[osdn everything] May 03, 2003

0. http://www.sacbee.com/content/business/agriculture/story/6547074p-7497590c.html

Makarand writes "Instead of making improvements to automatic mechanical weeders, Engineers at UC Davis have been busy [0]developing the next generation robotic weeder which will use computerized images of crop rows to identify weeds and zap them. The system can identify weeds from the regular crop by assessing shape, color, size and other variables from the captured images of the crop row. A robotic cultivator will then blast weeds with a weedkiller using syringes mounted on a tractor. A GPS allows the system to calculate weed type densities within the field and the amounts of chemicals dispensed in the area." Links

Microsoft Rolls Out iLoo
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/02/188215

TommyTyker writes "According to this CNet article, Microsoft is using England as a [0]test bed for the iLoo -- a 'PortaJohn' that allows the 'user' to surf the net while taking care of 'business.' MSN is even looking at getting TP manufacturers to create some of their product with URL's printed on them. Pooptastic!" Life [1]does not imitate the Onion. No, sir.
Links

0. http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-999509.html

http://www.theonion.com/onion3536/e_toilet.html

GPL and Leased Software?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/01/1648209

[0]LordByronStyrofoam asks: "In the body of the article linked in the
recent [1]Silicon Valley Has Learned to Love the Bust, Salesforce.com and IBM were said to be planning to lease or rent software. IBM did this for many years back when they controlled the big iron market. It reveals a bottom layer in the cultural strata of software users: those who use Free Software; those who click through EULA's and the associated closed-source licenses; and the lowly renters. Do renters of GPL software have no rights under the GPL? Is this situation similar to the one where the makers of DSL/cable routers don't have to provide the source, even though the devices are based on embedded Linux?" Links

0. mailto:gamester@metamachine.com

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/28/2243223&tid=126

0. http://www.internetweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=8600224

Searching for the Oldest Running Application http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/02/1732201

A columnist from InternetWeek has completed a [0]search for the oldest running commercial software application. His [1]results are interesting (note that he's mostly skipping over mainframe applications, just looking at PC-based apps).
Links

http://www.internetwk.com/breakingNews/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=9400202

SCO Claims Kernel Contains UnixWare Code http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/02/179259

[0]ergo98 writes "SCO has increased the intensity of the [1]lawsuit
[2]with [3]IBM by claiming to hold indisputable proof that copyrighted
UnixWare code [4]found its way into Linux, violating the rules of both camps. Whether this is true or not remains to be seen: SCO refuses to divulge the code in question, however they promise to reveal it in court shortly."
Links

    0. 
http://www.yafla.com
    1. 
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/02/0024248&tid=136
    2. 
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/14/1359251&tid=123
    3. 
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/187239&tid=130
    4. 
http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999371.html

Students Get iPods as Study Aids
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/02/1645241

WIAKywbfatw writes "[0]Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville, Georgia has given [1]iPod digital music players to its students to help them with their coursework, [2]as reported by BBC News. Apple donated about 50 iPods as part of an experimental project to illustrate creative uses for the machine, and University professors say the gadgets have helped the students think more critically about their Gothic Imagination course." I wonder if I can write off my new iPod as an education expense.
Links

    0. 
http://www.gcsu.edu/
    1. 
http://www.apple.com/ipod/
    2. 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2988325.stm

Robot Hall of Fame
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/02/1645224

0. http://www.cmu.edu/PR/releases03/030430_halloffame.html

Smaz writes "Apparently Carnegie Mellon has set up a [0]Hall of Fame for robots and their inventors. Wonder if it'll have the pull of a RnR Hall of Fame or Baseball Hall of Fame? I'd visit." Any nominees? Links

Freshmeat
6nome 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121619/

6nome is a theme loosely based on the background of the GNOME logo. The Metacity theme has embossed title text, and features the GNOME footprint as the menu button. The GTK theme has light and few colors, and its widgets have rounded corners.

arch revision control system 1.0-pre18
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121555/

arch is a modern replacement for CVS, specifically designed for the distributed development needs of open source projects. It has uniquely good support for development on branches (especially good merging tools), distributed repositories (every developer can have branches in their own repository), changeset-oriented project management (arch commits changes to multiple files at once), and, of course, file and directory renaming.

