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[osdn everything] April 12, 2003
Date: Sat Apr 12 2003 - 04:45:27 EDT
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Slashdot
AOL Tests Video Instant Messaging
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/11/2053200
An anonymous coward writes "AOL, which only last week asked the FCC to
forget about some of those mandatory restrictions put into place in
order to clear its merger with Time Warner, apparently isn't wasting
any time. In a move that circumvents government-imposed limitations on
"advanced" multimedia services, [0]Instant Messaging Planet is
[1]reporting that AOL has already started beta testing video messaging
services with "push-to-talk" and "record-and-forward" features."
Links
0. http://www.instantmessagingplanet.com/
"Case Modding" a Nissan Sentra
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/11/2045230
[0]Lawrence Person writes "Given all the interest Slashdot has shown in
casemodding as of late, I thought they might be interested in [1]an
extreme "casemod" of a Nissan Sentra, turning it into a lean, mean race
machine! Emphasis on the lean part..."
Links
0. http://www.io.com/~lawrence/
Anachronox Movie Finished
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/11/2039244
[0]Sim9 writes "Recently, [1]Anachronox: The Movie released its final
episode. The movie is based on the PC game, and is actually rendered
using the Quake II engine! (Note that the official mirror is usually
full, so also try: [2]Fileplanet, [3]The Archive, [4]AusGamers, and
[5]Fileshack. Enjoy!" Update: 04/12 04:58 GMT by [6]T: You can also
find BitTorrent files at [7]f.scarywater.net.
Links
0.
http://sim9 *AT* htmod *DOT* com
1.
http://www.machinima.com/displayarticle2.php?article=322
2.
http://www.fileplanet.com/section.aspx?s=78596&v=0
3.
http://editingarchive.com/viewsection.php?section=Misc&topic=Art
4.
http://www.ausgamers.com/files/browsegame/html/6/87
5.
http://www.fileshack.com/browse.x?type=4
6.
http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
7.
http://f.scarywater.net/
Braille PDA/Phone
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/11/1920244
awtbfb writes "ALVA B.V. has released details on their [0]Mobile Phone
Organizer 5500. This combination tri-band GSM phone and Windows CE.net
PDA does not yet include GPRS, but it is supposedly [1]in the works.
Release dates are [2]this summer. It's only been a year since this was
requested in [3]askslashdot."
Links
0.
http://www.alvabraille.com/MPO/default.asp
1.
http://www.alvabraille.com/MPO/mpo_facts.asp
2.
http://www.alvabraille.com/News/News.asp?1047827071
3.
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/19/0042246&tid=126Wired on Hollywood's Elite Message Boards http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/11/1825223
[0]superflippy writes "[1] Wired journalist Ben Mezrich gets [2]the
scoop on the online forums that film producers and other Hollywood
heavyweights use to "track" the buzz on spec scripts, actors, writers,
etc. "The tracking boards are the herd mentality gone digital," says
one tracker. This helps explain how dreck like Kangaroo Jack makes it
to theaters."
Links
0.
http://www.superflippy.net
1.
http://www.wired.com/
2.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.05/hollywood.html
Tiny RC Tanks That Fight
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/11/1812213
[0]Daniel Rutter writes "I've just [1]reviewed a couple of Konami's
[2]Combat DigiQs - tiny little remote controlled tanks that can shoot
each other. You can stage a two-, three- or four-tank battle, every
tank for himself or in teams of two, on a coffee table. They rock."
Links
0. mailto:dan@dansdata.com
1.
http://www.dansdata.com/digiqtanks.htm
2.
http://www.micro-ir.com/combat/index.html
Indies Blossoming Despite RIAA
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/11/188205
Shadow Wrought writes "We have all read the numerous [0]RIAA articles on Slashdot, not to mention scores of other [1]articles that discuss the industry's purported demise. An article at the Christian Science Monitor calls this assumption into question by pointing to the success that Indie Labels are [2]beginning to enjoy. An interesting read and one that provides pretty good support against the RIAA's argument that a [3]quartet of college students is responsible for their troubles." Links
0.
http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=RIAA&op=stories&author=&tid=§ion=&sort=1
1.
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=RIAA&btnG=Search+News
2.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0411/p13s02-almp.html
3.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58340,00.html
D-Link DVC-1000 Videophone Review
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/11/1738206
Milton Linkle writes "One of the first [0]H.323 compliant videophones,
that doesn't require a PC, is slowly but surely making it's rounds.
