
clo++ 0.6.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119167/
clo++ is a command line option parser generator. Given an XML file that contains a description of your program and its options, clo++ can generate code to parse its command line. In addition to code generation, clo++ can also generate man pages. Other languages and output formats can easily be added because clo++ generates its output using templates.
Coriander 0.29 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119096/
Coriander is a GUI that let you control your 1394 digital video camera interactively. It features SDL display, FTP image posting, file saving, and Real streaming. It is for IIDC cameras, not for consumer grade DV cameras.
CourseForum 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119090/
CourseForum provides a painless, straightforward and flexible solution for posting and sharing course materials, class discussions, and student collaboration. It can be used for lecture notes, Q&A, class discussions, research, student portfolios, projects, and more. The easy Web browser interface and quick installation lets you get started in minutes, and everyone can easily create, read, and contribute.
cpufreq daemon 1.0-beta1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119111/
cpufreqd is meant to be a replacement of the speedstep applet you can find in Windows. It monitors battery level, AC state, and running programs and adjusts the frequency governor according to a set of rules specified in the config file.
Cute PHP Library 0.42
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119122/
Cute PHP library is a small collection of classes for PHP. The purpose of the classes is to simplify functions for daily work with PHP (e.g. conversions, formatting, DB session, and so on).
DKMS 0.25.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119147/
DKMS (Dynamic Kernel Module Support) is a framework where device driver source can reside outside the kernel source tree so that it is very easy to rebuild modules as you upgrade kernels. This allows Linux vendors to provide driver drops without having to wait for new kernel releases (as a stopgap before the code can make it back into the kernel), while also taking out the guesswork for customers attempting to recompile modules for new kernels. For veteran Linux users it also provides some advantages since a separate framework for driver drops will remove kernel releases as a blocking mechanism for distributing code.
Drall 1.11.2.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119161/
Drall is a script which allows users to access their directories and files remotely without the need of using insecure FTP and telnet. It enables the user to treat the remote file system as if it was on their local hard disk through a normal Web browser. The interface resembles the well known Norton Commander and Midnight Commander. Single or dual-panel views makes it easy to see an overview of the file system and the modular design means you only use the features you need. Drall is written in Perl for easy customization and expansion.
Drumpiler 0.9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119152/
Drumpiler is a drum machine compiler. You write in a textfile the drum
patterns to be played and a list of wave files to be used as samples.
It features subroutine calls, loops, tempo changes, 8 volume levels,
and 16bit-stereo-44khz mixing. You can output through a file, OSS, or
SDL.
ELOG Electronic Web Logbook 2.3.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119063/
ELOG Electronic Web Logbook is an electronic logbook with a Web interface. It can be used to maintain personal or shared logbooks, with the ability to add attachments to logbook pages. Logbook entries can be categorized with user-defined classes, and queried using filters on these classes. Automatic email notifications can be generated on new entries based on the classes. The ELOG server is a small stand-alone C program, which runs under Linux and Windows. The logbooks are saved in plain ASCII files for easy and fast access.
eXist 0.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119061/
eXist is an XML database with pluggable storage backends and support for fulltext search. XML is stored in the internal, native XML-DB or in an external RDBMS. The search engine has been designed to provide fast XPath queries, using indexes for all element, text, and attribute nodes. eXist is lightweight and well-suited for large document collections. The server is accessible through easy-to-use HTTP and XML-RPC interfaces and supports the XML:DB API for Java programming.
g3data 1.2.2 (GTK-2.0)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119080/
g3data is a program for extracting data from graphs (i.e., scanned graphs from scientific publications). It can read many different image formats and outputs the extracted data through stdout or to a file.
GiNaC 1.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119107/
GiNaC (GiNaC is Not a CAS (Computer Algebra System)) is a C++ library for symbolic calculations. It is designed to allow the creation of integrated systems that embed symbolic manipulations together with more established areas of computer science (like computation-intense numeric applications, graphical interfaces, etc.). Contrary to other CASes it does not try to provide extensive algebraic capabilities and a simple programming language but instead accepts a given language (C++) and extends it by a set of algebraic capabilities.
