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[osdn everything] April 26, 2003
Date: Sat Apr 26 2003 - 04:45:27 EDT
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April 26, 2003 EVERYTHING SERIES
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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
ActiveDeveloper 2.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120780/
ActiveDeveloper is a runtime Objective-C and C IDE, JIT compiler, and debugger for Cocoa and WebObjects 4.x. It features fast incremental Objective-C and C compilation, full native speed applications in deployment, and no ActiveDeveloper dependency in your products.
AGT 1.08 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120844/
AGT is a powerful console frontend to iptables, supporting nearly all of the iptables extensions (such as quota, random, MIRROR, multiport, owner, string, MAC address, and more). All options can be specified in a configuration file with similar syntax to 'ipf' and 'ipfw'.
Amiga Research Operating System 20030425 http://freshmeat.net/releases/120835/
The Amiga Research OS (AROS) is an effort to implement an Open Source and portable operating system that is compatible with AmigaOS 3.1. It was originally meant to be a direct reimplementation, but AROS currently has features which do not exist in AmigaOS.
Anope IRC Services 1.4.21
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120824/
Anope is a set of IRC services designed to be stable, efficient, and user-friendly. Anope expands on the ever popular services developed by Lara.
Apache DoS Evasive Maneuvers Module 1.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/120825/
The Apache DoS Evasive Maneuvers Module is a module for Apache 1.3 that provides functionality for detecting and fighting off DoS attacks and brute force attacks. It does this by adding addresses to a 10-second '403 List' and rejecting rapidly repeated requests for the same URL from the same addresses, using an internal hash table, on a per-child basis. This module can be configured to talk to ipchains, ipfilter, or any other tool designed to push the attack out to the network layer, and provides email notification in the event of an attack.
Astaro Security Linux 2.033 (Stable 2.x) http://freshmeat.net/releases/120758/
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.
audioBox 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120706/
audioBox is a Linux MP3 player frontend based on LCDproc and mpg123 (or mpg321). It is intended to run on a standalone headless Linux machine as an "audio appliance", playing MP3 files from the local hard disk or CD-ROM. audioBox uses an LCD display to show MP3 file list and song information. It provides menus for MP3 file search and playlist browsing. No video card or display is required.
Bikkuruinen Etna - Betty Etna 0.9.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120762/
Betna is a game where you protect your volcano from "7h3 3v1l 4n7z". They attack you from both sides and you have to fire a lot of rocks/bullets at them.
bk_edit 0.6.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120828/
bk_edit is an easy to use bookmark manager and editor. The program can read, write, edit, create, manage, and convert the bookmarks of the most popular browsers. There is also a simple drag and drop interface for adding new bookmarks from a running browser in a very comfortable way. There are plugins for Mozilla, Opera, Galeon/XBEL, and Netscape.
BookmarkManager 0.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120814/
BookmarkManager is an online bookmark manager and is meant as a replacement for a browser's bookmark system. It runs on a servlet container, and needs no database. It uses the Prevayler system for storing its data.
Bugzilla 2.16.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120766/
Bugzilla is the leading open-source/free software bug tracking system, with high-profile installations at mozilla.org, GNOME, Red Hat, and NASA, among others. It features a comprehensive set of fields, attachment management, inter-bug dependencies, email notification of changes, a powerful query interface, reporting, and Web, XML, email, and console interfaces. It can be managed entirely using a Web-based UI. The user UI is customizable using templates.
Chandler 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120507/
Chandler is a skeletal framework for a Personal Information Manager (PIM). It offers software developers technical and structural overviews and tentative APIs for generating robust applications.
ChangePassword 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120799/
ChangePassword modifies the passwords of passwd, Samba, and Squid through the Web. All passwords are syncronized and changed in real time over a browser like Mozilla, Netscape, IE, Opera, and others.
CheckBook Tracker 0.9.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120754/
In order to leave Windows behind most people need a fully-functional money management program. CheckBook Tracker seeks to solve that problem. It has the feel and features of packages like Microsoft Money without requiring the user to build their own sources or find an RPM for their distribution. Its features include Import / Export QIF files straight from Money or Quicken, autocomplete, check printing, split transactions, balance forecasts, online banking, and more.
Checkmail for mbox 0.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120666/
Checkmail is a versatile mbox checking utility that checks multiple Unix mailbox files for new incoming mail. Checks can be performed regularly at specified intervals. It can be launched from .bashrc or .profile in a home directory, or in the system-wide equivalents to check for new mail at each login.