[1]This review provides a very good overview of the product, and even
includes a few video caps of the device in action. If this product, or
others like it eventually take off, we may get to a point where we no
longer have a need for [2]traditional telephones."
Links
0.
http://www.dlink.com/products/multimedia/dvc1000/
1.
http://www.littlewhitedog.com/reviews_hardware_00043.asp
2.
http://www.att.com/Intel's Anti-Overclocking Technology Simplified http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/11/175242
[0]John Thorensen writes "Found a [1]fantastic article on Intel's
recent Anti-Overclocking patent at [2]Fastsilicon.com. Worth the read,
as it also explains some of the technical and ethical issues of
overclocking. Good to see that some tech journalists can still write
material understandable by an average person."
Links
0. mailto:jthorensen@cfswebmail.com
1.
http://www.fastsilicon.com/showarticle.php?a=22
2.
http://www.fastsilicon.com/World's First Encyclopedia of Future Inventions http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/11/174228
[0]Deb Hellman writes "WIRED Magazine Writers, [1]Cory Doctorow and Wil
McCarthy, have joined VC Rick Patch and 2 futurists to judge the
[2]Immortalizer Technologies Project - a project designed to uncover a
comprehensive list of future inventions. The project is being
spearheaded by a futurist think-tank, the [3]DaVinci Institute. The
goal of the project is to create a compendium of future inventions, a
roadmap of sorts for innovators. They probably won't get it right in
the first edition, but I like how [4]Tom Frey is thinking on this one.
People can submit their ideas and have a future invention named after
themselves. Deadline for submissions is April 30th."
Links
0. mailto:deb@accountworx.com
1.
http://www.immortalizertechnologies.com/immortalizer-technology-judges.php
2.
http://www.immortalizertechnologies.com/immortalizer-technologies-project.php
3.
http://www.davinciinstitute.com/
4.
http://www.davinciinstitute.com/about.php
Freshmeat
acarsd 0.01Beta-1 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119318/
acarsd is the first ACARS decoder for Linux. ACARS stands for Communications Addressing and Reporting System. acarsd tries to decode ACARS transmissions from aircrafts. Some features include Type of Aircraft, Flight, and Operator.
AdaSockets 1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119348/
AdaSockets is a library that lets you use sockets in Ada 95. It supports unicast and multicast sockets, and uses object oriented structures to ease sockets manipulation.
apm.py 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119322/
apm.py provides a uniform and platform-independent interface to APM.
bogofilter 0.11.1.9 (Current)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119354/
Bogofilter is a Bayesian spam filter. In its normal mode of operation, it takes an email message or other text on standard input, does a statistical check against lists of "good" and "bad" words, and returns a status code indicating whether or not the message is spam. Bogofilter is designed with fast algorithms (including Berkeley DB system), coded directly in C, and tuned for speed, so it can be used for production by sites that process a lot of mail.
Bulk Meter Flow and Operations 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119313/
The Bulk Meter Flow and Operations project provides a Web-based application to manage water meter readings.
CacheMate 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119377/
CacheMate is a database for tracking GPS cache hunts. You can store information about caches or benchmarks, decode hints, and transfer data between CacheMate and the MemoPad application.
cgdb 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119359/
cgdb is a lightweight, but fully functional curses frontend to gdb. The goal of cgdb is to be lightweight and responsive, not encumbered with unnecessary features. The interface retains the familiar GDB text-based interface with 100% of the original functionality. The interfaces also provide additional features, such as a source code window, shortcut keys, visual setting of breakpoints, regex searching capabilities, and more.
CMU Common Lisp 18e
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119315/
CMUCL is a free, high performance implementation of the Common Lisp programming language which runs on most major Unix platforms. It mainly conforms to the ANSI Common Lisp standard. CMUCL provides a sophisticated native code compiler; a powerful foreign function interface; an implementation of CLOS; the Common Lisp Object System; which includes multimethods and a metaobject protocol; a source-level debugger and code profiler; and an Emacs-like editor implemented in Common Lisp. CMUCL is maintained by a team of volunteers collaborating over the Internet, and is in the public domain.
