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[osdn everything] May 10, 2003
Date: Sat May 10 2003 - 04:45:27 EDT
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Slashdot
Lowest Raw Score Ever on the SAT
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/09/1159231
An anonymous reader writes "[0]Lowest Raw Score Ever on the SAT. Relax!
You are practically guaranteed to have done better on the SAT than this
guy! But the competition for most extreme negative raw score is just
beginning..."
Links
0. http://www.colinfahey.com/2003apr5_sat/2003apr5_sat.htm
Build Your Own HERF Gun
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/07/1559238
James writes "Rostislav Persion from Voltage Labs has [0]successfully constructed a HERF gun (a device like EMP but directional) in his home that is capable of stalling cars at a distance and crashing computers as well. He has videos of the device in action as it lights up LED's at a distance and triggers motion detectors. Theres also a bunch of other security stuff and science stuff which is quite interesting and controversial, such as cell phone tracking, mood altering audio signals, gyro guns, and other things of this nature. The site owner was also featured in US News Magazine and MTV for some of his work." Links
ScavHunt211
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/09/2012200
VoidEngineer writes "Well, it's that time of the year again... the
[0]World's Largest Scavenger Hunt has begun again. (This is the same
annual Scavenger Hunt where the students built the breeder reactor, for
item #240, back in 1999...) Anyhow, you can [1]find the list here. This
year, the competition is between 9 teams and there are 307 items. Nerdy
items include, but are not limited to: #2 From the fetid swamps of
Lotan to the teeming forests of Jojojop, Endor is an ancient,
mysterious, beautiful land, deserving to be rendered as a full-color
map fit for National Geographic, circa TA 3019; [51 points] #46 Mobius
stripper. Must be non-orientable. Must not emphasize the
one-dimensionality of the stripper's personality. [28 points]. #98 A
piece of the Space Shuttle Columbia with NASA verification [155 points]
#101 A hologram of an entire team member. [50 points] #136 Explain
string theory using only sock puppets. The Judge must understand. [19
points]"
Links
0. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/06/1730248&tid=133
Job Chances for Older Coders?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/09/1939241
emtboy9 asks: "As the semester winds to a close, exams fall upon us students once again. Today, outside of one of my programming classes, I overheard a conversation between a pair of middle aged women about programming degrees (which they are involved in), and this made me wonder. With the job market in IT being as pathetic as it is, what are the real-world chances of someone who is taking a programming course getting a job. In the places I have worked, all the coders were fairly young. So the question is, what are the chances for an older person, who is just now learning programming to get a job in that field?" Ask Slashdot last touched on this topic back [0]in February of 2001. In the intervening two years, have things gotten worse or better for those who have been in the industry for a long time? Links
0. http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/02/02/1738210&tid=146
Middle Earth MMORPG Announced
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/09/203248
[0]learithe writes "A new Middle Earth MMORPG, [1]Middle Earth Online,
has just been announced by [2]Turbine, who produced Asheron's Call [3]1
and [4]2 with [5]Microsoft. It looks to be just as pretty and
cpu/graphics card intensive as [4]AC2. More (flash-free) information
can be found at [6]IGN and [7]Gamespy."
Links
0. mailto:learithe@cats.ucsc.edu
1.
http://www.lordoftherings.com/meo/
2.
http://www.turbinegames.com/
3.
http://www.microsoft.com/games/zone/asheronscall/
4.
http://microsoftgamesinsider.com/AC2/default.htm
5.
http://www.microsoft.com/games/home/
6.
http://pc.ign.com/articles/401/401620p1.html
7.
http://www.gamespydaily.com/news/screenshots.asp?id=5087
FreeNetworks Conference in Las Vegas
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/09/1835257
[0]belial writes "The [1]FreeNetworks Conference is in less than a
month (June 6-8). If you want to find out what's happening in the
Community Wireless Network world, this is the place to be. Keynotes
include [2]Tim O'Reilly, [3]Cory Doctorow from [4]BoingBoing, and a
whole [5]gaggle of wireless geeks from the [6]FreeNetworks community.