Cherokee 0.4.2 pre10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120777/
Cherokee is a tiny, ultrafast, lightweight Web server. It is implemented entirely in C, and has no dependencies beyond a standard C library. It is embeddable, extensible with plug-ins, and supports on-the-fly configuration by reading files or strings.
ClarkConnect Internet Gateway 1.3 (Office) http://freshmeat.net/releases/120796/
ClarkConnect is a software package that transforms an old beat up PC into a smart, simple, and secure Internet gateway and server for your home or small office network. In addition to connection sharing, the software comes with a strong firewall, Apache, dynamic DNS utilities, and Samba filesharing. The software is based on Red Hat Linux.
CRC Faker 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120755/
CRC Faker is a security tool that can be used to create junk files of arbitrary size and CRC- 32 value. It can be used to fake files with known CRC-32 values such as pirated software or movie chunks, which are listed in common SFV files. It uses an highly optimized brute force algorithm and is able to fake any file within 5-10 minutes average on a 1.2 GHz+ machine.
DB_DataContainer 0.10.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120806/
DB_DataContainer is a PEAR-compliant database persistence layer and data encapsulation class. It encapsulates the behavior required to make objects persistent, including loading, saving, and deleting objects in a persistent store. It currently supports relational databases and uses PEAR DB for database abstraction.
Debian Swirly 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120756/
Debian Swirly is a reworked Memslut theme for Debian.
DvorakNG 0.6.0rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120832/
DvorakNG is a Dvorak typing tutor. It's heavily based on Dvorak7min, but adds many improvements like a progress information database.
Epylog 0.9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120428/
Epylog is a log notifier and parser that periodically tails system logs on Unix systems, parses the output in order to present it in an easily readable format (parsing modules currently exist only for Linux), and mails the final report to the administrator. It can run daily or hourly. Epylog is written specifically for large clusters where many systems log to a single loghost using syslog or syslog-ng. Although Epylog can be used on standalone systems, other packages (like logwatch) are probably better suited for such purposes.
Eternal Lands 0.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120846/
Eternal Lands is a multiplatform (Windows/Linux) 3D graphical online world that will evolve into a fully-featured MMORPG. It requires a hardware-accelerated video card that supports at least OpenGL 1.2.
eZ publish 3.0-2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120767/
eZ publish is an open source content management system and development framework. As a content management system (CMS) it's most notable feature is its revolutionary, fully customizable, and extendable content model. This is also what makes it suitable as a platform for general Web development. Its stand-alone libraries can be used for cross-platform, database independent PHP projects. eZ publish is also well suited for news publishing, e-commerce (B2B and B2C), portals, and corporate Web sites, intranets, and extranets. eZ publish is dual licenced between GPL and the eZ publish professional licence.
FurthurNET 1.7.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120795/
Furthur is a peer-to-peer cataloging and music sharing tool that allows a fully enforceable legal sharing model, instant downloads with no waiting lists, in-depth cataloging functionality, and detailed attribute searches.
Galrey 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120831/
Galrey is (yet another) Perl program that provides the ability to create a full browsable catalog of images in HTML format. It automates the creation of thumbnails and an HTML page for each image in the catalog. An index of thumbnails is also created. Galrey is fully customizable. It uses ImageMagick as its back-end for image processing.
gcc 3.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120809/
The GNU Compiler Collection contains frontends for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada as well as libraries for these languages. It is a full-featured ANSI C compiler with support for K&R C as well. GCC provides many levels of source code error checking traditionally provided by other tools (such as lint), produces debugging information, and can perform many different optimizations to the resulting object code.
GDownloader 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120736/
GDownloader is a download manager that allows you to resume paused or aborted downloads, download from multiple locations, and manage multiples downloads (priorities, schedule, etc.).
Getmap 0.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120830/
Getmap is a Python program to retrieve maps from the Tiger database maintained by the US Census dept.
giant newSyst 2.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120776/
newSyst is a PHP/MySQL-based weblog for writing and editing articles in as many categories as you like. The software is completely bilingual. The output can be assimilated easily to the "look-and-feel" of your own Web site. Date and time are always printed out, but these dates can be easily modified by the author. With a very easy-to-handle admin interface you can write and edit your articles in a couple of seconds.
