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[osdn everything] April 18, 2003
Date: Fri Apr 18 2003 - 04:45:27 EDT
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Slashdot
Firebird Name Debate Enters a New Stage
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/18/0344251
An anonymous reader writes "As many readers will know, [0]mozilla.org
was asked to change the name for their standalone browser, [1]Phoenix
as [2]another browser had the same name. After [3]months of discussion,
the new name was [4]announced as [1]Mozilla Firebird. Despite the new
name being approved by [5]AOL Legal, supporters of the [6]FirebirdSQL
database were quick to object (though the name is also used by [7]many
other people). A coincidentally named supporter of FirebirdSQL,
[8]IBPhoenix, put up a slightly immature [9]request for their readers
to participate in mass posting campaign targetting mozilla.org
developers' email accounts, newsgroups and even forums at independent
sites such as [10]MozillaZine and Slashdot. FirebirdSQL's official site
later [6]reiterated this message. However, IBPhoenix have now declared
this shock-and-awe stage of their campaign over, heralding it a
success. Their [11]second stage calls for a more focussed email protest
at just two of mozilla.org's members: Mitchell Baker (mozilla.org's
leader) and Asa Dotzler (announcer of the name change). In addition,
they ask their readers to move away from 'derogatory messages' and to
show more 'courtesy'. Unsurprisingly, the beleaguered admins of
affected sites such as MozillaZine have [12]welcomed this change of
direction. This is getting very interesting!"
Links
0.
http://www.mozilla.org/
1.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/phoenix/
2.
http://www.phoenix.com/en/solutions/connect/
3.
http://www.mozillazine.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=291
4.
http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=3075
5.
http://www.aol.com/
6.
http://www.firebirdsql.org/
7.
http://www.google.com/search?q=firebird
8.
http://www.ibphoenix.com/
9.
http://www.ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?a=ibphoenix&page=ibp_Mozilla0
10.
http://www.mozillazine.org/
11.
http://www.ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?a=ibphoenix&page=ibp_Mozilla2
12.
http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=3086
Should You Hire a Hacker?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/18/0211238
[0]fabioj writes "[1]Business Week has an article about [2]today's
debate at the RSA Security Conference held at the Moscone Center
attended by Kevin Mitnick and his 1995 trial prosecutor, Christopher
Painter. Interesting to note that Painter doesn't see Kevin Mitnick's
experiences as a deterrent for the 'up-and-coming technology workforce'
to criminally hack."
Links
0.
http://poemata.com
1.
http://www.businessweek.com/
2.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2003/tc20030416_7638_tc029.htm
Genderplay in Videogames
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/18/0127234
[0]thenovacrisis writes "[1]Game Girl Advance has an interesting
article about the [2]various female characters in videogames. She talks
about the important balance between alienation and identification, the
Aesthetics of Sexy Girls, and various MMORPGs. An interesting read for
all." A lot of games are compared, and issues raised. Good food for
thought for character design.
Links
0. mailto:thenovacrisis@hotmail.com
1.
http://www.gamegirladvance.com/
2.
http://www.gamegirladvance.com/archives/2003/04/16/genderplay_successes_and_failures_in_character_designs_for_videogames.html
Build Your Own Bar Stool Racer
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/1128255
[0]angkor sends in this site about the new and fascinating sport of
[1]bar stool racing.
Links
DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/17/2332233
Starrider writes "It seems the [0]DARPA grant for [1]OpenBSD and for
[2] University of Pennsylvania has been cancelled (?) immediately and
without warning. See the full story in [3]Theo's email and on
[4]deadly.org." Theo is left to only speculate why funding was suddenly
pulled. One also has to wonder what this means for the University of
Pennsylvania, since they were also in for a piece of the pie.
Links
0.
http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html
1.
http://www.openbsd.org/
2.
http://www.upenn.edu/
3.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2
4.
http://64.90.164.50/article.php3?sid=20030417181810
Are Rebates Scandalous?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/17/2236211
[0]theodp asks: "Motley Fool offers a dead-on take on the [1]computer
mail-in rebate fulfillment process--Once I receive your 'claim,' I will
begin to 'process' it. Assuming that you filled out all the information
correctly, and assuming nothing is missing, and assuming your claim
doesn't get lost somehow, and if you call or write a few times to check
on your claim's status, then I will mail your check within 10 to 12
weeks. Maybe. Or maybe it'll be four to six months. Or never." What are
your thoughts on rebates, and have any of you noticed who, at least in
the computing industry, is more trustworthy with rebates than others?