Find out about the latest happenings from [7]BAWUG, [8]Consume,
[9]NoCat, [10]NYCWireless,[11]SeattleWireless, [12]WirelessLeiden, and
more!"
Links
0.
http://freenetworks.org/~mattw/
1.
http://con.freenetworks.org/
2.
http://tim.oreilly.com/
3.
http://craphound.com/
4.
http://boingboing.net/
5.
http://con.freenetworks.org/overview.phtml
6.
http://freenetworks.org/
7.
http://bawug.org/
8.
http://consume.net/
9.
http://nocat.net/
10.
http://nycwireless.net/
11.
http://seattlewireless.net/
12.
http://wirelessleiden.nl/
Sudden Death Experience
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/09/1833252
[0]Charles Manson writes "I'm sure you and your readers have already
heard about [1]this evil monster, but I just stumbled upon a fantastic
review of it. Cedar Point has always been an innovator, but god damn,
this thing is just sick. I'm glad I only live a hundred miles away
becuase I'll be practically living there this summer. My favorite quote
of the article is 'If Hell has thrill rides, this brilliantly evil
machine should be one of them.'" We [2]mentioned the Cedar Point
coaster earlier. The best parts of roller coaster riding are the little
surreal notes, i.e. looking over the side and seeing 500 hats on the
ground below.
Links
0. mailto:christopher.yarborough@cardinal.com
1.
http://www.thrillride.com/ttd/ttd.html
2.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/1540230&tid=159
Warren Ellis Answers
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/09/1727245
[0]Warren Ellis, creator of Transmet and countless other excellent
comics has answered your questions. Click below fearless reader and
face the man responsible for countless graphic novels. And check out
[1]Artbomb.net or [2]his blog. And pick up Orbiter, a 100-page sf
graphic novel, came out in hardback two weeks ago from DC Vertigo, and
hopefully available at a comic shop near you! Enough with the plugs,
lets get to the juice:
Links
0.
http://www.warrenellis.com
1.
http://artbomb.net
2.
http://www.diepunyhumans.comLegally Defining "Unauthorized" Computer Access http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/09/1647209
[0]SDuane writes "Orin S. Kerr, Associate Professor at George
Washington University Law School, has written an article trying to
answer the question "[1]what does it mean to 'access' a computer? And
when is access 'unauthorized'?" It's long, but interesting and he's
looking for [2]feedback."
Links
0.
http://www.statenewsblues.com
1.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=399740
2.
http://volokh.blogspot.com/2003_05_04_volokh_archive.html#200263392
Surviving Tornadoes
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/09/1542210
SharkJumper writes "We here in central Oklahoma, USA are just climbing
out of the wreckage of [0]another series of tornadoes. Unlike the
[1]tornadoes of May 3rd, 1999, which killed 47 and injured more than
800, we now have much better tornado [2]information and prediction
technology. Largely because of this, there have been far fewer
injuries, and (as of this morning) no reported deaths. Here in the
greater Oklahoma City area, we can even [3]register our storm shelters
with the city. After a severe storm, GIS technology is used to create a
map for rescuers detailing location and type of the shelter as well as
emergency contact information. Rescuers can then use these maps to
search for survivors that may be trapped by debris in their shelters."
Links
0.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WEATHER/05/09/tornadoes/index.html
1.
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/oun/storms/19990503/
2.
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/
3.
http://www.okc.gov/info_tech/gis/StormShelter/Forms/StormCellarSearch.aspx
Freshmeat
ADIC 0.9.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122359/
ADIC (any door is closed) is a cooperative multiplayer networked game. The goal is to lock all players of the other teams. The rules are simple, the style is 80s, and it is fun to play.