Barbecue 1.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121580/

Barbecue is a barcode generator for Java. It enables barcode to be used as Swing and AWT components, used in printed documents, and generated as images for use in Web pages.

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CMSimple 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121566/

CMSimple is a simple content management system for simple maintainance of small commercial or private sites. It has a simple installation, is easy to modify, and offers an unique combination of features. It uses an HTML-file for storing the entire site, which can be edited in your favorite editor. It has a dynamic TOC and document locator, a WYSIWYG editor (no plugin--functions in IE and Mozilla), a search function, link validation, image handling, and automatic backup. It is easy to set up your own layout; just edit the template and stylesheet.

Codelock 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121592/

Codelock is a full PHP/HTML code encryptor. You can use it to protect your PHP pages for distribution. It allows you to set an expiry date and an unlock key, and also has the unique feature of allowing you to encrypt your PHP generated HTML code, so that no one can steal your code through viewing its source.

cpudyn 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121540/

cpudyn controls the speed in Intel SpeedStep and PowerPC machines with the cpufreq compiled in the kernel. It saves battery and lowers temperature, without affecting the performance of interactive applications.

csserverstat 1.06
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121624/

csserverstat will show events that happen on your Half-Life Counter-Strike server in real time on a Web page; for example, kills, hostage rescues, bomb plants, player chat messages, and other significant events.

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Cyrus IMAP Server 2.1.13 (2.1)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121614/

The Cyrus IMAP server is generally intended to be run on sealed systems, where normal users are not permitted to log in. The mailbox database is stored in parts of the filesystem that are private to Cyrus. All user access to mail is through the IMAP, POP3, or KPOP protocols. The private mailbox database design gives the server large advantages in efficiency, scalability, and administratability. Multiple concurrent read/write connections to the same mailbox are permitted. The server supports access control lists on mailboxes and storage quotas on mailbox hierarchies, multiple SASL mechanisms, and the Sieve mail filtering language.

Darkslide 1.00
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121560/

Darkslide is a PBS reporting engine that takes accounting data from the PBS Accounting Toolkit and produces high quality PDF reports from the generated XML accounting data.

DISCO 1.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121650/

DISCO is a passive IP discovery utility designed to sit on segments throughout a network to discover unique IPs and passively fingerprint TCP SYN packets.

dynAdmin 0.1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121640/

dynAdmin is a content management system (CMS) that is unlike any other. Most CMSes out there create dynamic Web sites that are based on news entries. dynAdmin creates dynamic Web sites based on individual sites, templates, and most important of all, pages. Besides allowing for dynamic Web sites in this way, it has many other features such as news generation automatic FAQs, completely customizable templates (both site-based and global), multiple users, printable pages, templates, and more.

Confused? Frustrated?

EiffelStudio 5.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121576/

EiffelStudio is a complete development environment that allows programmers to develop high quality software for business- crticial applications. It can create robust, reusable objects and libraries that can run on a wide variety of platforms including Linux, Unix, VMS, Windows, and embedded systems.

Enterprise Volume Management System 2.0.1 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/121645/

The Enterprise Volume Management System (EVMS) Project has the goal of providing unparalleled flexibility and extensibility in managing storage. It represents a new approach to logical volume management, as the architecture introduces a plug-in model that allows for easy expansion or customization of various levels of volume management.

Ethereal 0.9.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121552/

Ethereal is a network protocol analyzer, or "packet sniffer", that lets you capture and interactively browse the contents of network frames. The goal of the project is to create a commercial-quality packet analyzer for Unix, and the most useful packet analyzer on any platform.