Update by [2]J: Here's the [3]short version of the article.
Links
0. mailto:theodp@aol.com
1.
http://www.fool.com/news/commentary/2003/commentary030410JF.htm
2.
http://jamie.mccarthy.vg/
3.
http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20030318.html
Phreaking Not Dead Yet
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/17/2210227
[0]santos_douglas writes "From [1]Wired comes this article about an
[2]exploit involving weak voicemail passwords and automated voice
recognition systems for accepting collect calls. The providers
involved, SBC and AT&T, don't seem too concerned about their customers
receiving tens of thousands in fraudulant charges from places like
Saudi Arabia and the Phillipines."
Links
0.
http://www.msu.edu/~santosdo
1.
http://www.wired.com/
2.
http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,58517,00.html
Nokia 3650 Released in US Market
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/17/2028238
A Swing Dancing Dork writes "Check out the new [0]Nokia 3650! Video and
still imaging, MMS support,Bluetooth,Triband, and polyphonic bliss all
wraped up in a uber-modern package." I was looking phones all morning
so I'm glad this showed up. Anyone have advice on cel phones? I'd like
IMAP, HTTP, and IM, as well as PDA functionality that can sync via
bluetooth to a Mac. I was looking at the Sony Ericsons, but this may
work as well.
Links
0. http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,,2273,00.html
Spiderman, Sony vs Marvel
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/17/1856247
An anonymous reader writes "It now looks like Marvel has a dispute with
Sony over Spiderman. This short [0] report tells how Sony is trying to
take over Spiderman. First we saw the [1] dispute between Marvel and
Stan Lee, and now this."
Links
0. http://www.drudgereport.com/marvel.htm
Real-time PC access on your PDA
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/17/189205
[0]Brooks P. writes "As seen in [1]this story on [2]The Register,
[3]Sproqit Technologies creates software that allows you to access your
desktop apps in real time over the Internet. No more synchronization.
This is accomplished with a Desktop Agent that runs on your (Windows
for now) PC, and a 200k Companion running on the PDA. The Desktop Agent
uses plug-ins to connect to the apps running on the PC, and the SDK
used to develop plug-ins is free. Oh, and the whole thing uses 128-bit
SSL for security and works over any connection method: 802.11, modem,
cell phone, etc."
Links
0. mailto:pantsb4shoes@yahoo.com
1.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/30322.html
2.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/
3.
http://www.sproqit.com/
Freshmeat
abcde 2.1.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119938/
abcde is a frontend to cdparanoia, wget, cd-discid, id3, and your favorite Ogg/MP3/Flac encoder (Oggenc is the default). It grabs an entire CD and converts each track to Ogg/MP3/Flac, then comments or ID3-tags each file, all with one command. It supports multiple output in a single CD read, volume normalization, gapless encoding (with Lame), parallelization, SMP, HTTP proxies, customizable filename organization and munging, playlist generation, and remote distributed encoding via distmp3.
Advanced Data Grid Control 3.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119924/
Advanced Data Grid Control is a Java applet which enables the display of data in rows and columns in Java and Web applications. It features Fast Sorting, Data Acquisition, URL Hyperlinks, Embedded Images, Column Totalling, and much more. It enables dynamic interaction with other page components via Javascript and special methods.
Advanced game library 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119989/
Adgali is a library designed to develop games. It uses the SDL library and provides 2D graphical functions, sound streaming and events functions, video streaming, AI engines, and map generator. This software is primarily designed for LINUX.
Argus Monitoring System 3.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119935/
Argus is a system and network monitoring application. It will monitor nearly anything you ask it to monitor (TCP + UDP applications, IP connectivity, SNMP OIDS, etc). It presents a clean, easy-to-view Web interface. It can send alerts numerous ways (such as via pager) and can automatically escalate if someone falls asleep.