Ammerum 0.1-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122282/
Ammerum is a forum similar to the popular German newsticker "Heise Online". Neither cookie nor frames support is needed. It is fully CSS themeable but still works in any browser (even in those without CSS support) including text browsers. It features good quoting support.
Apple iTunes 4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122349/
iTunes is a full-featured digital music player. Its features include "smart" playlists, an MP3 encoder, a CD burner, search functionality, rating of songs, a volume level optimizer, play count tracking, visualization, and much more.
Atlantis 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122316/
Atlantis is a native Web browser for the GNOME desktop.
Bambookit GUI 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122298/
Bambookit GUI is a completely XML-scriptable user interface to build real-time interactive Web application front-ends. Applications occupy 100 Kb of device memory and run on any Java-enabled browser. Users can move windows, resize containers, scroll and sort tables, lists, trees, see real-time data display, use a layout manager, and more. All rendering and event handling is managed in the XML scripts.
bftpd 1.0.24
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122377/
bftpd is a very configurable Linux FTP server which can do chroot without special configuration or directory preparation. It works on all Unix variants tested. Most FTP commands are supported, and user authentication is done via passwd/shadow or PAM. tar/gzip on-the-fly is supported.
broken.miho 01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122358/
broken.miho is a blue-grey theme based on artwork by Megatokyo artist piro.
Cherokee 0.4.3 pre12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122352/
Cherokee is a tiny, ultrafast, lightweight Web server. It is implemented entirely in C, and has no dependencies beyond a standard C library. It is embeddable, extensible with plug-ins, and supports on-the-fly configuration by reading files or strings.
CollegeLinux 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122347/
CollegeLinux is a new, stand-alone operating system based on Slackware. The aim of this experimental Linux distribution is to provide to RKC students and the student population at large an operating system which is easy to install and use, and which provides an alternative to the traditional commercial operating systems.
Cornice 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122390/
Cornice is a cross-platform image viewer written in Python, wxPython, and PIL.
Desktop ROCK Linux 2.0.0-beta2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122353/
Desktop ROCK Linux is a source distribution based upon the distribution build kit ROCK Linux. It is released with an automatic build system as well as prebuilt ISO images. It inherits the state-of-the-art tool chain from ROCK Linux and also includes the latest KDE and GNOME releases and many other packages. The build system allows optimized rebuilds of single packages or the whole ISO.
DOLFIN 0.3.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122309/
DOLFIN is used as a platform for research in adaptive finite element methods for PDEs at Chalmers Finite Element Center and at the Department of Computational Mathematics at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.
Double Choco Latte 0.9.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122302/
Double Choco Latte is a system for tracking bugs, changes, enhancements, requests for software. The system is suited for multiple products and multiple accounts (clients). It is also known to handle call center activity, although this will evolve into a separate module.
Dropbear SSH Server 0.31
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122320/
Dropbear is an SSH 2 server, designed to be usable in small memory environments.
Echo Web Application Framework 1.0 Release Candidate 1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/122313/
Echo is a framework for developing object-oriented, event-driven Web applications in Java. Echo removes the developer from having to think in terms of "page-based" applications and enables him/her to develop applications using the conventional object-oriented and event-driven paradigm for user interface development. Knowledge of HTML, HTTP, and JavaScript is not required. Tutorials, white papers, and full API documentation are available.
Expresso Framework 5.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122336/
Expresso Framework is an open standards-based J2EE architectural framework that allows the developer to concentrate on application logic. It is a library of extensible Java Server application framework components for creating database-driven Web applications based on open standards. Expresso integrates with Apache Jakarta Struts, which emphasizes presentation and application configuration, and bringing a powerful tag library to Expresso. Expresso adds capabilities for security, robust object-relational mapping, background job handling and scheduling, self-tests, logging integration, automated table manipulation, database connection pooling, email connectivity, event notification, error handling, caching, internationalization, XML automation, testing, registration objects, configuration management, workflow, automatic database maintenance, and a JSP tag library.
