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[osdn everything] April 17, 2003
Date: Thu Apr 17 2003 - 04:45:27 EDT
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Slashdot
Hackers in the Henhouse
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/17/0315208
strucker writes "A good story on [0]SecurityFocus from the [1]RSA
Conference. Kevin Mitnick [2]debated his former prosecutor, DOJ
attorney Christopher Painter, on the whether ex-hackers could be
trusted as computer security professionals. Mitnick says hackers bring
special skills to the job, while Painter says a criminal is a
criminal."
Links
0.
http://www.securityfocus.com/
1.
http://www.rsaconference.com/
2.
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/3982Paul Allen Plans Sci-Fi Shrine in Seattle http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/17/037209
[0]ctar writes "You couldn't ask for a more appropriate or
schizophrenic slashdot story...The NYTimes online was the only one
carrying [1]the story according to [2]Google News, so this is all you
get."
Links
0. mailto:ctar.zoo@uvm@edu
1.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/17/arts/design/17SCIF.html?ex=1051156800&en=0fe59d4a591d6478&ei=5062
2.
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=paul+allen+sci+fi&sa=N&tab=wnCisco Support for Lawful Intercept In IP Networks http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/17/0024235
cf_33073 writes "Scary stuff for the privacy advocates out there. Your Internet telephone conversations may soon be tapped by the government. Anyone else concerned about these intercepts being hacked? Full text of the [0]RFC Is available ([1]mirror)" Links
0. http://www.rfc-editor.org/internet-drafts/draft-baker-slem-architecture-00.txt
Slashback: Discipline, License, Name-calling http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/15/211228
Slashback tonight brings you a boatload of updates and amplification to previous Slashdot stories, including: the outcome of the RIAA-driven administrative crackdown on file trading at the U.S. Naval Academy, the legal status of ambiguously labeled Microsoft "gimme" software, more information on the insecurities of Blackboard's card-based payment system, and more. Read on for the details!
3G phones: Send Anywhere, But Not Anything http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/236218
glengyron writes "The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting the success of an Australian company in developing Digital Rights Management for the next generation of mobile phones. Imagine if you could only forward email once, or not at all: these are the kind of restrictions being built into the next generaion of mobile phones. [0]Read the article here. [1]ODRL? Orwellian Digital Rights Language." Links
0. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/14/1050172523035.html
Novell to Make Linux Robust and Reliable http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/229244
An anonymous coward writes: "It seems the folks over at Novell have the answer to making the "immature" Linux OS more "robust, reliable and scaleable" according to this [0]Computer Weekly article. We have a lot more problems to use and keep running our NetWare 5 and 6 servers at our University than we've ever had with any of our Linux servers. I can't wait for Novell to help us out here." Links
0. http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=121012
Carmack On Doom III And The Evolution Of Graphics http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/207215
[0]Toasty16 writes "David Kushner over at [1]Wired has a [2]write-up on
the progress of Doom III, hinting at a possible fall release, that is
unless Microsoft convinces id to sit on the game until an Xbox version
is completed. He also talks to Carmack about the evolution of game
engines and the possibility of a "next-generation rendering engine
[that] will be a stable, mature technology that lasts in more or less
its basic form for a long time." Will this lead to a shift from coders
to "technical directors," as Carmack believes? This ties into the
Slashdot story awhile back about [3]new titles for sysadmins."
Links
0. mailto:toastman_16@yahoo.com
1.
http://www.wired.com/
2.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.05/doom.html
3.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/08/2237213&tid=126
SCO Releases Linux OS for Itanium 2
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/204224
[0]GreyPoopon writes "[1]Computerworld has [2]an article referring to
SCO's [3]announcement of Enterprise Linux for the Itanium 2. Base
installation starts at $999 for up to four CPUs. My favorite quote:
"With its new system, SCO is a little late to the Linux on Itanium 2
market." I would think being late would be the least of their worries
right now. I personally consider this to be my daily dose of comedy.
[4]Newsfactor has a [5]better article."
Links
0. mailto:greypoopon1968@hotmail.com
1.
http://www.computerworld.com/
2.
http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,80387,00.html
3.
http://ir.sco.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=106545
4.
http://www.newsfactor.com/
5.
