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[osdn everything] April 14, 2003
Date: Mon Apr 14 2003 - 04:45:27 EDT
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April 14, 2003 EVERYTHING SERIES
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Slashdot
AIM Meets Social Network Theory
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/14/0347236
dan moore writes "A student at Caltech has created a website
([0]BuddyZoo.com) that tracks cliques within groups of peoples'
buddylists. It also measures buddy popularity and allows you to do a
six-degrees type search for other screen names. An interesting approach
to social network theory."
Links
RIAA, This Is Earth, Please Come In!
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/14/039201
[0]ccnull writes "You might remember [1]George Ziemann as the musician
who found his own music banned from eBay because it was recorded on
CD-R. Now he's back with a new rant about the RIAA's statistics, which
blame piracy for the dire condition of the music industry. What's to
blame? Price hikes and fewer titles. The latest rant (including
analysis of the RIAA's own data) is mainly circulating by email, here's
a [2]readable link. (As an interesting side note, Ziemann says that
songs are really just [3]ads for CDs, and thus should be freely
traded.)"
Links
0. mailto:null@filmcritiUMLAUTc.com minus punct
1.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/24/1335223&tid=141
2.
http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200304/msg00129.html
3.
http://www.azoz.com/news/psa.html
Tech Jobs Projected to Double by 2010
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/14/0124257
netbsd_fan writes "Today's [0]Chicago Tribune has an [1]article that
claims that the number of coding jobs will double by 2010, and computer
support jobs aren't far behind. It's hard to believe since I just laid
off our last two Win32 guys Friday. Could this be a turning point in
the labor market?"
Links
0. http://www.chicagotribune.com/
Genome Surprise
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/14/0038210
[0]Catskul writes "Along with the news that the polished and [1](more
nearly) complete human genome being published Monday, comes a
surprising [2]observation about the genome: We have substantially fewer
genes than expected; between 27,000 and 40,000 as compared to an
original estimate of 140,000." Update: 04/14 01:22 GMT by [3]T: For
everyone who can't look at a Z, headline updated with an S in
"surprise."
Links
0. mailto:ajs372NO@SPAMpsu.edu
1.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993621
2.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns9999411
3.
http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
WiMax Formed To Promote 802.16 Standard
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/13/2333239
[0]The Original Yama writes "Intel, Nokia, Proxim, and a bunch of other
companies have [1]launched WiMax, a non-profit group founded to certify
and promote the IEEE 802.16 wireless networking standard. What's
interesting about this standard is that it allows "up to 31 miles of
linear service area range and allows users connectivity without a
direct line of sight to a base station," all at a shared speed of
70Mbps. This simultaneously blows away 3G mobile and 802.11
technologies."
Links
0. http://www.pclinuxonline.com/
AOL Bans Mail From DSL-Hosted Servers
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/13/2215207
[0]kmself writes "As first reported at [1]linux-elitists by Aaron
Sherman, and with a demonstration of the denial at [2]zIWETHEY, AOL has
begun blocking mailservers identified with residential DSL lines as an
anti-spam measure, apparently heedless of the huge collateral damage
this move imposes (and guess who can't send mail to Mom...). This
action was unannounced, and has received virtually no coverage, spare
an [3]oblique mention at News.com. It also violates SMTP RFCs, as Aaron
points out, not to mention the 'good neighbor' conventions of Internet
communications. Mail to AOL's postmaster is also bounced -- this is
[4]RFC-ignorant. I strongly recommend that as a compensatory measure,
non-AOL MTAs be configured to deny all incoming mail from AOL's
domain."
Links
0.
http://twiki.iwethey.org
1.
http://zgp.org/pipermail/linux-elitists/2003-April/006046.html
2.
http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=96264
3.
http://news.com.com/2100-1024-994992.html
4.
