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[osdn everything] April 29, 2003
Date: Tue Apr 29 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
Aero 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121123/
Aero is an inverse Aqua-style theme in which the gas phase and the liquid phase have been switched.
Astaro Security Linux 4.004 (Stable 4.x) http://freshmeat.net/releases/121070/
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.
Barrage 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121073/
In Barrage, your goal is to kill and destroy as many targets as possible within 3 minutes. You control a gun which may fire either small or large grenades by ''point-and-click'' at soldiers, jeeps, and tanks, and which must be reloaded from time to time.
BASHISH 1.9.20
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121128/
Bashish is a theme-engine using bash and other POSIX shells to customize nearly all aspects of the terminal: title, colors, prompt, font, background, etc. It has a modular design which makes it easy to add features (and it does have a lot) while keeping good performance.
Beyond LinuxFromScratch 1.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121102/
The Beyond Linux From Scratch project is intended mainly for those who have installed an LFS system. It covers configuration and installing software beyond the base system which LFS provides.
BlogPluck 0.9.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121156/
BlogPluck is a Java Web Start application that converts blogs in RSS/RDF format to Plucker documents for offline reading on your handheld.
Blue Motion 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121049/
Blue Motion is an abstract blue theme. The background is by Vlad Gerasimov.
Botan 1.2.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121149/
Botan is a library of cryptographic algorithms written in C++. It includes a wide selection of block and stream ciphers, public key algorithms, hash functions, and message authentication codes. It has an easy-to-use filter interface and supports many common industry standards, including X.509v3.
buddhaIq 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121112/
buddhaIq is a Java instant messaging client.
Bugzero 2.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121037/
Bugzero is an easy-to-install Web-based bug, defect, issue, and incident tracking system. It can be customized to fit software, hardware, and help desk support situations. It is platform and database system independent (based on Java). It supports multiple projects, group-based access, automatic bug assignment, file attachment, email notification, metric reports, and workflow. It also features advanced search capability, a comprehensive bug audit trail, CVS version control integration, and an easy to use system administration tool for project configuration and user account management.
cgipaf 1.3.0pre3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121092/
cgipaf is a combination of three CGI programs. passwd.cgi, which allow users to update their password, viewmailcfg.cgi, which allows users to view their current mail configuration, and mailcfg.cgi, which updates the mail configuration. All programs use PAM for user authentication. It is possible to run a script to update SAMBA passwords or NIS configuration when a password is changed. mailcfg.cgi creates a .procmailrc in the user's home directory. A user with too many invalid logins can be locked. The minimum and maximum UID can be set in the configuration file, so you can specify a range of UIDs that are allowed to use cgipaf.
Checky 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121072/
The Checky plug-in for Mozilla-based browsers is a simple interface to free and commercial online validation and analysis services. It is useful for Web content and resource developers. With Checky, you can easily set up, combine, and use 25 different online validator and checker services. Simply choose your services with Checky-Agent, then browse to a Web resource and press F12 to display the results of the selected services in a new browser tab or window. Service interfaces are available for HTML, XHTML, CSS, RDF, RSS, XML, SGML, WAI, 508, P3P, and various viewer, valets, and purifiers. Local files can be validated and analyzed with Checky-Upload.
dnsreflector 1.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121082/
The dnsreflector daemon listens for DNS queries on a local UDP port and answers with records pointing back to localhost. Combined with OpenBSD's packet filter pf(4), this works as a bandwidth efficient spamtrap.
Dovecot 0.99.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121132/
Dovecot is an IMAP server whose major goals are security and extreme reliability. It uses index files to optimally store the mailbox state, which makes it very fast even with huge mailboxes. Indexes won't prevent external mailbox updates, so Dovecot is still fully compatible with standard Maildir and mbox formats. There's also a fully featured POP3 server included.
DSPAM 2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121091/
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.
elmo 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120907/
elmo is an efficient console mail user agent. It supports POP3 and SMTP, uses the Maildir storage format, and sends 8-bit MIME messages regardless of the server's ehlo response (although it is able to decode qp and base64 encodings). Additionally, when replying to email, elmo makes an attempt to determine the sex of the person being quoted so that it can choose the appropriate words to use in the quote's attribution.
