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[osdn everything] April 28, 2003
Date: Mon Apr 28 2003 - 04:45:27 EDT
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Slashdot
AOL Blocks Telstra Bigpond Mail
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/28/047236
frodmann writes "Australian IT reports here that AOL has been
[0]blocking email from Telstra bigpond mail accounts. This is possibly
attributed to AOL's new white list policy as reported earlier on
Slashdot. Although this article is a few days old I can verify that
this is still happening. (For those outside of Australia, Telstra is
one of our largest ISPs.)"
Links
0. http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,6325325%5E15318%5E%5Enbv%5E15306,00.html
Telemarketer Blows Whistle on Tape-Altering Scam http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/28/0037215
Recently, Florida-based telemarketing firm Epixtar is frequently accused of cramming an extra $30 onto phone charges of small businesses, yet has proof of legality by recording their calls. Until they laid off some people, one of whom has [0]blown the whistle. The companies' cramming tactics become "legal" by altering those taped recordings to include a quick statement about the $30 charge. MSNBC has the article, including a short audio clip of a sample call. Links
0. http://www.msnbc.com/news/896884.asp?0cl=cR
An Affordable Air Purifier For Dusty Computer Labs? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/28/0215240
Alcimedes writes "Our lab has a serious issue with dust. I've had a
number of power supplies stop working because of dust clogging up the
fans, and it's getting annoying. So I'm looking into some kind of small
(under $500) air filtration system, and was wondering if anyone else
out there has already gone down this road. If so, what did you buy and
would you buy it again? I'd prefer something where I don't have to keep
buying filters, but that may just be a pipe dream." Anyone with cats
knows the feeling. Can you suggest a reasonably priced answer to
dust-borne failure?
A Timeline Of Spam And Antispam
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/28/0028204
Haak writes "American Scientist has a fine article by Brian Hayes
summing up the [0]history of spam and proposed measures to deal with
it." A [1]shorter article along the same lines is running at The
Economist.
Links
0. http://www.americanscientist.org/Issues/Comsci03/03-05Hayes.html
Intel's Itanium Will Get x86 Emulation
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/27/2313248
pissoncutler writes "Intel has announced that they will be releasing a
software emulation product to allow 32-bit x86 apps to run on Itanium
Processors. According to these stories ([0]story 1, [1]story 2), the
emulator is capable of the x86 performance of a 1.5Ghz Xeon (when run
on a similar speed Itanium.) Who said that no one cared about x86
anymore?"
Links
0. http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=9300072
MP3 Player In An AK-47 Magazine
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/27/2142217
Comrade Pikachu writes "[0]These guys have apparently fit a hard drive based MP3 player into a Kalashnikov ammunition clip. They are accepting pre-orders now. It fits into a standard AK-47 and comes pre-loaded with over 200 audio books. Listen to Poe on your assault rifle!" Audiobooksforfree also is one of the few places I've found online with free (low-fi) audiobooks -- for greater fidelity, you can buy files or pre-loaded hard drives, or (at long last) this unorthodox player. Links
0. http://www.audiobooksforfree.com/kalashnikov/ak-mp3.asp
Calling Software Reliability Into Question http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/27/2026257
phillymjs writes "CNN is running a [0]story on software reliability, and how the lack of it may cost more and more lives as technology creeps further into everyday products. It appears a debate is finally starting amongst everyday (read: non-geek) people about vendor liability for buggy software. Some opponents of the liability push are unsurprising: Says the story, 'Microsoft contends that setting [reliability] standards could stifle innovation, and the cost of litigation and damages could mean more expensive software.' The article also says, however, that consumers' favortism of flashy products over reliable ones is partly to blame for the current state of software." Links
0. http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/04/27/buggy.software.ap/index.html
Sensor Networks For Surveillance And Security http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/27/1828224
[0]gpmap writes "Small Times has an article on the [1]coming age of
all-pervasive sensor networks that will feed information of all sorts
to monitoring networks. Technology advances have generated intense
interest in sensor networks: 'the magic words are surveillance and
security.' The Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) hosted the second
Information Processing in Sensor Networks workshop this week amid
anticipation of significant funding grants from the National Science
Foundation. Most believe miniaturization, whether through conventional
methods, MEMS or nanotech, will drive the spread of sensor networks.