http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/tools/lookup.php?domain=aol.comXML Support In Office 2003 Isn't For Everyone http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/13/2031259
0x0d0a writes "Unfortunately, it seems that Microsoft's recent campaign to promote Office 2003 based on its XML support may be a bit misleading. [0]Only the Enterprise and Professional releases will have this support -- not Standard. Microsoft will still be leveraging file format compatibility for at least another Office release." Links
0. http://news.com.com/2100-1012-996528.html?tag=lh
Professional-Grade Audio Recording With A PDA http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/13/1948203
matt-fu writes "For a long time, live recording has been consigned mostly to the realm of DAT recorders, Minidisc recorders, or laptop computers. On one hand you have subpar sound quality, on the other you have a bulky rig with a big 'steal me' sign attached. Thanks to the folks at [0]Core Sound though, mobile recording is about to take a huge leap forward with their [1]PDAudio project. By using a hardware card that allows recording via S/PDIF onto Compact Flash, you will be able to use your iPaq or Zaurus alongside a decent A/D converter to portably get field recordings at up to 24bit/192kHz. The site includes WinCE screenshots, and there are Linux clients in the works as well." Links
DMCA, Auf Deutsch
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/13/1633251
[0]Kavau writes "The lower house of the German parliament just passed
an [1] amendment to the copyright law (sorry, article in German only).
The highly controversial law will severely limit consumers' rights to
make private copies of copyrighted media, and imposes special taxes on
virtually any device that can potentially be used for copyright
circumvention (among these devices are printers, CD burners, scanners
and cell phones). Also, circumvention of copyright protection
mechanisms will become illegal, as it already is in the United States."
There's a short [2]blurb (in English) at the Register Update: 04/13
19:20 GMT by [3]T: [Sorry, actually it's The Inquirer]; note that this
has passed the lower house of the German parliament, but has not yet
been voted on by the upper.
Links
0. mailto:kxv1970@yahoo.com
1.
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/politik/0,1518,244345,00.html
2.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=8879
3.
http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
Stupid Censorship, Stupid Security
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/13/1527233
The [0]2003 Jefferson Muzzle "winners" are out. This year's crop starts with John Ashcroft and the U.S. Congress, and works its way down through the school board that voted to put Harry Potter on the restricted shelf. Innovation in censorship deserves recognition, read and enjoy. And in other stupid news, the winners of the [1]Stupid Security Competition have been announced. I like that I'm being protected from tea. It makes me feel safe. Links
0. http://www.tjcenter.org/muzzles.html
Freshmeat
Aiko Dancer Background 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119431/
Aiko Dancer is a delightful background featuring the Aiko CG mesh and a GIMP-generated fractal background.
Alfandega Firewall 2.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119469/
Alfandega is a strong and modular iptables firewall. It provides NAT, port-forwarding, spoofing list, blacklist of crackers and spywares sites, protection for TCP/UDP scans, DOS/DDOS and Smurf attacks, TCP tuning, DHCP/PPP support, and much more.
apt4rpm 0.64.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119515/
The superb Debian package installer APT has since some time become available for RPM-based distributions. However, to install RPM packages with apt, an apt repository is needed. apt4rpm creates the apt repository from an RPM repository. The rpm repository can be located locally or remotely. Once the apt repository has been created with apt4rpm, the apt tools can be used to install RPMs.
Bima 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119472/
Bima is a program that generates source code and an SQL script from an Entity-Relationship diagram contained in a Dia file.
bind 8.4.0-T1B (Bind8-Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119499/
The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) implements an Internet name server for Unix operating systems. The BIND consists of a server (or `daemon') called `named' and a resolver library. A name server is a network service that enables clients to name resources or objects and share this information with other objects in the network.
BitlBee 0.73
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119473/
BitlBee emulates an IRC server. Everything that is said on this server is forwarded to users on the MSN/ICQ/Jabber networks, and responses are returned as well.
bogofilter 0.11.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119525/
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.
Bugzero 2.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119521/
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.
Ceridian Employee Calendar 1.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119244/
Ceridian Employee Calendar is an employee calendar for the Ceridian Oracle database. It displays employees' timecard information from a month before current month till the last month entered into the Ceridian database. A holiday will only be displayed if that week has been generated by a user in the Ceridian Oracle database.
cplay 1.47
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119504/
cplay is a Curses frontend for various audio players. It aims to provide a power-user-friendly interface with simple filelist and playlist control. It is written in Python and can use either pyncurses or the standard curses module. The list of currently supported players includes ogg123, mpg123, mpg321, splay, madplay, and mikmod.
CvsKnit 0.9.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119506/
CvsKnit is a CVS automation suite to knit up various CVS repositories from existing source packages. This may be useful for starting revision management with CVS, figuring out when a file had been added, modified, or removed, or for browsing source diffs or annotating between packages via a Web interface.
dc-qt 0.0.4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119489/
dc-qt is a Qt-based GUI for the Direct Connect client dctc.