Graphical certification authority 0.3.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/120790/
Graphical certification authority is an interface for managing RSA keys and certificates, and the creation and signing of PKCS#10 requests. It uses the OpenSSL library and a Berkeley DB for key and certificate storage. It supports importing and exporting keys and PEM DER PKCS8 certificates, signing and revoking of PEM DER PKCS12, and the selection of x509v3 extensions. A tree view of certificates is presented.
Gubed 0.0.2a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120843/
Gubed is a PHP Debugger. It supports stepping through code, watching contents of variables, and setting breakpoints. Very few changes are needed to server software and scripts being debugged.
gURLChecker 0.3.11 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120821/
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.
html2hdml 1.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120752/
Html2hdml is a HTML to HDML (Handheld Device Markup Language) converter. It is designed to be lightweight, fast, and portable, and works on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, and Cygwin.
iBackup 2.25
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120779/
ibackup lets you automate (with cron) the backup of system configurations. It is easy to extend it for your systems and adapt to your needs. It supports exclude lists, upload, and encryption of your backups. It also comes with a sysconf script to make a report about a system.
IPTables-tutorial 1.1.18
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120771/
IPTables-tutorial is a tutorial which explains how to install and set up iptables and netfilters on Linux. It takes you through a usable example file step by step, and helps you understand its basic functionality. The tutorial currently contains 6 different example scripts that may be used freely under GPL licensing terms.
JaxMe 1.58
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120836/
JaxMe is a Java/XML binding framework based on SAX2. It consists of a set of code generators that read an XML schema and generate code for parsing conformant XML documents into corresponding Java objects, saving those objects into a database or, vice versa, reading such Java objects from a database and converting them into XML. JaxMe supports namespaces, relational databases, and Tamino. JaxMe comes with an integrated application framework and a generator for EJB entity beans with BMP (bean managed persistence).
JFreeChart 0.9.8 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120788/
JFreeChart is a chart library for Java that supports a wide range of
charts including pie charts (2D and 3D), bar charts (horizontal and
vertical, regular or stacked line charts with optional 3D-effects, XY
plots, scatter plots, time series charts, high/low/open/close charts,
candlestick plots, Gantt charts, Pareto charts, combination charts, and
more. It is suitable for use in applications, applets, servlets, and
JSP.
Kalyp 0.3.4-alpha (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120791/
Kalyp is a fantasy-based roguelike game written in Java. Its design is based on traditions set by popular roguelike games, especially Nethack. It is single player and runs in a text terminal. The project focuses mostly on the Artificial Intelligence engine for the non-player characters. Most of the game design will be done in scripting, as the core engine written in Java will handle user interface, rulesets, basic actions, and try to hold it all together.
kcd 6.11.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120803/
kcd is a directory change utility similar to NCD. It helps you navigate the directory tree. You can also supply part of the desired directory name in the command line and let kcd find it for you.
Krename 2.6.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120792/
Krename is a very powerful batch file renamer for KDE3 which can rename a list of files based on a set of expressions. It can copy/move the files to another directory or simply rename the input files. Krename supports many conversion operations, including conversion of a filename to lowercase or to uppercase, conversion of the first letter of every word to uppercase, adding numbers to filenames, finding and replacing parts of the filename, and many more. It can also change access and modification dates, permissions, and file ownership.
LCL 0.7.4-2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120798/
The LinuxClassLibrary is a growing set of classes which everyone needs every day, that runs on all types of *nix and also on Win32. Currently it is a library that works in the background (non GUI). Current features are character handling, file descriptors (sockets, file, etc.), a database system (like the Perl DBI), an event system, template collection classes (set, heap, hash, etc.), IPC, protocols, plug-ins, and images.
libwpd 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120845/
libwpd is a library designed to help in the process of importing and exporting WordPerfect documents by hiding its stream-based formatting behind a modern C++ API. It is used in the recent versions of AbiWord's WordPerfect filter. A stand-alone utility based on libwpd, wpd2sxw, is available now for converting WordPerfect documents to OpenOffice.org's XML-based file format.
Libxml 2.5.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120774/
Libxml is the XML C library developed for the Gnome project. The library code is portable (to Linux, Unix, Windows, embedded systems, etc.) and modular; most of the extensions can be compiled out. Libxml implements a number of existing standards related to markup languages, including the XML standard, Namespaces in XML, XML Base, Relax NG, RFC 2396, XPath, XPointer, HTML4, XInclude, SGML Catalogs, and XML Catalogs. In most cases, libxml tries to implement the specifications in a relatively strict way. To some extent, it provides support for the following specifications, but doesn't claim to implement them: DOM, FTP client, HTTP client, SAX, and DocBook SGML. Support for W3C XML Schemas is in progress. It includes xmllint, a command line XML validator.
