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[osdn everything] May 11, 2003
Date: Sun May 11 2003 - 04:45:27 EDT
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May 11, 2003 EVERYTHING SERIES
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Slashdot
Klingon Interpreter Needed In Oregon
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/11/0235254
myrashka writes "CNN has a report of a position available for an
[0]Klingon-English interpreter by a mental health office in Oregon (how
apropos). Could this be the start of the next hot job market (perhaps
they'll need Nebari-English interpreters next)?"
Links
0. http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/West/05/10/offbeat.klingon.interpreter/index.html
The Deepest Photo Ever Taken
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/11/021231
[0]Astroturtle writes "Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope's
powerful new Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) have taken the
[1]deepest visible-light image ever made of the sky. The 3.5-day
(84-hour) exposure captures stars as faint as 31st magnitude, according
to Tom M. Brown (Space Telescope Science Institute), who headed the
eight-person team that took the picture."
Links
3D Computer Generated Movie From France
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/11/0119218
An anonymous reader submits a link to this [0]Computer Graphics World
article on a French-made film to be released in June. "A film by Xilam,
[1]Kaena is a full length feature film, entirely made from Off the
shelf software. The previews looks amazing."
Links
Six Monkeys And An Old Saw
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/11/0015240
Sayten241 writes "They say that an infinite amount of monkeys typing at an infinite amount of typewriters will produce literature greater than Shakespeare. Well, it has been proven that [0]six monkeys and one computer will produce a computer that has been smashed with a rock, urinated upon, and four pages worth of the letter 's.' The end of the article states that scientifically this does prove that monkeys are more complex than random generators." Links
0. http://www.msnbc.com/news/911508.asp?0si=-
Buckminsterfullerene Strikes Again - Nanotube RAM http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/10/2113245
putaro writes "Nanotube based RAM, under development by [0]Nantero, promises to deliver densities of over 1 terabit per cm^2, is non-volatile and faster than current DRAM. [1]The Economist has a nice story. Forget about just kicking DRAM's and FLASH's butt, is this finally the end of magnetic storage as well?" Links
New Diablo II Patch Finally Revealed
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/10/1656257
[0]colaco writes "After more than a year waiting for the 1.10 patch,
[1]Diablo II gamers now have an inside scoop at changes that it will
implement. Most of the info on new items and gameplay rules (eg: ladder
characters) have been [2]available on Arreat Summit for the past few
hours, and are now [3] displayed on DiabloII.net. Blizzard has also [4]
offered some clarification. Sources inside Blizzard indicate that
[5]more info will be given at [6]E3."
Links
0. mailto:colaco@netvisao.pt
1.
http://www.blizzard.com/diablo2exp/
2.
http://www.battle.net/diablo2exp/
3.
http://diabloii.net/items/v110/index.shtml
4.
http://www.battle.net/diablo2exp/#down
5.
http://www.battle.net/FORUMS/thread.aspx?FN=d2-general&T=114281&P=1&ReplyCount=74#post114281
6.
http://www.e3expo.com/
World's Most Powerful Laser
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/09/2050233
[0]mattlary writes "The Rochester [1]Democrat and Chronicle reports
that the [2]University of Rochester plans on building the [3]world's
most powerful laser. The plans include upgrading the University's Omega
laser with a pair of petawatt lasers. Sounds a lot like Real Genius to
me."
Links
0. mailto:mattlary@csh.rit.edu
1.
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/
2.
http://www.rochester.edu/
3.
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/news/0509story1_news.shtml
Texas Hearings On Open Source Bill
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/10/1735237
[0]fusion812 writes "Senate Bill 1579 is proposed Texas state
legislation that would require state agencies to consider 'open source
software' when purchasing computer software. The bill has been
introduced in the Senate, referred to committee, and is awaiting a
schedule date for a hearing." Here's some [1]more information from EFF
Austin; fusion812 supplies a summary of the bill's provisions as well
as a Real Audio sample of the provided testimony, both below. Also, see
this [2]report on NewsForge for some juicy quotes.
