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[osdn everything] April 20, 2003
Date: Sun Apr 20 2003 - 04:45:27 EDT
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April 20, 2003 EVERYTHING SERIES
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Slashdot
Nuke-Lobbing
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/19/2259256
SlideGuitar writes "The following is a fascinating article about how
the Navy in the 1950s, wanting to assure that it had a carrier based
nuclear force, used A1 Skyraider (single engine propellor driven
aircraft) to [0]lob nuclear bombs using a manuever called the "goofy
loop" (read the article.) The goofy loop put about seven miles between
them and a Mark 7 nuclear device at detonation. The pilots knew that
(1) they couldn't get far enough away to survive, and (2) if they did
survive there probably wouldn't be a carrier to go back to anyway.
There are lots of emails from pilots who did the manuever and what they
thought about the whole business."
Links
0. http://www.danford.net/spadguy.htm
T-Shirt Cannon
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/19/2249250
[0]SnakeStu writes "If you thought the T-shirts at ThinkGeek were cool,
imagine them [1]flying 160 feet through the air (courtesy of
[2]Crawford International Theatrical Corporation [CITC])."
Links
0.
http://www.openmusicregistry.org/
1.
http://www.citcfx.com/prod_teelauncher.htm
2.
http://www.citcfx.com/
Building a Bigger Search Engine
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/19/1916209
[0]skreuzer writes "Wired is running a [1]story about a distributed web
crawler called [2]Grub. People who choose to download and run the
client will assist in building the Web's largest, most accurate
database of URLs. This database will be used to improve existing search
engines' results by increasing the frequency at which sites are crawled
and indexed. Conceivably, Grub's distributed network could enable state
information to be gathered on every document on the Internet, each and
every day."
Links
0. mailto:skreuzer@f2o.org
1.
http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,58497,00.html
2.
http://www.grub.org/
Open Source Experiment Management Software? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/19/2352232
Alea asks: "I do a lot of empirical computer science, running new algorithms on hundreds of datasets, trying many combinations of parameters, and with several versions of many pieces of software. Keeping track of these experiments is turning into a nightmare and I spend an unreasonable amount of time writing code to smooth the way. Rather than investing this effort over and over again, I have been toying with writing a framework to manage everything, but don't want to reinvent the wheel. I can find commercial solutions (often specific to a particular domain) but does anyone know of an open source effort? Failing that, does anyone have any thoughts on such a beast?"
AMD Athlon 64 Performance Preview
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/19/199242
[0]k-hell writes "It seems like [1]X-bit Labs have [2]gotten their
hands on an 'engineering sample of the AMD Athlon 64 2800+ processor'.
Damage at Tech Report is [3]writing that 'This is really fun, but I am
a little concerned about their memory latency numbers.'"
Links
0.
http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~kjetihel/
1.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/
2.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/athlon64.html
3.
http://tech-report.com/onearticle.x/5026
The Science of the Matrix
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/19/1825217
KamehamehaWarrior writes "Peter B. Lloyd, author of [0]Taking The Red Pill: Science, Philosophy, and Religion in The Matrix, believes that many of the plot developments in "The Matrix" that seem to contradict the laws of physics, biology, etc. can actually [1]be explained with a closer look at the science. He addresses issues such as "Can humans really be an energy source? How does the Matrix know what fried chicken taste like? Why do the rebels have to enter and exit the Matrix via a telephone system (that doesn't actually exist)?"" Links
Time to Face the Music
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/19/1749200
Mortimer.CA writes "[0]The Toronto Star has an article up about the
[1]ailing recording industry with some possible scenarios for solving
the problem(s). Choice quotation: 'We must ask ourselves what Elvis
would do to stop the theft of music via the Internet, now so widespread
and so brazen that it makes the Baghdad looters look like
trick-or-treaters.'"
Links
Belgium Rolls Out Java ID Cards
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/19/1741259
An anonymous submitter points us to this page describing [0]Belgium's rollout of Java-based smart cards as a national ID card. Links
0. http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2003-04/sunflash.20030410.2.html
UPS to Deploy Ultra-Connected Wireless Handhelds http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/19/1658211
[0]Lyle E. Dodge writes "According to this article at Yahoo.com Symbol
Technologies announced (on Tax Day of all days) that in 2004 UPS would
deploy 70,000 [1]handheld delivery computers based on Symbol's Fourth
Generation hardware. Color screens, 128 megs of RAM, and uber-connected
(GPS, GPRS, CDMA, WiFi, Bluetooth, Infrared, Analog modem), and, of
course, the familiar barcode scanner. The obvious /. question is: Can
we run Linux on Brown? Maybe UPS can fund an OSS startup, "BrownHat"?