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21283.htmlFormer DoubleClick Exec Named Privacy Czar http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/1844222
[0]tsu doh nimh writes "A former executive for banner ad giant
DoubleClick has been selected to be the first ever privacy czar for the
Department of Homeland Security, says this [1]Washingtonpost.com
story." Just leaves you speechless ....
Links
0. mailto:leastdeadlygameNO@SPAMhotmail.com
Will Genetic Engineering Kill Us?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/1755248
Kaz Riprock writes "Mark Baard, author of [0]this Wired article was a recent attendee at [1]The Future of Human Nature symposium (that I helped organize). The talks were held at Boston University through the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. A high profile assemblage of well-known thinkers, such as Steven Pinker, Lee Silver, and Marvin Minsky, were invited to speak at the 3 day conference to examine what 'Human Nature' would be like in 50-200 years. While the article describes a good amount of the '[2]doom and gloom' which was presented and discussed, it does not quite capture the upside to our potential future aims. One example from the conference was the talk by Christine Peterson, head of [3]The Foresight Institute, on the future use of nanotechnology to better the human condition." Links
0.
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,58467,00.html
1.
http://www.bu.edu/pardee/events/conferences/S03%20abstract.html
2.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/15/186203&tid=134
3.
http://www.foresight.org/
Freshmeat
adcfw-log 0.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119871/
adcfw-log is a tool for analyzing firewall logs in order to extract meaningful information. It is designed to be a standalone script with very few requirements that can generate different kinds of reports, such as fully formatted reports of what had been logged, with summaries by source or destination host, the type of service, or protocol. There are also options to filter the input data by date, host, protocol, service, and so on.
Agar 04142003
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119881/
Agar is a graphical game engine aimed primarily at applications ranging from SDL 2D games to multithreaded 3D simulations. The engine currently implements tile-based levels, a level editor, a GUI, as well as various other thread-safe interfaces for use in game programming.
Aranha 0.0.396
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119876/
Aranha is a piece of software written to allow Web applications to be written more cleanly and more easily. It is a Local FastCGI Responder, although work is in progress to allow it to work as a FastCGI Authoriser and a FastCGI Filter. It is based on the programming language Lua, and contains many extensions to enable easy Web site development and maintenance.
atkins 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119804/
Atkins can be used to examine variables, tables, and linked lists in the running kernel. Subcommands can be entered to show formatted kernel administration of processes, open files, incore inodes, page cache buffers, sockets, etc. Memory dumps can be shown using virtual or physical addresses, or using addresses within user space of a particular process. Furthermore stack backtraces can be printed e.g. to determine the reason why a particular process is currently in a waitstate. Note that atkins requires a certain level of knowledge about the Linux kernel.
Bochs-Tools 1.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119851/
Bochs-Tools is a collection of scripts and programs to be used together with the Bochs emulator. The main goal is to provide a more Unix-like interface to the emulator and to enable access to Bochs disk images from outside of Bochs. This project makes it very simple to copy an existing OS installation to a Bochs image (as long as Linux has write access to the relevant file system).
Cherokee 0.4.3-pre7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119791/
Cherokee is a tiny, ultrafast, lightweight Web server. It is implemented entirely in C, and has no dependencies beyond a standard C library. It is embeddable, extensible with plug-ins, and supports on-the-fly configuration by reading files or strings.
ClarkConnect Internet Gateway 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119874/
ClarkConnect is a software package that transforms an old beat up PC into a smart, simple, and secure Internet gateway and server for your home or small office network. In addition to connection sharing, the software comes with a strong firewall, Apache, dynamic DNS utilities, and Samba filesharing. The software is based on Red Hat Linux.
Clover 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119825/
Clover makes the gathering and analysis of code coverage metrics as painless as possible. The main features include tight integration with the popular Jakarta Ant build tool, accurate, configurable coverage recording. It gathers Method, Statement and Branch coverage data. Compile-time properties and source level directives allow for precise control over the coverage gathering process. It also allows the user to view coverage data in XML, HTML, or via a Swing GUI. Report-time options allow for the exclusion of particular statement types from coverage analysis.
CodeGuide 6.0 build 610
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119784/
CodeGuide is a lean and fast IDE for Java and JavaServerPages. It features on-the-fly error checking, incremental background ("instant") compilation, powerful refactoring capabilities, and support for generic types. A visual debugger with on-the-fly class replacement (HotSwap) is also included.