Links
0. mailto:fusion812x@yahoo.com
1.
http://www.effaustin.org/2003_03_01_effa_arc.html
2.
http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/05/10/138240.shtml?tid=4GoboLinux Rethinks The Linux Filesystems http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/10/1636245
[0]dolbywan_kenobi writes "[1]GoboLinux is an alternative Linux
distribution which redefines the entire filesystem hierarchy. In
GoboLinux we have paths such as /Programs/XFree86/4.3/ and
/System/Settings/BootScripts/Reboot." By design, GoboLinux is quite a
bit [2]different from most Linux distributions, and -- notably -- is a
live ISO, always nice.
Links
0. mailto:trubblman@yahoo.com
1.
http://www.gobolinux.org/
2.
http://www.gobolinux.org/index.php?differencesNew Loudspeaker Eliminates Distortive Influence http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/10/1512228
[0]fejrskov writes "The Danish audio/video company 'Bang & Olufsen'
[1]announced a new loudspeaker which promises to eliminate the bad
influence from walls, floors and ceilings on the sound. This is
achieved by using two technologies: ALT (Acoustic Lens Technology) uses
sound dispersing lenses to make sound travel equally in all directions.
ABC (Adaptive Bass Control) involves sliding a tiny microphone out at
the base of the speaker, playing a series of test sounds, and adapting
the bass according to the measured acoustic response. Each active
loudspeaker contains amplifiers for a total of 2500W (!) output using
B&O's patented ICEPower concept. The price? Approximately 55.000 Danish
kroner (8.000 Euro) each."
Links
0. http://[mfpe01] [at] [control.auc.dk]
Freshmeat
Benefits of the Qt Object Model
http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/840
Qt is known as a cross-platform graphical user interface toolkit. It is that, but it's also a toolkit for dealing with databases, file access, sockets, and much more. This article concerns the Qt object model and why it is an improvement over the classic C++ model.
abcde 2.1.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122407/
abcde is a frontend to cdparanoia, wget, cd-discid, id3, and your favorite Ogg/MP3/Flac encoder (Oggenc is the default). It grabs an entire CD and converts each track to Ogg/MP3/Flac, then comments or ID3-tags each file, all with one command. It supports multiple output in a single CD read, volume normalization, gapless encoding (with Lame), parallelization, SMP, HTTP proxies, customizable filename organization and munging, playlist generation, and remote distributed encoding via distmp3.
AbstractDB 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122402/
AbstractDB is a PHP wrapper class which provides easy and simple class methods to access the most important database functions. It contains classes implementing the functionality for native PHP functions (MySQL), PEAR, PHPLIB, ADOdb, and METABASE. It allows you to switch between these database abstraction layers by changing only a single line of code, allowing you to use a unified abstraction layer for database access.
asciijump 1.0.1beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122410/
asciijump is an ASCII art game about ski jumping.
av_convert 20030510
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122452/
The main part of av_convert is a C++ API for accessing audio/video files (AVI, Quicktime, YUV4MPEG stream, WAV, etc.). This functionality is provided by a library and a set of plugin modules for I/O backends and audio/video codecs. Using this library, "av_convert" can convert between these file formats and provide basic editing functions, such as cutting parts of different video sources to one destination. The included program "av_rec" can record real-time video from a v4l-video-source with A/V sync.
BFilter 0.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122436/
BFilter is a smart filtering HTTP proxy. It removes ads, webbugs, and popups. Unlike the majority of similar tools, it doesn't rely on a list of blocked URLs, but instead parses HTML on the fly, and detects ads using a set of heuristic rules. BFilter has a built-in JavaScript engine which detects popups and js-generated ads.
BioPHP 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122424/
The BioPHP Project (formerly called GenePHP) is a non-profit, open source software project that aims to extend the PHP scripting language so that it can be used to develop bioinformatics applications. BioPHP itself is not a bioinformatics application. Rather, it is a collection of tools to help PHP developers write bioinformatics applications more rapidly than if they had to start from scratch using "vanilla" PHP.
C++ Portable Types Library (PTypes) 1.7.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/122417/
The C++ Portable Types Library (PTypes) is a simple alternative to the STL that includes multithreading and networking. It defines dynamic strings, character sets, variants, lists and other basic data types along with threads, synchronization and IP sockets. It is portable across modern Unix and Windows systems and includes a sample HTTP daemon showing the full power of the library.
ccl 31.67
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122441/
Ccl is a general purpose Java library. It contains a basic GUI/Swing application framework, utility classes for string, vector, and file handling, command line parameter parsing, a test framework, etc.