But plenty of issues need working through, on the hardware, software
and social fronts."
Links
0. mailto:g2002@prisco.info
Remote Direct Memory Access Over IP
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/27/1652245
doormat writes "Accessing another computer's memory over the internet? [0]It might not be that far off. Sounds like a great tool for clustering, especially considering that the new motherboards have gigabit ethernet and a link directly to the northbridge/MCH." Links
0. http://www.commsdesign.com/story/OEG20030425S0043
Protein-Packed Hard Drives Promise High Capacity http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/27/1616200
Digimax writes "The [0]New Scientist has an interesting article on a technology being developed by [1]NanoMagnetics which [2]involves using a protein responsible for storing iron in the body to store data on a hard drive. Is this the start of the BioTech revolution?" Links
0.
http://www.newscientist.com/
1.
http://www.nanomagnetics.com/
2.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993664
Freshmeat
Amaranth Icons .2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120990/
Amaranth Icons is a smooth icon theme which was made with Adobe Illustrator 10. It will soon be released as SVG icons.
ANT is Not a Telephone 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120970/
ANT is a telephone application for GNU/Linux, ISDN4Linux, and OSS.
ayttm 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120952/
Ayttm is an instant messenger program, supporting various protocols such as MSN, Yahoo, AIM, Jabber, and more. It is a fork of Everybuddy, and initially aims to address its problems. It should not segfault when you use it, and should be almost instantly usable by your mother. Almost useless prefs should be hidden, reserved for "advanced" users, and things have to work without wondering what this or that will produce.
BBStatus 2.0RC9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120985/
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.
Class.Jabber.PHP 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120960/
Class.Jabber.PHP is a class which you can use to connect to the Jabber network. It allows you to easily connect to a server and interact with it. It supports all packet types (message, iq, and presence), is very flexible, and offers both high-level methods (registration, message sending, etc.) and low-level methods (packet sending, etc.).
E-Cell System 3.1.95 (ecell3)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120954/
E-Cell System is an object-oriented software suite for modelling, simulation, and analysis of large scale complex systems such as biological cells. It allows many components, driven by multiple algorithms with different timescales, to coexist.
electricsheep 2.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120944/
Electric sheep is the collective dream of sleeping computers from all over the internet. Less poetically, it is an Internet server and xscreensaver module that displays MPEG video of an animated fractal flame. In the background, it contributes render cycles to the next animation. Periodically, it uploads completed frames to the server, where they are compressed for distribution to all clients.
Elegant Copper 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120929/
Elegant Copper is a theme with leaves silhouetted against a copper-coloured sunset. The background is by netghost (Adam Sanderson).
fli4l 2.0.8 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120977/
fli4l is a single-floppy Linux-based ISDN/DSL/ethernet-router. It
features configuration with some simple ASCII-files, several possible
connection-flavors (in/out/callback, and raw IP/PPP), channel bundling
(an extra channel can be added through a Windows/Unix-client),
configuration of multiple networks, least-cost routing, automatic
choice of provider, display/calculation of connection times and costs,
and a Windows/Unix client to control dial/hangup, monitor traffic and
monitor incoming calls on ISDN (see screenshot).
Fract-O-Rama 1.6.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120939/
Fract-O-Rama is a Qt-based fractal generation program. All fractal images are specified using the program's fractal scripting language, so it is possible to explore a wider variety of fractal types/options than with many other generation programs. Full source is included, and the program readily compiles/runs on UNIX or win32 (win32 binaries are also available, as a Qt commercial license is required to build the program on windows). It comes with documentation and many example fractals.
FtpCube 0.4.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120991/
FtpCube is a graphical ftp client written in Python using the wxPython graphical toolkit, and is based on LeechFTP by Jan Debis. FtpCube aims to provide a high quality GUI, as well as a rich feature set, and surpasses LeechFTP in functionality.