CVSps 2.0rc1 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119339/
CVSps is a program for generating 'patchset' information from a CVS repository. A patchset in this case is defined as a set of changes made to a collection of files, and all committed at the same time (using a single 'cvs commit' command). This information is valuable to seeing the big picture of the evolution of a cvs project. CVSps allows you to see history of committed patchsets, restrict by author, date range, files affected, branches affected. CVSps can generate a diff of a given patchset.
DevHelp 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119331/
DevHelp is a developer's help program for GNOME.
Diet Monger Ass Kicker 2003-04-10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119317/
Diet Monger Ass Kicker is a program for designing diets to your own specifications. It allows nutrients and foods to be sorted and foods to be filtered. Calculations are made according to specified minimums and maximums, and using data from SR15.
EchoPoint 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119300/
The EchoPoint project provides a rich collection of Web components which seamlessly integrate with the Echo Web Framework.
EHS 0.9.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119352/
Embedded HTTP Server (EHS) is a C++ class which can be inherited from to give HTTP server functionality to any class or application. It is useful for adding web administration or statistics gathering to a program as, unlike CGI scripts, it features easy access to variables inside your program.
EXACT 1.30
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119309/
EXACT is a program that implements POP Before SMTP Relay Authentication. EXACT supports the University of Washington IMAP server, the Cyrus IMAP server, EXIM and Sendmail. POP Before SMTP Relay Authentication is commonly used on systems that provide both IMAP or POP services and SMTP services, to authenticate users for mail sending based on their previous authentication against an IMAP or POP server.
EXIF-O-Matic 1.1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119356/
EXIF-O-Matic is a Java application that allows EXIF information tags within the images created by digital cameras to be viewed and exported to HTML or text. It is capable of processing folders of images.
FFTW 3.0-beta3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119371/
FFTW is a fast C FFT library. It includes complex, real, symmetric, multidimensional, and parallel transforms, and can handle arbitrary array sizes efficiently.It is typically faster than other freely available FFT implementations, and is even competitive with vendor-tuned libraries (benchmarks are available at the homepage). To achieve this performance, it uses novel code generation and runtime self optimization techniques (along with many other tricks).
FreeMarker 2.2.1 (Lazarus)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119367/
FreeMarker allows Java servlets to keep graphic design separate from application logic, by encapsulating HTML in templates. Templates generate HTML dynamically, using data provided by the servlet. The template language is powerful and intuitive, the compiler is fast, and the output approaches the speed of static HTML pages.
GNU Smalltalk 2.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119303/
GNU Smalltalk is a free implementation of the Smalltalk-80 language.
GrubConf 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119347/
GrubConf is a graphical GRUB configuration editor. It provides an easy to use interface allowing effortless modification of OSes and the flexibility to configure the most obscure options. It is designed to require minimal user interaction while providing tools for the most adventurous user.
GTKtalog 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119375/
GTKtalog is an archiver to store a CD file tree structure. It can be used to easily browse a CD-ROM database. Each disk, folder and file has a size, date, category, description, and content parameter and can be completely edited or deleted. The file search module can do searches on filename, foldername with name, category description, date, filesize, and content parameter. Each filetype has its own icon. It possible to use programs like tar, arj, zip, or scripts to extract information from files to include in the database. Gtktalog can mount, scan, umount, and eject a CD-ROM in the background.
Hardware lister A.01.00
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119319/
lshw (Hardware Lister) is a small tool to provide detailed informaton on the hardware configuration of the machine. It can report exact memory configuration, firmware version, mainboard configuration, CPU version and speed, cache configuration, bus speed, etc.
ISMail 1.0c
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119325/
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.
Issue Manager 0.8.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119355/
The Issue Manager is a simple product for managing (structuring, editing, prioritizing, categorizing) issues. It is primarily used to manage information.
Java Serialization to XML 2 0.8.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119307/
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.
JinSitu 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119369/
JinSitu is an interactive introspection environment for Java and Jython. It includes a JScrapbook for evaluating Jython code and a component for exploring an object tree. As you navigate Java classes and methods, the corresponding javadoc is displayed.
kbarcode 1.2.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119333/
KBarcode is a barcode and label printing application for KDE 3. It can be used to print everything from simple business cards up to complex labels with several barcodes, such as article descriptions. KBarcode comes with an easy-to-use WYSIWYG label designer, a setup wizard, batch import of labels (directly from the delivery note), thousands of predefined labels, database managment tools, and translations in many languages. Even printing more than 10,000 labels in one go is no problem for KBarcode. Additionally, it is a simple xbarcode replacement for the creation of barcodes. All major types of barcodes like EAN, UPC, CODE39, and ISBN are supported.
kcmdhcpd 0.3.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119361/
kcmdhcpd is a configure program for the ISC DHCP-Server for the KDE-project.