CCT Chinese TeX system 0.5.0 Beta 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122401/
CCT is a Chinese Language Extention to TeX that was developed by the Academy of Sciences in Beijing.
Colorstream Icons for KDE 0.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122393/
Colorstream Icons for KDE is a set of colorful icons.
cpudyn 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122430/
cpudyn controls the speed in Intel SpeedStep, Pentium 4 Mobile, and PowerPC machines with the cpufreq compiled in the kernel. It saves battery, lowers temperature, and can put the computer disks in standby mode if a given period has passed without any I/O operation. It works well even with journaled file systems such as Ext3, XFS, or ReiserFS.
csv2latex 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122433/
csv2latex is a file format converter that converts a well formed CSV file (like the ones exported from OpenOffice.org) to the LaTeX document format.
DFBSee 0.7.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122439/
DFBSee is an image viewer and video player for the Linux framebuffer that uses DirectFB. Due to the use of hardware acceleration through DirectFB, it provides very fast and smooth zooming.
EXIF-O-Matic 1.1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122455/
EXIF-O-Matic is a Java application that allows EXIF information tags within the images created by digital cameras to be viewed and exported to HTML or text. It is capable of processing folders of images.
exifprobe 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122445/
Exifprobe examines and reports the contents and structure of JPEG and TIFF image files. It will recognize all standard JPEG markers (including APPn markers) and will report the contents of any properly structured TIFF IFD encountered, even when entry tags are not recognized. Recognized TIFF and TIFF/EP tags are expanded, including EXIF2.2 sections and camera MakerNotes which are found to be in TIFF IFD format. GPS and GeoTIFF tags are recognized and entries printed in "raw" form, but are not expanded. Location, size, and format of image data is reported.
FileDB 0.53
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122403/
FileDB is a PHP class that lets you can easily store, display, and send files from a DB. It has a built-in hit counter and stores information of last edition, upload, etc. It uses the AbstractDB abstraction layer which allows a unified and easy access to databases.
Fingerprint Verification System 0.0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122431/
Fingerprint Verification System is an easy-to-use library that allows programmers to integrate fingerprint technology into their software without specific know-how. It is fast and small, and is great for embedded systems.
GetTextLog 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122419/
GetTextLog is a simple preloadable library to intercept calls to gettext and store all untranslated messages in a log. It is designed to help translators of big projects since this tool allows them to separate more frequent and less frequent messages.
GKsu 0.9.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122406/
GKsu is a GTK+ frontend to the su program. It supports login shells and preserving environment variables, and is useful for launching graphical programs that need to run as another user. In the future, it will also wrap sudo.
GnomeKiSS 1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122416/
GnomeKiSS is a viewer for all KiSS paper dolls. Cherry KiSS and Enhanced Palette are supported, with full alpha transparency and FKiSS.
J2SSH 0.1.7 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122425/
J2SSH is an object-orientated Java implementation of the SSH version 2 protocol. It provides a rich, powerful, and extensible SSH API that enables developers to gain access to SSH servers and to develop entire SSH client/server frameworks. The API library provides a fully-featured SSH2 implementation specifically designed for cross-platform development. Higher level components, representing both the standard SSH client and SSH servers, are provided which implement the protocol specification for user sessions and port forwarding. The specification currently supports public key and password authentication and a full implementation of the SFTP protocol.
JFtp 1.28
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122411/
JFtp is a Swing Java network and file transfer client. It supports FTP with its own FTP API, SMB using jcfis, SFTP using j2ssh, and local file IO using the j2se library. It includes many advanced features such as recursive directory up/download, browsing FTP servers while transferring files, FTP resuming, browsing the LAN for Windows shares, and more. The FTP API is separated from the GUI and can also be used in third-party applications or in a commandline mode. It should ideally be launched in a Web browser via Java Web Start (contained by the Java 1.4 plugin) but can also be started locally.
KMLDonkey 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122442/
KMLDonkey helps integrate the MLDonkey P2P software into KDE3. It provides a replacement MLDonkey GUI using the KDE framework, ED2K link handling in Konqueror, a Control Centre module for configuring MLDonkey and client connectivity, and a panel applet for Kicker that displays MLDonkey status and can launch the GUI on demand.