Gammu 0.73 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120971/
Gammu (formerly known as MyGnokii2) is cellular manager for various
mobile phones and modems. It currently supports Nokia 3210, 33xx, 3410,
35xx, 51xx, 5210, 5510, 61xx, 62xx, 63xx, 6510, 6610, 71xx, 7210, 82xx,
83xx, 9110, and 9210, and AT devices (such as Siemens, Alcatel, Falcom,
WaveCom, IPAQ, and other). It has a command line version with many
functions for ringtones, phonebook, SMS, logos, WAP, date/time, alarm,
calls, etc. It can also make full backups and restore them. It works on
various Unix systems (like Linux) and Win32.
Generic Game-Tree Library 1.0pre4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120967/
GGTL is a C library to help people program computer games. It is targeted in particular at two-player zero-sum games with perfect information. Examples are Chess, Checkers, Go, Othello (Reversi), Tic-Tac-Toe, and Connect-4. For such games, GGTL can provide Alpha-Beta game-tree search (both fixed-depth and iterative deepening), unlimited undo, and saving to/resuming from files. Three example games, Othello, Connect-4, and Tic-Tac-Toe, are included.
glibc-audit 2.3.2-27.9.audit.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120892/
glibc-audit is a modified version of glibc for application developers who check their code with an automatic memory access checker such as Purify, Insure++, or valgrind. glibc-audit has been audited and cleaned up so that reports from the developer's use of a memory access checker are more likely to be interesting to the developer, with less "noise" from the C library itself. Also, the r_debug.r_brk protocol has been enhanced to co-operate with a co-resident auditor.
gwyple 2.0.0 (Main)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120957/
gwyple is a GUI, implemented in Perl and Perl/Tk, for handling bug reports. These reports usually arrive by email, are stored by helper scripts called from procmail, and can then be organized by gwyple independently from the used BTS.
Illustrative Boundaries 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120930/
Illustrative Boundaries is a theme with a vector gecko. The background is by netghost (Adam Sanderson).
imgv 2.8.5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120955/
imgv is a Python image viewer that runs on Linux, FreeBSD, MS-Windows, Mac OS X, and more. It includes standard features such as a file/directory browser, slideshows, zooming in and out, flipping, and rotating. It also has special features such as the ability to view 4 images on the screen at once, adjustable thumbnail sizes, image playlists, the ability to view images on Web sites, MPEG movie support, a customizable interface, and much more.
Impact 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120943/
Impact is a finite element program based on an explicit time stepping algorithm. It can be used to simulate dynamic events such as car crashes or other large deformation events. It is written in Java and is kept very simple, to make it intuitive to use and easy to change and extend. It is very flexible and can handle several different input and output formats.
IOG 1.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120984/
IOG is a network I/O byte grapher made to graph cumulative KB/MB/GB
totals for hours/days and months. It is intended to be simple, fast
(support thousands of interfaces) and integrate well with MRTG (not
required). Data for each host is updated hourly and HTML graphs are
created. It uses a data consolidation algorithm which allows for a
small, non-growing database file for each host. Perl is required, but
no external graphing libraries or binaries are needed.
J2SSH 0.1.3 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120963/
J2SSH is an object-orientated Java implementation of the SSH version 2 protocol. It provides a rich, powerful, and extensible SSH API that enables developers to gain access to SSH servers and to develop entire SSH client/server frameworks. The API library provides a fully-featured SSH2 implementation specifically designed for cross-platform development. Higher level components, representing both the standard SSH client and SSH servers, are provided which implement the protocol specification for user sessions and port forwarding. The specification currently supports public key and password authentication and a full implementation of the SFTP protocol.
j4RCS 0.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120953/
j4RCS is a simple Java Swing frontend for the RCS program. It allows you to manage projects made of several files instead of doing it file by file with the commandline program.
Jaim 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120947/
Jaim is a Java library that implements the AOL TOC Instant Messaging protocol. The intention of Jaim is to simplify the creation of AIM "bots" in Java.