Excelsior eXtensible Development System 2.5.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/121563/

The Excelsior eXtensible Development System is a complete software development toolset featuring Modula-2 and Oberon-2 languages. It includes a highly optimising 32-bit compiler for Intel x86. Native XDS-x86 is available for Windows, OS/2, and Linux (x86).

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FlightGear Scenery Designer 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121604/

FlightGear Scenery Designer is an interactive scenery designer/builder for the FlightGear flight simulator project. The user will be able to import map data, draw hypsographic curves, specify land use area, edit taxiway path, and place 3D objects like buildings.

FLP-i18n 1.056
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121554/

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

FMPP 0.8.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121630/

FMPP is a text file preprocessor that uses FreeMarker templates to provide macros, flow control, and expressions. It uses recursive directory processing, so it can generate complete homepages (a tree of HTML files and images). It is extendable in Java to display data from any data source (such as a database). It is usable with a command-line interface, as an Ant-task, or embedded into a Java application.

Generic Project Page 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121589/

Generic Project Page is a generic, configurable Web site to store project information. It works with a base-modules model, so the modules can be contributed and developed separate from the base.

GNU MP3 Daemon 2.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121584/

GNUMP3d is a small, portable, and robust server for streaming MP3s, OGGs, and other audio files. It presents a simple and attractive interface to Web browsers, which allows you to navigate through your music collection. Individual files may be streamed, as can whole directory trees. Other features include the ability to see your most popular tracks, and to search your collection for songs.

GOBLIN Graph Library 2.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121579/

The GOBLIN project consists of a C++ class library for a large series of graph optimization problems, GOSH, an extension of the Tcl/Tk scripting language to graph objects, and GOBLET, a graphical user interface to the library functions. GOBLET includes a graph editor, but provides only basic graph layout methods.

GPC-Slots 2 0.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121634/

GPC-Slots 2 is a more advanced GPC-Slots. It sports multiple slot machines and a progressive jackpot which is added to by all the slot machines.

GtkPCCard 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121565/

GtkPCCard is an application for managing PC cards, also called PCMCIA cards. It allows users to safely insert, eject, suspend, and resume PC cards. In addition, they can view extensive information about PC cards installed on their system.

gucharmap 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121556/

gucharmap is a Unicode/ISO 10646 character map and font viewer. It supports anti-aliased, scalable truetype fonts in X, using Xft, and works on Unix and Windows platforms.

Guco 0.60 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121625/

Guco is a basic commandline accounting system for small or medium enterprises, written in Catalan and adapted to Spanish law.

gwyple 2.1.0 (Main)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121594/

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.

hdup 1.6.13 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121601/

hdup is used to back up a filesystem. Features include encryption of the archive (with mcrypt), compression of the archive (bzip/gzip/none), the ability to transfer the archive to a remote host or restoring from a remote host (with ssh), the ability to split up archives, and no obscure archive format (it is a normal compressed tar file).

Can't find what you're looking for?

Human Activity Logger 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121632/

Human Activity Logger allows you to keep track of your time. It lets you add, edit, and delete log entries, which are classified according to categories of your choosing. You can quickly browse around old log entries, go to a date, and search. You can maintain separate logs accessible from the same installation of the program (e.g., for separate projects). You can browse statistics by day, week, month, and year, each screen providing totals and averages. There are various other helpful functions.

I-Man 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121605/

I-Man is a simple Web application that can handle contacts, notes, code snippets, etc. (just about every kind of text data). You can create multiple categories of data, and it also has a category editor. It is written in PHP and uses InterBase/Firebird or MySQL as a database.

Ice Sound Manager 2.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121567/

Ice Sound Manager was designed to ease the management of sound events, sound themes, and the IceSound server in the IceWM window manager. It is also intended to be an improvement upon the noble but primitive icesndcfg. The main improvements over icesndcfg include a support for sound event "themes", more comprehensive help, easy management and configuration of the IceSound server, a cleaner GUI interface, automatic starting of the IceSound server, and a more conservative approach to disk space usage.