EzSDK 4.66
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121148/
EzSDK is a PHP SDK which includes a PHP source code generator, a library of PHP classes, and an application environment consisting of premade supporting modules. The modules handle user application and data access security, DB compatibility (with MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle, etc.), a built-in GUI interface with an interactive desktop, and more.
File::Scan 0.51 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121064/
File::Scan allows users to make multiplataform virus scanners which can detect Windows/DOS/Mac viruses. It include a virus scanner and signatures database.
fn 0.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121067/
fn is a non-interactive command-line tool for downloading and aggregating xml-based newsfeeds from Web sites. It is suitable for use in a cron job to gather newsfeeds and generate reports at regular intervals.
Genmake 2003_04_28
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121083/
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.).
GL-117 0.8.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121133/
GL-117 is an OpenGL- and SDL-based action flight simulator written in C++. It provides a random terrain generator, lighting effects, sounds, and joystick support.
gnatsperl 0.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121101/
gnatsperl is a collection of Perl modules providing a Perl interface to the gnatsd daemon (GNU gnats issue tracking system). It is intended to allow developers to more easily create tie-in applications to gnats.
gnofract 1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121052/
Gnofract is a fractal generator and browser that features antialiasing, render to disk, and colormaps (which are the same as those in fractint). New formulae can be loaded as plugins.
Gnometab 0.7.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121104/
Gnometab aims to be a WYSIWYG guitar tablature editor. Its features
include copying and pasting of tablature passages, a chord library
(which the user must fill), the ability to create a variety of
tablature symbols specific to the guitar, and clean-looking printed
output. It does not attempt to be "smart", i.e. it does not
know how many beats are in a measure, nor does it know an E chord from
an Am chord. Instead, the emphasis has been on the appearance of the
output.
GNUnet 0.5.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121031/
GNUnet is a peer-to-peer framework with focus on providing security. All peer-to-peer messages in the network are confidential and authenticated. The framework provides a transport abstraction layer and can currently encapsulate the network traffic in UDP, TCP, or SMTP messages. GNUnet supports accounting to provide contributing nodes with better service. The primary service build on top of the framework is anonymous file sharing.
Gringotts 1.2.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121040/
Gringotts is a small utility that allows you to jot down sensitive data
(passwords, PINs, small files, etc.) in an easy-to-read,
easy-to-access, and most of all very secure form. Gringotts makes use
of GTK+ 2 for the user interface, and lets the user choose from among
eight strong encryption algorithms (RIJNDAEL-128, RIJNDAEL-256,
SERPENT, TWOFISH, CAST-256, SAFER+, LOKI97, 3DES), two hashing
algorithms (SHA1, RIPEMD 160) and two compression techniques (ZLib and
BZip2) with four compression ratios. Moreover, it allows the user to
use any file or an entire floppy disk as a password, as an alternative
to the usual text string, giving additional choices.
gtk-xfce-engine 2.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121147/
gtk-xfce-engine is an XFCE engine for GTK 2.0.
GTK2 Text Editor 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121134/
GTK2 Text Editor is a simple text editor with Unicode support. It supports multi-level undo and right to left text.
ht://Check 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121065/
ht://Check is a link checker derived from ht://Dig. It can retrieve information through HTTP/1.1 and store it in a MySQL database so that after a "crawl", ht://Check can return broken links, anchors not found, content-types, and HTTP status codes summaries. A PHP interface lets the user to query and view the results directly via the web.
Jabber Gadu-Gadu Transport 2.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121076/
The Jabber Gadu-Gadu transport provides Gadu-Gadu protocol support
(which is a very popular proprietary instant messaging protocol in
Poland).