Krename 2.6.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122457/
Krename is a very powerful batch file renamer for KDE3 which can rename a list of files based on a set of expressions. It can copy/move the files to another directory or simply rename the input files. Krename supports many conversion operations, including conversion of a filename to lowercase or to uppercase, conversion of the first letter of every word to uppercase, adding numbers to filenames, finding and replacing parts of the filename, and many more. It can also change access and modification dates, permissions, and file ownership.
Levenshtein 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122409/
Levenshtein is a Python C extension and C libray to compute Levenshtein string distance, string similarity, normal and generalized string set medians, and other related quantities.
MailPictures 2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122421/
MailPictures is a plug in for the Mail application shipping with Mac OS X. It allows a user to have their image show up in their mail message when they send it to a user who has MailPictures installed. MailPictures works completely transparently to the user, no further intervention is required. It also uses the built-in mechanism provided by Mac OS X and (optionally .Mac) for storage and display of the images.
mhWaveEdit 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122459/
mhWaveEdit is a program for playing, editing, and recording sound files. It supports .wav files and a few other formats. It is good at editing both large and small files, and has support for 8/16/24/32-bit signed and unsigned sample formats.
MonAlbum 0.8.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122262/
MonAlbum is a PHP and MySQL based photo album.
MT News 3.0 Alpha 4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122447/
MT News is a news script which features posting, deleting, editing, file uploads, user levels, profiles, and more.
Parasite 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122444/
Parasite is a PHP PEAR::DB-based blogger with support for spell checking, pingback, highlighted searching, Weblogs.com ping, RSS headlines, and more.
Perl Object Environment 0.26 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122458/
POE (Perl Object Environment) is a framework for creating multitasking, state-driven programs. It is very good for networking applications, but it is not limited to that.
Philer 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122432/
Philer Web Document Management provides private file sharing for users and groups of users; it has an integrated admin system to manage users, groups, files, and rules for sharing.
phpIntranet 2.9.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122440/
phpIntranet is a PHP/SQL intranet application. It includes a front end for managing a staff database, an inventory database, modular calendars, a tournament engine (round robin, single elimination), SpamAssassin configuration integration, birthdays, image storing, etc. phpIntranet also includes a session -> SQL based shopping cart and an orders database to integrate into an e-commerce Web site.
QTParted 0.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122404/
QTParted is a Partition Magic clone. It uses libparted for raw disk access, so you need parted installed to use it. The goal of QTParted is to fully wrap all function of parted and create a user friendly PM clone for Linux.
rubrica 1.0.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122408/
rubrica is an address book written using GTK+ and GNOME. It allows you to add personal data (name, surname, address, etc.), Web links, email addresses, telephone numbers, job information (company where contact works, company infos, contact's assigment, etc.) and notes. XML is used to store the data. It can import addressbooks from GnomeCard and export to HTML.
ShiFT 0.0.6 alpha
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122429/
ShiFT is a Java-based file transfer application which enables users to transfer files between remote computers by FTP, Samba, and SFTP.
Simple Python Blogger 0.7.0pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122423/
Simple Python Blogger is a small Python script to handle entries, users, sessions, and comments of a blog. the files are very simple to edit, change, and set up. Entries are stored in XML. The script also generates an RSS feed of the recent subjects and their authors.
SISC 1.7.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122450/
SISC is an extensible Java-based interpreter of the algorithmic language Scheme. It uses modern interpretation techniques and handily outperforms all existing Java interpreters (often by more than an order of magnitude). In addition, SISC is a complete implementation of the language. The entire R5RS Scheme standard is supported. This includes a full number tower including complex number support and arbitrary precision integers and floating point numbers, proper tail recursion, hygienic macros, and full support for first-class continuations (not just the escaping continuations found in many other systems).
Spamcup 1.05 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122412/
Spamcup is a tool for automatic Spamcop reporting. It performs the same actions as if you were to report spam to spamcop.net with a Web browser, but from the commandline.
SSHTerm 0.1.4 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122427/
SSHTerm is a Java SSH client that provides a whole range of features, including port forwarding, password authentication, public-key authentication, ANSI/VT100/VT220/VT320 terminal, full clipboard support, record and playback input/output, and the ability to load/save connection settings to a file.
taglog 0.1.39
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122426/
Taglog is designed for anyone who spends most of their day sitting at a computer, working on various projects. You can make notes about what you do, as you go along, associating them with the projects you work on. At the end of the week you can produce a report of how your time was spent, broken down by project for booking purposes. You can view previous entries, by date, or by project. You can enter the actions you intend to take, associate them with a project, and mark them as active, or complete.