Flash-Ticker 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122318/
Flash-Ticker is a ticker add-on for PHP-Nuke sites. It is designed to put everywhere in your Nuke site a ticker message with a flash movie. An admin page allows you to change the message when you want, linking it to an URL. All previous messages are stored in a text file with hour and date when they were made.
FLP-i18n 1.057
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122381/
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.
ganttproject 1.9.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122367/
Ganttproject is a Java application that lets you plan projects using Gantt charts. It can export HTML Web pages and calendars as PNG images. Projects can be subdivided into tasks with dependencies, and notes can be assigned to tasks. Users can interact with the calendar directly by clicking on it. The file format is a XML-based. It supports several languages, including English, French, and Spanish.
Genuts Cheese Indigestion Puzzle 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122323/
Genuts Cheese Indigestion Puzzle is a pathfinding puzzle. The goal is to help the mouse to eat all the pieces of cheese in each of the puzzle's 18 rooms. Move the mouse with arrow keys. You can't move on wall or move back on an already visited square. You can undo moves with the DEL key and restart with the ESC key. Finally, you can reset the puzzle with the Q key.
GKrellM Mailwatch 2.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122332/
GKrellM Mailwatch is a GKrellM plugin which monitors mailboxes. It can monitor multiple mailboxes with extra counters and supports the mbox, maildir, and MH formats.
GkrellMMS 2.1.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122329/
GkrellMMS is a plugin for controlling XMMS from within GKrellM.
GNU Smalltalk 2.1.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122328/
GNU Smalltalk is a free implementation of the Smalltalk-80 language.
Grammatica 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122312/
Grammatica is a parser generator (compiler compiler) for C# and Java. It can create readable and commented source code from an LL(k) grammar. It also supports creating a parser in runtime without generating source code. The grammar productions are described in EBNF and tokens in regular expressions.
Group-Office 1.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122334/
Group-office is Web-based office suite written in PHP that is extensible with modules. It features user management (optionally synchronized with system and Samba), module management, an e-mail client, a file manager, a scheduler, and project management.
GSwitchIt 2.0.31
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122383/
gswitchit is a simple keyboard state indicator for the GNOME panel. It supports up to 4 keyboard groups and has customizable images for each group.
HelpmeICT 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122310/
HelpmeICT provides support team help desk functions with support for multiple sites, site groups, and role security. It features full issue tracking, cross-server knowledge bases, and management reporting and statistics. The entire system is Web enabled, including management and administration roles. Apart from just ICT, the system can be used for administration and reprographics requests and is being adapted as a pupil behaviour tracker.
Ian 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122303/
Ian (I am normal) is a shell script designed to make a honeypot look more like a production system. This is accomplished by creating bogus data and history files, altering modification times of these files, adding users, patching x number of programs, and allowing the user to include their own created files.
JHDL 0.3.28
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122355/
JHDL is a set of FPGA CAD tools which allows the user to design the structure and layout of a circuit, debug the circuit in simulation, netlist, and interface with backend tools for synthesis, etc. It is an exploratory attempt to identify the key features and functionality of good FPGA tools.
Just For Fun Network Management System 0.7.2-pre2 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/122388/
Just For Fun Network Management System is a PHP-based network management system that features an integrated syslog, Tacacs, TFTP configuration downloading, SNMP polling, SNMP traps, journalling, auto-discovery, performance graphs (RRD), SLAs, and a lot more. It uses MySQL or PostgreSQL as the backend and works under Linux and Windows.
Kemulator 0.2.2 (development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122363/
Kemulator is a KDE emulator frontend written in C++ using the Qt/KDE toolkit. It provides users with the ability to configure an emulator without ever touching the commandline.
libdvb 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122378/
libdvb (formerly dvb-mpegtools) contains three libraries with examples for their usage. libdvb is a library for switching channels using the Linux DVB API and keeping channel list for DVB-C, DVB-S and DVB-T. libdvbci is used for handling CI interfaces that are optional for some DVB cards. It is based on the CI handler of vdr. libdvbmpegtools and the dvb-mpegtools provide a library and various small programs helpful for converting, demuxing, changing, analyzing, and remuxing MPEG transport streams coming from DVB receiver cards. They mostly work on the PES level, but tools for manipulating elementary streams are also included. All those packages used to be included with the DVB driver.