We'll see..."
Links
0. mailto:slashdot.org@lyledodge.com
U.S. Sides with Record Labels Over DMCA Subpoena Powers http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/19/1647222
[0]Injektilo* writes "The [1]Washington Port is [2]reporting that the
U.S. government sided with the recording industry in its dispute with
Verizon Communications Inc. on Friday, saying a digital-copyright law
invoked by record labels to track down Internet song-swappers did not
violate the U.S. Constitution." We've been [3]following this case.
Links
0.
http://www.injektilo-ftp.com
1.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
2.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53387-2003Apr18.html
3.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/21/2031250&tid=158
Freshmeat
bash programmable completion 20030419 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120109/
Since v2.04, bash has allowed you to intelligently program and extend its standard completion behavior to achieve complex command lines with just a few keystrokes. Imagine typing ssh [Tab] and being able to complete on hosts from your ~/.ssh/known_hosts files. Or typing man 3 str [Tab] and getting a list of all string handling functions in the UNIX manual. mount system: [Tab] would complete on all exported file-systems from the host called system, while make [Tab] would complete on all targets in Makefile. This project was conceived to produce programmable completion routines for the most common Linux/UNIX commands, reducing the amount of typing sysadmins and programmers need to do on a daily basis.
CacheMate 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120131/
CacheMate is a database for tracking GPS cache hunts. You can store information about caches or benchmarks, decode hints, and transfer data between CacheMate and the MemoPad application. Registered users can also import EasyGPS LOC and GPX files, available from Geocaching.com.
chgrep 1.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120125/
chgrep searches the input files (or standard input if no files are named) for oldpattern and changes them to newpattern (grep doesn't support this). You can use .lock files (or another extend). It is useful in (but not limited to) mail servers.
chpox 0.4a (Single)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120133/
chpox provides transparent checkpointing and restarting of processes on Linux clusters. It was originally designed for recovering of tasks that takes long execution time (i.e. numerical simulations) in case of system crashes, power failures, etc. It works with MOSIX and openMosix , is SMP safe, works as a kernel module, does not require kernel patches or program recompiling/relinking, and supports virtual memory, regular open files, current directory, termios, and child processes.
Coriander 0.31 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120121/
Coriander is a GUI that let you control your 1394 digital video camera interactively. It features SDL display, FTP image posting, file saving, and Real streaming. It is for IIDC cameras, not for consumer grade DV cameras.
CYCAS 2.40
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120116/
CYCAS is a 2D+3D CAD package for drafting and design in high quality and for creating 3D presentations and technical illustrations easily. Some of its features include an easy-to-handle user interface, special architectural elements and functions, a WYSIWYG display, printing, plotting, import and export filters, photorealistic rendering with POV-Ray, documentation and tutorials, example drawings, and an extendable 2D/3D symbols library.
dchub 0.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120107/
dchub is a Direct Connect hub clone. It resembles an IRC server with some extra features dedicated to file sharing.
DocBook Doclet 0.41
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120117/
The DocBook Doclet creates DocBook SGML or XML from Java source documentation or HTML files. It is helpful if you want to print reference handbooks of your API. Normally it is used with the Javadoc tool but it can also be used as a standalone application to convert HTML to DocBook. Additionally it comes with a Swing application to manage documentation projects and to transform the resulting DocBook files to PDF.
dominigue 0.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120136/
dominigue is a DOM engine which implements W3C DOM Level 2 in GObject and other facilities of GLib.
GatorMail 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120110/
GatorMail is a Java Servlet-based Webmail application built on the Jakarta Struts framework. It was originally developed to meet the needs of the University of Florida. Efficient interaction with the mail store along with a low support overhead and simple, user-friendly interface are the primary goals of the project.