Java Serialization to XML 2 2.0.9.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121063/
Java Serialization to XML 2 allows you to convert Java objects into streams of XML and back again. Using it is as easy as replacing "ObjectOutputStream" with "JSX.ObjectWriter" to convert objects to XML, and replacing "ObjectInputStream" with "JSX.ObjectReader" to convert XML into objects. JSX subclasses Java's serialization classes, so it can be used in their place with the same simple power. This allows you to check and correct your distributed, persisted, and logged object data, and process it with XSLT, SAX, and DOM. JSX handles all objects, complex object graphs, new classes, old classes, and evolving classes. JSX even handles classes that do not implement the "Serializable" interface.
JDiskReport 1.1 (Release)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121079/
JDiskReport enables you to understand how much space the files and directories consume on your disk drives, and it helps you find obsolete files and folders. The tool analyses your disk drives and collects several statistics which you can view as overview charts and details tables.
jpegrdf 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121106/
Jpegrdf reads and manipulates RDF metadata stored in the comment section of JPEG images. It can extract, query, and augment the data. Manipulating JPEG images with jpegrdf does not modify the actual image data or any other sections of the file.
JPluck 0.9 RC3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121078/
JPluck lets you convert Web sites to Plucker documents for offline reading on your handheld computer.
knoda 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121026/
knoda is a database frontend for KDE based on the hk_classes library.
Koalog Code Coverage 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121107/
Koalog Code Coverage is a code coverage computation application written in the Java programming language. Its main features are in-process or remote coverage computation, the ability to work directly on Java binaries without recompilation, predefined (XML, HTML, LaTeX, CSV, TEXT) or custom report generation, session merging, portability, ease-of-use, and Ant integration.
kturtle 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121048/
kturtle is a simple fractal generator for Koch-like fractals for the KDE environment.
larswm 7.2.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121129/
larswm is a modified version of the 9wm window manager that adds virtual desktops, automatic window tiling, and many other features designed to make it a highly efficient user environment. One of the design goals is that you should never have to manually shuffle windows around on the screen. Another is that it should use as little CPU time, RAM, and screen space for itself as possible.
Lazy 0.24c
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121116/
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.
ldc themes 1.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121137/
The ldc themes package contains the ldc themes for xmms, gtk, fluxbox, and gkrellm. If you use them all together, your desktop will have the same look everywhere.
libike 0.9.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121114/
libike is a cross-platform C library for managing IKE negotiations. The library implements RFC-standard ISAKMP/IKE exchanges and utilizes a callback mechanism to delegate tasks of the actual packet transmission and security policies management to the external code.
LinkChecker 1.8.13 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121093/
With LinkChecker, you can check HTML documents for broken links. It features recursion, robots.txt exclusion protocol support, HTTP proxy support, i18n support, multithreading, regular expression filtering rules for links, and user/password checking for authorized pages. Output can be colored or normal text, HTML, SQL, CSV, or a sitemap graph in GML or XML format. Supported link types are HTTP/1.1 and 1.0, HTTPS, FTP, mailto:, news:, nntp:, Gopher, Telnet, and local files.
LinPacker 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121055/
Linpacker is a tool to optimize the placement of rectangles in a band of semi-infinite size (2D bin packing problem). It can be useful for cutting stocks in trucks and factories.
Linux FreeS/WAN 2.00
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121077/
Linux FreeS/WAN provides IPSEC (IP Security, which is both encryption and authentication) kernel extensions and an IKE (Internet Key Exchange, keying and encrypted routing daemon) as well as various rc scripts and documentation. It is known to interoperate with other IPSEC and IKE system already deployed by other vendors such as OpenBSD, Cisco, or CheckPoint. It also features Opportunistic Encryption, subnet extrusion, and with the appropriate patches interops nicely with Microsoft Windows XP/2000 using X.509 certificates.
Linux From Scratch 4.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121146/
The Linux From Scratch project is intended for Linux users who want to build their own custom Linux system. Reasons for wanting to build such a system are diverse. Perhaps you want to get into more detail as to what happens behind the scenes. Perhaps you are fed up with the bloated standard distributions. Or perhaps you don't want to rely on pre-compiled binaries out of concerns for security.