DINO 0.8.6 (Development and Testing)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119524/
DINO is a realtime visualization program for structural biology data, including protein and nucleic-acid coordinates, molecular surfaces, electrostatic potentials, electron densities, surface topographs (from AFM), and MD trajectories. It supports PNG, PostScript and POVray (3.1g and megapov) output. Supported platforms are Linux/i386, Linux/PPC, IRIX, Sun, OSF1, and MacOS X.
Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse 1.1.34 http://freshmeat.net/releases/119500/
Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse (DCC) is a system of clients and servers that collect and count checksums related to mail messages. The counts can be used by SMTP servers and mail user agents to detect and reject bulk mail. DCC servers can exchange common checksums. The checksums include values that are "fuzzy", or constant across common variations in bulk messages.
docbook2X 0.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119493/
docbook2X is a bunch of tools for converting DocBook documents into man pages and Texinfo.
Enemies of Carlotta 0.23 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119497/
Enemies of Carlotta is a simple mailing list manager. It tries to mimic the ezmlm software somewhat, but is written completely from scratch in Python. It has a less restrictive license than ezmlm and qmail, and is smaller and simpler than GNU Mailman.
Freepository 2.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119520/
Freepository is a Web-based revision control system based on massive extensions of CVSWeb. It employs a project concept, which provides member accounts and access controls. At project creation, unique CVS repositories are created, containing their respectively unique project credentials. The database package stores all transactions against each individual CVS repository. It also supports multi-file upload.
GNU gengetopt 2.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119495/
GNU gengetopt takes a simple description of arguments and generates a C function that uses the GNU getopt_long(3) function to parse and validate the options. It is perfect if you are too lazy to write all that is required to call getopt_long(3), or need to use many options. The generated code also works with autoconf or automake.
Goggles 0.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119523/
Goggles is a frontend for the Ogle DVD player. It supports all the features that Ogle provides, including bookmarks, and adds automatic starting, automatic bookmarks, a convenient preferences panel for setting keyboard shortcuts, DXR3 settings, and language and country preferences. It is written in C++ using the FOX Toolkit.
gperiodic 2.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119483/
gperiodic is a program for browsing the periodic table and looking up data for different elements. It also features a non-graphical interface.
gpostman 1.3-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119482/
gpostman is a simple mail checker for X. It displays configurable pixmaps depending on the state of the mail spool file, features real transparency, and can execute a command when new mail appears (e.g. play a sound) and when the pixmap is clicked.
Impact 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119508/
Impact is a finite element program based on an explicit time stepping algorithm. It can be used to simulate dynamic events such as car crashes or other large deformation events. It is written in Java and is kept very simple, to make it intuitive to use and easy to change and extend. It is very flexible and can handle several different input and output formats.
J2ME VNC Aplha 2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119480/
J2ME VNC is a VNC client for J2ME devices, such as new mobile phones and the PalmOS (with J2ME runtime).
J2SSH 0.1.2 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119494/
J2SSH is an object-orientated Java implementation of the SSH version 2 protocol. It provides a rich, powerful, and extensible SSH API that enables developers to gain access to SSH servers and to develop entire SSH client/server frameworks. The API library provides a fully-featured SSH2 implementation specifically designed for cross-platform development. Higher level components, representing both the standard SSH client and SSH servers, are provided which implement the protocol specification for user sessions and port forwarding. The specification currently supports public key and password authentication and a full implementation of the SFTP protocol.
JasperReports 0.4.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119526/
JasperReports is a report-generating Java library. XML report templates are used to generate ready to print documents using data from customizable data sources, including JDBC. The output can be delivered to the screen, printer, or stored in PDF, HTML, or XML format.
kcd 6.4.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119491/
kcd is a directory change utility similar to NCD. It helps you navigate the directory tree. You can also supply part of the desired directory name in the command line and let kcd find it for you.
kiki the nano bot 0.9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119492/
kiki the nano bot is a 3D puzzle game, a mixture of Sokoban and Kula-World. Your task is to help kiki, a small robot living in the nano world, repair its Maker.
m0n0wall pb6r296
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119475/
m0n0wall is an all-in-one firewall software package (based on FreeBSD) geared towards embedded PCs. It includes an easy-to-use Web interface like commercial firewall boxes do. PHP is used instead of shell scripts, and the entire system configuration is stored in a single XML-formatted file. There is support for wireless LAN, VPN, traffic shaping, and more.