Glub Tech Secure FTP 2.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119108/
Glub Tech Secure FTP is a command-line utility that allows FTP connections to be made using SSL.
Gnome Swallow 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119140/
Gnome Swallow is a GNOME 2 implementation of a very useful feature of the orignal GNOME panel--the ability to "swallow" other programs, to embed small applications in the panel even if the application was not specifically written for GNOME.
GNU TeXmacs 1.0.1.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119060/
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.
IlohaMail 0.8.7 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119121/
IlohaMail is a lightweight, multilingual Webmail client that is easy to
use and install. It runs on a stock build of PHP, and does not require
databases (although database support is available) or the IMAP library
(it is powered by a custom IMAP/POP3 library). It supports all
essential functionality, including a full contacts list and a user
customizable interface. Other features include support for multiple
domains (virtual hosts), built-in spam prevention, and activity
logging.
InterAKT QuB 1.1.5 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118850/
InterAKT QuB is a DHTML query builder which centralizes the SQL queries in a single repository and provides a graphical interface for editing queries. It functions similarly to Microsoft Access Query Builder, and requires no advanced SQL knowledge, allowing even non-expert programmers to create complex queries.
Inti-GConf 1.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119094/
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.
ISMail 1.0b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119119/
ISMail is a Webmail system that is programmed in PHP, makes heavy use of Javascript/DOM, and is designed to work with any imap server. ISMail aims to be quick and easy to use. The layout, complete with address book and folder options, is relatively simple and familiar to most users.
Jabber Gadu-Gadu Transport 1.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119093/
The Jabber Gadu-Gadu transport provides Gadu-Gadu protocol support
(which is a very popular proprietary instant messaging protocol in
Poland).
jConfigXML 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119055/
jConfigXML is a configuration manager written in Java that works with XML files and a URL or LDAP repository to read the configuration properties. It supports a two-level hierarchical structure which includes categories.
JiNN 0.5.2pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119176/
JiNN is a contentmanager for phpGroupWare. It's a multi-site, multi-database, multi-user, multi-group, database driven contentmanager written in and for the phpGroupWare Framework. JiNN makes it possible to have a lot of site databases moderated by a lot of people. Access rights are asigned at table-level and every site can have one or more site-administrators. JiNN is a very useful tool for Web developers who need to setup a contentmanager for their frontend product. It allows you to setup a nice idiot-proof interface for a complex database design within minutes. It has only been tested with MySQL, but because it only uses the phpGW-API database calls, it should be able to work with PostgreSQL too.
JMP 0.29
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119131/
Java Memory Profiler (JMP) uses the JVMPI interface to track objects and method times in the JVM (Java Virtual Machine). It uses a GTK+ interface to display statistics. The current instance count and the total amount of memory for each class is shown as is the total time spent in each method.
JrAdmin 0.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119123/
JrAdmin is a GTK-Perl frontend to system management. The project is aimed at providing a secure solution for managing large numbers of machines. All funtions are executed via SSH through Expect commands using RSA/DSA root keys.
kavi2svcd 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119124/
kavi2svcd is a GUI for generating MPEG files from an AVI file using transcode and mplex. It then generates a Video CD image using vcdimager and burns to CD with cdrdao. It can generate m1v, m2v, and mpa files, multiplex the MPEG file, generate cue and bin files, and allows the generated command lines to be edited before executing them.
Kernel TCP Virtual Server 0.0.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119079/
Kernel TCP Virtual Server is a Layer-7 switching software in the Linux
Virtual Server framework. It can do application-level load balancing
(such as content-based scheduling) inside the Linux kernel. The reason
for implementing it inside the kernel is to avoid the overhead of
context switching and memory copying between user-space and
kernel-space. Although the its scalability is lower than that of IPVS
(IP Virtual Server), it is flexible, because the content of the request
is known before the request is redirected to the real server.
Kodos 1.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119159/
Kodos is a regular expression designer, tester, debugger, and validator that allows a developer to create and modify regular expressions against a test string. The intuitive interface allows the developer the ability to modify the regular expression (regex) and to see the effects against their test string in real-time.