Autopoweroff 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119893/
Autopoweroff is a script that shuts down a computer at a certain time if some conditions are met. It works well on home router/firewalls where the machine can be switched off every night and powered back up in the morning, and can be configured to not shut down until all other computers on the network fail to respond to pings.
BBStatus 2.0RC7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119917/
BBStatus is an IP accounting package, and an SNMP and IP monitoring tool for Linux. It collects, summarizes, and displays the values from its database. It can be used for IP accounting (using iptables, you can design various kinds of accounting filters), SNMP monitoring (collects data making SNMP requests), IP monitoring (using ping, it stores and summarizes values like min, avg, max reply time, and packet loss), and client traffic filtering (using various types of filters). It also provides user based access so that every user can log in and check the traffic from/through his/her IP addresses. It requires PostgreSQL, Apache with mod_auth_pgsql, Perl(Net::SNMP), and RRDTool.
bk_edit 0.6.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119959/
bk_edit is an easy to use bookmark manager and editor. The program can read, write, edit, create, manage, and convert the bookmarks of the most popular browsers. There is also a simple drag and drop interface for adding new bookmarks from a running browser in a very comfortable way. There are plugins for Mozilla, Opera, Galeon/XBEL, and Netscape.
Black E 0.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119907/
Black E is a black theme.
Booby 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119966/
Booby is a multiuser, multilanguage, fully themeable Web-based desktop application which provides online management for bookmarks, contacts, todo's, and notes. It is written in PHP and is mostly database independent by using the database abstraction layer 'ADOdb'. It is fully themeable (using Smarty).
C++ Persistent Objects 20030416-1958
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119860/
C++ Persistent Objects (CP30) is a library that provides of a couple of template classes for making native C++ class objects persistent. It is not very standard compliant and emphasizes access speed, so it might lend itself to a large multiplayer game server. It relies on predictable memory footprint of the class. It has been shown to work with GCC 3.2.2 on an i386 system.
Cajun 4.0 (release)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119890/
Cajun is a program that allows you to turn any computer into a massive audio jukebox for your car or home. It uses LCD displays/keypads, and supports infrared remote controls. Soundcard output is delivered to your (car or home) stereo for amplification. The software supports a playlist and shuffle mode.
cgi-wrap.c 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119957/
cgi-wrap.c allows you to execute CGI scripts under a special UID/GID in a chroot environment. Unlike suexec, it does not execute arbitrary (user-)scripts but only programs which are installed and configured by the system administrator. This allows you to remove some restrictions of suexec without lowering security.
Clarence 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119930/
Clarence is a small PyGTK-based frontend to the 'eval' function with some enhancements. It uses all Python's operators, math module functions and constants. It can handle all basic numerical formats including Dec, Hex, Bin, Oct, and ASCII. Expressions can be entered in an entry field without mouse operations (no more buttons).
darcs 0.9.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119950/
Darcs is an advanced revision control system along the lines of CVS or arch. It has two particularly distinctive features which differ from other revision control systems: each copy of the source is a fully functional branch, and underlying it is a consistent and powerful theory of patches (the latter being darcs' most important feature).
db4o 2.6 (Release)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119962/
db4o (database for objects) is a client/server Java object database. It features transactions, automatic class recognition, query-by-example, callback methods, memory files, cascade-on-delete, multi-threaded access, and Java Webstart and servlet support.
displayusers 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119920/
displayusers generates a user list based on text files in the user's area. If the data is present, the user is listed in the directory. The user may optionally display a photo and biographical information. The program also generates a default email address and home page, but the user may over-ride default settings. The entry in the list will disappear if the files are removed, so deleted accounts are automatically removed, reducing dead links.
DrWright 0.16
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119972/
DrWright is a program that forces you to take regular breaks from your computer. If you like whistles, bells, and a thousand options, this is not for you. Feel free to check out xwrits instead. DrWright monitors keyboard and mouse activity and displays a small meter in the notification area on your panel. When it starts blinking, you know it's time to take a break. If you don't, it will lock your screen to force a break.