Japana 2.0.4 (Current)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120965/
Japana is a small HTTP proxy written in Perl. It converts Japanese characters (Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji) into ASCII (Romaji) on the fly. The translation is done with the kakasi library (an older version without the need for kakasi still exists).
Kandel 0.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120941/
Kandel is a KDE 2.x program for generating the Mandelbrot set. It allows multiple blocks to be computed in parallel, speeding up calculations on SMP boxes or MOSIX clusters. It also supports essentially unlimited resolutions and precision (via the GNU multiprecision maths library), however it will use the hardware FPU if possible.
Leif 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120961/
Leif is a KDE tool for the SonyEricsson T68/T68i mobile phone. It supports phonebook editing, SMS management, and file uploading.
Lily 1.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120983/
Lily is a POP3 email notification utility which emulates The Bat!'s new mail notifier. New messages have their headers scrolled across the screen.
MiddleMan 1.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120948/
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.
Morseall 0.4.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120975/
Morseall allows you to control your computer using only the mouse buttons. It allows you to produce keystrokes by tapping Morse codes with just a single button or with a three-button mouse for faster entry. Morseall is designed for disabled users who can only move one muscle. Morseall can also be used with wearable laptops, tablets, or handhelds where a keyboard would be inconvenient or unavailable.
multitail 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120972/
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. One can also have windows with the output of shell scripts and other software.
Muttprint 0.70
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120958/
Muttprint formats the printing of Mutt and other mail clients like XFMail or PINE to be like the printing of Netscape Messenger. It can print a little penguin on the first page and a headline on every page.
MyFTPAdmin 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120986/
MyFTP Admin is a Web-based GUI to easily view and administer users and groups for the ProFTPD server. It allows you to manage users and groups, view transfer logs (both uploads and downloads) and error logs, and view disk capacity.
nail 10.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120992/
Nail is a mail user agent derived from Berkeley Mail 8.1. It is intended to provide the functionality of the POSIX.2 mailx command with built-in support for MIME messages, POP3, and SMTP. It also contains some minor enhancements like the ability to set a From: Address. Nail offers its full command set both for interactive and batch use, and is especially useful for sending attachments from scripts or for reading mail via slow connections and on bad terminals. In recent system environments, nail is Unicode/UTF-8 capable.
p(y)layer 0.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120978/
p(y)layer is a jukebox style front end for mpg321 (or mpg123). Its main feature is the ability to search for songs and queue them up for play. If there are no songs queued, it will play a random song.
phpESP 1.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120989/
phpESP is a set of PHP scripts to let non-technical users create surveys, administer surveys, gather results, and view statistics, all managed online after database initialization with a MySQL database backend.
PHPope 0.8b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120969/
PHPope is a Web-based content management application providing full functionality for use with Web sites and intranets. The system is designed for high flexibility, and its modular structure allows individual adjustments to your needs.
phpQLAdmin 2.0.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120988/
phpQLAdmin was designed to administrate a Qmail-LDAP server with an easy-to-use Web interface. It allows you to control the server with the Qmail-LDAP/Controls patch, add/remove domains, add/remove/edit users, change attributes for all domain members, and set passwords, quotas, mailhosts, mail addresses, alias addresses, forwarders, and more. The application's language is configurable (except for the control part) and contains translations for English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Japanese. It supports Ezmlm mailing lists.
popsneakerconfig 0.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120945/
popsneakerconfig allows you to comfortably manage the configuration file popsneakerrc. It allows you to create rules with a wizard, and can optimize your rules and highlight invalid rules. It can precheck whether your rules are doing what they are supposed to do. Searching in rules and importing new rules is also very easy. It is available in both English and German.
PyQt 3.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120982/
PyQt is a comprehensive set of Python bindings for the Qt GUI toolkit.
Python-SIP 3.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120980/
SIP is a tool to generate C++ interface code for Python. It is similar to SWIG, but uses a different interface format. It was used to build PyQt and PyKDE, and has support for the Qt signal/slot mechanism.
QScintilla 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120981/
QScintilla is a port of the Scintilla C++ editor class to the Qt GUI toolkit.