Crystal Space 0.96r004
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119795/
Crystal Space is a free and portable 3D engine written in C++. It supports a large number of 3D features.
dbo 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119868/
dbo is yet another database object framework written entirely in Python. Tables are represented using schema objects that encapsulate column information and supporting metadata. Row instances are represented as a dictionary. Features include database independence (with Postgres and MySQL support), automatic type conversion, database schema extraction, sequence emulation, on-the-fly table joins, and more.
dchub 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119786/
dchub is a Direct Connect hub clone. It resembles an IRC server with some extra features dedicated to file sharing.
file 4.02 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119811/
File attempts to classify files depending on their contents and prints a description if a match is found.
FileNabber 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119830/
FileNabber is a Java servlet packaged as a Web app (WAR file) that allows you to download (via HTTP or FTP) remote files to the server and upload remote files to the server via HTTP. It has a progress bar for uploads and downloads, and also supports themes to make it easy to customize the look of the pages. It runs on any servlet engine that supports WAR files.
Fink 0.5.2 CVS_SNAP-20031604 (CVS)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119840/
The Fink project wants to bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and Mac OS X. It modifies Unix software so that it compiles and runs on Mac OS X and makes it available for download as a coherent distribution. Fink uses Debian tools like dpkg and apt-get to provide powerful binary package management. You can choose whether you want to download precompiled binary packages or build everything from source.
Firebird Relational Database 1.5.0 RC1 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/119763/
Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL-92 features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. It offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers.
FLAT Assembler 1.46
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119789/
The flat assembler is a fast and efficient self-assembling 80x86 assembler for DOS, Windows and Linux. It supports all 8086-80486/Pentium instructions with MMX, SSE, SSE2 and 3DNow! extensions. It can produce output in binary, MZ, PE or COFF format. It has advanced but easy-to-use macroinstruction support, and it does multiple quick passes to optimize the code for size.
Framework for Object Oriented Web Development 0.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/119514/
Framework for Object Oriented Web Development is a collection of base classes (ripe for extending) which handle object persistence, user authorization, security, data administration, input handling, and all the things required to build OO Web applications.
FreeGuide TV Guide 0.5.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119848/
FreeGuide TV Guide is a TV guide program which grabs listings for many countries from the Internet and allows you to view them and construct a personalised guide to print out. It uses the XMLTV tools to grab listings, and requires Java 1.4 or above.
Goben 0.0.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119824/
Goben is a GTK+ 1.2 GUI for playing Go. It allows any combination of human vs computer, computer vs computer, or human vs human play, and supports any board size from 5x5 to the full 19x19. Computer players are controlled via GTP for compatibility with GNUGo and other GTP talking Go programs.
Hardware Monitor applet 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119865/
The Hardware Monitor applet is an applet for the Gnome panel which tries to be a beautiful all-around solution to hardware monitoring. It also tries to be user-friendly and generally nice and sensible, integrating pleasantly with the rest of your Gnome desktop.
hdup 1.6.10 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119796/
hdup is used to back up a filesystem. Features include encryption of the archive (with mcrypt), compression of the archive (bzip/gzip/none), the ability to transfer the archive to a remote host or restoring from a remote host (with ssh), and no obscure archive format (it is a normal compressed tar file).
iBackup 2.24
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119883/
ibackup lets you automate (with cron) the backup of system configurations. It is easy to extend it for your systems and adapt to your needs. It supports exclude lists, upload, and encryption of your backups. It also comes with a sysconf script to make a report about a system.
IMAP Proxy 1.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119814/
The IMAP Proxy server is a caching IMAP proxy server. It was written to reduce the load that Webmail clients put on an IMAP server by keeping server connections alive for reuse, thus avoiding a new server connection for each Webmail transaction.
IndLinux Milan 0.37
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119782/
IndLinux Milan is a Hindi interface to GNOME, that allows those who can read and write Hindi to use an environment in their own language.
Issue Manager 0.8.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119861/
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 0.9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119787/
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.
JFreeReport 0.8.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119810/
JFreeReport is a Java report generator. Using data from a Swing TableModel, JFreeReport can send output to the screen (print preview) and the printer, and export to text, CSV, HTML, XML, Excel, and Acrobat PDF files.