GGTL -- Generic Game-Tree Library 1.0pre2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/120113/
GGTL is a C library to help people program computer games. It is targeted in particular at two-player zero-sum games with perfect information. Examples are Chess, Checkers, Go, Othello (Reversi), Tic-Tac-Toe, and Connect-4. For such games, GGTL can provide Alpha-Beta game-tree search (both fixed-depth and iterative deepening), unlimited undo, and saving to/resuming from files. Two example games, Othello and Tic-Tac-Toe, are included.
GStreamer 0.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120112/
GStreamer is a streaming media library and set of tools that enable applications to share a common set of plugins for things like video decoding and encoding, audio encoding and decoding, audio and video filters, audio visualisation, Web streaming and anything else that streams in real-time or otherwise. It is modelled after research software worked on at the Oregon Graduate Institute.
HASAS 1.5.1 (development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120142/
HASAS (HydroAcoustic Signal Analysis System) is a modular system for passive sonar signal analysis. It can be used for biological research or surveillance, for example. The soundcard is used as input device, and it currently includes all the very basic functionality; beamformed audio, direction finding, level histogram, LOFAR/DEMON (narrowband spectrogram), wideband spectrogram, and raw audio.
MetalServe 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120141/
MetalServe is a standalone DCC file server that can be used to share files on Internet Relay Chat (IRC) networks such as EFNet and Undernet. Unlike the only available similar Unix program, iroffer, which offers "packs" of files, MetalServe offers single files similar to the way the SDFind, SPRJukebox, and OmenServe scripts for mIRC, a Windows IRC client, work.
Perl webmail 3.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120139/
Perl webmail is a CGI script that interfaces with a POP mail server that you provide. It can check mail, read messages, reply, forward, delete, send and receive attachments, and it doesn't have to be a local mail server. This script talks strictly POP3 for receiving and SMTP for sending mail. It also supports storage for mail folders, contacts, and calendar notes.
phpOpenTracker 1.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120108/
phpOpenTracker is a framework solution for the analysis of Web site traffic and visitor behaviour. It features a logging engine that, either invoked as a Web bug by an HTML image tag or embedded with two lines of code into your PHP application, logs each request to a Web site into a database. One installation can track an arbitrary number of Web sites. Through its API, you can easily access the gathered data and perform complex operations on it (for instance, the analysis of your visitors' click paths).
Python-LDAP 2.0.0pre09
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120126/
python-ldap provides an object-oriented API to access LDAP directory servers from Python programs. It wraps the OpenLDAP 2.x libs for that purpose.
QTParted 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120115/
QTParted is a Partition Magic clone. It uses libparted for raw disk access, so you need parted installed to use it. The goal of QTParted is to fully wrap all function of parted and create a user friendly PM clone for Linux.
QtRadio 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120127/
QtRadio (formerly KDERadio) lets you listen to the radio, add stations, etc.
R5 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120132/
r5 is a bot that runs as a client on IRC networks, and allows you to make it listen to commands. An easy way to add your own commands is available.
Rack 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120111/
Rack is a theme which makes windows look like audio racks. Just for fun, for the audio addicted people. Not very useful, not finished yet, but the idea is there.
ReMedial 0.2.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120118/
Remedial aims to be an easy-to-use player for Windows media files under Linux. It is a front-end to the excellent avifile library, and provides a look and feel similar to that of Realplayer.
Remote Internet Connect 2.0.93
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120119/
Remote Internet Connect simplifies connecting a Linux box to the Internet from another machine running any operating system. A simple GUI allows the user to quickly connect, disconnect, or see who is online.
Rolo 008
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120134/
Rolo keeps track of contacts and displays with a text-based menu. It strives to be a well-constructed tool for complementing text-based email programs. It utilizes the vCard version 3.0 format for storing its contacts and interfaces with the end-user through an NCurses front-end.
Run Time Access 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120105/
RTA (Run Time Access) gives you runtime access to the data in your program. It is a specialized, memory-resident database interface. It is not a stand-alone server but a library which attaches to your program and offers up your program's internal structures and arrays as database tables. It uses a subset of the Postgres protocol and is compatible with the Postgres bindings for C, PHP, and the Postgres commandline tool, psql.
Simkin for C++ 2.19
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120140/
Simkin is a simple scripting language that can be used to customize C++ applications such as games. Scripts can be embedded within files such as XML or in databases.
Simple Python Blogger 0.6.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120124/
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. The script also generates an RSS feed of the recent subjects and their authors.