Mamory 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119516/
Mamory is a library for ROM management in emulator-related projects. It also has a CLI client.
mnoGoSearch 3.2.10 (3.2.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119474/
mnoGoSearch (formerly known as UdmSearch) is a full-featured Web search engine which you can use to build search engines over HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and NTTP servers, local files, and database big text fields. It supports Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, miniSQL, Solid, Virtuoso, InterBase, SAPDB, iODBC, EasySoft ODBC, and unixODBC database backends. mnoGoSearch is also known to work with MS SQL, SyBase, and Oracle through ODBC. It has text/html and text/plain built-in support, and external parsers support for other document types. An automatic language/charset guesser for more 70 language/charset combinations is included, along with basic authorization support, and you may index password-protected intranet HTTP servers with proxy authorization support.
NX 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119476/
NX is an X-based remote desktop system with highly optimized protocol compression. It features comprehensive support for a wide range of network protocols which are integrated together to make access to a remote desktop server easy, complete, and secure.
OpenLDAP 2.1.17 (LDAPv3)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119517/
The OpenLDAP Project is a collaborative effort to provide a robust, commercial-grade, fully featured, open source LDAP software suite. The project is managed by a worldwide community of volunteers that use the Internet to communicate, plan, and develop OpenLDAP Software and its related documentation. OpenLDAP Software provides a complete LDAP implementation including server, clients, C SDK, and associated tools.
Pam_mount 0.5.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119467/
The pam_mount module allows users to have NCP (Netware), SMB (Windows/Samba), or loopback-encrypted volumes mounted upon login, using the same passwords they typed to log in. A remote volume can even be used as a user's $HOME. Volumes mounted this way are automatically unmounted on logout.
PasTmon 0.3-0 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119507/
PasTmon (Passive Application Response Time Monitor) passively monitors your application servers, measuring and reporting user response times, throughput and congestion. It currently works with HTTP, telnet, rlogin, rsh, FTP (control channel), SMTP, POP3, and IRC. Measurements are recorded in a PostgreSQL database and are presented graphically via a PHP Web front-end using R statistical analysis scripts to create the plots.
popa3d 0.6.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119468/
popa3d is a POP3 daemon which attempts to be extremely secure, reliable, RFC compliant, and fast (in that order).
Process Change Detection System 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119470/
Process Change Detection System is a script to monitor changes in processes--not to monitor if your Web server is still running, but to see if there are new programs running. When debugging a honeypot logging, you often see that there's an extra inetd running, to open up a backdoor port. Or, less dramatically, people login to a system and "forget" to logout.
Python Grimoire 0.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119464/
Python Grimoire is a collection of spells for the Sorcerer GNU/Linux distribution of Python apps. It is an additional grimoire that can be added on to the main official grimoire.
QuickRip DVD 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119518/
QuickRip is a basic DVD ripper for GNU/Linux written in Python and PyQt. It lacks options to fine-tune how you want to rip your DVD, but it makes ripping quick and easy, and so is ideal for those who aren't bothered about framerates, clipping, and other unecessary options. It uses mplayer and transcode to retrieve DVD info and rip the tracks.
SaveMyModem 0.20 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119510/
SaveMyModem is an anti-spam, mail-shaping, and delete-on-server mail tool. It is designed for users with slow dialup connections, who are tired of downloading large amounts of spam and worm and virus attachments.
SFTP Team provider for Eclipse 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119487/
SFTP Team provider for Eclipse provides file and directory synchronization between the Eclipse workspace and a remote location using the SSH Sftp protocol. The interface of the OpenSSH sftp client program is similar to the FTP client program, but the communication with the server is done using a modern protocol which is more like NFS than FTP.
ShiFT 0.0.4 alpha
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119502/
ShiFT is a Java-based file transfer application which enables users to transfer files between remote computers by FTP, Samba, and SFTP.
Simple Python Blogger 0.6.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119513/
Simple Python Blogger is a small Python script to handle entries, users, sessions, and comments of a blog. the files are very simple to edit, change, and set up. Entries are stored in XML.