Jhead 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119813/
Jhead is a command line driven utility for extracting digital camera settings from the Exif format files used by many digital cameras. It handles the various confusing ways these can be expressed, and displays them as F-stop, shutter speed, etc. It is also able to reduce the size of digital camera JPEGs without loss of information, by deleting integral thumbnails that digital cameras put into the Exif header. If you need to add Exif support to a program, this is a simple program to cut and paste from. Many projects, including PHP, have reused code from this utility.
JpGraph 1.12.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119859/
JpGraph is an OO Graph drawing library for PHP 4.0.2 and above. Highlights of the available features are: text, linear, and log scales for both the X and Y axes, anti-aliasing of lines, color-gradient fills, support for GIF, JPG, and PNG formats, support for two Y axes, spider plots (a.k.a Web plots), pie-charts, lineplots, filled line plots, impulse plots, bar plots, and error plots, support for multiple plot types in one graph, intelligent autoscaling, and extensive documentation (145 pages).
Karchiver 3.0.2 (KDE 3)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119807/
kArchiver is a KDE utility made to ease working with compressed files. With kArchiver, you can create tar.gz, tar.bz2, .zip, and other files, and you can add, remove, or view one or more files with a multiselection window. Its interface merges with konqueror, allowing you to view and extract all of your archives within the file manager. Right-clicking on an archive allows you to extract archives in background. You can also convert files between .tar.gz and .tar.bz2. It also provides an automatic splitter/unsplitter to fit a file onto a set of floppies, and wizards that will help you step by step to compile and install software through kArchiver's interface.
krazhkoder 0.02 BETA
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119798/
krazhkoder is a portable GUI Ogg, Speex, and FLAC audio encoder and player that can encode wave files and provides additional functionality such as audio file tagging, an HTML album generator, CD ripping, etc.
LDAP Explorer Tool 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119852/
LDAPExplorerTool is an LDAP directory browser. It has a graphical user interface and aims to run on multiple platforms. With this tool you can view, edit, or delete any entry of the LDAP server. You can also search the directory or export/import entries using the LDIF format.
libcddb 0.9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119862/
Libcddb is a library that implements the different protocols (CDDBP, HTTP, SMTP) to access data on a CDDB server (e.g. http://freedb.org). It tries to be as cross-platform as possible.
libspopc 0.5.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119797/
libspopc is a simple-to-use POP3 client library. It's primary goal is to provide an easy and quick way to host a POP3 client within a program to C developers without exposing them to socket programming. However, the socket layer is also accessible. libspopc allows mail programs to connect to many POP accounts and manage email. It implements the client side of RFC 1939. The email client can download email headers before downloading the entire message.
LusitanOS 0.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119822/
LusitanOS is an operating system entirely made by Portuguese people mainly as a means of self-learning and research on operating system development.
man2web 0.85
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119846/
man2web converts man (manual) pages to HTML via CGI or on the command line. man2web also allows for keyword (apropos) searching and generation of section indexes.
Meld 0.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119823/
Meld is a GNOME 2 visual diff and merge tool. It integrates especially well with CVS. The diff viewer lets you edit files in place (diffs update dynamically), and a middle column shows detailed changes and allows merges. The margins show location of changes for easy browsing, and it also features a tabbed interface that allows you to open many diffs at once.
Metadot Portal Server 5.5.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119838/
Metadot Portal Server is point-and-click Web site building software. It features content management, collaboration, and a dashboard like My Yahoo!'s.
MMS Diary 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119857/
MMS Diary is a mobile phone weblog/diary for use when you are on holiday. It uses MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) as transport to upload texts and photos to your homepage. This is done with a PHP script that pretends to be an MMC (MMS server).
Mock Objects for C++ 1.1.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119855/
mockpp is a platform independent generic unit testing framework for C++. Its goal is to facilitate developing unit tests in the spirit of Mock Objects and EasyMock. It does not include its own framework for flow control and analysis, but works with CppUnit.
Mr. Voice 1.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119844/
Mr. Voice is a specific-purpose Perl/Tk front-end for an MP3 database. It was written to provide an easy-to-use MP3 solution for the production booth of an improv comedy troupe, and as such is tailored to providing quick searches and playback of MP3s that are split up into categories. While not intended to be a standalone desktop MP3 player, others in a similar situation may find it useful.
