[osdn everything] April 21, 2003

0. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/fashion/20TIVO.html

[0]PCOL writes "The [1]Asia Times reports that after years of losing
money, [2]online newspapers are starting to pay off. The New York Times has gone from losing $7.5M on their site in 2001 to an $8M profit in 2002. The new profitability is attributed to changes in the technology for delivering ads which make it possible to embed advertising in news stories and tie the ads to articles related to reader's interests without resorting to pop-ups and banners. As print newspaper readers age and die, no new readers are replacing them and one survey found that 46 percent of all journalists believe that within 15 years their publication will only be available online." Links

    0. 
http://peacecorpsonline.org/messages/messages/board-topics.html
    1. 
http://www.atimes.com/
    2. 
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/ED12Dj01.html

Rabid TiVo Fanaticism
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/20/1758248

surfacearea writes "The New York Times [free reg] is running an article that, without sounding like over-the-top blatant product placement
[0]discusses the reasons why TiVo owners are at times frighteningly
fanatical. Personally, I won't bother to find out first hand until they slap a recordable DVD drive in there." Links

The Rise and Fall of Napster
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/20/1714214

[0]Jedi Paramedic writes "[1]Boston.com has an interesting story about
the rise and fall of [2]everyone's favorite file-swapping service. Also the subject of a new [3]book by Joseph Menn, the story goes into great detail about the unfortunate-but-heroic Shawn Fanning and his reluctance to admit that his uncle, who in the end masterminded little more than the lining of his own pockets, had taken advantage of him. From getting screwed in the original 70/30 split with his uncle to his uncle's refusal to loosen his iron grip on the company even at the expense of its very being, the article (and the book) go a long way in chronicling the rise and fall of Napster, and crediting Shawn for not airing the family's dirty laundry. An interesting and well-written read."
Links

    0. mailto:jediparamedic @ m a c .com
    1. 
http://www.boston.com/globe/magazine/2003/0420/napster.htm
    2. 
http://www.napster.com/
    3. 
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0609610937/

Desktop Laser Cutting/Engraving
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/20/0229241

[0]bwags writes "I ran across this [1]VersaLaser desktop Laser Cutting
and Engraving printer. I really do not know what I want to do with it, but you gotta admit it is cool. Maybe make some balsa wood airplanes. At only $10K, I want the purple one!" Links

0. mailto:bwags@tegrasys.com

http://www.versalaser.com/english/index.html

Easter Humor
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/17/1452219

[0]sohp writes "The longest running Internet cartoon of all, [1]Dave
Farley's Dr. Fun, has [2]this laugher on some tasty case mods for the Easter season." cojoco sends in a webpage covering the [3]secret dangers of bunnies, and we here at Slashdot would like to make a public service announcement that humans have a responsibility to care for their pets even if they chew through computer cords. linuxwrangler writes "It's Easter and the 50th anniversary of the [4]Marshmallow Peep. The fine folks at [5]Peep Research have found them to cooperative test subjects. People with too much time on their hands (tm) have braved copyright complaints to create [6]"Lord of the Peeps, FOTP" and we can't forget NASA's brave [7]peep-o-nauts. Happy easter." Links

    0. mailto:snewton@io . c om
    1. 
http://www.ibiblio.org./Dave/
    2. 
http://www.ibiblio.org./Dave/Dr-Fun/df200304/df20030417.jpg
    3. 
http://home.iprimus.com.au/cojoco/Naughty_Bunny.html
    4. 
http://www.marshmallowpeeps.com/
    5. 
http://www.peepresearch.org/
    6. 
http://www.perpetualstroll.org/lotp/
    7. 
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast01apr_1m.htm

Getting Rid of the Disks
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/20/1443250

[0]Kneht writes "[1]Dan's Data has an interesting [2]article on what it
would cost to get rid of your HDDs and replace them with SSDs because hard drives suck. Several aspects are examined, such as required UPS, compact flash, etc. Read the article and you may get a new appreciation for your lowly 7200rpm drive." Funny, I was just thinking that I should start using 120GB disks as my removable media. Links