LostIRC 0.2.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121150/
LostIRC is a simple, yet very useful IRC client. It has features such as tab-autocompletion, multiple server support, automatic joining of servers/channels, and DCC sending, which should cover the needs of most people. Another design goal is 100% keyboard controllability. LostIRC was written using the gtkmm GUI library.
LPLANTS 0.25
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120942/
Lplants is a fractal generator written in C and based on Lindenmayer systems. It can output PostScript, povray, and raw data. You can generate beautiful pictures of plants with it.
lzop 1.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121041/
lzop is a file compressor similar to gzip. Its main advantages over gzip are much higher compression and decompression speed at the cost of some compression ratio. lzop uses the LZO library for compression services.
Mailgust 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121056/
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.
Mandelbrot Explorer 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121057/
Mxp (Mandelbrot explorer) is an X Window System application for computing and exploring Mandelbrot sets. Mxp supports zooming in and out, dynamic resizing of drawing windows, setup saving and loading, asynchronous image generation, GIF output, animation, nine color schemes, color rotation, color change options, and detailed statistics.
MaxQ 0.94
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121125/
MaxQ is a Web functional testing tool. It includes an HTTP proxy that records your test script, and a commandline utility that can be used to playback tests. The proxy recorder automatically stores variables posted to forms, so you don't have to write that stuff by hand.
Minimum Profit 3.2.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121117/
Minimum Profit (mp) is a programmer's text editor. It features small memory and disk requirements, syntax highlighting, context-sensitive help for the source code being edited, multiple simultaneous file editing, ctags support, word wrapping, and more. It can be compiled for Linux / Unix (console), GTK, and MS Windows.
Misty Canyon 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121051/
This is a theme showing a deep, green valley. The background is by Robert Roth.
mod_design 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121087/
mod_design is an Apache module that allows the use of site-wide HTML templates, and provides an easy, text-based frontend for creating documents that use them.
MP3 STATION alpha4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121045/
MP3 STATION is a plain text Linux/Unix tool set for managing MP3 playback in a car with as little user interaction as possible. It can restart the last playlist at the last played track, transparently load directories, transparently recompile playlists, and keep a repository of all the playlists. It also has a simple ncurses client for comunicating with cm3s. All programs run under a non-privileged user account.
nanoweb 2.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121143/
Nanoweb is a modular Web server written in PHP. It is designed to be small, secure, and extensible. It is HTTP/1.1 compliant and has decent performance, CGI and FastCGI support, a nice configuration system, name-based virtual hosts, server side includes, authentication, gzip content encoding support, Apache combined format and MySQL logging, and many advanced features.
NetBSD 1.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121043/
NetBSD is a free, secure, and highly portable, UNIX-like operating system available for many platforms, from 64-bit AlphaServers and desktop systems to handheld and embedded devices. Its clean design and advanced features make it excellent in both production and research environments, and it is user-supported with complete source. NetBSD runs on over fifty different system architectures featuring twelve distinct families of CPUs, and is being ported to more.
Nmap 3.27 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121142/
Nmap is a utility for network exploration or security auditing. It supports ping scanning (determine which hosts are up), many port scanning techniques (determine what services the hosts are offering), and TCP/IP fingerprinting (remote host OS or device identification). Nmap also offers flexible target and port specification, decoy/stealth scanning, sunRPC scanning, and more. Most Unix and Windows platforms are supported in both GUI and commandline modes. Several popular handheld devices are also supported, including the Sharp Zaurus and the iPAQ.
oidentd 2.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121098/
oidentd is an RFC 1413 compliant ident daemon which runs on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Darwin, OpenBSD, and Solaris. It can handle IP masqueraded/NAT connections on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD, and it has a flexible mechanism for specifying ident responses. Users can be granted permission to specify their own ident responses. Responses can be specified according to host and port pairs.
One-Wire Weather 0.68.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121061/
Oww (One-Wire Weather) is a client program for Dallas Semiconductor / AAG 1-wire weather station kits, providing a graphical (animated) display to monitor outside temperature, wind speed and direction, rainfall, and humidity. Extra temperature sensors may be added. A 1-wire "hub" may be used for improved reliability and range. Weather data may be logged to CSV files, parsed to command line programs, sent to the Henriksen Windows client, or uploaded to Web servers at Dallas, The Weather Underground, and HAMweather.
