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[osdn everything] April 25, 2003
Date: Fri Apr 25 2003 - 04:45:27 EDT
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Slashdot
Call for Papers: Chaos Communication Camp 2003
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/24/1413258
[0]Aldert Hazenberg sent in this note about a [1]Call for Papers:
"Papers are being solicited for the second Camp of the Chaos Computer
Club e.V., Germany, to be held near Berlin, Germany, on 7/8/9/10th
August 2003. The Camp is intended to promote the interchange of
technical, social and political ideas and concepts to find ways to make
this world a little bit more friendly to intelligent beings."
Links
0. mailto:fenrir@rotz.org
First HDTV Camcorder
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/25/0346228
[0]zymano writes "[1]The JVC GR-HD1 will be introduced in May, it's the
world's first consumer camcorder to offer 750 line resolution
progressive video at 30 frames per second, recording MPEG2 video to
MiniDV tape. The price will start around $2500-$3500 . Some [2]more
info here with pictures. Also check out the [3]pro version. With
digital cameras at regular stores with resolution over 5 megapixel it
makes you wonder why it took so long to produce."
Links
0. mailto:zappa333@noSPaM.hotmail.com
1.
http://www.camcorderinfo.com/content/jvc_gr_hd1_japan_high_definition_camcorder_01_23_03.htm
2.
http://thwaits.net/jvc/index.html
3.
http://www.camcorderinfo.com/content/jvc_introduces_professional_high_definition_jy_hd10u_02_07_03.htmThe First Steps Towards Asimov's Psychohistory? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/25/0042223
[0]lawrencekhoo writes "[1]The Chronicle of Higher Education has an
interesting article about the Gottman Institute's (a.k.a. the love lab)
work on [2]modeling the dynamics of marital conversations. These models
are described in John Gottman et. al.'s recent book [3] The Mathematics
of Marriage: Dynamic Nonlinear Models (MIT Press). Should be an
interesting read for anyone who ever wondered if human interactions
could be mathematically modeled."
Links
0. mailto:lawrencekhoo@excite.com
1.
http://chronicle.com/index.htm
2.
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v49/i33/33a01401.htm
3.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/books/0262072262/002-6204047-3920063
PC/104 Embedded Consortium Design Winners http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/25/006229
An anonymous reader writes "The PC/104 Embedded Consortium announced the winners of its first PC/104 Design Contest, at the Embedded Systems Conference today in San Francisco. The awards recognize engineers designing innovative systems and devices based on the consortium's PC/104 and PC/104-Plus standards. Winners were announced in three categories: Commercial for industrial/medical/transportation/other; Commercial for military/aerospace/COTS; and Research Project. Read the full story at [0]Linuxdevices.com. Lots of images!" Links
0. http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6188827223.html
Slashback: Vaidhyanathan, Oregon, Opteron http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/23/2143227
Slashback this evening with a few more notes on AMD's upcoming Opteron processor, Siva Vaidhyanathan (three times quickly), Oregon's open source bill, and more. Read on below for this round of updates and amplifications.
Assorted Video Game Movies in Development http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/24/2122217
[0]Obiwan Kenobi writes "[1]Filmforce has a [2]solid round-up of video
game movies currently in development. From Alone In The Dark to Doom to
Dead or Alive (yes, it includes an Extreme Beach Volleyball scene),
some interesting reading on the current progress, or lack thereof, of
current video game flicks."
Links
0. mailto:evan.misterorange@com
1.
http://filmforce.ign.com/
2.
http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/370/370998p1.html
Solid-State DV Camcorder
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/24/1956219
[0]melorama writes "The [1]NAB convention passed 2 weeks ago, and I'm
surprised nobody has pointed out the really neat [2]Solid State Video
Camcorder that was unveiled by Panasonic. It seems a bit kludgy right
now (it records onto a series of PCMCIA cards), but it definitely beats
the klunky [3]Avid/Ikegami Camcutter (aka Editcam) from several years
back, which records onto a self-contained harddisk. This is certainly a
blow to Sony, which is working on a camera acquisition system that uses
a [4]blue-laser optical disc (read: moving parts) technology."