SSHTerm 0.1.2 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119501/
SSHTerm is a Java SSH client that provides a whole range of features, including port forwarding, password authentication, public-key authentication, ANSI/VT100/VT220/VT320 terminal, full clipboard support, record and playback input/output, and the ability to load/save connection settings to a file.
The Fish 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119503/
The Fish provides a GTK-based graphical tool to manage and edit FreeBSD system variables stored in /etc/defaults/rc.conf and /etc/rc.conf. For testing purposes, or, for users that need to have different configurations, the program honours two environment variables: FISH_RC_DEFAULTS and FISH_RC.
TKAlbum 1.02b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119527/
TKAlbum is a GUI for assisting in the generation and maintenance of HTML photo albums. It uses the "album" script and Image Magick to generate hierarchically organized HTML photo albums, and can download pictures from digital cameras supporting the USB mass storage protocol.
TRE 0.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119484/
TRE is a lightweight, robust, efficient, portable, and POSIX compliant regexp matching library. Key features include the agrep command line tool for approximate regexp matching in the style of grep, an approximate matching library API, portability, wide character and multibyte character support, binary pattern and data support, complete thread safety, consistently efficient matching, low memory consumption and small footprint, and strict standards conformance.
TSSHP 0.2.10e (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119488/
TSSHP (The System Shock Hack Project) is a project to reverse-engineer and recode (from scratch, but using the original datafiles) the 3D role-playing/shooter games from Looking Glass (System Shock and the Ultima Underworlds).
Video Disk Recorder 1.1.27 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/119481/
Video Disk Recorder (VDR) is a digital sat-reciever program using Linux and DVB technologies. It can record MPEG2 streams, as well as output the stream to TV. It also supports plugins for DVD, DivX, or MP3 playback and more.
w33d Kultchur 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119428/
w33d Kultchur is a 3-D CG background with a hempish theme. Images include resolutions from 2048x1536 at 124dpi, down to 1024x768 at 124dpi.
WinDriver 6.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119471/
WinDriver is a professional USB/PCI/ISA/ISAPnP/EISA device driver development tool for Linux 2.0.31 and above. It lets you use powerful wizards to access and diagnose your hardware from an intuitive user mode interface. The wizard will also automatically generate your skeletal driver. Drivers written using WinDriver will also compile and run in Solaris 2.6, 2.7 (both x86 and Sparc), Windows NT/2000/XP, Windows 95/98/Me, Windows CE/CE.NET, and VxWorks. It has API support for multiple interface USB devices, dual processor and SMP support on Linux, and scatter/gather DMA support on Linux 2.4.
WMsmixer 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119522/
WMsmixer is a hack to wmmixer which makes some changes to the display and adds a few new features, most notably scrollwheel support. It also includes a numeric volume indicator.
Xfprot 0.14beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119512/
XFPROT is a graphical frontend for the F-Prot Antivirus for Linux Small Business Edition. It is based upon the XSTEP-3.5.1 library.
XLiquid GTK 1.0.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119465/
XLiquid GTK is a GTK 1.2.x and 2.x.x compatibility theme for the KDE3 High Performance Liquid Style engine default configuration.
Newsforge Reports
Using Mozilla 1.3's "Junk" email filter
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/11/0336205
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - My new Mandrake 9.1 installation includes Mozilla 1.3, which comes with a simple Bayesian email filter that does a pretty fair job of getting rid of junk email before you waste eyeball time on it. But it is not a perfect utility, and unless you set it up correctly some of the email you want to read will inevitably end up in the "Junk" folder. This article explains some tricks I found to prevent this from happening, ...
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.
Newsforge Newsvac
Is Linux getting too easy?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/14/0531200
Anonymous Reader writes "In The view from the desktop, Dennis E. Powell wonders if Linux is becoming so easy that our skills are atrophying and new users aren't learning those skills at all."
guanxiCRM to become the most popular CRM in China http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/14/0343258
ABOD writes "SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net) statistics show that guanxiCRM (http://www.guanxiCRM.com) has been downloaded 1500 times since this CRM package was released only 3 weeks ago.
Success with Linux on the Home Desktop
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/13/2346209
Anonymous Reader writes "A user takes on Red Hat Linux 8 and Mandrake 9.1 and he finds that for his requirements, Linux on the desktop is a success. Read the article at OSNews.com."