DSPAM 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119977/
DSPAM is a server-side anti-spam agent for UNIX email servers. It masquerades as the email server's local delivery agent and filters/learns SPAM using a Bayesian statistical approach which provides an administratively maintenance-free, self-learning Anti-Spam service. Each email is broken down into its most interesting tokens, each assigned a spam probability. All probabilities are then combined to produce a statistical probability of spam. This approach, applied to a mature corpus of email, has the potential to yield a 99.5% success rate with only 0.03% chance of false positives.
Eagle Linux 2.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119897/
Eagle Linux is a Linux distribution that boots and runs directly from floppy or CD without requiring installation or repartitioning. It does not use a compressed file system, making file access faster. It detects and mounts IDE and SCSI hard drives in write mode, and offers an easier way for less experienced Linux users to create their own bootable floppy or CD from scratch. Based on Debian, it includes a DHCP client and drivers for networking.
Emacs Outline to HTML Converter 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119967/
Emacs Outline to HTML Converter generates reader-friendly HTML from an Emacs outline mode file.
Eternal Lands 0.6.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119970/
Eternal Lands is a multiplatform (Windows/Linux) 3D graphical online world that will evolve into a fully-featured MMORPG. It requires a hardware-accelerated video card that supports at least OpenGL 1.2.
ezmlm-www 1.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119944/
ezmlm-www provides a Web interface to ezmlm mailing list archives. It is MIME compliant (with attachments handling), multilingual (English, Spanish, Italian), and customizable using a stylesheet.
Fireflies Screensaver 2.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119912/
Fireflies is an OpenGL screensaver for Linux (using xscreensaver) and Windows. It also works as a standalone program, which allows you to move and rotate the camera. Swarms of bugs fly around the screen leaving colorful translucent trails that get blown around by the wind.
Gaudí - Database Visual Editor 0.5 (beta1) http://freshmeat.net/releases/119964/
Gaudí - Database Visual Editor is a Java application that allows you to visually design the tables of a database using a JDBC 2.0 (or higher) driver. It saves generated diagrams in XML format.
GNOME Crontab Editor 0.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119914/
The GNOME Crontab Editor is a graphical interface to the crontab program. You can use it to create, delete, and edit scheduled tasks using a simple point-and-click interface.
Gnome Predict 0.4.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119923/
Gnome Predict is a real time satellite tracking program for GNOME. The user can view the satellites in lists or on maps which can be saved and printed. Detailed information about upcoming passes can be predicted as well. The tracking routines are based on John Magliacane's text-based satellite tracking program Predict.
GraphicsMagick 1.0 Beta0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119898/
GraphicsMagick is a robust collection of tools and libraries which support reading, writing, and manipulating an image in over 88 major formats including popular formats like TIFF, JPEG, JPEG-2000,PNG, PDF, PhotoCD, SVG, and GIF. A high-quality 2D renderer is included, which provides a subset of SVG capabilities. C, C++, Perl, Java, PHP, Python, ColdFusion, and Ruby are supported. Originally based on ImageMagick, GraphicsMagick focuses on performance, minimizing bugs, and providing stable APIs and ABIs. It runs on all modern variants of Unix, Windows, VMS, and MacOS 9.
Gringotts 1.2.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119908/
Gringotts is a small utility that allows you to jot down sensitive data (passwords, PINs, small files, etc.) in an easy-to-read, easy-to-access, and most of all very secure form. Gringotts makes use of GTK+ 2 for the user interface, and lets the user choose from among eight strong encryption algorithms (RIJNDAEL-128, RIJNDAEL-256, SERPENT, TWOFISH, CAST-256, SAFER+, LOKI97, 3DES), two hashing algorithms (SHA1, RIPEMD 160) and two compression techniques (ZLib and BZip2) with four compression ratios. Moreover, it allows the user to use any file or an entire floppy disk as a password, as an alternative to the usual text string, giving additional choices.
H2O Rotisserie 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119960/
The Rotisserie is a structured online discussion system that provides an alternative to the traditional threaded-messaging model of most online discussions. It breaks discussions into synchronous rounds, slowing down the pace of the discussions, and controls who responds to whom, democratizing the discussions and making it very likely that someone will respond to every participant.