Linoleum 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120827/
Linoleum is an easy-to-use program which helps you manage, edit, and distribute your programs and files. It stores all your information in a simple, compact database in which you can add, remove, or edit files with a click of a button.
Linux 2.4.21-rc1 (2.4-testing)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120759/
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.
magicSquare 1.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120770/
magicSquare is inspired by a game played on a HP48 / 49G.
Mesh Viewer 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120782/
The Mesh Viewer is an easy to use lightweight application to display triangular meshes from a variety of file formats. It uses the OpenGL API to render the models. Triangular meshes can be displayed texture mapped (optional with bilinear filtering), solid, or as a skeleton (full or just the front lines). The surface normals of the triangles can optionally be displayed. Loaded models can be rotated, translated, and scaled (all done with the mouse). The model is lighted by multiple light sources. Viewpoints can be saved. Screenshots of the model can be taken (as BMP, JPEG, PNG, etc.).
MIMEDefang 2.33
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120804/
MIMEDefang is a flexible MIME email scanner designed to protect Windows clients from viruses. However, it can do many other kinds of mail processing, such as replacing parts of messages with URLs, adding boilerplate disclaimers, and so on. It can alter or delete various parts of a MIME message according to a very flexible configuration file. It can also bounce messages with unacceptable attachments. MIMEDefang works with Sendmail 8.11/8.12's new "Milter" API, which makes it more flexible and efficient than procmail-based approaches.
Moregroupware 0.6.7 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120807/
Moregroupware is groupware that includes standard modules like calendar, news, contacts, and more. Its UI is multi-language ready, it has a robust framework for adding modules, and can run on several databases.
MrGrid 1.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120822/
MrGrid is a MR file analyser for statistical supported counting of surfaces and volumes contained in MR images. It supports remapping of the grayscale images into false color images to appreciate the full dynamic range of information contained in the image.
NullLogic Groupware 1.2.1 (Source)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120812/
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.
Open WebMail 2.01 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120823/
Open WebMail is a webmail system written with Perl. It is designed to manage very large mail folder files in a memory efficient way. It also provides a range of features to help users migrate smoothly from Microsoft Outlook to Open WebMail. Open WebMail has the following features: multiple languages, multiple iconset/styles, strong MIME support, SMTP relaying, virtual hosting, user aliases, pure virtual user, per user based capability, multiple authentication modules, PAM
support, folder/message management, draft folder, confirm reading
support, full content search, spellchecking, auto reply, mail filter,
webdisk, calendar, event reminder, POP3 support, online password
changing, message count preview, user history, and persistant running
support.
Openbox 2.3.1 (Testing)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120841/
Openbox is a window manager with an enhanced Blackbox style-engine that supports the KDE and GNOME desktop environments and their applications. It provides a familiar environment to Blackbox users with added customizability. The key handler, epist, provides full key-chain-combo support, support for bindings without modifiers, and the ability to pop up Openbox menus.
Papyrus 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120760/
Papyrus is a XML-based reporting langauge for PostgreSQL and MySQL. It allows you to generate well-formatted reports in LaTeX, PDF, PostScript, HTML, ANSI, and XML. The XML is expressed in a formatting-oriented style to allow you to develop a wide range of reports. SQL is then embedded into the report to give you the desired data. Papyrus is commandline-driven, and data arguments can be passed into the report. Equations and expressions can also be carried out on data.
PHProjekt 4.0.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120761/
PHProjekt is a groupware suite which supports communication and management of teams and companies via an Intranet and the Internet. It consists of multiple components, including a group calendar with resource booking, a time card system, project management, a request tracker, a mutual filesystem, a contact manager, a mail client, a forum, chat, notes, shared bookmarks, todo lists, a voting system, and reminders. An API allows the integration of several available addons (e.g. Web shop, WAP suite, sync tools) or own applications. It is available for MySQL, Postgres, Interbase, Oracle, Informix, MS-SQL, and 28 languages.
phpVideoPro 0.4.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120793/
phpVideoPro is a program to manage your collection of DVDs, Video CDs, and video tapes. It stores all data in a database, and provides you with features for adding/changing entries, displaying lists, printing labels and lists, and more. An online help system is built-in to guide you when necessary. Support for multiple languages is provided (English, German, French, Polish, Bulgarian, Swedish, etc.), and supported databases include MySQL and PostgreSQL.