LinPHA 0.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122324/
LinPHA is an easy to use, multilingual, flexible photo/image archive/album/gallery written in PHP. It uses a MySQL database to store information about your pictures. It comes with a HTML-based installer, so you don't need experience in setting up SQL databases. Thumbnails are created as needed and stored in the SQL DB.
loook 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122338/
Loook searches for text strings in OpenOffice.org (and StarOffice 6.0 or later) files. It searches in files with the extensions sxw, sxc, sxi, sxd, and sxg. AND, OR, and phrase searches are supported. It doesn't create an index, but searching should be fast enough, unless you have very many files.
lvs-kiss 1.30 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122308/
lvs-kiss is designed to make load-balancing with fail-over simpler. The primary design-goal is for you to get load-balancing with fail-over up and running withing an hour or so. The secondary design goal is to be able to make this software as flexible as possible. Embedding of perl in configuration-files and load-balancing with custom made tests should be possible without too much hassle.
MACCC 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122301/
MP3 Automagic CD Cover Creator (MACCC) creates printable CD covers (front and back for full-size cases, front only for slimline) for MP3 CDs. These covers are great for use with in-dash car MP3 CD players. The covers it outputs are in CDInsert format, CDRLabel format, and in .txt format.
MaildirSync 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122373/
Maildirsync is a utility for Maildir synchronization. It is designed to be used in online (live) Maildir folders, be fail-safe, and is optimized for minimal bandwidth.
Misery Retina Reflection 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122365/
Misery Retina Reflection is a theme inspired by the artwork of Misery at deaddreamer.com. The background is copyrighted material of Misery@deaddreamer.com and is used with express permission.
MoviX 0.8.0pre6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122386/
MoviX is a small Linux distro that transforms your PC in a powerful multimedia box. After booting your PC with MoviX, a user-friendly console menu will allow you to use MPlayer (www.mplayerhq.hu) to play any DVD/VCD, video/audio files (most noticeably DivX, AVI, MPEG, QuickTime, WMV, ASF, MP3, and OGG/VORBIS), TV (provided you have a TV card), and radio stations on the Internet (if you are connected to a LAN). Since the entire operating system is loaded into RAM, you do not even need a hard disk to use MoviX.
mozilla-bonobo 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122356/
Mozilla-bonobo is a Netscape-compatible browser plugin that uses GNOME bonobo controls to display content of supported MIME types inside browser windows.
MP3 STATION beta 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122317/
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.
netacct-mysql 0.76 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122337/
Netacct-mysql is modified version of traffic accounting daemon net-acct which stores collected data in MySQL. It supports writing accounting information in a single line in MySQL per day for every IP (mrta style).
newfile 1.0.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122327/
newfile generates "starting-out" files using a full featured template preprocessor. It can also generate trees of files, for example, a FreeBSD port or a project using automake and autoconf. A user can add their own template files and directories to those supplied with the package. It includes templates for making "empty" files for Ruby, make, shell, C, C++, C & C++ headers, and more.
nInvaders 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122374/
nInvaders is a Space Invaders clone for ncurses.
nut 8.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122304/
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.
OpalisRobot 4.0 (Opalis JobEngine)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122361/
OpalisRobot is IT process automation software for Windows, Linux, and Solaris environments. Its unique combination of scheduling, event monitoring, and automation provide IT professionals with the tools to automate a broad range of IT operations. It automates redundant administrative tasks, corrective actions, and complex IT processes.