TarProxy 0.21
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122413/
TarProxy is a statistically driven, pluggable SMTP proxy that can be used to deny spammers access to your bandwidth.
The Hunting of the Snark Project 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122422/
The Hunting of the Snark Project contains a client for downloading and sharing files distributed with the BitTorrent protocol. It is mainly used for exploring the BitTorrent protocol and experimenting with the GNU Compiler for Java (gcj), but it can also be used as a regular BitTorrent client. Snark can also act as a torrent creator, a tiny HTTP server for delivering metainfo.torrent files, and has an integrated tracker for making the sharing of files as easy as possible. When you use the --share option, Snark will automatically create a .torrent file and start a very simple Web server to distribute the metainfo.torrent file and a local tracker that other BitTorrent clients can connect to.
UMPL for XmailServer 2.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122460/
UMPL for XmailServer is a Web frontend for managing Xmailserver and Webmailsolution. Different frontends are presented for root, the postmasters of virtual domains, and end-users. It includes support for managing finger, POP3, SMTP, and Webmail in German, English, Dutch, Italian, and Spanish.
WorldForge::Eris 0.9.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122391/
WorldForge::Eris is designed to simplify client development (and avoid duplicating effort) by providing a common framework to deal with server communications for the WorldForge project.
Xfprot 0.17beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122415/
XFPROT is a graphical frontend for the F-Prot Antivirus for Linux Small Business Edition. It is based upon the XSTEP-3.5.1 library.
xrmap 2.28 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122449/
Xrmap is a program running under X that can interactively display portions of the Earth, using the huge CIA world vector map. It is based on an earlier console utility 'rmap'. It features political boundaries, major and minor rivers, glaciers, lakes, canals, etc. The map remains accurate under a very large zoom factor, which can possibly exceed 100. Spherical, rectangular, Mercator and Miller projections are implemented, and all features can be interactively set from the GUI.
Newsforge Reports
Notes from the Texas 'open source bill' hearing
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/10/138240
- by Ken Barber - The Great State of Texas held hearings this week on their open source bill, SB 1579. Texas legislators have a little more backbone than the ones in the committee that heard the Oregon bill. Here's an exchange between Sen. John Carona (R-Dallas), the bill's sponsor, and Mario Correa (who also traveled to Oregon to testify against our bill) of the Business Software Alliance.
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.
Newsforge Newsvac
Major release of the Jargon File -- 4.4.0, now with cartoons
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/11/025237
The Jargon File is a central part of the heritage of the Linux and open-source movements. As we approach the File's 30th anniversary, it is my pleasure and honor to bring the hacker community a major new release, 4.4.0.
Company or community?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/10/1319253
Anonymous Reader writes "The traditional Linux application development method has taken everything into account -- except, writes Dennis E. Powell in his weekly column, the user. Commercial software houses must cater to the user. Which is why we should be glad they're taking more interest in Linux."
Where's the free (Linux) beer?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/10/1316257
Anonymous Reader writes "Never one to have his thirst for "free beer" quenched, LinuxDevices.com contributing editor Kevin Dankwardt sets off on a quest to determine just how much freely downloadable embedded Linux software flows from the taps of commercial embedded Linux vendors' websites -- and discovers that there's a lot more available than you might realize."
Jakob Nielsen on how Apple blew it, how Linux will, too http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/10/1316203
(KilltRoyWasHere) says... On May 6, 2003 Mr. Jakob Nielsen in (a Register) article called Jakob Nielsen on how Apple blew it, how Linux will blow it, and the Next Big Thing, was quoted as saying...
Inside Opteron
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/10/1227238
Opteron is already available in two- and four-processor servers now shipping. And users will have their pick of 64-bit operating systems. Microsoft committed to a 64-bit edition of Windows Server 2003, Red Hat voiced its support, SuSE and Mandrake are already shipping commercial Linux for Opteron, and Sun Microsystems has announced plans to build an Opteron version of Solaris.