RARS 0.91
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120934/
The Robot Auto Racing Simulator (RARS) consists of a simulation of the physics of cars racing on a track, a graphic display of the race, and a separate control program (robot "driver") for each car. The goal of the game is to implement such a control program in order to compete against other programmers. An official formula one season is held every year.
RSApi 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120936/
Rosetta Stone API aims to create a programming equivalent to the popular Unix Rosetta Stone, which gives commands for common tasks for many different flavors of Unix. RSApi is a Web page and library dedicated to getting system information out of different Unix platforms including Linux, Tru64, Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX.
Scapy 0.9.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120949/
Scapy is a powerful interactive packet manipulation tool, packet
generator, network scanner, network discovery tool, and packet sniffer.
It provides classes to interactively create packets or sets of packets,
manipulate them, send them over the wire, sniff other packets from the
wire, match answers and replies, and more. Interaction is provided by
the Python interpreter, so Python programming structures can be used
(such as variables, loops, and functions). Report modules are possible
and easy to make. It is intended to do about the same things as
ttlscan, nmap, hping, queso, p0f, xprobe, arping, arp-sk, arpspoof,
firewalk, irpas, tethereal, tcpdump, etc.
smtm 1.5.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120959/
smtm (Show Me The Money) is a Perl/Tk ticker, profit/loss calculator, and chart tool. It can display up to ten fields per share, among them company name, price, absolute and relative price changes as well as net wealth change (if the number of shares held is supplied). Other assets such as options, mutual funds, currencies are also supported. Foreign stocks are treated via cross-currency pairs that translate into domestic units. Charts can be launched with one click, and all the charts available at Yahoo!, including all of the advanced moving average and technical analysis features, can be displayed. Stocks can be added and deleted, and the selection can be stored. smtm has been used with US, Canadian, European, Asian, Australian/New Zealand, and South American stocks. Firewalls are fully supported, including user/password support.
The Fish 0.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120966/
The Fish provides a GTK-based graphical tool to manage and edit FreeBSD system variables stored in /etc/defaults/rc.conf and /etc/rc.conf. For testing purposes, or, for users that need to have different configurations, the program honours two environment variables: FISH_RC_DEFAULTS and FISH_RC.
Transparent Mobile IP 0.11a (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/120956/
Transparent Mobile IP (TMip) aims to provide IP mobility across multiple networks, ensuring that all active TCP sessions will be maintained upon client migration. No client-side software or alteration to the IP stack is required. The network itself changes to provide connectivity to hosts, using IP tunneling techniques.
VDR MP3/MPlayer Extensions 0.1.13 (Plugin development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/120976/
The VDR MP3/MPlayer Extensions let you play MP3s with Video Disk Recorder and provide a frontend for MPlayer so you can use a DVB card to play files in formats like AVI, ASF, QT, MOV, VIVO, FLI, and FLC.
Visual Information Broker Enterprise 2.1 RC http://freshmeat.net/releases/120979/
Visual Information Broker Enterprise (VIBE) is an IDE that enables application developers to automate the design and development of infrastructure components for complex distributed cross-platform, cross-language systems applications. You can define messages and generate infrastructure support code for the IBM MQ information bus, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, and other JDBC compliant databases, XML with transformations that use tools like XSL, and J2EE. It also includes a fully functional Business Rules engine, along with a graphical programming environment.
whatsnewfm 0.6.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120950/
whatsnewfm is a filter for the daily freshmeat newsletter. It shows only news items that you haven't seen before (so you don't have to read about every update of applications that you aren't interested in). You can also set up a list of "interesting" applications where you want to be informed of every update.
WorDoG 0.6 beta3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120962/
WorDoG (World Domination Game) is basically a derivate from Risk, the popular board game. The project aims to provide this strategical multiplayer game on a HTML-only basis. All necessary calculations are done serverside by PHP, and data is stored in a database (PEAR DB).
XaoS 3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120937/
XaoS is a fast, portable, real-time, and interactive fractal zoomer. It displays the Mandelbrot set (among other escape time fractals) and allows you zoom smoothly into the fractal. Various coloring modes are provided for both the points inside and outside the selected set. In addition, switching between Julia and Mandelbrot fractal types and on-the-fly plane switching is provided.