Koha 1.9.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119372/
Koha is a library and collection management system. It is designed to manage physical collections of items (books, CDs, videos, reference, etc.). It provides cataloguing, searching, member/patron management, an acqusitions system, and circulation (issues, returns, and reserves). Circulation is handled with a full screen curses interface or a Web-based interface, and the rest of the system is Web-based.
Krename 2.6.0-rc2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119312/
Krename is a very powerful batch file renamer for KDE3 which can rename a list of files based on a set of expressions. It can copy/move the files to another directory or simply rename the input files. Krename supports many conversion operations, including conversion of a filename to lowercase or to uppercase, conversion of the first letter of every word to uppercase, adding numbers to filenames, finding and replacing parts of the filename, and many more. It can also change access and modification dates, permissions, and file ownership.
Languenet 1.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119323/
Languenet is a PHP application originally written for Language departments of Universities, allowing users to register for educational courses online and administrators to manage course data, add grades, print certificates, and more. The whole program is accessible by a simple browser. It is currently only available in German.
libextractor 0.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119360/
libextractor is a library used to extract meta-data from files of arbitrary type. It is designed to use helper-libraries to perform the actual extraction, and to be trivially extendable by linking against external extractors for additional file types. The goal is to provide developers of file-sharing networks or WWW-indexing bots with a universal library to obtain simple keywords to match against queries. libextractor contains a shell-command "extract" that, similar to the well-known "file" command, can extract meta-data from a file an print the results to stdout. Currently, it supports the formats HTML, PDF, PS, MP3, OGG, JPEG, GIF, PNG, RPM, ZIP, Real, QT and ASF. Also, various additional MIME types are detected.
LXRAD 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119353/
LXRAD (Linux X11 Rapid Application Development) is a collection of X11 RAD tools written in C++. It uses its own component library (liblxrad) with components such as button, editbox, menu, etc.
Mah-Jong 1.5.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119358/
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.
MakeDocJ/MakeDocGUI 3.11.0/1.30.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119330/
MakeDocJ and MakeDocGUI make it easier to create PilotDOCs for use on a Palm computer. They allow you to create preset bookmarks.
MP3 STATION alpha1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119341/
MP3 STATION is a plain text Linux/Unix tool set for managing MP3 playback in a car with as little user interaction as possible. It can restart the last playlist at the last played track, transparently load directories, transparently recompile playlists, and keep a repository of all the playlists. It also has a simple ncurses client for comunicating with cm3s. All programs run under a non-privileged user account.
multitail 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119357/
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).
mxflat 0.7.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119316/
mxflat is a theme that was made to match the GTK[1|2]-flat engine. It is quite customizable, but also works very well if you do not adjust anything.
MySQL DBXpress Driver 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119366/
MySQL DBXpress Driver is a MySQL driver for the Borland DBXpress architecture. It is based on the original source released by Borland as part of FreeCLX.
O3 Build 1041
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119285/
O3 is a mail system (SMTP and POP4) that implements POP 4, a mail protocol that is fully backwards-compatible with POP3 but adds some additional functionality to the server side to enable mail clients to have a lot more control of the server-side mailbox.
ObexFTP 0.10.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119314/
ObexFTP enables you to access the memory of your mobile device. It is confirmed to work well with Siemens S45/ME45 and similar mobile phones. You may access the Flex Memory on Siemens mobile equipment via IrDA or serial connection.
Octave 2.1.35.1 (OctaveFront)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119302/
Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides a convenient command line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and for performing other numerical experiments. It may also be used as a batch-oriented language.
Open Lending Database Project 0.60
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119320/
The Open Lending Database project (OpenDb) is an extremely flexible application to catalogue all sorts of things including DVD, VCD, CD, VHS, games, books, and Laser Discs. Anything that you can collect and lend, you can catalogue with this system. The OpenDb allows you to add new types by describing them in system database tables designed for the purpose.
Open-DVB 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119301/
Open-DVB is an open implementation of digital video broadcasting (DVB) distributed under the BSD license. The purpose of this application is to serve as a benchmark for the MOUSE compiler system.