HP offers Linux notebook in Thailand
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/10/1225228
THAILAND--Hewlett-Packard is selling a low-cost "people's" notebook running Linux, believed to be the first time that the U.S. IT giant has sold a consumer computer with the open-source operating system installed.
Is Windows 2003 Server really faster than Linux/Samba? http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/10/1220243
Microsoft claims Windows 2003 Server is twice as fast as Linux, at least when it's used for file serving. I spoke to Jeremy Allison, head of the Samba team, who provided a few insights into the test configurations that don't leap out at the reader because they are hidden away in appendixes to the benchmark document. Allison feels this, in itself, is substantially responsible for the outcome.
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 ...
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Cube Goodies: Midnight blue 'geek.' glass http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/mugs/5f01/
Caffeine: Jo Mints w/Guarana
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Sourceforge
Tiki 1.6 -Tau Ceti- released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=273930
Plenty of good news; install script added, notable performance improvement, less memory consumption, and alot of new features: user calendar, user tasks, user notepad, newsreader, ephemerides, link directory, wiki structures, new plugins and more! Tiki is full featured content management system suited to many types of online communities. Features include news, topics, wiki, polls, trackers, image galleries, froums, blogs, webmail, and much more. Using PHP, MySQL and Smarty.
LTP release announcement 2003.05.08
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=275627
The Linux Test Project test suite ltp-full-20030508.tgz has been released. The latest version of the testsuite contains 1800+ tests for the Linux OS. Our web site also contains other information such as: test results, a Linux test tools matrix, an area for keeping up with fixes for known blocking problems in the 2.5 kernel releases, technical papers and HowTos on Linux testing, and a code coverage analysis tool. Lists of test cases that are expected to fail for specific architectures and kernels are located at: http://ltp.sourceforge.net/expected-errors.php These lists also contain expected LTP compiler warnings for each architecture and kernel. Highlights: * An updated and revised HowTo is now posted on the website. * Updates to allow build and execution in NPTL environments. * Open POSIX Test Suite 0.9.0 merged into test suite. * New 'ltpmenu' ncurses-type GUI available. * New tests added for device mapper, sockets, and 2.5 timers. We encourage the community to post results, patches, or new tests on our mailing list, and to use the CVS bug tracking facility to report problems that you might encounter. More details available at our web-site.
Tcllib 1.4.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=275116
tcllib is a Tcl-only library of standard routines for Tcl (no compiling required). This release is a minor version change which fixes numerous bugs and provides a lot of enhancements as well. Tcllib 1.4 release
notes ======================== Hello World, welcome to Tcllib 1.4. This
release is a minor version change which fixes numerous bugs and
provides a lot of enhancements as well. Availability ------------ The
released distributions can be downloaded from
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12883&release_id=
157517 Available are gzipped, zipped, and bzipped tarballs, a starkit,
and a starpack for windows. Installation ------------ * For the starkit
and starpack just execute the file and a GUI based installer will pop
up. Fill out the paths, then run the installation. * For the tarballs
unpack them in some directory /foo, then run the file
"/foo/installer.tcl". This will invoke the same installer used in the
starkit and starpack. Note: While the installer will open up a GUI by
default (and if possible), a command line based installation is
provided too. Run the installer with the option "-help" to see what is
available. Known problems -------------- * When using Tcllib 1.4 on a
true 64bit platform, like Linux/Alpha, or Linux/IA-64 the usage of Tcl
8.4.x is strongly recommended. * Package mime, SourceForge Tcllib Bug
#447037 A special case of the above. This problem affects only people
which are using Tcl and Mime on a true 64-bit system. The currently
recommended fix for this problem is to upgrade to Tcl version 8.4. This
version has extended 64 bit support and the bug does not appear
anymore. The problem could have been generally solved by requiring the
use of Tcl 8.4 for this package. We decided against this solution as it
would force a large number of unaffected users to upgrade their Tcl