    0. mailto:altkneht.yahoo@com
    1. 
http://www.dansdata.com/
    2. 
http://www.dansdata.com/gz020.htm

James Cameron's Live Action Battle Angel Alita http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/20/143207

[0]Dean Siren writes "Moviehole.net [1]reports that James Cameron wants
to direct a live action [2]Battle Angel Alita movie. Cameron says, "The issue is will it be the next film, or will it be the one after the next film? That's really all there is to it at this point. We've done a tremendous amount of design for the film, we're fine-tuning the script, it's just a matter of time." As for the movie itself, "Motorball might find its way more into the second film - I definitely want to do more than one film. I want to create a world and a character that can go through at least one more film, possibly more. And that's not just for the classic financial reasons, it's just that I think there's a possibility for a real mythology here, so I feel that this is a good canvas to do something big that's got more scope." [3]UK Anime and
[4]The Z Review are also reporting." I enjoyed the original Battle
Angel Alita. It left me feeling like so much more could be done with it. It'll be interesting to see what comes of this one. Links

    0. mailto:deanas@earthlink.net
    1. 
http://www.moviehole.net/news.php?newsid=1448
    2. 
http://www.mangamaniacs.org/reviews/battleangel.shtml
    3. 
http://www.uk-anime.net/articles/alitafilm.html
    4. 
http://www.thezreview.co.uk/comingsoon/b/battleangelalita.htm

Freshmeat
AbiSpell 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120180/

Can't find what you're looking for?

AbiSpell is a spell checker for the AbiWord word processor.

AbiWord 1.9.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120192/

AbiWord is a cross-platform Open Source word processor. The goal is to make AbiWord full-featured, and remain lean.

BBStatus 2.0RC8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120218/

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.

Cayenne 1.0 Beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120169/

Cayenne is a free object-relational persistence framework written in Java. Its goal is to make development of database Java applications faster and more consistent with the Object Oriented Programming concept. Some of the ideas used in Cayenne have been inspired by the persistence mechanism of NeXT's (and now Apple's) WebObjects application server.

Checky 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120224/

The Checky Plugin for Mozilla, Phoenix, and Netscape is a simple interface for Web content and resource developers to free and commercial online validation and analysis services. With Checky, you can easily set up, combine, and use 19 online validator and checker services. Simply choose your services with Checky-Agent, then browse to a Web resource and press F10 to display the results of the selected services in a new browser tab or window. Service interfaces are available for HTML, XHTML, CSS, RDF, RSS, XML, SGML, WAI, 508, P3P, and various viewers, valets, and purifiers.

Cxmame 0.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120191/

Cxmame is a simple console-based frontend for xmame using the ncurses library. It was originally intended for xmame.svgalib, but works with all xmame targets.

Darius Tools 1.1 (Misc)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120153/

Darius Tools is a collection of miscellaneous scripts which are useful for a variety of purposes. They are all designed to be faster and easier to use than the command line that would normally be required to accomplish the same task. For example, there are scripts for mass conversion of WAV files to Ogg files and Ogg files to WAV files, for converting LaTeX to PostScript and viewing the output in ggv, for creating image thumbnails, for converting from the Euro to another currency, for automated updating via FTP and for removing backups recursively. The Darius Tools are split among several packages according to different categories.

Depression Glass Debug Library 0.25
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120217/

Depression Glass Debug (DGD) is a simple, easy-to-use C++ ostream extension for producing debugging output. DGD is designed to produce nice, readable, and easy to understand trace logs.

EasyTAG 0.27.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120225/

Don't know where to look next?