Open3SP 0.0.1 Alpha
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119335/
Open3SP is a system administration framework which provides a secure administrative infrastructure based on the SSH protocol. The aims of the project are to establish platform-independent role-based access, automated configuration, and software/patch deployment. The Open3SP Framework Server enables the administrator to create a hierarchy of organizational units/systems and a set of users/roles to enforce access policy. User access configuration to the SSH servers is automated, with both OpenSSH and SSH2 standardized server implementations supported. The server itself is an SSH server and is accessible from any standard SSH client which supports keyboard-interactive authentication. Once connected, the Open3SP interactive shell provides commands to manage organizational units, systems, users, and their roles; additionally, the shell provides single-sign-on shell access to all the managed systems.
osx2x 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119342/
osx2x allows the user to control a remote X11 display from a MacOS X machine, similar to x2x. The tool simply captures mouse and keyboard events on your Mac and sends them to a specified X server.
phpAssistant 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119345/
phpAssistant is a Web-based personal assistant system. It supports a diary (for writing down meetings with date, time, people, and description) and a phonebook (for names, email addresses, and phone numbers).
PHPlist 2.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119343/
PHPlist is a mailing list system that allows posting via a Web page. It works well when used for announcements, and can handle very large email address lists. Users can sign up to multiple lists, but will only receive a single copy of cross-posted messages. When signing up, users can identify their geographical location, and messages can be targetted to these. You can add place holders in your email that will be replaced with personal details (such as the person's name). Users can update their own information, and unlike many other mailing list systems, they can change their email address. HTML emails are supported.
phpVideoPro 0.4.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119332/
phpVideoPro is a program to manage your collection of DVDs, Video CDs, and video tapes. It stores all data in a database, and provides you with features for adding/changing entries, displaying lists, printing labels and lists, and more. An online help system is built-in to guide you when necessary. Support for multiple languages is provided (English, German, French, Polish, Bulgarian, Swedish, etc.), and supported databases include MySQL and PostgreSQL.
PicoGUI 0.45 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119368/
PicoGUI aims to be a complete GUI environment for handheld computers and other embedded systems. It uses a client/server model, like the X window system, but while an X server is given raw drawing commands, the PicoGUI server integrates a widget set, making PicoGUI clients small and efficient. PicoGUI also has the goal of allowing client/server connections over a variety of mechanisms. It is most commonly used with Linux, but is designed to be portable to any OS. PicoGUI has a variety of video and input drivers which allow it to interface with the Linux framebuffer device, SDL, the X window system, and several other devices.
Project LRNJ: Slime Forest 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119351/
The goal of Project LRNJ is to create an entertaining console-style RPG which teaches Japanese. Slime Forest is the first release: a demo of the battle system using graphics from the upcoming katakana adventure and a training set of 1000 kanji. Its main purpose is to gather data and feedback on compatibility and effectiveness.
Project Steve Guttenberg 1.8.0-rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119328/
Project Steve Guttenberg is a PHP-driven diary/journal/blogging application that integrates seamlessly into an existing Web site. It provides many of the core features (including comments, archives, searching, and an RDF feed) and administrative controls (all Web-based) of other, larger systems, but doesn't use a database, is XHTML 1.0-compliant and its look can be completely customised via CSS. It can easily be scaled to host several journal sites with a single installation.
prometeo 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119327/
Prometeo is a modular, extensible proxy. It supports HTTP, FTP (with SSL support), and SSL modules. Modules can be added or removed at runtime and everything can be configured through a Web interface.
PTlink IRCd 6.14.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119363/
The PTlink IRC daemon integrates some of the most advanced features needed to manage an IRC network into the stable core from Hybrid IRCd. It is fully integrated with PTlink IRC Services and PTlink Open Proxy Monitor, providing a great platform for anyone starting an IRC network.
Python-LDAP 2.0.0pre08
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119340/
python-ldap provides an object-oriented API to access LDAP directory servers from Python programs. It wraps the OpenLDAP 2.x libs for that purpose.
regex-markup 0.9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119344/
Regex-markup performs regular expression-based text markup according to used-defined rules. This can be used to color syslog files as well as the output of programs such as ping, traceroute, gcc, etc. The hierarchal rules-format is simple to understand, yet very powerful. Regex-markup is written entirely in C, and uses POSIX regular expressions to do much of its work.
rssh 2.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119376/
rssh is a small shell that provides the ability for system administrators to give specific users access to a given system via scp or sftp only.