Links
0. mailto:mel@@@alphageek...org
1.
http://www.nab.org/
2.
http://www.digitalvideoediting.com/2003/04_apr/features/ssnabtuesday2.htm
3.
http://www.tvcameramen.com/equipment/equipment15.htm
4.
http://news.sel.sony.com/pressrelease/3313
Online Marketers to Stamp out Spam?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/24/1954249
CodeHog writes "A group of online marketers want to get rid of spam and
are proposing a registry base system for transmitting email. They are
calling the project [0]Lumos. [1]Computer World has an aritcle on it
[2]Online marketers offer new antispam initiative . Doesn't it seem
like these are the same businesses that profit from spam? Even better,
this is being proposed by [3]ESPC. The member list doesn't look too
anti-spam to me." The obvious issue of course is that most spammers
won't follow the rules anyway. My spam is up 20% over the 1st quarter
of 2003! Yay!
Links
0.
http://www.networkadvertising.org/espc/042303lumos.asp
1.
http://www.computerworld.com/
2.
http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/groupware/story/0,10801,80626,00.html
3.
http://www.networkadvertising.org/espc/default.asp
Bombing the Moon for Water
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/24/190223
s20451 writes "In 1998, [0]NASA scientists deliberately crashed the
[1]Lunar Prospector into the Moon, in a [2]failed attempt to detect
traces of water allegedly hiding in deep craters at the lunar south
pole. Now the BBC is reporting a new proposal to [3]attack the lunar
poles with "Bunker Buster" missiles to liberate a detectable amount of
water. Called [4]Polar Night, the mission is being proposed as part of
the "Discovery" series of probes."
Links
0.
http://www.nasa.gov/
1.
http://lunar.arc.nasa.gov/
2.
http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast13oct99_1.htm
3.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2970205.stm
4.
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/moon2002/pdf/3067.pdf
Hard Drives Instead of Tapes?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/24/1921205
An anonymous reader writes "[0]Tom's Hardware News weekly news letter has a very interesting article about Dr. Koch of Computertechnik AG who won the contract to build a RAID backup system for the University of Tübingen. Dr. Koch took several standard entry-level servers, such as the dual-Athlon MP, and add modern components and three large-caliber IDE-RAID controllers per computer, and a total of 576 x 160GB Drives." Links
0. http://www.tomshardware.com/newsletter/vol3/16/70tb.html
Freshmeat
Asynux Conges 0.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120669/
Asynux Conges is a Web-based holiday management product. People ask for days off (holidays, authorized absences, etc.) and their requests enter a tiny validation workflow. It is mainly designed for French users.
Abyss of Red 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120655/
Abyss of Red is an abstract red and yellow theme. The background is by SphereNot (Gary Faulkner).
Astaro Security Linux 3.218 (Stable 3.x) http://freshmeat.net/releases/120710/
Astaro Security Linux is a firewall solution. It does stateful packet inspection filtering, content filtering, user authentication, virus scanning, spam protection, VPN with IPSec (PKI for X.509 certificates) and PPTP, Wireless LAN, VLAN, PPPoE, PPPoA, and much more. With its Web-based management tool, WebAdmin, and the ability to pull updates via the Internet, it is pretty easy to manage. It is based on a special hardened Linux 2.4 distribution where most daemons are running in change-roots and are protected by kernel capabilities.
Astaro Security Linux 4.003 (Stable 4.x) http://freshmeat.net/releases/120635/
Astaro Security Linux is a firewall solution. It does stateful packet inspection filtering, content filtering, user authentication, virus scanning, spam protection, VPN with IPSec (PKI for X.509 certificates) and PPTP, Wireless LAN, VLAN, PPPoE, PPPoA, and much more. With its Web-based management tool, WebAdmin, and the ability to pull updates via the Internet, it is pretty easy to manage. It is based on a special hardened Linux 2.4 distribution where most daemons are running in change-roots and are protected by kernel capabilities.
Booby 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120660/
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).
CCT Chinese TeX system 0.4.9-2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120648/
CCT is a Chinese Language Extention to TeX that was developed by the Academy of Sciences in Beijing.
Construction 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120656/
Construction is an abstract blue-purple theme. The background is by Dark Mist (Lee Henderson).
cosign 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120625/
cosign is a Web single sign on system that allows users to authenticate once per session and access any protected Web resources at the institution. If used, passwords are sent only to a single, central URL. Sessions have both idle and hard timeouts, and users can logout of all protected services by visiting a single URL. The use of public key cryptography ensures that a compromise of a protected Web server has no impact on the security of other participating servers.