EasyTAG is an utility for viewing and editing tags for MP3, MP2, FLAC and Ogg files. It features a simple and attractive GTK+ interface.

evolvotron 0.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120232/

Evolvotron is an interactive "generative art" application to evolve images/textures/patterns through an iterative process of random mutation and user-selection driven evolution. If you like lava lamps, and never got tired of the Mandelbrot set, this could be the software for you. It's implemented using Qt, and is multithreaded.

FFTW 3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120219/

FFTW is a fast C FFT library. It includes complex, real, symmetric, multidimensional, and parallel transforms, and can handle arbitrary array sizes efficiently.It is typically faster than other freely available FFT implementations, and is even competitive with vendor-tuned libraries (benchmarks are available at the homepage). To achieve this performance, it uses novel code generation and runtime self optimization techniques (along with many other tricks).

FLP-i18n 1.054
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120156/

FLP-i18n (Flaimo's Little Package) is a collection of PHP classes for internationalization. It formats date and time strings, replaces keywords, converts measurement units between SI and the US Customary System, and more.

Galeon 1.2.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120158/

Confused? Frustrated?

Galeon is a GNOME Web browser based on Gecko (the Mozilla rendering engine). It is fast, has a light interface, and is fully standards-compliant.

GNU nano 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120168/

GNU nano (Nano's ANOther editor, or Not ANOther editor) is an enhanced clone of the Pico text editor.

Highlight 2.0b-8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120220/

Highlight is a universal source code to HTML, XHTML, RTF, TeX, or LaTeX converter. (X)HTML output is formatted by Cascading Style Sheets. It supports Bash, C, C++, C#, COBOL, Java, Perl, PHP, and 40 more programming languages. It's possible to easily enhance the parsing database.

Io programming language 2003-04-19
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120166/

Io is small prototype-based programming language. It is a pure object language, and it features an incremental garbage collector, exceptions, light weight threads, and embeddability.

Iptables made easy 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120205/

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Iptables made easy is a set of PHP scripts that are based on Iptables script generator. It uses PHP to make an iptables script based on the provided values. It features NAT functionality that works with dynamic IP addresses. It makes input and forward rules which are easy to modify after the script is written. There are also built-in checks to make sure that the administrator doesn't get locked out because of wrong network information.

IRC Services 5.0.17 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120210/

Services for IRC Networks (or just Services for short) provides for definitive nickname and channel ownership, automatic channel mode setting, memo (short message) storage and retrieval, and greater IRC operator control over the network.

Ismo 0.0.6 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120187/

Ismo is a Web application framework written in PHP.

ispbs 2.3.b5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120170/

ispbs (internet service provider billing system) is a free user management and billing system designed for ISP, hosting, and voip providers. It uses functions of PHP, Java, MySQL, and shell scripts. Its main features include automated invoicing, client search by name/account name/credit card number/business name, automatic email or paper billing, balance tracking, past due balance reminder, suspend and unsuspend customer, automatic account creation and removal, support for hosting, dial-up, DNS zone, email account, or voip, administration of an unlimited number of Unix servers, a Web-based interface, qmail support, multiple customizable packages, and more.

JaxMeJS 1.06
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120163/

The JaxMe JavaSource generation framework (a spinoff of the JaxMe Java/XML binding tool) is an object-oriented view to a set of Java classes created by you. For example, there are objects JavaSource, JavaMethod, and so on. Features include automatic generation of import lists, semiautomatic indentation, and the ability to postprocess generated sources. This allows source code generation to be a pipelining process. Additionally, a framework for generating SQL is included.

JDCCServer 0.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120194/

JDCCServer is a Java implementation of mIRC's /dccserver command, which is used for getting files from users behind firewalls. It has a pretty GUI, is highly configurable, and supports CHAT/FSERV and SEND.

keduca 1.0 (Mac OS X)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120212/

KEduca allows the creation and revision of form-based tests and exams. It supports the idea of multiple databases with public questions and answers that can be shared among users via the Internet.