LaunchBar 3.2.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119064/
LaunchBar provides lightning fast access to thousands of files, Web bookmarks, email addresses, and applications just by entering short abbreviations. The set of items and their corresponding abbreviations don't need to be configured manually, as a powerful, adaptive abbreviation search algorithm is used to index any thinkable abbreviation of the item. A system-wide hotkey makes LaunchBar easily accessible across the whole platform.
Levenshtein 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119175/
Levenschtein is a Python C extension and C libray to compute Levenshtein string distance, string similarity, normal and generalized string set medians, and other related quantities.
liboop 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119153/
Liboop provides a generic, callback-based event dispatch interface, and aims to ease the development of multiplexed, non-blocking, event-driven modular applications, components, and libraries under POSIX-based operating systems. It includes adapters for select(), poll(), the glib event loop, the TCL event loop, the W3C libwww, asynchronous DNS, and GNU readline.
Linbox Backup Server 20030408
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119068/
The Linbox Backup Server (LBS) is a server that, for client PCs, saves hard-disk images on a network server, restores, deploys one image, and keeps a hardware inventory. All that is needed on the client PC is a PXE or an Etherboot compatible network card for network booting. The LBS can be managed from any PC through a Web-based administration interface. The following filesystems are currently supported: EXT2/3, ReiserFS, NTFS, FAT.
Metadot Portal Server 5.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119143/
Metadot Portal Server is point-and-click Web site building software. It features content management, collaboration, and a dashboard like My Yahoo!'s.
monotone 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119102/
monotone is a distributed version control system with a flat peer model, cryptographic version naming, meta-data certificates, decentralized authority, and overlapping branches. It works out of a transactional version database stored in a regular file. Network communication is mediated via netnews.
Multi-Simulation Interface 0.8.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119017/
The Multi-Simulator Interface (MSI) is a simulation interconnection engine. It connects simulations by synchronizing their clocks and data. It is an HLA alternative.
multitail 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119116/
multitail lets you view one or multiple files like the original tail
program. The difference is that this program creates multiple windows
on your console (with ncurses). It can also use colors while displaying
the logfiles for faster recognizing which lines are important and which
are not. It is optimized for terminal-sessions through slow links
(compared to 'that other' multi-tail).
myperl 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119179/
myperl allows you to execute Perl from inside of MySQL. It can either be stored in a row, or it can be specified in your SQL statement. You also can select other columns which will be passed to Perl.
MyXML UDF 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119180/
MyXML is a UDF extension to the MySQL database. It provides a set of utilities to make generating XML from the database a simple task. It provides routines to encode XML, create tags, and return entire queries in XML.
Natural Language Processing Toolkit 0.1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/119100/
Natural Language Processing Toolkit is part of the Traduki Machine Translation Project. It provides a basic framework for working with Natural Language Processing, like tokens structures, regular expression parsing, string comparison by similarity, Unicode functions, etc. Although initially developed for machine translation purposes, it can be used in many different fields, such as spam filtering and text adventure games.
NBASE 4.0 4.0 Prerelease 0.4 (Snapshot 20030409) http://freshmeat.net/releases/119069/
NBASE is a set of standard libraries for rapid development in C++. The libraries include string manipulation and parsing, file I/O, networking, threading, a wide array of data structures, and an object management system.
newfile 1.0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119104/
newfile generates "starting-out" files using a full featured template preprocessor. It can also generate trees of files, for example, a FreeBSD port or a project using automake and autoconf. A user can add their own template files and directories to those supplied with the package. It includes templates for making "empty" files for Ruby, make, shell, C, C++, C & C++ headers, and more.
newsstar 0.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119133/
Newsstar fetches news and posts it to a local news server: INN, s-news, and sn are supported. What makes newsstar special is that it can make multiple simultaneous connections, not only to one server, but to several, supporting up to 10 "threads". Before fetching each article, it checks that it hasn't already been downloaded by another thread or in a previous session. It can also "pipeline" article requests to make better use of available bandwidth.
Not A Commander 1.0-SNAP-030408
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119103/
Not A Commander is yet another file manager modeled after the Norton Commander. Good integration with the command line is the primary goal.