Nast 0.1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119800/
Nast is a packet sniffer and a LAN analyzer based on Libnet and Libpcap. It can sniff the packets on a network interface in normal mode or in promiscuous mode. It dumps the headers of packets and the payload in ASCII or ASCII-hex format. Various packet filters can be applied. The data sniffed can be saved in a separate file. As an analysis tool, it can check for other NICs on the network which are set in promiscuous mode, build a list of all hosts on a LAN, find a gate­way, perform port scanning on a multiple hosts, catch daemon banners, follow the TCP data stream, reset a connection, and determine whether a link type is a hub or switch.
Netscape-Container 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119809/
Netscape-Container allows Netscape plugins to be used in Kylix applications.
Node Data System (libnds) 2.1.0 (Version 2 (C++)) http://freshmeat.net/releases/119877/
Node Data System (libnds) is a cross platform library that dynamically manages data. It comes in two flavours, version 1 in C using a node structure, and version 2 in C++ using a node class. Libnds has a simple to use API that allows powerful management of data, and also supports simple and complex file I/O for saving and retrieving data.
OggCarton 0.1alpha
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119849/
OggCarton is a free, open source home jukebox system that creates and indexes Ogg Vorbis and MP3 music files.
ogmtools 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119842/
The ogmtools allow users to display information about (ogminfo), extract streams from (ogmdemux), merge several streams into (ogmmerge), and split (ogmsplit) Ogg files. Supported stream types include video streams from AVIs or Ogg files and Vorbis audio from Ogg files. The resulting files can be played back with mplayer or with the OggDS Direct Show filters under Windows.
Oracle Perl Procedure Library 0.96 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/119839/
extproc_perl is an Oracle external procedure library that allows Oracle functions and procedures to be written in Perl. A Perl interpreter is embedded in the external procedure, and remains persistent for the life of a client session.
OZradio 0.8.0 alpha
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119812/
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.
Paintings by B. Kaemper 3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119805/
Paintings by B. Kaemper is a theme created with artworks of the painter B. Kaemper.
phpCodeCabinet 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119816/
phpCodeCabinet allows developers to store code snippets from any language. Features include user-defined categories, syntax highlighting, an extensive search engine, a theme-based interface, user authentication, and code/category ownership privileges.
Pingus 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119827/
Pingus is a free Lemmings clone for any platform supported by ClanLib (including X11, GGI, and Win32).
POSIX-and-more Template Library for C++ 0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/119808/
The POSIX-and-more Template Library for C++ is an implementation of STL concepts for many standard C libraries.
Postfix 2.0.8 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119835/
Postfix is an attempt to provide an alternative to the widely-used Sendmail program. Postfix attempts to be fast, easy to administer, and hopefully secure, while at the same time being sendmail compatible enough to not upset your users.
Request Tracker 3.0.1 (Release)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119828/
RT is an industrial-grade trouble ticketing system. It lets a group of people intelligently and efficiently manage requests submitted by a community of users. RT is used by systems administrators, customer support staffs, NOCs, developers, and even marketing departments to track issues, outages, bugs, requests, and all kinds of other things at thousands of sites around the world.
Retro Native Forth 3.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119820/
Retro is a clean, usable Forth-based operating system. It attempts to be a simpler and easier-to-use alternative to more complex operating systems.
RRDtool 1.0.42
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119806/
RRDtool is basically the time-series graphing and data storage/management component of MRTG, broken out and `done right'. `done right' means that RRDtool is magnitudes faster than MRTG and extremely configurable.
rwhois.py 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119869/
rwhois.py is a python module and application for doing recursive whois queries. The most noteworthy feature is the ability to parse whois records into a python object for use in your code.
samhain 1.7.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119815/
samhain is a daemon that can check file integrity, search the file tree for SUID files, and detect kernel module rootkits (Linux only). It can be used either standalone or as a client/server system for centralized monitoring, with strong (192-bit AES) encryption for client/server connections and the option to store databases and configuration files on the server. For tamper resistance, it supports signed database/configuration files and signed reports/audit logs. It has been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and Unixware.