Kernel Mode Linux 2.5.68_001 (For Linux 2.5) http://freshmeat.net/releases/120178/

Kernel Mode Linux is a technology which enables the execution of user programs in a kernel mode. In Kernel Mode Linux, user programs can access kernel address space directly. Unlike kernel modules, user programs are executed as ordinary processes (except for their privilege level), so scheduling and paging are performed as usual. Although it seems dangerous, the safety of the kernel can be ensured through such methods as static type checking, software fault isolation, and so forth.

Linux 2.5.68 (2.5)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120190/

Linux is a clone of the Unix kernel, written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance. It has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix kernel, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory management, and TCP/IP networking.

Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator 3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120229/

Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator allows beginning-to-advanced network administrators to control bandwidth. It is designed to be turnkey for any network in its default configuration; it may not be optimal in the way it filters for every situation, but you don't have to know anything to get some immediate benefit. It offers a unique method of controlling data coming into your network by throttling the "client" requests from your network which are causing the data to come in in the first place.

Linux Virtual Server 1.1.4 (IPVS for kernel 2.5) http://freshmeat.net/releases/120239/

The Linux Virtual Server Project is an Open Source project to cluster many real servers together into a highly available, high-performance virtual server. The LVS handles connections from clients and passes them on the the real servers (so-called Layer 4 switching) and can virtualize almost any TCP or UDP service, like HTTP, HTTPS, NNTP, FTP, DNS, ssh, POP3, IMAP4, SMTP, etc. It is fully transparent to the client accessing the virtual service.

LinuxInstall.org 3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120193/

LinuxInstall.org is a distribution based on Red Hat with Personal Desktop Packages including Mozilla, Evolution, and OpenOffice.org. It features hardware detection, root account creation, hard drive partitioning, network setup using DHCP, and package selection. Since it does not ask any questions during installation, the process is completely automated, and it only takes about 15 minutes. Best of all, it's all on one CD.

m0n0wall pb7r310
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120201/

Can't find what you're looking for?

m0n0wall is an all-in-one firewall software package (based on FreeBSD) geared towards embedded PCs. It includes an easy-to-use Web interface like commercial firewall boxes do. PHP is used instead of shell scripts, and the entire system configuration is stored in a single XML-formatted file. There is support for wireless LAN, VPN, traffic shaping, and more.

MaraDNS 1.0.17 (Recursive/Caching)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120226/

MaraDNS is a DNS server that strives to be secure and fully open-sourced.

Megamek.NET 0.308
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120209/

Megamek.NET allows you to enter the World of Battletech and become commander of a subsection of the forces of one of the 5 big houses or a minor faction. You then use your lances (groups of Meks) to fight against other players online. The game's community is already quite large, and there are 2 major servers set up. One is using the 3025 timeline and the other one is set in the year 3060.

MiddleMan 1.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120227/

Middleman is a robust proxy server with many features designed to remove unwanted content, increase privacy, and to simply make surfing the Web a more pleasant experience. Some of the highlights include banner and popup blocking, HTTP and FTP content caching, NTLM and Basic authentication when forwarding through another proxy server, regular expression substitution in downloaded files and HTTP headers, regular expression substitution on requested URLs, many URL commands to temporarily change the proxy settings or to view information about a requested file, complete support for HTTP/1.1 including persistent connections and gzip encoding, and an intutive Web interface for configuring the proxy.

MishiGame 2.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120188/

MishiGame is a tetris-like game which uses the SDL libraries.

mmix 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120238/

mmix is a small OSS audio mixer with a curses-like user interface. It compiles against dietlibc and supports different configurations for all mixer devices which have been found.

MMS Diary 0.91
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120204/

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 MMS proxy relay (the server that receives MMS:es).

ModLogAn 0.8.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120185/

ModLogAn is a modular logfile analyzer that combines speed with flexibility. It parses the logfiles generated by several server-types (HTTP, FTP, mail, streaming, etc.) and other logfile sources (flow-tools, ipchains, PABXs): currently 24 parsers. It features incremental logfile processing and internal resolving, and is able the split (mass-hosting) and combine logfiles (clusters) internally. The output can be based on the internal template engine to generate your own look & feel.

multitail 1.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120195/

Don't know where to look next?