interpreter for no reason. See
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=447037&group_id=12883&a tid=112883 for additional information. Acknowledgments --------------- Many thanks to Arjen Markus Brent Welch Brett Schwarz Dan Kuchler David N. Welton Don Porter Donal K. Fellows Eric Melski Gerald Lester Johannes-Heinrich Vogeler Jeff Hobbs Joe English Kevin Kenny Melissa Chawla Miguel Sofer Pat Thoyts Peter MacDonald Reinhard Max Ross Mohn Sandeep Tamhankar Scott Redman Scott Stanton Steffen Traeger Steve Ball and all the people who submitted bug reports and patches. Bug reports, patches, requests for enhancements (RFEs)
- Please submit bug
reports, patches and RFEs at [Bugs]
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12883&atid=112883 [Patches]
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12883&atid=312883 [RFEs]
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12883&atid=362883 New modules
- Module Package Version Comments ------ ------- -----------
- des 0.8 Data Encryption Standard ------
- ----------- ------------------------------- doctools doctools 1.0 Documentation tools, first time [1] doctools::toc 0.1 as packages. Regular documentation, doctools::idx 0.1 table of contents, keyword indices, doctools::cvs 0.1 parsing of ChangeLogs and cvs logs. doctools::changelog 0.1 ------ ------- -----------
- md4 1.0 Another hash algorithm ntp time
1.0.1 TIME protocol soundex 1.0 Phonetic string comparison ------
- ----------- ------------------------------- [1] While the
doctools were present in Tcllib 1.3 already, their usability was not
very great as only a simple application, "mpexpand", was made
available, and no packages loadable in other application. For 1.4 This
has been changed completely. Beyond the placement of all doctools
functionality into packages it was also greatly expanded. A new
application based on this expanded functionality, the doctools
processor, "dtp" is also available, as part of the 'tclapps' module in
the 'tcllib' project at SourceForge. A starkit of 'dtp' can be found at
http://mini.net/sdarchive New packages in existing modules
- Module Package Version Comments ------
- ----------- ------------------------------- crc crc16 1.0.1 More crc's dns resolv 1.0 Resolver on top of dns, mini-cache log logger 0.1 Alternate logging. math statistics 0.1 Statistics. optimization 0.1 Optimization. ------ ------- -----------
- ----------- ------------------------------- [1] While the
doctools were present in Tcllib 1.3 already, their usability was not
very great as only a simple application, "mpexpand", was made
available, and no packages loadable in other application. For 1.4 This
has been changed completely. Beyond the placement of all doctools
functionality into packages it was also greatly expanded. A new
application based on this expanded functionality, the doctools
processor, "dtp" is also available, as part of the 'tclapps' module in
the 'tcllib' project at SourceForge. A starkit of 'dtp' can be found at
http://mini.net/sdarchive New packages in existing modules
- Extended packages in existing modules
- Module Package Version Comments
- ------- ----------- ------------------------------- struct 1.2.1 => 1.3 More structures: record - Variable record's list - Extended list manipulation skiplist - Skiplists prioqueue - Priority sorted queues graph Can use 'cgraph' if present. ------ ------- -----------
- Module Package Version Comments
- dns dns 1.0.1 => 1.0.3 Can now use TclUDP if present. textutil textutil 0.5 => 0.6 [2] ------ -------
- des 0.8 Data Encryption Standard ------
- ------------------------------- [2] Beyond some simple additional commands the main change is the extension of the [adjust] command to be able to understand, i.e. load, and use TeX hyphenation patterns. The new hyphenation algorithm is also a Tcl implementation of the TeX algorithm. Thanks to Johannes-Heinrich Vogeler for this. Other changes ------------- base64, uuencode, yencode Bug fixes, documentation fixes, cmdline, comm, control, performance enhancements, new examples, counter, cksum, crc32, sum, slightly extended functionality. csv, exif, fileutil, ftp, ftp::geturl, ftpd, html, htmlparse, irc, javascript, log, math, md5, mime, smtp, ncgi, nntp, pop3, pop3, pop3d::dbox, pop3d::udb, profiler, report, sha1, smtpd, stooop, expander, uri, uri::urn --------- Have fun, Andreas Kupries (on behalf of all the tcllib developers)
- Module Package Version Comments ------ ------- -----------
Proxool 0.7.2
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=272818
Proxool is a Java SQL Driver that provides a connection pool wrapper around another Driver of your choice. Very simple to migrate existing code. Fully configurable. Fast, mature and robust. Transparently adds connection pooling to your existing JDBC driver. Proxool 0.7.2 and 0.7.1 bring you lots of changes to do with concurrency and a few bug fixes.