OpalisRobot 4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122360/
OpalisRobot is IT process automation software for Windows, Linux, and Solaris environments. Its unique combination of scheduling, event monitoring, and automation provide IT professionals with the tools to automate a broad range of IT operations. It automates redundant administrative tasks, corrective actions, and complex IT processes.
osx2x 1.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122362/
osx2x allows the user to control a remote X11 display from a MacOS X machine, similar to x2x. The tool simply captures mouse and keyboard events on your Mac and sends them to a specified X server.
Pan 0.14.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122348/
Pan is a newsreader which attempts to be pleasing to both new and experienced users. In addition to the standard newsreader features, Pan also supports yEnc, offline newsreading, article filtering, multiple connections, and more features for power users and alt.binaries fans.
Phorum 3.4.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122369/
Phorum is a threaded message board written in PHP whose goal is to be database and platform independent. It is used on many high-traffic/high-profile sites such as slackware.com, zend.com, and talk.thewb.com. Phorum is designed with high-availability and visitor ease of use in mind. Features such as mailing list integration, easy customization, and simple installation make Phorum a powerful add-in to any Web site.
pipeworks 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122392/
pipeworks is a benchmarking tool for pipelines that is very similar to pipemeter. It writes its stdin to its stdout, while reporting the data flow rate to stderr. It features adjustable block size and bandwidth limiting capabilities.
PrivateSpace 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122319/
PrivateSpace was inspired by Jesia from episode 5 of the Anime series Angel Links. A full body shot of Jesia laying on the bad in her room has been recreated using several screen captures and used as the background. It's a dark blue style (figuratively speaking, too). The author intended to recreate Jesia's mood at that moment, as well as provide a dark style that shuts out unnecessary details and lets you concentrate on the important parts of the screen easily.
Rudiments 0.25.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122387/
Rudiments is a C++ class library providing base classes for things such as daemons, clients, and servers, and wrapper classes for the standard C functions for things like regular expressions, semaphores, and signal handling.
Sedation 0.89
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122299/
Sedation is a lightweight light gray and pastel blue theme.
sgml2x converter 1.0.0 (sgml2x-1.0)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122366/
sgml2x is a script designed to help applying a DSSSL stylesheet to an SGML or XML document. It has a couple of interesting features, such as multiple possible stylesheets per document class, easy integration of new stylesheets by adding a simple new definition file in a configuration directory (system-wide, per-user, or per-project), and automatic selection of a default stylesheet to be used. It is already set up for DocBook SGML/XML.
Sophie 1.44 (V1)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122379/
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.
Sophie 3.02 (V3)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122376/
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.
SQL Relay 0.33.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122389/
SQL Relay is a persistent database connection pooling, proxying, and load balancing system for Unix and Linux supporting ODBC, Oracle, MySQL, mSQL, PostgreSQL, Sybase, MS SQL Server, IBM DB2, Interbase, Lago, and SQLite, and with APIs for C, C++, Perl, Perl-DBD, Python, Python-DB, Zope, PHP, Ruby, Ruby-DBD, Java and TCL, command line clients, a GUI configuration tool, and extensive documentation. The APIs support advanced database operations such as binding variables, multi-row fetches, client side result set caching, and suspended transactions. It is ideal for speeding up database-driven Web-based applications, accessing databases from unsupported platforms, migrating between databases, distributing access to replicated databases, and throttling database access.
SSHVnc 0.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122346/
SSHVnc is a standalone Java VNC viewer that secures VNC a ccess by integrating the popular TightVNC viewer with the SSH Tools Java SSH API. It features a clean and easy to use interf ace.
Synergy for Mac OS X 0.9.9i
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122341/
Synergy is a tiny Cocoa application for Mac OS X 10.2 (and later) that puts three buttons to control iTunes in your menubar: previous track, next track, and play/pause. It also provides you with visual feedback about the currently playing tune and allows you to control iTunes via system-wide hot key combinations. These features provide a very fast way of skipping between songs when using the keyboard or the mouse, without having to switch to iTunes or access its Dock menu.