An Introduction to Open Source Communities http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/12/053227
Open source software communities are one of the most successful-and least understood-examples of high-performance collaboration and community-building on the Internet today. Other types of communities could benefit enormously from understanding how open source communities work.
Open Media Toolkit goes GPL
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/12/052209
The Open Media toolkit (OMT), a platform independent C++ framework for developing real-time 2D/3D multimedia applications, has recently been released under the GNU General Public License. OMT has reportedly been used to develop a number of commercial applications including games from Disney, Hasbro, Mattel, Scitex, and HumanCode.
Partition Expert: Your Very Own Partition Techie http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/12/050237
Anonymous Reader writes "A few months ago I had a few minutes of free time on my hands and so I made a stop at Best Buy to browse for some networking equipment. As I walked toward the hardware section, a software package caught my eye that I hadn't heard of before: "Acronis PartitionExpert." Realizing the need for a good partitioning tool in many environments that use GNU/Linux, I made a mental note to contact Acronis when I got back to the ...
Linux enables new Internet/DVD player http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/12/0457219
A new Linux-based set-top box has been announced by Video Without Boundaries Inc. (Ft. Lauderdale, FL). The VWB-3000 "MediaReady Internet/DVD Player", which is roughly the size of a normal DVD player, combines the functions of DVD player and Intenet access. Consumers can use the new device to browse the web, play streaming media, access their email, watch DVDs, and "even sing karaoke from any television," the company said.
Dawn of the dynamic enterprise
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/12/0456240
IT strategists and visionaries peering into 2004 and beyond see a potentially catastrophic flaw in existing enterprise solutions: complexity. How serious is it? Every business that hosts or outsources large-scale solutions will take a hit.
India seeks global role in embedded software http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/12/0455243
Indian software companies are stepping up embedded-software development to mine a promising business vein. After years of developing software internally, suppliers like Wipro, Sasken, HCL Technologies and Mistral Software now look to cash in on their expertise globally.
Honeypots get stickier for hackers
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/12/0454250
If Lance Spitzner has his way, network defenders will get sweeter on the "honeypot"--a traditional method of detecting online intruders.
Thinkgeek
Clearance: Shirt Grab Bag
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Gadgets: Powerball Gyroscope
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5ea1/
Gadgets: 3D Green Laser Show
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Electronics: Casio Exilim EX-M2 Digital Camera http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/cameras/5e6f/
Electronics: Panasonic DVD Player - DVDS35 http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/video/5eaf/
Tshirts: Mostly IP Creeper & Toddler Tee http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/kids/5e09/
Interests: Megatokyo Endgames - Pirogoeth Poster http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/megatokyo/coolthings/5e98/
Books: The Matrix & Philosophy: Welcome To The Desert Of The Real http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/nonfiction/5d52/
Books: The Book Of Overclocking
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/nonfiction/5d46/
Books: Pattern Recognition
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/scifi/5d4a/
Computing: Zalman CNPS7000-Cu CPU Cooler http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5e55/
Computing: Multi-Fan Speed Controller
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Computing: Zalman Silent 400W Power Supply http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5e4c/
Computing: Half Keyboard
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Computing: Zalman VGA Heatsink w/ HeatPipe http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5e5e/
Cube Goodies: Portable Mini Fridge
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/5d57/
Gadgets: LightWedge Reading Light
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5cf2/
Gadgets: Binary Code Watch
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Books: High Score! The Illustrated History Of Electronic Games http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/nonfiction/5e26/
Computing: LED Light Sticks
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5e66/
Sourceforge
JML 3.7 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=267409
This release of JML has many improvements over the earlier (3.6) release. The Java Modeling Language (JML) is a behavioral interface specification language that can be used to specify the behavior of Java modules. It combines the approaches of Eiffel and Larch, with some elements of the refinement calculus. Highlights include: - Much better support for refinement (although refinement does not yet work with jmlc), - Three new specification expressions have been added to permit specification of time and space. - A new tool, jmlspec, which is a specification skeleton generator. It takes a Java source file and can produce a file that one could use to add specifications to in a way that would refine the original. - The syntax of the refine clause has been simplified to refine "A.java"; where only a file and no classes are mentioned. Thanks to Clyde Ruby for this and to David Cok for the suggestion. - The jmldoc tool is now compatible with JDK 1.4. Note that J2SDK 1.3 is no longer supported by the tools. See the release change log (or the NEWS.txt file in the release) for more details.