Xfracky 2.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120946/
XFracky is a small multi-threaded Tcl/Tk application for rendering 2D, 3D and animated fractals using methods such as border scanning and iteration tracking. New fractals can be added as plugins. A demo mode that continuously renders any of a set of preconfigured fractals is also included. 8, 16, 24, and 32 bit displays are supported, and the number of threads used is limited only by the system resources.
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, and Turbo Linux.
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?
Newsforge Newsvac
A Linux app that doesn't exist
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/28/0311252
Anonymous Reader writes "There are multiple Linux applications in just about every category, including some very obscure ones. So why is there no user-configurable, console-mode login manager and menuing program?"
IBM brings new Linux watch technology to GITEX Saudi Arabia 2003 http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/27/1526249
Riyadh, KSA - The ‘WatchPad' will be showcased at GITEX Saudi Arabia this year: a prototype of the Linux watch technology being jointly developed by IBM Research and Citizen Watch. The Linux WatchPad on the SBM stand brings to the region the latest technologies still emerging from IBM's labs around the world.
Thread designs divide chip makers
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/27/1523255
The makers of the world's fastest microprocessors are engaged in a theological debate: Which are better, fat threads or skinny threads?
LA Judge - P2P Services Legal!
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/27/1430230
Anonymous Reader writes "A dramatic victory was handed to the file trade community Friday when a federal judge ruled that two P2P companies were not liable for the content exchanged on their services."
LinuxInstall.org launches Support Forum
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/27/1426249
Thomas Chung writes "Hello, We have just launched a Support Forum Web Site for LinuxInstall.org at: http://linuxinstall.org/forum/."
Linux and the Knowledge Worker
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/26/1917256
This article is intended to hopefully give insight into the state of desktop Linux as it pertains to the business market. One of the oft-stated goals of Linux developers is adoption by businesses for both server and desktop for technical and non-technical staff alike. I took it upon myself to use Linux daily for my job (most staff uses Windows 98 or XP) for a variety of reasons. In this (and future) article(s) I would like to share my ...
Red Hat warms to Itanium-booster plan
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/26/146257
Leading Linux seller Red Hat is looking fondly at an Intel technology that improves the ability of the chipmaker's Itanium processor to run older software written for Xeon or Pentium chips.
Linuxbeginner IRC on freenode.net
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/26/141243
jleveille writes "#linuxbeginner is live on irc.freenode.net, stop in, we will be happy to help GNU/Linux beginners out."
Red Carpet 2.0 preview 2 release
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/26/140232
"We're happy to announce a second previous release of Red Carpet 2.0."
We're not Microsoft
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/26/1141234
Anonymous Reader writes "The resurgence of interest in Linux as an operating system for desktop machines seems to have led at least some distributors to a peculiar conclusion: computer users are stupid. Fact is, Linux users are smarter than we look."
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Computing: USB 2.0 Kit
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Sourceforge
YAM Amiga 2.4 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=271956
The YAM (Yet-Another-Mailer) open source team is pleased to announce
the release of version 2.4 of the well-known AmigaOS Email client
(MUA). After 18 months hard work this new version features tremendous
bugfixes and enhancements to once more stable it's leadership on the
AmigaOS based MUA clients. YAM (short for 'Yet Another Mailer') is a
MIME-compliant Internet mailer written for AmigaOS computers. It
supports multi-POP3, APOP, SMTP, TLSv1/SSLv3, multiple users, PGP,
unlimited hierarchical folders, filters, configurable GUI, ARexx
interface. NEW FEATURES * Hierarchical folder list - folders can now be
arranged into groups, and nested at the user's discretion * SMTP & POP3
TLS1/SSL3 support for stunnel servers, using AmiSSL.library * Email
address cache, making it possible to "remember" the last N used
recipients if they don't appear in the address book * More powerful
recipient string gadgets, resolving aliases, real names and email
addresses "on the fly" as they are found in the address book or the
email cache * Optional pop-up menus in the folder & message lists *
Automatic codepage detection and translation, specially meant for
cyrillic users. * Reworked status bar * Automatically finds the
suitable mailing list support settings * Extended support for mailto:
links * Search function in the Write window * Customizable size format
and localized unit display * Individual appicon stats for folders, with
an user-definable label * New hidden option "JumpToIncoming" * Deleting
a block of text with RAmiga-Del automatically inserts a "[...]" marker
- Built-in mouse wheel support * New "marked" status * "application/pdf" is now in the built-in list of MIME types * Extended documentation Yeah, Amiga is still alive and will be forever !!