IsaViz 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119899/
IsaViz is a visual environment for browsing and authoring Resource Description Framework (RDF) models represented as graphs. It features a 2.5D user interface allowing smooth zooming and navigation in the graph; creation and editing of graphs by drawing ellipses, boxes, and arcs; RDF/XML, Notation 3 and N-Triple export; and also SVG and PNG export.
Java Aspect Components 0.10.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119945/
JAC is a Java framework that provides some facilities to achieve Aspect-Oriented Programming and to separate concerns when programming (distributed) applications (for instance, the persistence or authentication aspects can be considered independently from what the application is doing). It provides a runtime execution environment that supports Aspect-Oriented applications written with the JAC framework that provides visualisation, administration, and configuration tools for the applications and for their aspects.
JFormula 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119841/
JFormula is a Java library for evaluating mathematical expression. It supports the +, -, *, ^, and % operators, boolean expressions, a short expression format (2x+3y), and variables. The evaluation tree is produced by a pluggable parsing system, and evaluation optimization for symbol value changes is provided. It includes a standard library with 17 mathematical functions, can delegate unknown functions or symbols, and can extend or add new libraries dynamically. Many API samples are included. It is multithreaded and JDK 1.1 compliant.
JRioUtil 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119991/
JRioUtil is a GUI utility that works on top of the rioutil tools to interface with Sonicblue's series of USB MP3 players. Features include managing the internal memory of the player, file system browsing and transfer to the player, and automatic conversion of various formats to MP3.
Kanatest 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119931/
Kanatest is a simple, GTK 2-based kana drill tool. It offers three drill modes: hiragana, katakana, and mixed mode. The tester shows random kana characters and waits until you enter the romaji equivalent in an entry field. At the end, statistics are provided.
KdeGiFT 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119948/
KdeGift is the filesharing client you were waiting for! It uses giFT/openFT as a filesharing protocol, and the GUI is very user-friendly and intuitive.
libGringotts 1.2.1pre1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119909/
libGringotts is a small, easy-to-use, thread-safe C library originally developed for Gringotts. Its purpose is to encapsulate data in an encrypted and compressed file. It uses strong cryptographic algorithms (RIJNDAEL 128/256, SERPENT, TWOFISH, CAST256, SAFER+, LOKI97, and 3DES for encryption, and SHA1 and RIPEMD-160 for hashing) to ensure the data are as safe as possible, and allow the user to have the complete control over all the encryption, hashing, and compression algorithms used in the process. It also provides functions for encrypting temporary files and to securely manage memory. It is based upon libmcrypt and mhash, and supports pkgconfig.
libQGLViewer 1.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119958/
libQGLViewer is an open source C++ library which enables you to quickly start the development of a new 3D application. It is designed for 3D developers, who can very easily display and move around a 3D scene by simply providing the openGL orders that define their 3D geometry. The viewer is designed to be as general as possible and is not designed for a specific 3D application. It provides some useful classical functionalities such as a camera trackball, screenshot saving, mouse manipulated frames, stereo display, keyFrames and more.
Mailgust 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119954/
Mailgust is a mailing list manager, newsletter distribution tool, and message board system. All sent mail is stored on a Web message board for visitors to read. It features unlimited lists, many different read and write permission settings, HTML newsletters, post approval, no timeouts, a Web archive, list importing, notification management, and much more.
multitail 1.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119975/
multitail lets you view one or multiple files like the original tail program. The difference is that it creates multiple windows on your console (with ncurses). It can also use colors while displaying the logfiles, for faster recognition of which lines are important and which are not. It supports regular expressions. It has interactive menus for editing given regular expressions and deleting and adding windows.
Natural Language Processing Toolkit 0.2.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/119965/
Natural Language Processing Toolkit is part of the Traduki Machine Translation Project. It provides a basic framework for working with Natural Language Processing, like tokens structures, regular expression parsing, string comparison by similarity, Unicode functions, etc. Although initially developed for machine translation purposes, it can be used in many different fields, such as spam filtering and text adventure games.
OpenRasmol 2.7.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119918/
OpenRasmol is the open-sourced Molecular Graphics Visualisation Tool.