IcePref2 2.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121572/

IcePref2 is an updated, overhauled, improved, and perfected version of the original IcePref (which was abandoned by the original author). This new version includes many new features and bugfixes, and is a sub-project of the IceWM Control Panel project. It is optimized for IceWM 1.2.2 and better.

IceWM Control Panel 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121564/

IceWM Control Panel is a full-featured, GTK-based control panel for IceWM. It features an IceWM theme designer, Ice Sound Manager (for sound events), IcePref2, and tools to manage desktop wallpaper, cursors, keys, window options, and more. IceWM Control Panel has a familiar, Windows-like Control Panel user interface.

IceWM Theme Designer 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121573/

IceWM Theme Designer is an intuitive program for designing and editing IceWM themes. It features a comfortable user interface and full drag-and-drop support. It includes English and Spanish translations.

im-ja 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121593/

im-ja aims to be a generic Japanese input module for GTK+ 2. Currently supported input modes are Hiragana, Katakana, Half-Width Katakana, Zenkaku, Canna, Wnn, and Kanji character recognition (based on Kanjipad).

IPoCAN 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121578/

IPoCAN adds the ability to the Linux kernel to send/receive IP packets over a CAN bus network.

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IzPack 3.0.8a (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121626/

IzPack is a powerful Java installer builder. It is able to create lightweight and modular installers. You have the choice of the installer panels you want to use (some can do the same job, so that you can select the one you prefer), and you even have the choice of the kind of installer that you want to use. IzPack doesn't use any portion of native code, it is designed to be fully independent from the operating system that runs it. It is very easy for the end user with a properly installed JVM to use an installer made with IzPack, since a single "java -jar installer.jar" will launch it.

JavaBean Calendar 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121598/

JavaBean Calendar is a bean for GUI calendaring applications. It uses a java.util.Calendar-based model with a listener-based event model.

jConfigXML 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121608/

jConfigXML is a configuration manager written in Java that works with XML files and a URL or LDAP repository to read the configuration properties. It supports a two-level hierarchical structure which includes categories.

JDDM 2.0.001
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121647/

JDDM is a drop-down menu Java applet, a comprehensive solution for Web site navigation. It is browser-independent and highly-configurable, and could be easily customized to fit your Web site needs to achieve an unlimited variety of menu appearances and behaviors. It lets you generate vertical and horizontal menus with an unlimited number of nested pop-up submenus, various color schemes, buttons, fonts, icons, and sounds.

Confused? Frustrated?

jEdit 4.2pre1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121546/

jEdit is an Open Source text editor written in Java. It has many useful features, such as syntax highlighting, bracket matching, regular expression searching, multiple file search and replace, folding, and keyboard macros. jEdit also includes a powerful plugin architecture that allows more than 80 plugins to be downloaded and installed from within the editor.

Karchiver 3.0.3 (KDE 3)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121590/

kArchiver is a KDE utility made to ease working with compressed files. With kArchiver, you can create tar.gz, tar.bz2, .zip, and other files, and you can add, remove, or view one or more files with a multiselection window. Its interface merges with konqueror, allowing you to view and extract all of your archives within the file manager. Right-clicking on an archive allows you to extract archives in background. You can also convert files between .tar.gz and .tar.bz2. It also provides an automatic splitter/unsplitter to fit a file onto a set of floppies, and wizards that will help you step by step to compile and install software through kArchiver's interface.

KFLog 2.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121611/

KFLog (The K Flight Logger) is an aircraft pilot program for KDE. It is used to display, analyze, and evaluate flights logged with a GPS flight recorder (IGC file-format). The user can view the flight track and the task both in 2D and 3D. The user can also optimize the task to get a task which provides a maximum number of points for the logged track. Animation of the track and planning a new task are also possible. KFLog supports a highly configurable vector map, based on DCW-data, as well as digital terrain data, based on GTOPO30. The currently available maps cover all of Europe. The airspace structure available for KFLog covers the whole world, and is updated about every month.