Drall 1.11.2.4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120657/
Drall is a script which allows users to access their directories and files remotely without the need of using insecure FTP and telnet. It enables the user to treat the remote file system as if it was on their local hard disk through a normal Web browser. The interface resembles the well known Norton Commander and Midnight Commander. Single or dual-panel views makes it easy to see an overview of the file system and the modular design means you only use the features you need. Drall is written in Perl for easy customization and expansion.
DSPAM 2.35
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120690/
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.
eGenix mxODBC Zope Database Adapter 1.0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/120651/
The eGenix mxODBC Zope Database Adapter (Zope DA) allows you to easily connect your Zope installation to just about any database backend. Unlike Zope's ZODBC Zope DA, the mxODBC Zope DA works on Windows, Linux, and Solaris using the same interface. It implements thread-safe connection pooling and multiple physical connects per logical Zope connection. You can safely run Z SQL Methods in parallel, achieving much better performance than ZODBC Zope DA or similar database adapters under heavy load. This makes it ideal for deployment in clusters and hosting environments where stability and high performance are a priority.
Elm ME+ PL101b (25) (Patch)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120701/
Elm 2.4ME+ is based on Elm 2.4. It contains enhanced MIME and character set support. It can read mail from POP or IMAP folders and can pass mail to the PGP or GPG programs. It also includes modules for TLS/SSL, iconv, and SMTP.
EMacro 2.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120681/
EMacro is a .emacs that easily configures Emacs and XEmacs on most platforms, without any elisp programming.
Enterprise Object Broker 1.0 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/120647/
Enterprise Object Broker (EOB) is an application server that transparently distributes Java objects via their interfaces. It makes no distinction between Local and Remote objects. Because of these features, it is not J2EE compliant. The developer builds beans that implement normal Java interfaces and the deployer decides where the beans are in a cluster of servers. Apache's AltRMI is used in place of RMI. It publishes plain interfaces locally and remotely. The interfaces do not have to extend the java.rmi.Remote interface. Methods do not have to throw RemoteException. AltRMI delivers remoting for Java. EOB sits on top of Apache's Avalon-Phoenix server platform.
Etherboot 5.0.10 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120626/
Etherboot is a free software package for making boot ROMS for booting Linux and other operating systems on x86 PCs over a network using Internet Protocols, i.e. bootp/DHCP and tftp.
File::Scan 0.50 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120653/
File::Scan allows users to make multiplataform virus scanners which can detect Windows/DOS/Mac viruses. It include a virus scanner and signatures database.
Free Bangla Fonts 0.5.0 (Sagar)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120684/
The Free Bangla Fonts project is a volunteer run project dedicated for creating Free, high quality, completely Unicode compliant Open Type Bengali fonts. This project aims to be the central resource for getting and developing Free Bengali fonts. The initial aim of this project is to release a full set of Bengali fonts that supports all the major Bengali Yuktakhars (conjuncts).
ftpcluster 1.0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120634/
ftpcluster integrates a number of individual FTP servers into a single large server. You can think of it as a network disk array with FTP as the access protocol.
FXRuby 1.0.22
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120680/
FXRuby is a Ruby extension module that provides an interface to the FOX GUI toolkit.
fxvibra 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120617/
fxvibra is a midlet that controls the vibrator in Nokia phones. It comes with a visual fire effect that reacts to the intensity of the vibrator.
galculator 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120640/
galculator is a GTK 2 based scientific calculator supporting algebraic mode as well as RPN. Features include arithmetic operations plus precedence handling, full keypad support, trigonometric functions, power, square root, natural and common logarithm, constants (e, PI), and inverse and hyperbolic functions. It supports different number bases (decimal, hexadecimal, octal, and binary) and angle bases (radiant, degree, and grad).
Genmake 2003_04_24
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120705/
Genmake creates Makefiles for C/C++ projects from a simple project description. The project description file can contain any number of projects and dependencies between them. The description is organized into workspace, projectspace and filespace and supports any number of build modes (debug, release, etc.).
getmail 3.1.3 (Current)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120689/
getmail is intended as a simple replacement for fetchmail. It retrieves email (either all messages, or only unread messages) from one or more POP3 servers for one or more email accounts, and reliably delivers into qmail-style Maildirs or through external MDAs (command deliveries) specified on a per-account basis. getmail also has excellent support for domain (multidrop) mailboxes, including support for Demon's SPDS (*ENV) extension to the POP3 protocol for retrieving message envelopes.