Picture of the Big Bang 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120802/
A Picture of the Big Bang, taken from the cosmic digital camera straight to the desktop.
PircBot 1.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120833/
PircBot is a Java framework for writing IRC bots quickly and easily. Its features include an event-driven architecture to handle common IRC events, flood protection, DCC support, ident support, and more. Its comprehensive logfile format is suitable for use with pisg to generate channel statistics. Full documentation is included, and the Web site contains a 5-minute step-by-step guide to making your first IRC bot.
pretendroot 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120811/
Pretendroot is an LD_PRELOAD library which overrides some glibc calls, pretending you are root while doing file system operations. The main difference from Debian's fakeroot is that no daemons or other processes are involved, fake ownership and group are stored on the file system, and not in memory, hence it can survive even reboots. This library has been successfully used when building packages for the UHU-Linux distribution. All of its applications are compiled and installed as an unprivileged user. However, there's no need to patch Makefiles; commands such as "install -o root -g mail thisfile ${DESTDIR}/here" work perfectly, and the final packages will have the desired ownership and group.
ProFTPDTools 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120820/
ProFTPDTools is a Web interface for managing users and groups in a setup of ProFTPd with mod_sql. It provides a session-based login system for admins and users. Users can manage their account data via a Web interface. Admins can make normal users admins, and can enable and disable accounts. Formatted ftpwho output is also provided.
PyKota Print Quota System 1.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120726/
PyKota is a centralized and extensible print quota system for the Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS). It features per-printer user and group quotas, automated email warning to users and quota administrator, commandline tools which mimic the disk quota utilities, and much more.
QtRadio 0.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120781/
QtRadio (formerly KDERadio) lets you listen to the radio, add stations, etc.
Rudiments 0.25
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120815/
Rudiments is a C++ class library providing base classes for things such as daemons, clients, and servers, and wrapper classes for the standard C functions for things like regular expressions, semaphores, and signal handling.
runit 0.9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120764/
runit is a daemontools alike replacement for SysV-init and other init schemes. It currently runs on GNU/Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and can easily be adapted to other Unix operating systems. runit implements a simple three-stage concept. Stage 1 performs the system's one-time initialization tasks. Stage 2 starts the system's uptime services (via the runsvdir program). Stage 3 handles the tasks necessary to shutdown and halt or reboot.
samhain 1.7.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120794/
samhain is a daemon that can check file integrity, search the file tree for SUID files, and detect kernel module rootkits (Linux only). It can be used either standalone or as a client/server system for centralized monitoring, with strong (192-bit AES) encryption for client/server connections and the option to store databases and configuration files on the server. For tamper resistance, it supports signed database/configuration files and signed reports/audit logs. It has been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and Unixware.
Server Status 1.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120842/
Server Status is a server monitor that simply displays a list of servers to monitor and displays whether they are alive on the network or not.
slides.sh 1.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120797/
slides.sh is a shell script for generating simple HTML presentations from text. The software is intended to be able to fit on a single boot floppy. The source file is a text file with a simple format for easy data capture. It can be used on any system with a shell and Unix tools. You can use it to make an automatic slideshow.
SPASTIC 3.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120818/
SPASTIC is an easy-to-use, powerful set of email filters to deal with Unsolicited Commercial E-mail (UCE), a.k.a. spam, using procmail. Some of its features are filtering based on header and/or body contents, predefined sets of filters to get started quickly, a whitelist to bypass filters, options on where to send spam, and an optional script to rotate the spam file periodically.
Speakeasy Theta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120688/
Speakeasy is a user-friendly computational software environment. It is an easy-to-learn application with an intuitive computational language providing a natural way to communicate with your computer. It combines some of the most diverse and in-depth mathematical functions available, with complete tools for creating end-user applications.
Spreadsheet::WriteExcel 0.41
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120769/
Spreadsheet::WriteExcel is a Perl module which can be used to create native Excel binary files. Formatted text and numbers can be written to multiple worksheets in a workbook. Formulas and functions are also supported. It is 100% Perl and doesn't require any Windows libraries or a copy of Excel. It will also work on the majority of Unix and Macintosh platforms. Generated files are compatible with Excel 5, 95, 97, 2000 and 2002, and with the Linux/Unix spreadsheet applications OpenOffice and Gnumeric.