Linbox Backup Server 20030430
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121581/

The Linbox Backup Server (LBS) is a server that, for client PCs, saves hard-disk images on a network server, restores, deploys one image, and keeps a hardware inventory. All that is needed on the client PC is a PXE or an Etherboot compatible network card for network booting. The LBS can be managed from any PC through a Web-based administration interface. Bootable installation CD-ROMs can also be generated from any hard disk image. It supports ext2/3, ReiserFS, NTFS, and FAT filesystems.

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LinkBase 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121586/

LinkBase is a Web application written in PHP that helps manage the Internet bookmarks of an organization by centralizing those links in a single multi-user database (SQL). You can then access this database with any Web browser. It is currently available in French, English, Norwegian, German, and Spanish.

Lupy 0.1.5.1a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121620/

Lupy is a full-text indexer for Python. It is a port of Jakarta Lucene to Python, and reads, writes, and searches indexes in Lucene binary format. Like Lucene, it is sophisticated, scalable, and Unicode aware.

m0n0wall pb8r325
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121635/

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

MailScanner 4.20-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121600/

MailScanner is an email virus scanner, vulnerability protector, and spam tagger. It supports the Postfix, Sendmail, Exim and ZMailer MTAs, and the Sophos, McAfee, F-Prot, F-Secure, CommandAV, InoculateIT, Inoculan 4.x, Kaspersky, Nod32, AntiVir, RAV, Panda, and Clam anti-virus scanners. It supports SpamAssassin for highly successful spam identification. It is specifically designed to handle denial of service attacks. It is very easy to install, and requires no changes at all to your sendmail.cf file. It is designed to be lightweight, and won't grind your mail system to a halt with its load; a good PC can process over 1.5 million messages per day. It can be integrated into any email system, regardless of the software in use.

Mock Objects for C++ 1.1.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121636/

mockpp is a platform independent generic unit testing framework for C++. Its goal is to facilitate developing unit tests in the spirit of Mock Objects and EasyMock. It does not include its own framework for flow control and analysis, but works with CppUnit.

nflash 0.7.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121639/

nflash is a Perl/CGI script providing an easy to use and maintain way of posting news to a Web site. It is possible to create users able to edit their own preferences and postings. There is a Web interface, a simple user system, optional commenting, multiple language support, and templating.

nut 8.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121628/

nut is nutrition software to record what you eat and analyze your meals for nutrient composition. The database included is the USDA Nutrient

    Database for Standard Reference, Release 15, which contains 6,220 foods
    and 117 nutrients. This database contains values for vitamins,
    minerals, fats, calories, protein, carbohydrates, fiber, etc., and

includes the essential polyunsaturated fats, Omega-3 and Omega-6. Nutrient levels are expressed as a percentage of the Daily Value, the familiar standard of food labeling in the United States, but also can be fully customized. Recipes can be added, and graphs drawn. The program is completely menu-driven and there are no commands to learn.

OggCarton 0.18alpha
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121597/

OggCarton is a free, open source home jukebox system that creates and indexes Ogg Vorbis and MP3 music files. It includes an integrated Web server.

OpenAMF 0.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121646/

The OpenAMF Project is an open-source alternative to MM's Java Flash Remoting. The project's goal is to produce a program which is much more capable of providing application services to SWF clients than the proprietary MM solution. This project began as a Java port of amfphp.

OpenRADIUS 0.9.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121591/

OpenRADIUS is a RADIUS server that allows you to use external data sources for anything - shared secrets, accounts and passwords, profiles, session database, NAS lists, called/calling nr. ACLs, accounting storage, and much more. It has a powerful external module interface that uses pre-spawned subprocesses and pipes for communication, allowing you to implement modules in any language that supports Unix pipe I/O. Its behaviour is fully configurable, using a simple built-in language that gives you full control over the request and reply list. It includes versatile LDAP and SQL modules, and a full featured RADIUS client.