TCP Re-engineering Tool 1.3.1 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/122350/
TCP Re-engineering Tool monitors and analyzes data transmitted between a client and a server via a TCP connection. It focuses on the data stream (software layer), not on the lower level transmission protocol (as packet sniffers do).
TCPExec Server 2003_05_09
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122368/
TCPExec Server is a TCP/IP server implemented in C++ which starts for every incoming connection a worker process. The TCP connection is redirected to stdin/stdout to allow for execution of scripts. The server is accompanied by a simple test HTTP server implemented as a shell script which allows you to configure a value in any HTML browser.
Terminal Server Client 0.108
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122342/
Terminal Server Client (tsclient) is a frontend for rdesktop. It supports most of the rdesktop 1.1/1.2 arguments, can read .rdp files in the Microsoft Unicode format, writes new .rdp files in ASCII (which can also be read by the Microsoft RDP Client), and looks and functions very much like the Microsoft RDP Client. It features a Gnome panel applet to quickly launch saved rdp files.
The Black Legacy 0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122315/
The Black Legacy is an online RPG project.
tupd 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122331/
Tupd is a trustworthy daemon that reports uptime statistics via HTTP. Tupd is designed to be small, simple, and secure. These features make tupd suitable for use on critical servers and firewalls where a full HTTP server and script installation would pose an unacceptable security risk.
txt2tags 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122375/
txt2tags is a format conversion tool written in Python that generates HTML, SGML, LaTeX, man page, MoinMoin, Magic Point, and PageMaker documents from a plain text file with little marks. Different from other conversion tools, it is generic, and not target-specific (as a txt2html tool). This way, you can keep just one source text file and one tool for all your formatting needs.
Uncle Unc 0.25.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122326/
Uncle Unc allows network admins and developers to keep track of many services on a network in a flexible extendable fashion from a single client program. The underlying protocol aims to be as generic as possible, and offers a clean usable model for interacting with many services. In Uncle Unc, client implementation is carefully separated from the core protocol, allowing clients to be implemented as GUI apps, Web front-ends, or console programs. Once adapted to Uncle Unc, a service becomes instantly accessible from any Unc-aware client. As new service implementations are developed, every client implementation is able to use them. The ever-expanding list of adapters currently covers filesystems, Java class libraries, relational databases, log-files and jini networks, and a feature-rich, fast desktop GUI client.
VideoDB 2003-05-09
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122371/
VideoDB is a database to manage your personal video collection. It's mainly designed for videofiles but you can also put your DVDs and VHS tapes in it. It features fetching movie data/covers from the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), local caching of coverimages, an option to mark movies as seen, a search by genre or title/subtitle/plot/cast data, a filter for TV episodes, a random movie function and a simple borrow manager. It is a personal database, so no user management/authentication scheme is implemented. Everybody may add/edit/delete movies.
web2ldap 0.11.20
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122333/
web2ldap is a full-featured LDAP client written in Python and designed to run as a stand-alone Web gateway or under the control of a web server with FastCGI support (e.g., Apache with mod_fastcgi).
white_dune 0.22beta110 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122325/
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.
Wine 20030508
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122345/
Wine Is Not an Emulator. It is an alternative implementation of the Windows 3.x and Win32 APIs. Wine provides both a development toolkit (Winelib) for porting legacy Windows sources to Unix and a program loader, allowing unmodified Windows 3.1/95/NT binaries to run under Intel Unixes. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely alternative implementation consisting of 100% Microsoft-Free code, but it can optionally use native system DLLs if they are available.
xmlto 0.0.13 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122354/
xmlto converts an XML file (DocBook or XSL-FO) into a specified format (PS, PDF, HTML, man, ASCII, XSL-FO, etc.) by applying an appropriate XSL-T stylesheet and then performing whatever post-processing is necessary.