Grip 3.0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120697/
Grip is a CD player and CD ripper/MP3-encoder for the GNOME desktop. It has the ripping capabilities of cdparanoia built in, but can also use external rippers (such as cdda2wav). It also provides an automated frontend for MP3 encoders (presets for lame, bladeenc, l3enc, xingmp3enc, mp3encode, and gogo), letting you take a disc and transform it easily straight into MP3s. The Ogg Vorbis format is also supported. Internet disc lookups are supported for retrieving track information from disc database servers. Grip works with DigitalDJ to provide a unified, "computerized" version of your music collection.
Gst-Player 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120650/
Gst-Player is a full-featured media player for GNOME 2 using the GStreamer multimedia framework. Features include support for a wide range of media formats (both video and audio), support for fullscreen playback, and audio output to a range of sound systems and sound servers.
gURLChecker 0.3.10 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120702/
gURLChecker is a C/GNOME 2 tool that can check links on a single Web page or on a whole Web site in order to determine the validity of each page.
Hardware Monitor applet 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120708/
The Hardware Monitor applet is an applet for the Gnome panel which tries to be a beautiful all-around solution to hardware monitoring. It also tries to be user-friendly and generally nice and sensible, integrating pleasantly with the rest of your Gnome desktop.
HBCI4Java 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120642/
HBCI4Java is a Java library for the HBCI home banking interface. It supports almost all aspect of the HBCI versions 2.01, 2.1, 2.2, and HBCIplus (with PIN/TAN support). Its API is very application-oriented, so no knowledge about HBCI is required.
Horde Application Framework 2.2.3 (Stable 2.x) http://freshmeat.net/releases/120687/
The Horde Application framework is a set of PHP classes providing common ways to handle preferences, browser detection, authentication, help systems, MIME, connection tracking, cross-application communication, and more.
Jabber Gadu-Gadu Transport 2.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120652/
The Jabber Gadu-Gadu transport provides Gadu-Gadu protocol support (which is a very popular proprietary instant messaging protocol in Poland).
JFtp 1.24
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120663/
JFtp is a Swing Java network and file transfer client. It supports FTP with its own FTP API, SMB using jcfis, SFTP using j2ssh, and local file IO using the j2se library. It includes many advanced features such as recursive directory up/download, browsing FTP servers while transferring files, FTP resuming, browsing the LAN for Windows shares, and more. The FTP API is separated from the GUI and can also be used in third-party applications or in a commandline mode. It should ideally be launched in a Web browser via Java Web Start (contained by the Java 1.4 plugin) but can also be started locally.
JXTA Instant Messenger 0.1f
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120700/
JXTA Instant Messenger (JIM) aims to establish a server-free instant messaging system with various options. It features encrypted messaging, presence awareness, and sophisticated search for users.
KOffice 1.3 Beta 1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120637/
KOffice is an integrated office suite based on the KDE libraries. KOffice currently includes KWord, KSpread, KPresenter, KChart, Kontour, Karbon14, KFormula, Kugar, and Kivio. There are no special mail and news clients included in KOffice, because there are KMail and KNode available for KDE anyway. All KOffice components work together, and you can embed every KOffice component into any other KOffice component. This is realized using the KParts object model.
Lazy 0.24b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120627/
Lazy is a console-based CD player with freedb support. It provides artist, album, and song name display, looking at the main freedb-server for unrecognized songs. It can also extract audio digitally if the CD-ROM drive does not have an analog audio cable.
libcddb 0.9.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120713/
Libcddb is a library that implements the different protocols (CDDBP, HTTP, SMTP) to access data on a CDDB server (e.g. http://freedb.org). It tries to be as cross-platform as possible.
libchipcard 0.8.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120631/
Libchipcard is a C++ framework for easy access to chipcards/smartcards via chip card terminals/readers. It uses the CTAPI library provided by the manufacturer of the reader and provides a filesystem on memory chip cards. It works under Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows, and has been tested with Towitoko and Kobil readers even in parallel.
libGringotts 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120675/
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.
LinCVS 1.1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120467/
LinCVS is an easy-to-use graphical frontend for the CVS-client. It supports CVS versions 1.9 and higher. It can check out a module from and import of a module to a repository, update or retrieve the status of a working directory or single files, and perform common operations like add, remove, commit, diff against the repository, or view the log messages in list form.
Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator 3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120630/
Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator allows beginning-to-advanced network administrators to control bandwidth. It is designed to be completely turn-key in its default configuration. You just plug it into your network trunk, and it self configures and immediatly starts slowing "bandwidth hogs". This allows for email, Web browsing, chat, etc. to get better response times. It also comes with many advanced shaping features for experienced network adminstrators.
Mailgust 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120665/
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.
MailStripper Pro 1.0rc5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120699/
MailStripper Pro is a mail scanner that aims to remove spam and viruses from incoming mail using the F-Prot anti-virus. It is written in Tcl and was designed to be MTA-independent.
make_cd_label 0.8.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120633/
make_cd_label is a tool for creating stickers for audio and data CDs. It is useful for labelling backup CDs and recording track names for audio CD. It uses glabels to process an XML version of the Memorex-style CD label sticker.
Midnight Commander MP 4.1.40-pre5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120533/
Midnight Commander MP is an advanced clone of the famous Midnight Commander without Tk, xv, or GNOME parts (including GLib). It also features a real-time clock, file group colors, charset support for the viewer, editor, and panels, position saving for the viewer and editor, and more.
minit 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120695/
minit is an attempt to cross-breed DJ Bernstein's daemontools and init, while adding dependencies, and maintaining minimal code base. It is possible to start and stop services on the fly. minit does not depend on a mounted /proc file system, and it does not write to any part of the file system, not even to start and stop services. It does not use System V IPC, either.
Morphix 0.3-5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120609/
Morphix is a modular LiveCD distribution. It is partly derived from KNOPPIX, and the rest comes directly from Debian.
nxtvepg 2.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120659/
nxtvepg is a decoder and browser for Nextview - a subscription-free electronic TV program guide in the analog domain. Nextview currently is broadcasted in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and France and covers the schedules of all major TV networks in these countries. nxtvepg is an X11 application with a GUI based on Tcl/Tk and uses the bttv driver for data acquisition through a TV tuner card.
Oracle Perl Procedure Library 0.97 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/120682/
extproc_perl is an Oracle external procedure library that allows Oracle functions and procedures to be written in Perl. A Perl interpreter is embedded in the external procedure, and remains persistent for the life of a client session.
OZradio 0.8.3 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120662/
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.
PARI/GP 2.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120678/
PARI/GP is a package aimed at efficient computations in number theory, containing a large number of other useful functions. It is somewhat related to a Computer Algebra System, but is not really one since it treats symbolic expressions as mathematical entities such as matrices, polynomials, series, etc., and not as expressions per se. However it is often much faster than other CAS, and contains a large number of specific functions not found elsewhere, essentially for use in number theory.
Pound 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120674/
Pound is a reverse HTTP proxy, load balancer, and SSL wrapper. It proxies client HTTPS requests to HTTP backend servers, distributes the requests among several servers while keeping sessions, supports HTTP/1.1 requests even if the backend server(s) are HTTP/1.0, and sanitizes requests.
Prima 1.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120643/
Prima is an extensible Perl toolkit for multi-platform GUI development. Supported platforms include Linux, Windows NT/9x/2K, OS/2, and UNIX/X11 workstations (FreeBSD, IRIX, SunOS, Solaris, and others). The toolkit contains a rich set of standard widgets and has emphasis on 2D image processing tasks. A Perl program using Prima looks and behaves identically on X, Win32, and OS/2 PM.
printquota 0.6p1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120632/
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.
QTParted 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120704/
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.
Sentinel IRC Services 2.0 (Sentinel)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120707/
Sentinel provides statistical and operator services for EFnet, IRCnet, and Dalnet IRC daemons. It supports Hybrid/Comstud (5, 6, 7, comstud 1.x, CSr, csircd, ircd-ratbox), IRCnet 2.10.x, and Bahamut. It features a StatServ, a SplitServ, flood protection, customized HTML output, a Jupe service, and a number of drone/clone tracking tools. It fully supports many Hybrid 6 and 7 extensions.
SimpleCDR-X 1.3-pre2 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120629/
SimpleCDR-X is a GTK+ based frontend for CD writing, mastering, and audio manipulation. Its design goals include ease of use and a clean interface without compromising functionality. SimpleCDR-X utilizes many common utilities such as cdrecord, cdrdao, mkisofs, cdparanoia, cdda2wav, mpg123, ogg tools, and lame. SimpleCDR-X supports on-the-fly CD track ripping to MP3 or OGG and importing of MP3 or OGG files to CD in Audio CD Mastering. SimpleCDR-X also features CD Copying, burning from a saved ISO, and Data CD Mastering.