OZradio 0.8.5 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121596/

OZradio is a Linux FM radio player for KDE and GNOME. It supports BTTV-compatible FM and TV cards. It features the ability to save up to 10 preset stations, a volume control, a mute button, automatic frequency scanning, on-demand recording and replay of radio, and programable recording.

Ozten's JFontChooser 0.22 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121644/

Ozten's JFontChooser is a Java swing widget that lets your users choose a font from their system to use in your application - it is a font selection dialog. It is written to be just like the Color Chooser dialog from Color.showDialog.

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PhotoPnMTools 1.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121637/

PhotoPnMTools is a simple toolkit for processing photographic images using improved algorithms. It is based on Poskanzer's PPM toolkit. It contains resizing, sharpening, and contrast / saturation / color balance filters. There is an interactive tool for cropping and color editing, and a tool for making Web albums.

phpMyFAQ 1.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121599/

phpMyFAQ is a multilingual, completely database-driven FAQ system. It also offers a content management system, flexible multi-user support, a news system, user tracking, language modules, templates, extensive XML support, PDF support, a backup system, and an easy to use installation script.

phpPackage 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121617/

phpPackage is a simple Perl script used to automatically build distribution packages for PHP software. phpPackage automatically builds tar.gz, tar.bz2, and zip packages for files with .php, .php3, and .php4 extensions from a project directory containing .php files.

PhrozenClock 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121571/

PhrozenClock is a Gtk-based clock application, similar to the clocks available in KDE and Windows. It has many advanced features, including foreign language support. Spanish language support is implemented.

Pyndex 0.3.1a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121623/

Pyndex is a simple and fast full-text indexer implemented in Python. Pyndex also includes an easy to use Bayesian classifier. It uses Metakit as its storage back-end. It works well for quickly adding a search feature to an application, and is also well suited to in-memory indexing and searching. It can handle phrase queries. It performs best in applications involving a few thousand documents, but its scaling is mostly limited by available memory.

Python-LDAP 2.0.0pre11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121587/

python-ldap provides an object-oriented API to access LDAP directory servers from Python programs. It wraps the OpenLDAP 2.x libs for that purpose.

RealizationEngine Group Communicator 1.0.14 http://freshmeat.net/releases/121558/

The RealizationEngine is designed from the ground up to facilitate group communication and collaboration. It will store that communication to built and manage an institutional knowledge base. It is accessible from any Web browser or Web-enabled device. Classified information is easily restricted to authorized individuals. Information can be compartmentalized, restricted, or published openly, as appropriate, all from the same system. Ideas are coherently threaded, and every message is searchable in a single location and in the context of the messages related to it.

Smart IRC Daemon 0.5.2 Alpha (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/121574/

Sircd is a multi-threaded IRC daemon completely written from scratch to support Linux, BSD, Solaris, & Windows. Some of the many features include SSL support, dynamic modules for the client & server protocols, and a design to be as configurable as possible.

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Socrates Questionnaire Engine 1.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121595/

Socrates is a Java based questionnaire and survey engine and wizard that enables fast delivery of questionnaires to the Web. It runs under Jakarta's Tomcat. The backend for defining questionnaires is XML (a database is in progress).

Stone's Throw 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121559/

Stone's Throw is an clone of the arcade classic Arkanoid with accurate 2D physics. It is written in pure Java.

testmail 3.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121609/

testmail is a Perl script that checks email availability at the POP3 server, filters it according to defined rules, and--depending on the selected method--gets the messages to the local mailbox and/or removes it from the server. It uses Perl libnet module and helps you escape from spam.

The Grapevine Project 1.0.4 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/121575/

The Grapevine Project is an anonymizing peer-to-peer storage network. It resembles the World Wide Web, but is capable of allowing people to publish and retrieve information without fear of censorship or surveillance. It is designed to be efficient, reliable, and globally scalable.