Soapbox 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120106/
Soapbox is a (sandbox) library that allows to restrict processes to write only to those places you want. By preloading the Soapbox library (or using the provided soapbox-script), you can run programs and monitor which writes/changes are made, without them really happening. Typically do a safe succesful 'make install' that doesn't break halfway and doesn't pollute your system.
Socrates Questionnaire Engine 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120123/
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).
TrackStudio Enterprise 2.5 SP2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/119940/
TrackStudio Enterprise is a powerful and scalable multi-platform defect tracking system based on Java. It includes a Web-based workflow manager and bug filter (AND, OR, and NOT). It supports custom fields, multi-level security, rule-based email notification, PDF reports with charts, locales, and timezones. It allows you to organize your database into projects and subprojects, and works with any database.
WindowLab 1.09
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120129/
WindowLab is a small and simple window manager of novel design. It is click-to-focus, shares its window depth policy with the Amiga, and has a window resizing/reshaping method similar to that of 8-1/2 from Plan 9. It maintains the illusion of direct manipulation by constraining the mouse pointer when appropriate (i.e., when a window cannot be dragged any further in one direction). The pointer is also constrained vertically (effectively making the target menu items infinitely tall according to Fitts's law) when it is in the menubar to reduce pointing time.
X-ChaMan 0.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120135/
X-ChaMan is a chapter manager for AVI/DIVX movies. It can display an easy-to-use GUI menu providing a choice of language (for BIVX) and chapter selection. X-ChaMan runs with mplayer or Xine.
Newsforge Reports
LinuxISO.org: a valuable resource for new users
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/08/1833251
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - "Where do I get Linux?" is one of the most frequent questions we get through our editors@linux.com email address. An excellent answer I think we'll be giving in the future is, "From LinuxISO.org." Assuming the site survives, that is.
Linux Advisory Watch - April 18th, 2003
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/18/1045223
- Benjamin D. Thomas - This week, advisories were released for openssl, mutt, ethereal, xfsdump, kdegraphics, lprng, gs-common, epic, lpr, rinetd, glibc, evolution, gdkhtml, eyeofgnome, samba, and krb5. The distributors include Conectiva, Debian, Immunix, Mandrake, Red Hat, and Turbo Linux.
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.
Newsforge Newsvac
Free software opens computing to Hindi speakers
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/19/1840213
IndLinux.org - a non-profit network meant to promote Indian language solutions for free software - has announced the launch of IndLinux Milan v0.37, a Hindi interface to Gnome, the graphical user interface (GUI) of the GNU/Linux operating system.
Time for a new installation paradigm, Part 2 http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/19/1838237
This is Part 2 in a series calling for a radically new approach to Linux software-installation. Part 1 examined many (though not all) of the problems with the current approaches to software-installation. This time, we'll take a closer look at the technological considerations behind one of the biggest issues for software installation: shared libraries.
Novell's CEO issues an apology for 'immature' Linux comment http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/19/1832207
Novell Inc. Chairman and CEO Jack Messman has issued a written apology and clarification after angering some members of the Linux community when he called Linux "an immature operating system" in an interview with Computerworld earlier this week.
Texterity promotes SVG format via free file conversion http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/19/1754204
Anonymous Reader writes "Texterity has introduced a free web-based service to provide file conversion from PDF into SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) format in an effort to promote an alternative to Adobe's PDF format. SVG is a standard overseen by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)."
New Microsoft Spokesman Emphasizes Trustworthy Computing http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/19/1747246
Anonymous Reader writes "Speaking at the Windows 2003 launch. The new Microsoft Information Spokesman has emphasised the stability of their latest OS."
Microsoft kills open-source bill
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/19/1747218
The software industry is slamming the door on a push for Oregon government agencies to use open-source software -- computer programs that don't carry recurring fees or usage restriction
LFY visits the office
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/19/1745231
Clinton Goveas writes: Linux For You, India's first, and currently the only, magazine devoted to GNU/Linux and open source has just announced the contents planned for their May 2003 issue. Indian businesses may have never had something this good!
IncaGold and Hyperion port to Linux, Amiga, Mac http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/19/1742251
Mike Bouma writes "IncaGold GmbH and Hyperion Entertainment VOF announced today that they entered into a comprehensive license agreement which will see many of IncaGold's current and future entertainment software titles converted for the Amiga, Linux and Macintosh platforms."