Furthur 1.7.2 has been released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=271442
Furthur is a peer-to-peer music sharing tool that allows fully
enforcable legal sharing, instant downloads with no waiting lists,
in-depth cataloging functionality, and detailed attribute searches.
Upgrading to this version is recommended for all existing users. Read
on for details about the vast number of improvements in this new
version. The Furthurnet team is proud to announce the release of:
Furthurnet 1.7.2
(https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=39429&release_i
d=154090) As usual, a great deal of hard work has gone into this
release. Due to the nature of some of the bugs that are fixed here, we
highly recommend that everybody upgrade. Major issues addressed since
version 1.7.1: 1. Implemented a naming convention to eliminate improper
file types in audio and video shares, and to ensure complete and
quality filesets. 2. Implemented additional security features to
prevent sharing of official releases and other filsesets containing
copyrighted material. 3. Implemented compression of network messages
that can reduce network overhead by as much as 50% or more. 4. Added
support for users behind proxy servers. 5. Improved accuracy and
transfer speed calcuations and display. 6. Added "last activity" column
to shares and partials lists 7. Allowed selection of multiple files for
searching and downloading. 8. Fixed bugs that prevented columns from
sorting correctly. 9. Combined Settings into a single menu and
reorganized them. 10. Began implementation of support for FLAC. 11.
Restored Phish to the network and updated trading policies for many
artists. Best regards, The Furthurnet team
moregroupware 0.6.7 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=271912
We have released version 0.6.7 of moregroupware. It is available in the files section as a tar.gz and a zip package. The files contains the available manual, thus they are bigger than the last release. moregroupware is a web-based groupware package, written in PHP4. moregroupware includes modules like webmail, notes, todo, contacts, project management, calendar and others. The most important improvements to the 0.6.7 release are those made to the files module and the new setup, logging and messaging code. More details are available in the release notes. Have fun!
bogofilter 0.12.1 - new current release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=271906
Release 0.12.1 contains information on bogofilter-tuning and scripts to help in tuning. See NEWS-0.12 for more info. The bogofilter package implements a fast Bayesian spam filter along the lines suggested by Paul Graham in his article "A Plan For Spam" . It is written in C. Supported platforms: Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and OS X.
Python 2.3b1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=271948
Python 2.3b1 was released today (April 25th). Download it from python.org/2.3/. Final release expected in two months!
py-xmlrpc 0.8.8.3 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=270940
Py-xmlrpc is a fast and stable implementation of the xmlrpc spec for Python (written in C). It supports both blocking and non-blocking clients and servers on Windows and POSIX (Linux, Sun) platforms. Speed improvements are often an order of magnitude over Python's standard xmlrpclib library. This release includes several new features, including a drop-in compatibility wrapper for xmlrpclib.
New KDE-cygwin 3.1.1 Beta 1 release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=269806
We are proud to present the first KDE 3.1.1 release of the KDE desktop environment for cygwin/xfree. See project web site for further information. The KDE on Cygwin project is started to enable the kde desktop on Windows OS based on cygwin, the posix emulation layer for Windows, the xfree86 server and the qt library (qtlib).
Etherboot 5.0.10 (production) released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=270843
Etherboot is Open Source code for creating boot ROMs for network booting x86 platforms. It is also a coordination point for information about free software related to network booting. eepro100 users should give this release a try, hopefully it deals with the issues that caused the driver to be broken after 5.0.7.
OSCAR 2.2.1 released