OpenSSH LDAP Public key patch 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119936/
The OpenSSH LDAP Public key patch provides an easy way of centralizing user authentication by using an LDAP server for retrieving public keys instead of ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2. It uses the standard core.schema and strongAuthenticationUser object class, which can simplify login centralization but also introduces serious security flaws if the LDAP server is not correctly configured.
OTRS 1.1 RC1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119879/
OTRS (Open Ticket Request System) is an open source Ticket Request System and email management system with many features to manage customer telephone calls and email. The system is built to allow your support, sales, pre-sales, billing, internal IT, helpdesk, etc. department to react quickly to inbound inquiries. It is useful for people who receive many emails and want to answer them with a team of agents. It has been tested on Linux, Solaris, AIX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Mac OS 10.x.
Peinture Le Jeu 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119913/
Peinture is an small arcade network game for Linux and other Unix-like systems. This game is based on a 3D display system which is portable, simple, and efficient. The network protocol allows real time playing over a LAN or the Internet.
Photo Gallery Wobject 2.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119980/
The Photo Gallery Wobject creates a configurable photo gallery that works in correlation with the image manager. It creates a page of thumbnails of images that are added by name to the Photo Gallery. You may specify thumbnail height and width as well as spacing between images, the number of thumbnails per row that you wish to display, and text to go along with your image. In addition, this Wobject allows you to directly upload images to the image manager, automatically add uploaded images to the photo gallery from which it was uploaded, and assign a group with permission to upload to a particular photo gallery.
PHP Thumbnail AutoIndex 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119916/
PHP Thumbnail AutoIndex is a thumbnail-index generation script designed to be a companion to mod_autoindex for Apache. It generates a thumbnail "gallery" of images contained in a directory, which is much like what mod_autoindex generated indexes.
phpBandwidth Monitor 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119873/
phpBandwidth monitors a particular network interface (eth0, eth1, ppp0, etc.) and provides a realtime graph showing bandwidth consumption on a server.
phpIRC Client 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119988/
phpIRC Client is an IRC client written in PHP thanks to PHP-GTK.
phpMyFAQ 1.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119915/
phpMyFAQ is a multilingual, completely database-driven FAQ system. It also offers a content management system, flexible multi-user support, a news system, user tracking, language modules, templates, extensive XML support, PDF support, a backup system, and an easy to use installation script.
Pine 4.55
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119941/
Pine® is a tool for reading, sending, and managing electronic messages. Pine was designed by the Office of Computing & Communications at the University of Washington specifically with novice computer users in mind, but it can be tailored to accommodate the needs of "power users" as well.
Pixory Beta 2.10 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119952/
Pixory is a "personal image server". It allows you to store your photos on your own PC and access them, compose them into albums, and share them anywhere on the Internet. It presents a standard Web interface through which you can browse and organize your photos. All user-entered album data is stored in XML. Pixory displays image metadata such as the EXIF information embedded in image files by most digital cameras and scanners.
popsneaker 0.6.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119934/
Popsneaker is a mailfilter for remote filtering of POP3 email accounts. It is mostly useful for computers which have a dial-in connection to the internet. You can define rules to select emails, which you don't want to download to your local box. This is a simple and effective way to get rid of spam, advertisings and other kinds of unwanted mail. The filter rules are very flexible and powerful, but still easy to handle. The main ruletypes are using regular expressions to deny, to accept or to make an assumption on the mail.
Project Assistant 0.2.3a2-i18n (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/119937/
The Project Assistant (prass) is a Web tool designed for use in the software change management process. It provides a Web interface for feature/support/change and bug requests support for projects that are separated from each other. Each project has its own list of developers (with different roles and permissions). The developer can perform operations depending on his permissions and role in the project.
PyKota Print Quota System 1.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119990/
PyKota is a centralized and extensible print quota system for the Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS). It features per-printer user and group quotas, automated email warning to users and quota administrator, commandline tools which mimic the disk quota utilities, and much more.
R 1.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119911/
R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is similar to S, which was developed at Bell Laboratories by John Chambers et al. It provides a wide variety of statistical and graphical techniques (linear and nonlinear modelling, statistical tests, time series analysis, classification, clustering, etc.). R is designed as a true computer language with control-flow constructions for iteration and alternation, and it allows users to add additional functionality by defining new functions. For computationally intensive tasks, Fortran and C code can be linked and called at run time.