Samsung Contact 8.0.2 (Server)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119326/
Samsung Contact is Samsung SDS's Linux/Unix unified communication, business messaging, and collaboration system. It supports desktops running Microsoft Outlook, including support for calendaring, wide-area scheduling, public folders, and delegation.
sed 4.0.7 (GNU Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119304/
Sed, the GNU Stream Editor, copies the named files (standard input default) to the standard output, edited according to a script of commands.
SIDPlayer 4.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119373/
SIDPlayer is a replayer program for C64 music (SID tunes), running under BeOS and Unix. You can think of it as being a stripped-down C64 emulator that only emulates the CPU and the sound chip of the C64. SIDPlayer can be used as a stand-alone player or, under BeOS, as a plug-in for CL-Amp and SoundPlay.
Simple Cyrus Administration Tool 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119306/
Simple Cyrus Administration Tool is a shell script which helps the user to administer a Cyrus mail system. It features easy user creation, deletion, and password changing. For Postfix fans, the script can also be used to add aliases to a Cyrus user.
SiTE 1.1.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119338/
SiTE is a fast, lightweight Java template engine which cleanly separates presentation from application code. It parses any text-based template and creates a structured document representation that enables an application to change the template's contents at runtime without regard to its format.
SolAce Server 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119297/
SolAce Server is a secure and reliable messaging server which supports point-to-point and hub-and-spoke topologies. It can securely transfer EDI and other types of files over any IP-based network without VPNs or other software. The protocol is based on concepts in IETF's AS2 protocol, including features such as signed and authenticated receipts. A Web interface serves as an administration and mailbox portal to let users maintain their own mailboxes and files. SolAce Server was designed for the proposed HIPAA Security Rule, which was stricter than the final rule.
Stellarium 0.5.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119324/
Stellarium renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It displays stars, constellations, planets, nebulas and others things like ground, landscape, fog, etc.
Survival of the Fittest 3.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119350/
Survival of the Fittest is a post-apocalypse Web- based RPG based the paper and dice role-playing game deadEarth. This package comes with everything you need to get up and running with your own SotF server.
Syslinux 2.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119299/
SYSLINUX is a boot loader for the Linux operating system which operates off of MS-DOS floppies. It is intended to simplify first-time installation of Linux, rescue disks, and other uses for boot floppies. A SYSLINUX floppy can be manipulated using standard MS-DOS (or any other OS that can access an MS-DOS filesystem) tools once it has been created, and requires only a ~ 9K DOS program or ~ 18K Linux program to create it in the first place. It also includes PXELINUX, a program to boot off a network server using a boot PROM compatible with the Intel PXE (Pre-Execution Environment) specification, ISOLINUX, a program to boot off ISO 9660 CD-ROMs in native mode, and MEMDISK, a tool to boot legacy operating systems (e.g. DOS) using a Linux boot loader regardless of medium.
The ELF shell 0.5b6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119336/
The ELF Shell is an interactive and scriptable reverse engineering tool with advanced read/write capabilities for the ELF format. It provides high disasm/resolving dumps for x86 binaries and comes with both libasm and libelfsh, so the API is reusable. It includes module support, Section injection by top, experimental ET_EXEC relocator and remapping features, 250 API calls, and much more.
TinyButStrong 1.64
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119310/
TinyButStrong is a template class for PHP that allows you to generate HTML pages using MySQL, ODBC, SQL Server, or ADODB databases. It is possible to design templates using any visual HTML editor (like Dreamweaver or FrontPage). It features simple block management, useful display formats, conditional displaying for blocks and locators, a cache system, and the ability to include other HTML pages and execute associated scripts.
uSTL 0.2-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119370/
uSTL is a partial implementation of the Standard Template Library which reduces code size by factoring memory management code into a non-template base class and deriving containers from it.
Wheel 'O Yum 2.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119334/
The Wheel 'O Yum is a program to assist in deciding where to eat. All too often, excess time is spent among groups trying to decide. The Wheel 'O Yum allows one or more people to vote on their favorite restaurants and spin the wheel for a random, but educated, restaurant.
wmblob 0.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119362/
wmblob is a useless program which shows moving blobs. It is a nice dockapp for Window Maker and it may run with other window mangers.