Freevo version 1.3.2-pre4 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=272035
This development release includes GUI improvements, the ability to play music in the background, CD playing (with CDDB support), a new plugin interface, a Web recording interface, and many bugfixes. The binary runtime was updated, and MPlayer 0.90 is now used. Freevo is a Linux application that turns a PC with a TV capture card and/or TV-out into a standalone multimedia jukebox/VCR/PVR/HTPC. It uses MPlayer (included) to play and record audio+video. It is optimized for use with a TV+remote.
Mailman 2.1.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=272057
This is GNU Mailman 2.1.2, free software for managing email mailing lists and e-newsletters. Its integrated web interface provides easy-to-use access for list members and list administrators. Mailman supports built-in archiving, automatic bounce processing, content filtering, digest delivery, spam filters, and more. Version 2.1.2 contains bug fixes, a few new minor features, and two new languages (Portuguese/Portugal and Polish).
Hamlib 1.1.4 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=272133
Hamlib provides a unified environment for the development of radio and
rotator control applications. Release 1.1.4 includes improved rotator
support, important build fixes for gcc-3.x, *BSD, Mac OS X and
Cygwin(win32) platforms. Besides improvements and bug fixes, some
experimental work has been started on SDR, stay tuned. Check it out at
http://www.hamlib.org ! New in 1.1.4: * new backends: Drake (R8B), GNU
Radio (experimental), microtune, and many new rig models * new rotator
backends: fodtrack, rotorez * better doxygenized documentation *
reworked perl and tcl bindings using swig * vfo_t rework * gcc-3.x
compilance Note: Kylix binding may not be uptodate. Download pages are
accessible at http://sourceforge.net/projects/hamlib i386 rpms and .deb
coming soon. DLL and VisualBasic wrapper are planned. Plan for 1.1.5: *
add support for the SDR-1000 * develop further the gnuradio backend *
complete the port to mingw(win32) environement * enter more models of
supported backends * add Python and Java bindings * etc. (any wishes?)
Please, test it out and report to
hamlib-developer@lists.sourceforge.net Developers are also invited to
join the Hamlib team by subscribing to this mailing list. Have fun and
let us know! 73's de Stephane - F8CFE
YAM Amiga 2.4 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=271956
The YAM (Yet-Another-Mailer) open source team is pleased to announce the release of version 2.4 of the well-known AmigaOS Email client (MUA). After 18 months hard work this new version features tremendous bugfixes and enhancements to once more stable it's leadership on the AmigaOS based MUA clients. YAM (short for 'Yet Another Mailer') is a MIME-compliant Internet mailer written for AmigaOS computers. It supports multi-POP3, APOP, SMTP, TLSv1/SSLv3, multiple users, PGP, unlimited hierarchical folders, filters, configurable GUI, ARexx interface. NEW FEATURES * Hierarchical folder list - folders can now be arranged into groups, and nested at the user's discretion * SMTP & POP3 TLS1/SSL3 support for stunnel servers, using AmiSSL.library * Email address cache, making it possible to "remember" the last N used recipients if they don't appear in the address book * More powerful recipient string gadgets, resolving aliases, real names and email addresses "on the fly" as they are found in the address book or the email cache * Optional pop-up menus in the folder & message lists * Automatic codepage detection and translation, specially meant for cyrillic users. * Reworked status bar * Automatically finds the suitable mailing list support settings * Extended support for mailto: links * Search function in the Write window * Customizable size format and localized unit display * Individual appicon stats for folders, with an user-definable label * New hidden option "JumpToIncoming" * Deleting a block of text with RAmiga-Del automatically inserts a "[...]" marker
- Built-in mouse wheel support * New "marked" status * "application/pdf" is now in the built-in list of MIME types * Extended documentation Yeah, Amiga is still alive and will be forever !!
Furthur 1.7.2 has been released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=271442
Furthur is a peer-to-peer music sharing tool that allows fully
enforcable legal sharing, instant downloads with no waiting lists,
in-depth cataloging functionality, and detailed attribute searches.
Upgrading to this version is recommended for all existing users. Read
on for details about the vast number of improvements in this new
version. The Furthurnet team is proud to announce the release of:
Furthurnet 1.7.2
(https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=39429&release_i
d=154090) As usual, a great deal of hard work has gone into this
release. Due to the nature of some of the