Raptor RDF Parser Toolkit 0.9.10 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/119955/
Raptor is the RDF Parser Toolkit for Redland, a C library for the RDF/XML and N-Triples RDF formats. It can use expat or libxml2 as available, and supports the latest RDF updates, such as datatyping and collections.
ROX-Session 0.1.19
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119926/
ROX-Session is a simple and easy-to-configure session manager. It allows you to change window managers without logging out (and copes with window managers crashing) and provides a graphical configuration box for your X settings (default font, cursor blinking, mouse behavior, etc.). The default session starts ROX-Filer managing the background and one panel, but it can be easily reconfigured for other purposes.
Sesame 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119900/
Sesame is an Open Source RDF Schema-based repository and querying facility. It is a scalable, modular architecture for persistent storage and querying of RDF and RDF Schema. It supports two query languages (RQL and RDQL), and can use main memory or PostgreSQL, MySQL and Oracle 9i databases for storage.
SimpleForum 3.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119853/
SimpleForum is a forum that is designed to work on all HTTP servers which support CGI. It is very easy to configure, and does not require the user to have knowledge of any programming language. It has all the basic functions that a forum should have and a lot more. Additionally, it allows you to change the appearance of the forum (font, font color/size, background color/image, etc.) to your liking. You can also set different languages.
SNMP Trap Translator 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119969/
SNMPTT is an SNMP trap handler written in Perl for use with the NET-SNMP/UCD-SNMP snmptrapd program. Received traps are translated into friendly messages using variable substitution. Output can be to STDOUT, text log file, syslog, MySQL (Linux/Windows), or a Windows ODBC database. User defined programs can also be executed.
Speedtouch Installer 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119895/
Speedtouch Installer is a graphical (with Tcl/Tk) and text based interface for simplifying the process of setting up PPPoE connections with USB Speed Touch ADSL modems. It installs drivers, makes system configuration changes, and creates accounts with a very easy and intuitive interface.
SPIN Distributed Software Verification Tool 4.0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/119906/
Spin is an award winning (ACM) software tool that can be used for the formal verification of distributed software systems. The tool was developed at Bell Labs in the original Unix group of the Computing Sciences Research Center.
SWT MVC Wrapper 0.1 alpha
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119894/
SWT MVC Wrapper is a library of widgets that wrap around Eclipse's SWT widgets and offers a Model View Controller (MVC) model. SWT is a native Java widget library provided by the Eclipse IDE.
TAU 2.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119922/
TAU (Tuning and Analysis Utility) is the only option for C++ programmers who want profiling that understands per-instance, per-class, and per-template class information. It is a good way to get portable access to hardware counters.
teleMon 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119929/
teleMon is an Internet bandwidth quota monitor that allows you to keep an eye on the amount of bandwith spend each hour. It keeps track of the last 30 days, and provides a snapshot each hour. The information is displayed in numerical values and in bar graphs.
tentakel 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119932/
Tentakel is a simple program that executes the same command on many hosts in parallel using various backends like ssh or rsh. It is designed to handle different types of remote systems and aims to be extremely interoperable with Unix-like operating systems.
TextureOps 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119896/
TextureOps is a set of plug-ins for the GIMP related to texture. Compositing a feathered layer on top of another layer slightly reduces the contrast in the the feathered region, noticably modifying the texture. TextureOps contains a "Sharpen Feathering" plug-in to counteract this effect. Also in TextureOps is a modified version of the standard "Make Seamless" plug-in that produces a more uniform result, based on similar principals. Finally, TextureOps provides a simple script for synthesizing a tilable texture of arbitrary size from a sample using the Sharpen Feathering plug-in.
Trusted Debian 0.9.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119976/
The Trusted Debian project aims to create a highly secure but usable Linux platform. It brings together security solutions including kernel patches, compiler patches, security related programs, and techniques.
Tux Commander 0.4.28
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119943/
Tux Commander is a GTK2 file manager with two side-by-side panels. Some of its functions are inspired by Total Commander. The main goal of this project is to create a powerful user-friendly file manager for Linux.