Siege 2.57b11 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119829/
Siege is a regression test and benchmark utility. It can stress test a single URL with a user defined number of simulated users, or it can read many URLs into memory and stress them simultaneously. The program reports the total number of hits recorded, bytes transferred, response time, concurrency, and return status. Siege supports HTTP/1.0 and 1.1 protocols, GET and POST directives, cookies, transaction logging, and basic authentication. Its features are configurable on a per user basis.
simpleFFTfilter 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119785/
simpleFFTfilter is a small program to smooth sampled data like the FFT filter in *rigin would do. It is pretty fast, easily scriptable, and runs on every platform where the GSL is available.
Smeagol 0.19
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119850/
Smeagol is an easy-to-use httpd with CGI support and some other nice features. Its design goals were simplicity and the absence of bloat.
SMTP map 0.8BETA234 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119878/
SMTP map uses a fingerprinting technology to scan for the version of whatever SMTP server software which is running on a machine.
snortalog 1.9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119794/
Snortalog is a powerful Perl script that summarizes Snort logs, making it easy to view any network attacks detected by Snort. It can generate charts in HTML and text output. It works with all versions of Snort, and can analyze logs in three formats: syslog, fast, and full snort alerts.
Socrates Questionnaire Engine 1.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119837/
Socrates is a Java based questionnaire and survey engine and wizard that enables fast delivery of questionnaires to the Web. It runs under Jakarta's Tomcat. The backend for defining questionnaires is XML (a database is in progress).
Songer 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119821/
Songer is an ID3 tagger designed for the ROX desktop.
SourceWell 1.1.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119832/
SourceWell is a highly configurable, well-documented software announcement and retrieval system entirely writen in PHP3. It includes user authentication and autherization system (anonymous/user/editor/admin), sessions with and without cookies, high configurability, multilangual support, ease of administration, RDF-type document backend, advanced statistics, announcing mailing lists, application indexing by sections, and many other useful features.
storebackup 1.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119847/
storebackup is a backup utility that stores files on other disks. It includes several optimizations that reduce the disk space needed and improve performance, and unifies the advantages of traditional full and incremental backups. It includes tools for analyzing backup data and restoring. Once archived, files are accessible by mounting filesystems (locally, or via Samba or NFS). It is easy to install and configure.
Sulk 0.26
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119793/
Sulk aims to duplicate the gameplay of the first edition of the Space Hulk board game. It features support for one or two players.
Sval 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119490/
Sval is a Web service which charts the closing price of a stock listed on the American Bourses versus the closing values of the DJIA, NASDAQ, and S&P500 over a given period of time. The chart is returned to the user as a SOAP message attachment in PNG, JPEG, or SVG format. This project is a testbed for investigating a wide variety of Web service technologies by implementing the same Sval Web service using different architectures.
SWFTools 0.4.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119856/
SWFTools is a collection of code for handling Flash .SWF-files. This includes a merging tool (swfcombine), an extracting tool (swfextract), PDF/JPEG/PNG/AVI/WAV to SWF converters (pdf2swf, jpeg2swf, png2swf, avi2swf, and wav2swf), a text parsing tool (swfstrings), an SWF parser (swfdump), and a library for writing and reading SWFs (rfxswflib).
Syslinux 2.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119875/
SYSLINUX is a collection of boot loaders for the Linux operating system which operates off MS-DOS floppies, network servers using PXE firmware, or from CD-ROMs. 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 very small DOS or Linux program to create in the first place. It also includes MEMDISK, a tool to boot legacy operating systems from nontraditional media like PXE or CD-ROM.
Syslinux 2.04-pre2 (Test)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119783/
SYSLINUX is a collection of boot loaders for the Linux operating system which operates off MS-DOS floppies, network servers using PXE firmware, or from CD-ROMs. 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 very small DOS or Linux program to create in the first place. It also includes MEMDISK, a tool to boot legacy operating systems from nontraditional media like PXE or CD-ROM.
The Finch Project 0.1 ALPHA
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119843/
The Finch project is a multi-purpose data transformation system targeted to the Java platform. It leverages the power of the JDBC API and other Java-blessed specifications to enable users to write complex data manipulation jobs easily. Finch is built on a task-oriented architecture similar to Apache's Ant project. The goal is to help users easily script complex data manipulation jobs.