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.

NullLogic Groupware 1.0.0 (Source)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120206/

NullLogic Groupware is a multi-user web-based groupware package designed for contact management and event scheduling which includes additional features such as private messaging, public discussion forums, shared hyperlinks, file bases, a web e-mail client, and a simple order processing system. The main goal is to make your data accessible to you from anywhere at any time without the need for special software to be installed on the client computer. Linux and Windows are both supported, and NullLogic Groupware has been thoroughly tested with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and ODBC.

Onyx RSS 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120198/

Onyx RSS is a fully object oriented RSS parser for PHP. It does not use regular expressions to extract data from RSS files, and instead relies on PHP's SAX-based XML extension, which is enabled by default on almost all recent PHP releases. Because of this, the parser is more accurate and supports ALL RSS versions, including 2.0.

openWEBchat 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120199/

openWEBchat is a communication tool that allows you to chat with people on IRC. It is easy to use and understand, and is useful for providing people with the abilty to chat on project or home pages.

osx2x 1.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120197/

Confused? Frustrated?

osx2x allows the user to control a remote X11 display from a MacOS X machine, similar to x2x. The tool simply captures mouse and keyboard events on your Mac and sends them to a specified X server.

OZradio 0.8.1 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120176/

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.

Pachi el marciano 042003
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120184/

Pachi el marciano is a platforms game inspired by games like Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy. The goal is to collect all the objects on each level; when this is done, the exit gate to the next stage will appear.

Penetrator 3.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120183/

Penetrator is a tool for indexing big trees of text files, as your local HTML documentation or home directory. It's able to use DBM files or DBI databases and be used as a command line tool or a CGI. The files to be indexed can be selected by extension or using external file identifying programs as /usr/bin/file.

Perl Cache 1.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120208/

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The Cache modules are designed to assist a developer in persisting data for a specified period of time. Often, these modules are used in web applications to store data locally to save repeated and redundant expensive calls to remote machines or databases. People have also been known to use Cache::Cache for its straightforward interface in sharing data between runs of an application or invocations of a CGI-style script, or simply as an easy to use abstraction of the filesystem or shared memory.

PHP Weather 2.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120200/

PHP Weather makes it easy to show the current weather on your Web page. PHP Weather retrieves the latest METAR (weather) report and converts this format into both imperial and metric units, caches the data in a MySQL, PostgreSQL, or DBA database for fast retrieval, and makes it easily available in PHP scripts. You can display the data in several languages by using the included translations. You can also access the information with a WAP-enabled mobile phone.

pipebench 0.40
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120211/

Pipebench shows the current throughput and amount of data going through a pipe. It can be used to show the progress of a large md5sum process: cat bigfile | pipebench | md5sum.

printquota 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120202/

Printquota is a printing service quota tracking tool. It allows an administrator to group the printer queues and users and to set permissions to control which user can use which printer. PostgreSQL and MySQL are supported.

Projet free-EOS 1.0-02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120062/

free-EOS (Espace Ouvert de Services) is a project which aims to distribute and document a free and open technical solution for Multi-media Space. It is implemented with a Linux-based server and workstations that run either Windows, Linux, or MacOS. It is meant to be like the French software, Espaces Publics Numériques. It targets environments that are managed by organizers that do not have significant technical competency. It acts like an adaptation of the SME Server solution that is specifically dedicated to French-speaking environments.

PyStripchart 0.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120162/

PyStripchart provides a set of widgets for displaying time-sampled data in interactive "strip chart" form.