OpenFrame 0.6 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119155/
OpenFrame an extensible, complete, and portable framework for J2EE portal applications, providing APIs and ready-to-use tools for page definitions, portlets, user management, content management, collaboration, and community services.
OZradio 0.7.1 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119081/
OZradio is a Linux FM radio player for KDE and GNOME. It supports BTTV-compatible FM and TV cards. It features the ability to save up to 10 preset stations, a volume control, a mute button, automatic frequency scanning, on-demand recording and replay of radio, and programable recording.
Peinture Le Jeu 1.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119083/
Peinture is an small arcade network game for Linux and other Unix-like systems. This game is based on a 3D display system which is portable, simple, and efficient. The network protocol allows real time playing over a LAN or the Internet.
Penguin Greetings 0.8.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119095/
Penguin Greetings is a Perl CGI application to implement Internet greeting cards on Linux and other Unix-based systems. It includes a complete ecard Website with 20+ cards for users who want a "plug and play" ecards solution. It is intended to make ecards more like email by using multipart MIME email and including message text. The HTML for the cards and the creation screens are stored in templates so that users can completely customize the look of the program. Penguin Greetings incorporates EmbPerl so that full Perl expressions can be incorporated in to templates for server-side processing. Access to the card creation functions can be optionally restricted to users in an htpasswd file to avoid giving world wide access to your server. The emailing function and data storage are carried out by a separate daemon program which allows for cards to be mailed on specific dates and improves security and logging. Extensive documentation is provided as well an example Website that make full use of the EmbPerl scripting capabilities.
PennMUSH 1.7.6p9 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119130/
PennMUSH is a MUD server that is often used for running social or role-playing games, with an extensive internal programming language. It runs on Unix systems, Windows, and MacOS.
PennMUSH 1.7.7p13 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119134/
PennMUSH is a MUD server that is often used for running social or role-playing games, with an extensive internal programming language. It runs on Unix systems, Windows, and MacOS.
Petal (TAL for Perl) 0.91
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119178/
Petal (TAL for Perl) is a Perl implementation of Zope's TAL (Template Attribute Language) specification. TAL lets you write elegant, WYSIWYG-friendly XML/XHTML templates simply by adding prefixed attributes to your XML/XHTML files. In addition, Petal will compile your templates into Perl subroutines which are kept in memory under persistent mod_perl-like environments, providing a friendly speed boost.
PhotoPnMTools 1.2.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119149/
PhotoPnMTools is a simple toolkit for processing photographic images using improved algorithms. It is based on Poskanzer's PPM toolkit. It contains resizing, sharpening, and contrast / saturation / color balance filters. There is an interactive tool for cropping and color editing, and a tool for making Web albums.
PolarViewer 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119141/
PolarViewer is a viewer application for exercise files recorded with Polar heartrate monitors (S710 and S610). It displays all of the recorded exercise data (except power) and creates diagrams. It is written in C# using the Gtk# toolkit.
Pollex 0.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119077/
Pollex (Latin 'thumb') is a Perl script that works in conjunction with VirtualDub to generate thumbnails for the movies installed within Gallery-based photo albums.
ProjectForum 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119091/
Easier to use and more interactive than conventional forum, collaboration, or intranet software, ProjectForum lets you build an intranet or project site where everyone can actively and directly contribute, without complex software or a full-time administrator getting in the way. It can be used for project planning, task assignments, meeting notes, team discussions, research, brainstorming, and more.
PSP Timelog 7.24
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119136/
Timelog is an application to record and analyze time logged to a project. It is designed to support the Personal Software Process (PSP). The Personal Software Process was developed at the Software Engineering Institute of the Carnegie Mellon University by Watts S. Humphrey to support the individual programmer to reach a structured and scientific work process. The goal of the PSP is to enhance the quality and predictability of the developers work and work products.
pyD20 0.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118940/
pyD20 is a combat manager meant to be used by a DM while playing the D20/DND3e role-playing game. Its features include a pyGTK2/Glade interface, the ability to track combatants, initiatives, and HP, the ability to reassign initiatives during combat, and the ability to add or remove combatants during combat. pyD20 is designed to be simple for the DM to use.