Timo's Rescue CD Set 0.9.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119801/
Timo's rescue CD set provides an easy way to generate bootable CDROMs with a ready-to-use rescue system on them. The system is designed to be fully customizable and easy to build. The rescue system includes reiserfs, parted, partimage, nmap, w3m, bash, sshd, telnetd, ftpd, and nfsd. It is based on Debian's "woody" release. LILO, syslinux, isolinux, and GRUB are supported. The project is evolving more and more into a "Debian on CD" project, which means that its use is not limited to a rescue CD; it is also possible to install a whole Debian system on CD.
transcode 0.6.4.20030409 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119834/
transcode is a text console video-stream processing tool. It supports elementary video and audio frame transformations. Some example modules are included to enable import of MPEG-1/2, Digital Video, and other formats. It also includes export modules for writing to AVI files with DivX, OpenDivX, XviD, Digital Video or other codecs. Direct DVD transcoding is also supported. A set of tools is available to extract and decode the sources into raw video/audio streams for import and to enable post-processing of AVI files.
Virtual Network Computing 4.3.0.1 (XFree86 4.x) http://freshmeat.net/releases/119790/
VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is, in essence, a remote display system which allows you to view a computing 'desktop' environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures. VNC is Open Source and is distributed under the GPL.
Vocabulary Trainer 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119723/
Vocabulary Trainer is a flashcard training system for learning words in foreign languages. You can use language modules to change the language of its interface and can choose one of three learning modes (Random, Often-unknown words, and Seldom-asked words).
xcave 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119788/
xcave is a wine cellar manager which allows you to browse wine stock, grouping bottles by country zones, add, modify, or suppress wine from a cellar, and print all stock. It is available in French, English, Dutch, and German.
XenIntranet 1.0.1 (Xen Directory)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119819/
XenIntranet is a modular intranet/extranet solution based on the Ampoliros PHP Web application platform. It takes advantage of Ampoliros features, like very fast deployment of solutions, a standard user interface, complete control, and so on.
XenIntranet 1.0.2 (Xen Todo)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119818/
XenIntranet is a modular intranet/extranet solution based on the Ampoliros PHP Web application platform. It takes advantage of Ampoliros features, like very fast deployment of solutions, a standard user interface, complete control, and so on.
XenIntranet 1.0.1 (Xen Notes)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119817/
XenIntranet is a modular intranet/extranet solution based on the Ampoliros PHP Web application platform. It takes advantage of Ampoliros features, like very fast deployment of solutions, a standard user interface, complete control, and so on.
Zoinks 0.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119863/
Zoinks is a programmer's editor and development environment for Unix/X11 systems. The editor has features similar to Mac text editors like MPW and CodeWarrior. It also has some features for HTML authoring. It supports inputting and editing multi-byte text (e.g. Japanese and other Asian languages).
Newsforge Reports
Novell jumps on the Forge bandwagon
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/1431222
- Lee Schlesinger - Network software vendor Novell, in a bid to gain market and mind share, has started up a Novell Forge Web site for developers. The initiative was announced this week at BrainShare 2003, the company's annual technical conference.
CEO conversation: Jim Curtin of Win4Lin publisher NeTraverse http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/10/1824235
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Jim Curtin, President and CEO of Win4Lin publisher NeTraverse, says, "We're seeing people who've moved to Linux workstations and are finding they have a 20% gap on average between the functionality they're used to in a Windows environment and what they get in Linux." Curtin claims Win4Lin is the best way to bridge that 20% gap; that with Win4Lin it is almost as easy to upgrade from Windows 98 to Linux as it is to ...
Affirmative action for open source
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/04/2231254
- Lee Schlesinger - Should a public agency use privately developed software when equally suitable open source alternatives exist? Maybe a better question is, should politicians set software evaluation guidelines for IT managers, or should software compete on its own merits? That's the question at issue in two US state legislatures this year, as well as in various nations around the world.
Newsforge Newsvac
Sun Microsystems Posts Small 3Q Profit
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/2143218
Computer server maker Sun Microsystems Inc. reported a small profit for its fiscal third quarter Wednesday despite a 10 percent drop in sales and the persistent downturn in spending by its corporate customers.
Necessary Censorship: Web Filtering with Open Source http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/2017245
In some cases and for some audiences, relying on the human safeguard isn't facing reality. Here are some tools you can use in those cases.
Users back Netware's Linux option
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/1853205
Novell customers and partners have welcomed the company's plan to offer its Netware operating system with either a Netware or Linux kernel from next autumn.