OpenGUI 4.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121069/
OpenGUI (formerly FastGL) is a high-level C/C++ graphics & windowing library built upon a fast, low-level x86 ASM graphics kernel. It provides 2D drawing primitives and an event- driven windowing API for easy application development, and it supports the BMP image file format. You can write apps in the old Borland BGI style or in a windowed style like QT. OpenGUI supports the keyboard and mouse as event sources, the Linux framebuffer, SVGAlib, and XFree86-DGA2 (HW accelerated) as drawing backends, Mesa3D under Linux, and 8, 15, 16, and 32- bpp color modes.
Perl Database Admin 2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121135/
pDBAdmin is a Web-based administration tool for MySQL databases. It is particularly suitable for fast and uncomplicated changes to table contents.
Perl IRC Statistics Generator 0.48
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121153/
pisg is a smart Perl script which generates statistics from IRC logfiles.
PG_counter 0.0.0.1s
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121053/
PGcounter is a module for Apache for counting page visits. It uses an SQL server, supports 6 output formats, includes a blacklist of IPs per URL, and supports statistics.
PHP Thumbnail AutoIndex 1.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121155/
PHP Thumbnail AutoIndex is a thumbnail-index generation script designed to be a companion to mod_autoindex for Apache. It generates a thumbnail "gallery" of images contained in a directory, which is much like what mod_autoindex generated indexes.
phpQLAdmin 2.0.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121074/
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.
PHPSurveyor 0.96 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121030/
PHP Surveyor is a set of PHP scripts that interact with MySQL to develop surveys, publish surveys, and collect responses to surveys. Once a survey has been created there are (currently) two ways to insert data into the survey: either by a 'pretty' public screen which presents each question one at a time, or by a quick and nasty data entry screen. It includes the capacity to generate individualised 'tokens', so that invitations can be issued to participants, which allows for good quality control of surveys. It also has the capacity to set conditions on whether questions will display (branching), numerous question types, and a basic statistics function.
PircBot 1.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121145/
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.
pixiliate 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121096/
Pixilate is a commandline packet generation utility that reads Cisco PIX 6.2x or Cisco IOS ACLs as input and generates the appropriate packets. Use it in conjunction with your favorite sniffer listening off of a span port for ACL validation. You can optionally send per-ACL payloads.
Plugged Editor 0.2.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121025/
PlEd is a programmable editor writtten in Java, which supports plugins. Plugins are included for regular expression search and replace, inserting the output of system commands and SQL queries, and more.
pork 0.8.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121099/
pork is an ncurses-based AOL instant messenger client. It uses the OSCAR protocol (the one the Windows client uses) to access AIM. Pork features Perl scripting, an online help system, the ability to configure nearly all aspects of the program's look and feel, an alias system, and a powerful, fully configurable key binding system. It supports being logged in with more than one screen name at the same time. The default look and feel of the client is modeled after the ircII IRC client. Anyone comfortable using ircII (or any clients derived from it, e.g. epic, BitchX, etc.) will feel comfortable using pork.
Prelude Library 0.8.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121084/
The Prelude Library is a collection of generic functions providing communication between the Prelude Hybrid IDS suite's components. It provides a convenient interface for sending alerts to Prelude Manager with transparent SSL, failover and replication support, asynchronous events and timer interfaces, an abstracted configuration API (hooking at the commandline, the configuration line, or wide configuration, available from the Manager), and a generic plugin API. It allows you to easily turn your favorite security program into a Prelude sensor.
Project Steve Guttenberg 1.8.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121066/
Project Steve Guttenberg is a PHP-driven diary/journal/blogging application that integrates seamlessly into an existing Web site. It provides many of the core features (including comments, archives, searching, and an RDF feed) and administrative controls (all Web-based) of other, larger systems, but doesn't use a database, is XHTML 1.0-compliant and its look can be completely customised via CSS. It can easily be scaled to host several journal sites with a single installation.