pyDDR 0.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119056/
PyDDR is a clone of DDR ("Dance Dance Revolution") written in Python. The idea of DDR is simple. There's a mat with four directional arrows, and the game scrolls arrows up the screen to the beat while playing a song. When the arrows reach the top of the screen (not sooner and not later), the player hits the corresponding arrow on the pad, and given that it's hit on time with the beat, points are scored. Based on how well the dance is put together, s/he is graded at the end of the song. Both keyboard and mat play are supported.
ratpoison 1.2.0-beta3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119172/
Ratpoison is a simple window manager with no large library dependencies, no fancy graphics, no window decorations, and no rodent dependence. It is largely modeled after GNU Screen, which has done wonders in the virtual terminal market. All interaction with the window manager is done through keystrokes. ratpoison has a prefix map to minimize the key clobbering that cripples EMACS and other quality pieces of software. All windows are maximized and kept maximized to avoid wasting precious screen space.
Rubber 0.99.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119115/
Rubber is a building system for LaTeX documents. It is based on a routine that runs just as many compilations as necessary. The module system provides a great flexibility that virtually allows support for any package with no user intervention, as well as pre- and post-processing of the document. The standard modules currently provide support for bibtex, dvips, pdftex, makeindex, cweb, and graphics/graphicx, currently with automatic epstopdf and fig2dev (for XFig figures) conversion and Metapost compilation.
SAP DB 7.3.00.34 (Maintenance)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119110/
SAP DB is an open, SQL-based, relational database management system that provides high availability and performance scaling from small to very large implementations. It supports open standards including SQL, JDBC and ODBC, as well as access from Perl, Python, and PHP. SAP DB is platform independent, so users can deploy it for a wide array of projects.
sawfish 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119066/
Sawfish (the window manager formerly known as Sawmill) is an extensible window manager using a Lisp-based extension language. All window decorations are configurable and all user-interface policy is controlled through the language. Its aim is to manage windows in the most flexible and attractive manner possible. As such it does not implement desktop backgrounds, application docks, or other things that may be achieved through separate applications. Sawfish is mostly GNOME-compliant; almost all configuration may be made through a graphical interface.
Secure FTP Bean 2.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119109/
The Secure FTP Bean allows FTP connections to be made over SSL, including both implicit and explicit SSL connections, and passive and active data transfers with or without encryption.
SecurID authentication for OpenSSH 3.6.1p1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/119128/
SecurID authentication for OpenSSH is done as a patch for the official portable release of OpenSSH. It is done as keyboard-interactive authentication and securid-1@ssh.com authentication (a non-standard solution provided in commercial implementations from F-Secure and SSH). All SecurID token states are covered (Next token code and New PIN).
Sessionara 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119118/
Sessionara is a session-based data environment with MySQL. This class enables you to open a virtual session (identified by an unique session ID), then set and access variables in this environment. If you pass the session ID within multiple pages (via GET/POST parameters), then you get an easy and powerful way to pass values between various pages. The class also includes good string functions and brings session handling together with some nice database functions. It enables you to query the MySQL server one time, store the entire result rows in the session, and then loop through your records inside the class without fetching the same content from MySQL again.
SheetPages 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119174/
SheetPages provides a simple HTML frontend for complex spreadsheets on Java-enabled operating systems. With the template deployed in a Java Server Page (JSP), spreadsheets can be made available either in view or update mode for multiple users.
SKYRiX ZideStore Server 0.9.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119177/
The SKYRiX ZideStore server is a native client integration server for the SKYRiX groupware. Users can access the contact, appointment, and task database using Outlook, Evolution and almost any iCalendar compatible client (for example Apple iCal or Mozilla Calendar).
Slack Black 1.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/118907/
Slack Black is a theme which blends together.
SlackCheck 2.40
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119101/
SlackCheck allows users to keep many Slackware machines up to date with the latest packages. All upgrades are performed from single machine though SSH (or RSH). It generates an upgrade script and list of non-standard packages for every machine.
SlideServlet 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119058/
SlideServlet is a Java servlet that allows you to share documents.
snapshot 1.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119057/