SQL Relay 0.33
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120816/
SQL Relay is a persistent database connection pooling, proxying, and load balancing system for Unix and Linux supporting ODBC, Oracle, MySQL, mSQL, PostgreSQL, Sybase, MS SQL Server, IBM DB2, Interbase, Lago, and SQLite, and with APIs for C, C++, Perl, Perl-DBD, Python, Python-DB, Zope, PHP, Ruby, Ruby-DBD, Java and TCL, command line clients, a GUI configuration tool, and extensive documentation. The APIs support advanced database operations such as binding variables, multi-row fetches, client side result set caching, and suspended transactions. It is ideal for speeding up database-driven Web-based applications, accessing databases from unsupported platforms, migrating between databases, distributing access to replicated databases, and throttling database access.
The Open For Business Project 2.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120757/
The goal of Open For Business is to create a set of tools and applications for business software and a community of developers and users to benefit from it and contribute to it. It uses Java, J2EE, XML, services, workflow, rules, content management, and analysis.
tvlisting 2.0.13 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120753/
tvlisting is a Perl script that retrieves and displays the TV listing from the Internet. It currently uses tvguide.com as the source of the listings. This script can output the listing as text, HTML, LaTeX, and Xawtv. It can also be used as a CGI script with HTML output.
vcp 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120819/
vcp copies files and directories using a curses or text-only interface. Its options and output are similar to cp. It provides visual information about the files copied and left to copy, the amount of data written and to be written, the amount of data being written every second, and two status bars representing the number of files copied and to copy.
X File Explorer 0.54 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120783/
X File Explorer (Xfe) is a filemanager for X. It is based on the popular, but discontinued, X Win Commander. Xfe is desktop independent and is written with the C++ Fox Toolkit. It looks similar to Windows Commander or MS-Explorer, and is very fast and simple. It features file associations, the ability to mount/umount devices, a directory tree for quickly changing directories, the ability to change file attributes, automatic registry saving, the ability to view/create/extract compressed archives, and much more.
xmlenc 0.28
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120763/
xmlenc is a light-weight XML encoding library for Java. It fills the gap between a light-weight parser like SAX, and a heavy-weight XML output library, like JDOM.
Xtraceroute 0.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120773/
Xtraceroute is a graphical version of the traceroute program, which traces the route your IP packets travel to their destination. It displays the routes on a rotating globe, as a series of yellow lines between 'sites', shown as small balls of different colors.
zExtranet Portal System 1.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120775/
The zExtranet Portal System is a Zope-based portal and dynamic Web site system that features static HTML, dynamic articles, polls, shopping carts, a meeting planner, appointments, calendars, contact management, file sharing, a time-off/sick planner, an RSS newsfeed manager, forums, shift management, asset management, expense management, reminders, timed events, and collective lunch ordering. It also features an authentication system.
ZoneMinder 0.9.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120765/
ZoneMinder is a suite of applications intended for use in video camera security applications, including theft prevention and child or family member monitoring. It supports capture, analysis, recording, and monitoring of video data coming from one or more cameras attached to a Linux system. It also features a user-friendly Web interface which allows viewing, archival, review, and deletion of images and movies captured by the cameras. The image analysis system is highly configurable, permitting retention of specific events, while eliminating false positives. ZoneMinder supports both directly connected and network cameras and is built around the definition of a set of individual 'zones' of varying sensitivity and functionality for each camera. This allows the elimination of regions which should be ignored or the definition of areas which will alarm if various thresholds are exceeded in conjunction with other zones. All management, control, and other functions are supported through the Web interface.
Newsforge Reports
Why do programmers write open source software?
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/19/2128256
- Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - "What motivates people to participate in the open source community? Is it creativity, or what? There's a lot of work involved, and the remuneration must be minimal. What do open source developers do for a source of income?" These questions were recently asked on a journalists' email list I belong to. Here is an edited version of my reply:
Linux Advisory Watch - April 25th, 2003
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/25/119202
- By Benjamin D. Thomas - This week, advisories were released for vixie-cron, tcpdump, balsa, sendmail-wide, ircii, mime-support, kdelibs, gkrellm, snort, ethereal, and xinetd. The distributors include Contectiva, Debian, Mandrake, Red Hat, Slackware, SuSE,