PyBackend 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121080/
It allows object persistence through a relational database backend. You need not write SQL queries within your class to store or retrieve object-attributes. If your data model allows you to think attributes of your objects as columns of certain tables in your backend database, then PyBackend is for you. It allows you to map individual classes to corresponding databases, which lets an application use multiple databases to populate its objects in a way that is transparent to the application programmer. It frees the application programmer from the task of creating and managing database connections by creating such connections on demand.
pyDDR 0.6.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121038/
PyDDR is a clone of DDR ("Dance Dance Revolution") written in Python. The idea of DDR is simple. There's a mat with four directional arrows, and the game scrolls arrows up the screen to the beat while playing a song. When the arrows reach the top of the screen (not sooner and not later), the player hits the corresponding arrow on the pad, and given that it's hit on time with the beat, points are scored. Based on how well the dance is put together, s/he is graded at the end of the song. Both keyboard and mat play are supported.
qconfirm 0.9.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121089/
qconfirm is an implementation of a delivery confirmation process for a mail address or ezmlm mailing list. It is invoked by qmail-local through a .qmail file, and can reduce the amount of junk mail hitting a mailbox or the mailboxes of mailing list subscribers.
R5 0.0.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121119/
r5 is a bot that runs as a client on IRC networks, and allows you to make it listen to commands. An easy way to add your own commands is available.
Rend 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121029/
Rend is a daemon that will automatically renice user- specified processes to whatever level desired, making for smoother operations, especially on systems with limited resources, like a Zaurus or other small embedded system. It's designed to be small, fast, and friendly. Rend will also renice itself down to 19 after running so that it will also stay out of the way.
Reqwireless EmailViewer 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121035/
EmailViewer is a mail client for J2ME MIDP devices. It supports multiple addresses, POP3/IMAP and SMTP email protocols, attachments, HTML, and images.
ReqwirelessEmail 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121036/
ReqwirelessEmail provides a Java API for sending, receiving, and displaying email on J2ME MIDP devices. It supports IMAP, POP3, and SMTP email protocols, MIME attachments, HTML email, and images.
Siege 2.57b12 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121097/
Siege is a regression test and benchmark utility. It can stress test a single URL with a user defined number of simulated users, or it can read many URLs into memory and stress them simultaneously. The program reports the total number of hits recorded, bytes transferred, response time, concurrency, and return status. Siege supports HTTP/1.0 and 1.1 protocols, GET and POST directives, cookies, transaction logging, and basic authentication. Its features are configurable on a per user basis.
Sophie 1.43 (V1)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121118/
Sophie is a daemon which uses 'libsavi' library from Sophos anti-virus
vendor (http://www.sophos.com). On startup, Sophie initializes SAPI
(Sophos Anti-Virus Interface), loads virus patterns into memory, opens
local UNIX domain socket, and waits for someone to connect and
instructs it which path to scan. Since the database is loaded in RAM,
scanning is very fast. (Note: speed of scanning also depends on SAVI
settings and size of the file.) It works on Linux, Solaris (Sparc/x86),
HP-UX, and FreeBSD.
swaret 1.2.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121060/
swaret lets you keep your Slackware system up to date. It functions similarly to apt-get, the Debian package manager.
Tapir User Manager 0.11.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121139/
Tapir User Manager provides all of the user management features common on large-budget commercial Web sites for new and existing sites based on PHP/Apache/MySQL, including permanent login, email verification, password recovery, and a sophisticated administration interface.
TAU 2.12.5-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121039/
TAU (Tuning and Analysis Utilities) is a set of tools for analyzing the performance of C, C++, Fortran and Java programs. It collects much more information than is available through prof or gprof, the standard Unix utilities, including per-process, per-thread, and per-host information, inclusive and exclusive function times, profiling groups that allow you to organize data collection, access to hardware counters on some systems, per-class and per-instance information, the ability to separate data for each template instantiation, start/stop timers for profiling arbitrary sections of code, and support for collection of statistics on user-defined events.
Terminal Server Client 0.106
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121032/