RoadMap 1.0rc3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120172/

RoadMap is a GIS program for Linux that displays street maps. The maps are provided by the US Census Bureau, and thus only cover the US. Specific areas are displayed by selecting a street address (street number, street name, city, and state). It interfaces with gpsd to track a GPS position, and has been designed to be usable on both a desktop or laptop computer, or on a PDA.

schedutils 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120160/

The Linux scheduler utilities take advantage of the scheduler family of syscalls that Linux implements across various kernels. These system calls implement interfaces for scheduler-related parameters such as CPU affinity and real-time attributes. The standard UNIX utilities do not provide support for these interfaces, thus this package. The programs that are included in this package are chrt and taskset. Together with nice and renice (not included), they allow full control of process scheduling parameters. The taskset program allows manipulation of task CPU affinity and the chrt program allows manipulation of scheduling priority and policy.

Scribus 0.9.9 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120179/

Scribus is a DTP program for Linux. Its goal is to provide an easy-to-use tool for simple Desktop Publishing. It tries be as professional as possible.

SpamFilters 2003040901
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120203/

SpamFilters is a collection of rulesets that expand on sendmail's anti-spam facilities. These rulesets inspect the "To", "From", "Reply-To", "Received", "Subject", and SpamAssassin's "X-Spam-Status" email headers, and reject email based on their contents.

Speedtouch Installer 1.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120223/

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.

Technical Operations 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120173/

TOP is a knowledge base documentation system which can easily be modified to suit different needs.

Thy 0.5.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120213/

Can't find what you're looking for?

Thy is a lightweight httpd designed to be clean and fast, yet powerful enough to serve many hits a day.

TR-IRCD 5.1.3-r
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120181/

TR-IRCD is an ircd and a collection of services programs for IRC networks. The ircd is heavily influenced by ircd-hybrid and Bahamut. It includes support for IRC extensions such as md5-encrypted hostnames, local channels, and autokill exclusions, modules for commands, different protocols, channel modes, and languages. It supports IPv6 and many different architectures.

Vampir 3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120186/

Vampir is a Visualization and Analysis of MPI Programs. Vampir provides a convenient way to graphically analyze runtime event traces produced by MPI applications. It excels in enabling the user to quickly focus at the appropriate level of detail.

Voruta beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120182/

Voruta reduces JDBC code in application, and makes code more readable and safe. SQL procedures and queries are mapped to Java methods using custom JavaDoc tags and dynamic code generation at runtime. It needs no custom build tools or external files to store metadata.

WebGlimpse 2.7.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120215/

WebGlimpse is a scalable, feature-rich search engine for indexing your website, or any collection of remote sites you choose. It supports multiple languages including Spanish, German, French, and Hebrew, and can also index PDF, Word, and Excel files using available filters. It has a Web administration interface that manages multiple archives.

X-Itools 0.5.98 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120216/

The goal of the X-itools project is to propose an alternative to products like Exchange or Lotus Notes/Domino. They are composed of several modules, and this project has been under development for several years. Modules include a shared public and private agenda, a flow-chart, task, and post-it manager, a visitors and associated badges manager, a password and history manager (with the ability to encrypt things other than passwords), a holiday manager (to manage public vacation days, illness periods, absence periods according to country profiles), a shared public and private address book, an incoming and outgoing phone calls manager, and a global management module.

xcplay 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120228/

xcplay is an ncurses interface to XMMS. The UI is a clone of cplay, but using XMMS as a backend instead of console players, running either as a GUI-stripped daemon or on a virtual X server (Xvfb). Advantages over cplay include seeking for many more formats, detachment, unlimited instances, and console player independence.

Xfprot 0.16beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120196/

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.

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.

Don't know where to look next?

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.

Confused? Frustrated?

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!

Call Pantek today for Open Source Technical Support at 1-877-546-8934 - 24/7/365

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: USB 2.0 Kit
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5eda/

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/

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: Panasonic DVD Player - DVDS35 http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/video/5eaf/

Electronics: Casio Exilim EX-M2 Digital Camera http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/cameras/5e6f/

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/