TwICE 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119951/
TwICE is a Java implementation of the Information and Content Exchange (ICE) protocol version 1.1. It implements an ICE syndicator (publisher) and ICE subscriber. TwICE may be useful as a reference implementation or a public syndicator and subscriber for testing.
Virtual Universe / Virtual Worlds 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119968/
VU/VW is a 3D cyberspace which offers more possibilities than just chat: people can meet each other, build houses and worlds, and interact with each other.
VULCAN 4.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119919/
VULCAN (Viscous Upwind aLgorithm for Complex flow ANalysis) offers computational fluid dynamics for subsonic speed through hypersonic turbulent reacting and non-reacting flows on a variety of serial and parallel computational platforms. The computational cost of propulsion flow analysis is reduced through the use of special turbulent wall treatments, multi-grid methods for elliptic and space marching schemes, and conditioning of the governing equations to reduce numerical stiffness. Physical modeling capabilities are improved through the inclusion of models for compressibility, Reynolds stress anisotropies, turbulent diffusivity, finite rate chemistry, and turbulence/chemistry interaction effects. VULCAN can simulate two-dimensional, three-dimensional, or axi-symmetric multi-block problems.
Webtop 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119973/
Webtop is a Web-based POP3 email client that includes SSL encryption, Mozilla support, many email filter options, spam fighting features, custom folders, email import/export, fast searching, undeliverable email bounce, intelligent read receipts, and email-to-PDF generation. The Webtop also includes a calendar, notepad, online file storage, automated email reminders, contacts, mailing lists, and Web-based administration. One installation can support multiple users and each user can set up as many POP3 accounts as they need.
white_dune 0.22beta76 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119983/
VRML97 (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) is the ISO standard for displaying 3D data over the web via browser plugins. It has support for animation, realtime interaction and multimedia (image, movie, sound). Dune can read VRML97 files, display and let the user change the scenegraph/fields, and load and store x3d (next generation VRML xml format) files if configured to work with the nist.gov x3d translators. It also has support for stereoscopic view via "quadbuffer"-capable stereo visuals.
WWWdb 0.8.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119949/
WWWdb allows you to set up an application-framework which is based on a database. It allows per-user sessions and provides the ability to insert, update, delete, and browse your database-tables. It uses plugins to ensure data-integrity and to define the layout for every application-form. It supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, InterBase, ODBC and Oracle. It is internationalized and contains translations for English and German, and has a wizard for the creation of applications over the Web and supports direct download from the database to Palm PDAs.
Xaw3d 1.5E
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119927/
Xaw3d is a general-purpose replacement for the Athena toolkit which adds a 3D appearance and support for XPM images.
Xfprot 0.15beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119986/
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.
XML Security Library 1.0.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119946/
XML Security Library is a C library based on LibXML2. It provides an implementation for major XML security standards: XML Digital Signature and XML Encryption.
XNam 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119910/
XNam is a service provider for the Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI). It provides Java applications with a naming service that reads its information from XML files and is accessible through the JNDI interface.
XRoar 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119933/
XRoar is an emulator for the Dragon 32, Dragon 64, and Tandy Coco2 computers all originally released in the early '80s. The emulator runs under Unix-like OSes (using SDL for video and OSS for audio) and the GP32 handheld gaming device.
YABS 0.4 Beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119925/
YABS is a template-based blog system. It uses a file-based template system, with markers for positioning the YABS elements. This allows users to place specific elements anywhere on the page. The provided template is both XHTML and CSS compliant, and all output from the classes is XHTML compliant. YABS allows uploadable CSS files to be used as subthemes, which are viewer selectable via a drop down list (again, the template dictates where this appears). It also allows viewer comments, and these can be disabled on a site-wide, or per-blog basis. It also supports anti-spam email display, using Dan Benjamin's email encoder.
Newsforge Reports
NewsForge proposes fix for MS Office 2K registration bug!
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/17/189231
- Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - After looking over proposed fixes and workarounds to the latest Microsoft Office 2000 registration bug detailed in a story at The Register titled Office 2000 SR-1 registration bug strikes corporates, NewsForge has developed a much simpler -- and very permanent -- solution to the problem.
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