Wodan Caching Proxy 1.0RC1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119329/
Wodan is an Apache module for reverse proxying and caching of sites. It allows the backend server to determine how pages should be cached through a custom HTTP header, which makes it very flexible. It caches on the local filesystem, which makes it very easy to create custom purging systems. Expiration of cachefiles is also supported, as well as no-caching options.
yappa-ng 1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119374/
yappa-ng is an easy to use online PHP photo gallery. It has a comfortable and elaborate album-oriented photo album administration Web interface. Each picture can be viewed in many different sizes with resizing created automatically on the fly. It has complete user selectable language support, and supports password protected albums, hit counters for albums and images, album info, image captions, gallery overview, different themes, and a 'Top 10 images' ranking system for each photo album.
yappa2 3.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119349/
yappa stands for "Yet Another Php Photo Album." It features generation of thumbnails, php3/4 pages for viewing and adding comments, and creation of comments for each series of photos. Administration is fully Web based, but console access is available too.
ZoneMinder 0.9.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119308/
ZoneMinder is a suite of applications intended for use in video camera security applications, including theft prevention and child or family member monitoring. It supports capture, analysis, recording, and monitoring of video data coming from one or more cameras attached to a Linux system. It also features a user-friendly Web interface which allows viewing, archival, review, and deletion of images and movies captured by the cameras. The image analysis system is highly configurable, permitting retention of specific events, while eliminating false positives. ZoneMinder supports both directly connected and network cameras and is built around the definition of a set of individual 'zones' of varying sensitivity and functionality for each camera. This allows the elimination of regions which should be ignored or the definition of areas which will alarm if various thresholds are exceeded in conjunction with other zones. All management, control, and other functions are supported through the Web interface.
Newsforge Reports
Linux not ready for the desktop? Give me a break!
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/203248
- Lee Schlesinger - I'm tired of reading on an almost monthly basis articles asserting that Linux isn't yet ready for the desktop. Nonsense! Linux is about as ready for the desktop as Windows is. It's simply a matter of corporate and user inertia that's keeping Linux marginalized.
Linux Advisory Watch - April 11th, 2003
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/11/0314230
By Benjamin D. Thomas This week, advisories were released for snort, sendmail, samba, dhcp, file, kernel ptrace, zlib, man, mutt, metrics, moxftp, glibc, heimdal, seti, kde, apache, cvs, kerberos, mysql, httpd, and openssl. The distributors include Conectiva, Debian, Gentoo, Immunix, FreeBSD, Mandrake, Slackware, SuSE, and Trustix.
Replacing MS Exchange with Communigate Pro http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/1750203
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Stalker Software's Communigate Pro is an increasingly popular corporate email/groupware alternative to Microsoft's Exchange Server. According to Stalker spokesperson Philip Slater, it supports "any POP or IMAP client on the market. We never have a compatibility problem. We even support pine."
Newsforge Newsvac
Swedish institute goes Itanium
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/12/0436205
Hewlett-Packard has sold 90 dual-processor Itanium 2 machines to the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden's largest engineering school, for use in a wide variety of intense calculation tasks.
Lights, camera, and lots of action
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/12/042238
Apple this week announced new versions of its professional film, video and DVD editing applications.
Book review: Hacker's Challenge 2
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/11/234227
LogError writes "There is a number of ways to write a security related book, and from my perspective the authors did a great job. By combining both the technical security issues with nifty situation descriptions, they created a book so interesting, that you won't be able to put it down."
Sun Steps Up Linux (Lightly)
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/11/1638254
Major enterprise software players, such as Oracle, IBM, BEA and Sun Microsystems, duke it out in the application server sector.
Upgrading your Linux system
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/11/1559232
New releases of Linux come out periodically, driven by healthy competition between the major Linux distribution vendors as well as the "release early, release often" philosophy that guides most Open Source projects. For example, the latest Mandrake 9.1 has just been released recently, followed shortly by the new Red Hat 9 appearing this week.
Itanium gets revamped Linux supercomputer software http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/11/1551250
A new version of the NPACI Rocks software will make it easier for users to add Itanium systems into clusters that use the other chips.
Open Source Alternative: NetBSD
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/11/1543250
NetBSD's main claim to fame, so to speak, is its portability. Although ports of Linux are available for several platforms, NetBSD blows the penguin's doors off when it comes to platform support.
MySQL battles the big guys
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/11/1528259
MySQL kicked off its first-ever users conference by releasing the source code of its upcoming MySQL 5.0 product and touting its reputation as the little database company that could.