Interview with Eagle Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/18/2347245
Anonymous Reader writes "Eagle Linux doesn't reach the news sites very often but your visitors might be interested in a quick email exchange between Tux Reports and Eagle Linux."
DansGuardian 2.7.0 Alpha
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/18/1539255
DansGuardian is a web content filter which currently runs on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Solaris. It filters the actual content of pages based on many methods including phrase matching, PICS filtering and URL filtering. It does not purely filter based on a banned list of sites like lesser totally commercial filters.
Thinkgeek
Computing: Bay-Mounted 6-in-1 Card Reader
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/5ee4/
Electronics: PRISMIQ MediaPlayer
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/video/5e77/
Computing: USB 2.0 Kit
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5eda/
Cube Goodies: Nerf Air Tech 2000
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/5e15/
Gadgets: Powerball Gyroscope
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5ea1/
Gadgets: 3D Green Laser Show
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5e80/
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
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5e51/
Computing: Zalman Silent 400W Power Supply http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5e4c/
Computing: Half Keyboard
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5e2b/
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/
Sourceforge
Fire 0.32.d released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=268397
Fire 0.32.d is now available for download! Fire is a multi-protocol
instant messenger client for Mac OS X based on freely available
libraries for each service. Currently Fire handles AOL Instant
Messenger™, ICQ®, MSN® Messenger, Jabber, limited IRC, and Yahoo!®
Pager communications. Many thanks to Alan for helping out with this
release. Also thanks to Ken for two new localizations (Simplified and
Traditional Chinese). This brings our total to 11 languages. Fire
0.32.d is a bug fix release. All users of 0.32.c and earlier are
encouraged to update. With all 11 languages:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fire/Fire.app0.32.d.dmg?download
English only:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fire/Fire.app0.32.d.english.dmg?down
load 0.32.d ------ Application ----------- - Updated Spanish, French,
and German localizations - Added localizations for Traditional Chinese
and Simplified Chinese thanks to Ken Tsang for this - Fixed
inconsistency between the conversation browser and buddy list which
could occur in some cases (bug 683777) (jt) - Fixed the chat window
toolbar icon sizes for when the size is set to small (gb) - Fixed issue
with names of preference panes in German localiation (ah) Services
- MSN® - Fixed extra typing notifications that were sent when using return or enter to send messages. This would result in the other side thinking you were typing when you weren't. Thanks to Mark Rowe for the pointer on what was going wrong (bug 688412) (mr/jt) - Properly notices when you are disconnected (bug 682382) (jt) - When receiving files, properly notifies the sender of success (bug 689088) (jt) Yahoo!® - Fixed problem with crash when Yahoo was first connecting. (ah) (bugs 709812, 710998, 705309, 700575, 699107, 683174, 657744)
phpMyAdmin 2.5.0-rc1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=268421
phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the WWW. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields. Here is the first release candidate for version 2.5.0. There are lots of new features, see http://phpmyadmin.net or the ChangeLog for details.
Fink 0.5.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=269018
Fink is proud to announce that the Fink binary distribution 0.5.2 is
available from the download page at
http://fink.sourceforge.net/download/. With over 190 new binary
packages, KDE, KOffice and KDevelop binaries amongst other various
improvements this is a recommended download for any new and all
existing Fink users. The full announcement can be read at
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=1971738&forum_id
=2022
Firebird 1.5 Release Candidate 1 is available for download http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=269045
Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL-92 features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers. Release Notes: https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=152919
Crystal Space 0.96r004 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=269309
Crystal Space is an Open Source 3D SDK for Unix, Windows, MacOS/X. It renders with OpenGL or software and features curved surfaces, volumetric fog, dynamic colored lighting, terrain engine, LOD, procedural textures, portals, etc. This is a maintenance release to Crystal Space 0.96. In the mean time a lot more exciting things are happening with the CVS version of CS :-) - Lots of fixes to configure for better project configuration on various flavors of operating systems. - Bug fix in milk2spr. - Some fixes in OpenGL renderer and canvas. - Fixed a huge amounts of bugs and problems in the ensockete driver. - Fixed some bugs in the socket driver too.
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.
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