XMMS Remote 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122372/
XMMS Remote is a two-part software solution that uses Web services to remotely control and display the status of the XMMS media player. Its two parts are a Cocoa application for OS X and a Perl script for Unix.
Xpert project 0.1dev2c
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122344/
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.
Zina 0.9.16
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122307/
Zina is a graphical interface to your MP3 collection, a personal
jukebox, and an MP3 streamer. It can run alone or as a Postnuke or
PHPNuke module. It is similar to Andromeda, but is released under the
GPL.
Newsforge Reports
Microsoft's double standard on third-world piracy
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/02/108224
- by Codes_Every_Day* - SouthEast Asia - I would like to talk about Microsoft's double standard regarding software piracy. I work for a software development company. We are currently working on different projects for a big telecommunications company under Microsoft's Consulting Services division. But let me tell you... at this very moment, if the BSA comes crashing into our development location, all our equipment will be confiscated, and we ...
Linux Advisory Watch - May 9th 2003
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/09/1014253
- By Benjamin D. Thomas - This week, advisories were released for samba, file, tcpsec, krb5, vnc, snort, epic4, balsa, leksbot, libgtop, fuzz, openssh, MySQL, and mod_auth_any. The distributors include SCO, Conectiva, Connectiva, Debian, Gentoo, and RedHat.
SuSE 8.2 -- better than Mandrake for new users? http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/27/1850233
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - I have been using SuSE Linux 8.2 Professional for two weeks now, and it is as close to Linux desktop perfection as I have found so far. (I know I'm not the first to say this, but I figure saying it one more time can't hurt.) This doesn't mean it's totally perfect, and my experience is on one particular laptop and may not be duplicated on your hardware, but this is the first SuSE version I have actually liked -- and ...
Newsforge Newsvac
Linux alongside Windows
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/09/2112236
We began this look at installing Linux for complete newcomers last month with some very basic general advice on the whole issue of partitioning and installing. In this months issue, were covering the practical side of your first installation, whether its on a stand-alone PC or alongside your existing Windows installation. Before we begin, we need to remind you that theres one thing we cant stress clearly enough back up your system before you ...
Linux frenzy sweeps Oracle user conference http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/09/219236
Linux was the talk of the Oracle database user conference in the US last week, with firms looking at evaluating or moving corporate applications with database servers to run on the open source operating system.
ISV's test drive IBM eServer Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/09/1840233
Anonymous Reader writes "IBM has a new eServer Linux Test Drive program. It enables ISV's the abbility to test drive Linux on all IBM eServer platforms. It's no-charge access(14 to 30 days) to the eServer iSeries, pSeries, xSeries, or its mainframe zSeries. ISV's can choose Turbolinux, SuSE, or Red Hat to develop, port, and or test drive their solutions on IBM's eServers running IBM's middleware, and the e-business developers' toolkit based on ...
KL's Open Source centre to act as testbed http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/09/1638259
A group of Malaysian technology organisations have got together to establish an Open Source Compatibility Centre.
It's open source season for Novell
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/09/1612234
Having contributed for years to open source community projects such as Apache and OpenLDAP, Novell Inc has announced the availability of a more direct path to its open source initiatives with the launch of the Novell Forge website, an open source developer resource.
Linux PC disk helps recovery
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/09/1553230
The other day I noticed a colleague apparently installing Linux on a PC in the labs. This was a cause of some concern, because I had been using the same system to test some hardware, and didn't want the disk contents or partitions changing in any way. He must have seen the look on my face. "Don't worry," he said, "it's only running from the CD."
Axceleon to Demonstrate at the 2003 SGI® Global Developer Conference http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/09/1550230
Jacob Webb writes "May 9, 2003 -- Sunnyvale, Calif. - Axceleon, leaders in computational grid computing software, announced that it will be attending and demonstrating at the 2003 SGI® Global Developer Conference, which will be taking place May 12-14, 2003 at the newly constructed Marriott Hotel in downtown San Jose, California.