PHP Surveyor release 0.95 beta
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=267374
Project aims to develop a fully functional Survey development & dataentry system. Including dataentry screen, public dataentry script, method for issuing tokens, emailing invitations & recording responses, basic statistical analysis and export facility. This release includes some incremental improvements - a changelog covering most of these is available from the project homepage. The biggest enhancement is the addition of 'mandatory' questions. This allows you, on a question by question basis, to set a question as mandatory, and require the participant to answer it before they can move away from the question. In the data-entry screen, the question is marked as being 'mandatory', however the survey can be submitted without an answer. This is to deal with dataentry of hardcopy surveys where the mandatory question has not been answered. The other major enhancement of this release is the capacity to track surveys. When a new survey is created, you are given the option of making it Anonymous, or not. If the survey is not anonymous, each response keeps a copy of the participants unique token. Using this you can track the response of each individual participant. From the 'tokens' screen, you can view the participants response, and from the 'browse' screen you can view the participants token information. As was the case for release 0.94, this is another "on the way" release. There are a few features still to be addd prior to the release of Version 1, and some continued tidying and bug-checking of the script still to be done. I would appreciate it if you could let me know about any bugs you find, or even just 'difficulties' you come across in using the script. Planned developments underway but not yet finished include a "all-in-one" public survey screen - so you can choose to present the survey on one single screen, rather than question by question.
dom4j 1.4. released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=267091
Finally after a much longer delay than we expected the 1.4 release of dom4j is out. dom4j is a simple and flexible open source library for working with XML, XPath and XSLT on the Java platform using the Java Collections Framework with full integration with DOM, SAX and JAXP.
YaBB SE 1.5.1 is out
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=266399
YaBB SE is a PHP/MySQL port of the popular forum software YaBB (yet another bulletin board). Incorporating the same intuitive user interface, and several of the most popular modifications from YaBB's Boardmod program. After an extensive period of public beta testing, YaBB SE 1.5.1 final is out! Thanks go out to everyone who helped making this release possible.
TUTOS makes it to 1.1
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=266318
About 9 month after the last major release and 2 month beta testing, the OpenSource Grupware and Projectmanagement system TUTOS was released in a new 1.1. The new releasae features a lot of enhancments new tools and useful stuff. TUTOS is the ultimate team organization software, a webbased groupware or ERP/CRM system to manage events/calendars, addresses, teams, projects, tasks, bugs, mailboxes, documents and your time spent with these things.
Release 1.1.3 of DbForms available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=266451
Dbforms is pleased to release version 1.1.3 final after two developer releases. DbForms enables developers to build sophisticated web-based database driven applications in very short time and with very little efforts via automatic generation of configuration files and JSP views. DbForms is a Java (Servlet,JSP/Taglib) - based Rapid Application Development environment which enables developers to build web based database applications in _very_ short time. New features since 1.1.2 include (but are not limited to): -enhanced query support offering increased flexibility and dynamic changeability, -extended search algorithms, -improved navigation and validation within subforms, -simplified connection pooling and use of jdbc properties, -compatibility with taglib pooling, -JavaScript Calendar support for dateField, -pluggable and customizable event system, -improved formatability for tableData and queryData tags, and -integration with JasperReports There is also initial support for: -multiple database connections, and -foreign keys Full documentation is included in the release!
Regina REXX 3.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=266496
Version 3.1 of the Regina REXX Interpreter has been released. This release makes Regina 100% compliant with the 1996 ANSI Standard for Rexx. The documentation has also been updated and is now available online in HTML and PDF, and dowloadable in HTML, PDF and OpenOffice Writer formats. Major functional enhancements include: - ANSI "ADDRESS WITH" now fully functional and consistent on all platforms - ANSI LOSTDIGITS condition implemented - thread-safe version built by default on platforms that support threads (simplifies support for Apache mod_rexx module) - all AREXX builtin functions added - new supported platforms; Mac OSX, AROS Source and pre-built binaries for many platforms are available from Regina's SourceForge ftp site: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=28102
Informa 0.2.6 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=266517