Slackware Live CD 2.9.0.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120718/
Slackware Live CD is a 200MB live Linux distribution on CD that is based on Slackware. It features many add-ons, including the scripts required to create your own live CD.
SoundFontCombi 0.006
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120623/
SoundFontCombi takes advantage of the ALSA sequencer to emulate a synthesizer or a master keyboard, routing MIDI events in eight parts with two MIDI outputs. It can also add functions to your master MIDI keyboard.
Spam-me-not 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120671/
Spam-me-not is a JavaScript form that helps you encode email addresses on Web pages. It is meant to hide email addresses from address-collecting spam spiders.
System Configurator 2.0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120685/
System Configurator is a configuration API for Linux. It will setup hardware, networking, and bootstrapping in a unified way. It is primarily designed to be the configuration engine for System Installation Suite, though is modular enough to be used in other environments.
Tabula-Musica 0.3 dev
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120620/
Tabula-Musica is a "swiss knife" jukebox, which tries to cover everything. It's written in full modular Python and is easy to extend and adjust. You can controll the server over Web, telnet, and a shell client. It currently supports xmms, lirc, and lcdproc.
Take a Joint 20030424
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120717/
Take a Joint has the goal to simplify the integration of Linux clients into Windows networks. Sharing a directory should be as easy as under Windows. Users should be able to share their directories even without being root or knowing the Samba configuration file smb.conf. To fulfill the high security demands, users who would like to share their directories have to be activated by root first. The same applies to directories or devices the user isn't allowed to access with his regular rights. Currently both console programs taja (admin program) and taju (user program) are usable.
TkNotePad 0.7.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120621/
TkNotePad is a simple text editor like the Windows notepad.
Tulka Whiteboard 0.6.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120645/
Tulka is a Java-based communication tool designed for e-learning with an integrated chat and a shared whiteboard. It is possible to upload and display of various (ps, dvi, pdf, rtf, html, doc) document formats to the whiteboard. Only a Java enabled Web browser is required on the client side, so there is no need to install anything on the client side.
uClinux 2.5.68-uc0 (2.5.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120664/
uClinux is a set of patches for Linux that supports MMUless processors. It brings a full featured operating system onto platforms that would otherwise run less advanced, simpler operating systems. uClinux gives the programmer a Linux API with remarkably few concessions to the lack of MMU (Memory Management Unit), and in terms of code size and efficiency it has an advantage over standard Linux.
Underworld Adventures 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120711/
Underworld Adventures is a project to recreate Ultima Underworld 1 on modern operating systems (e.g., Win32, Linux, or MacOS), using the original game files. It uses OpenGL for 3D graphics, the SDL library for platform specific tasks, and Lua for scripting.
Virtual Network Computing 4.3.0.2 (XFree86 4.x) http://freshmeat.net/releases/120641/
VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is, in essence, a remote display system which allows you to view a computing 'desktop' environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures. VNC is Open Source and is distributed under the GPL.
Web-bench 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120692/
Web-bench is simple Web server benchmarking utility. It supports HTTP 0.9 - 1.1, but not persistent connections. It can also be used for benchmarking proxy servers.
webmlist 1.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120693/
webmlist is a Web mailing list archive system written in PHP intended to be used against an anonymous IMAP backend. It is very simple, and is intended to be lightweight and fast rather than full-featured, though it supports multiple folders, as well as both threaded and sorted views that are dynamically generated from the message store.
Webtop 2.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120670/
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 0.22beta81 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120691/
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.
WorldForge::skstream 0.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120720/
skstream is a network transport library written in C++ using the iostream interface. It provides classes for handling TCP socket connections. It is derived from the FreeSockets library by Rafael Guterres Jeffman. Its primary use to the WorldForge project, who maintain this version, is as a transport for Atlas-C++, the standard Atlas protocol implementation.
YaRET 2.0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120703/
YaRET is a Perl script that automates the ripping, normalization, and encoding of CDs. It supports CDDB very well via the Perl Audio::CD module, and also can work with your favorite ripper/normalizer/encoder (e.g., cdparanoia, cdda2wav, normalize, etc.) It supports useful features like multiple concurrent encoders and an easy to use configuration file that lets you customize YaRET to your taste (such as file naming based on the CDDB information).