Confused? Frustrated?

thebridge 0.51
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121616/

Thebridge is an EchoLink-compatible conference bridge that runs under FreeBSD, Linux, QNX, Windows and hopefully most other POSIX-compatible operating systems. EchoLink is a VoIP system used by Ham radio operators.

Thy 0.6.78 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121641/

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

Totem 0.97.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121583/

Totem is simple movie player for GNOME desktops based on xine. It features a simple playlist, a full-screen mode, seek and volume controls, as well as a pretty complete keyboard navigation system.

Unattended Broadcasting Daemon 0.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121627/

The UBS is a series of programs designed to run the operations of a radio station completely unattended. This includes playing a good selection of music, playing public service announcements and station ID's, and other tasks normally done by a human DJ. This program is similar in nature to the DRS2006, which is a product popular with many commercial radio stations.

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VNC Reflector 1.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121577/

VNC Reflector is a specialized VNC server which acts as a proxy between a real VNC server (a host) and a number of VNC clients. It was designed to work efficiently with large number of clients. It can switch between different hosts on the fly, preserving client connections. It supports reverse host-to-reflector connections, it can save host sessions on disk, and it also has other unique features.

Web Secretary 1.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121613/

Web Secretary is a web page monitoring software. However, it goes beyond the normal functionalities offered by such software. Not only does it detect changes based on content analysis (instead of date/time stamp or simple textual comparison), it will email the changed page to you with the new contents highlighted.

WebCall 1.44
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121561/

WebCall is a MySQL Linux ticket tracking system, built for multi-department use. It features easy setup and configuration, easy and low maintenance once setup, module support, separate user logins with security level control, system logging, an automated system for resetting users passwords, flexible configuration for different departments, separate tables in the database for each department, and much more.

wGui 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121553/

wGui is a simple, platform-independent dialog manager library using SDL and FreeType2. Written in C++ (with extensive use of the Standard Library and STL), the intention is to leave all of the antiquated C paradigms out of it (like #defines).

white_dune 0.22beta92 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121582/

VRML97 (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) is the ISO standard for displaying 3D data over the web via browser plugins. It has support for animation, realtime interaction and multimedia (image, movie, sound). Dune can read VRML97 files, display and let the user change the scenegraph/fields, and load and store x3d (next generation VRML xml format) files if configured to work with the nist.gov x3d translators. It also has support for stereoscopic view via "quadbuffer"-capable stereo visuals.

X File Explorer 0.54.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121642/

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.

xawdecode 1.6.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121653/

Xawdecode is a fork of xawtv that allows you to watch TV and make use of plugin extensions. It interacts with AleVT for Teletext and Nxtvepg for NextView, and uses the video4linux API. It can use deinterlacing filters and record video files with the ffmpeg and divx4 codecs.

Xpert project 0.1dev2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121538/

The Xpert project is an expert system dedicated to IT security. For the moment it generates a NetFilter script, but will, in the future, have a range of security features.

yaws 1.2 (Main)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121652/

Yaws is a high performance, light-weight, threaded HTTP 1.1 Web server targeted for the generation of dynamic content. It is written in Erlang, and the server side dynamic content is generated by Erlang code embedded in the HTML code.

zenTrackXoops 2.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121602/

zenTrackXoops is a Xoops port of zenTrack, a helpdesk server application.

Zope 2.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/121606/

Zope is an application server specializing in content management, intranets, and custom Web applications. It is written in Python and has a large global community of developers and companies.

Newsforge Reports
'Exec Shield' - new Linux security feature http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/02/1914223

by Ingo Molnar - We are pleased to announce the first publically available source code release of a new kernel-based security feature called the "Exec Shield", for Linux/x86. The kernel patch (against 2.4.21-rc1, released under the GPL/OSL) can be downloaded from http://redhat.com/~mingo/exec-shield/

Slap the credits everywhere!
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/28/1859244

by Hans Reiser - Free software is ego-propelled. People don't get paid, they get famous. Yet we as a community do far too little to prominently credit the names of the authors. I propose we change that by adopting a few simple practices.