Newsforge Reports
History repeats itself
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/18/189226
- Lee Schlesinger - When I read the news from Novell's BrainShare conference I'm mentally transported back in time 10 years and in space 2,000 miles east from Salt Lake City to bucolic Westborough, Massachusetts, once home to Banyan Systems. Novell is taking NetWare squarely down the path Banyan took its VINES network operating system. Can Novell avoid Banyan's fate?
Linux Is Ready For Some Desktops, Not Others http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/17/159208
- Jesse Smith - A recent post on Linux.com and NewsForge.com, stating that Linux is, in fact, ready for the desktop has resulted in quite a stir. At the moment, nearly 300 comments (and counter-comments) have been made. Many of these make good points, but most are plagued with a narrow view. I think the question is not so much if Linux is ready for the desktop, rather we should think about what you want your desktop computer to do.
Oregon Open Source bill not dead yet
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/22/215203
- Doug Dingus - Portland Oregon - Despite reports to the contrary, the Oregon Legislature is continuing to debate the issue of Open Source software use in State government. HB 2892 has already been though a General Government Committee hearing despite strong lobbying efforts from the Business Software Alliance (BSA), Computing Technology Industry Association, and the American Electronics Association (AeA). This is a big win with more to come if ...
Newsforge Newsvac
Intel Says to Offer Emulation Software for Itanium
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/25/0211243
Intel Corp. is developing new emulation software designed to speed the way its Itanium processor runs certain applications on server computers, an Intel spokeswoman said on Thursday.
Linux and the Knowledge Worker
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/25/002229
Anonymous Reader writes ""Knowledge worker" Aaron Peters planned to test Office suites for compatibility and migration to the LinuxOS. Things did not go as planned. Offering his personal assessment based on what he calls the "Microsoft Un-productivity Index (MUI)" -- or, "the amount of my time the company's software wastes as a percentage." Peters walks us through a long day at the office . . ."
$1 Billion Well Spent?: An Interview with Big Blue's New Linux Boss http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/24/2211257
After you've taken the largest computer company in the world and nimbly embraced one of the most important new phenomena in the industry, spending a tidy $1 billion in the process, what do you do for Act 2? That's the question facing Jim Stallings as he takes over the reins of IBM's Linux initiative. Though Stallings' Linux group is a relatively small part of IBM's Server division, the work he does affects thousands of employees all across Big ...
SCuSE me -- please!
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/24/2059235
Anonymous Reader writes "The old problems with YaST and YaST2 are gone in SuSE 8.2, says Dennis E. Powell in The view from the desktop. They have been replaced by problems that are much, much worse. SuSE could learn something about installers from their UnitedLinux partners at SCO, who used to do it right."
Is Linux Manageable?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/24/2049248
Dear Editor, I have Windows 95, and have more and more indications that a change to a more current system is becoming inevitable. I am fairly computer literate, got my inital computer initiation in DOS in the early eighties and did massive computer programming for the company where I worked as a paint chemist. I was the expert then.
Linux Supercomputer installed
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/24/1945245
The Supercomputing Education and Research Centre of the Indian Institute of Science here has commissioned what is arguably the most powerful single-platform Linux computing facility in the country: an Altix 3000 system from Silicon Graphics Systems India (SGI).
Linux powers a mini PC
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/24/1944225
Taiwanese hardware maker Via Technologies and U.S.-based PC maker Mini-Box have unveiled a tiny desktop computer featuring an embedded Linux operating system.
Microsoft bets big with new server software http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/24/1935202
Microsoft Corp. launched the long-delayed update to its software for managing corporate computer networks Thursday, as it seeks to lower costs and claim market share in the face of an increasing threat from the free operating system, Linux.
ATI To Support XFree86 4.3 Soon
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/24/1726213
WarPengi writes "Still not open source but it's good to know there is continuing support."
The Wrong Choice: Sometimes it's Linux, consultant says http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/24/1648249
Michael S. Mimoso writes "One of IT consultant Robert Hubbard's corporate clients runs Red Hat Linux. Linux was chosen because the company's programmers need flexibility to dabble with source code and create custom programs. Big trouble ensued, however, when a remote programmer flexed too much. In this instance, Hubbard thinks that Linux was the wrong choice."
Thinkgeek
Cube Goodies: Nerf Air Tech 4000
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/5e0d/