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Slashdot
NASA Ames Research To Close Largest Windtunnels http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/17/1930255

Makarand writes "The world's largest and second largest [0]wind tunnels operated by the [1]NASA Ames Research center will be shutdown after 60 years and [2]may remain shut unless major defense contracts from the Pentagon or the private sectors are available. The largest windtunnel will be fired up for the last time in June for four hours. It will test the parachutes that will land the Mars exploration rovers onto the Red Planet next year. Fewer defense contracts and the increasing use of computer simulations are being cited as reasons for the windtunnels to face closure."
Links

    0. 
http://windtunnels.arc.nasa.gov/
    1. 
http://www.arc.nasa.gov/
    2. 
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5883664.htm

The Mac Made of Lego
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/17/1731204

Anonymous writes "We've had lots of PC based case mods, but I've hardly hear of any Mac ones! I guess Mac owners like their boxes how they are. Until they break; the BBC are running a story about a Mac owner who converted an old Apple by [0]modding the machine with lego." Links

0. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/3034177.stm

Symantec CTO on Flash Attacks
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/17/1727258

[0]scubacuda writes "[1]Robert Clyde, [1]CTO of [2]Symantec,
[3]recently warned an audience at the United Nations that there's an
increasing gap between the speed at which attacks are being launched and the industry's ability to respond. Most attacks on Web sites are classified as Class III threats because they tend to take several hours/days to execute. Recently, however, Class II "Warhol attacks"--such as the [4]SQL Slammer worm that make themselves
[5]famous in 15 minutes--have emerged. Before long, Clyde predicts that
groups of well-funded hackers working in concert will be able to launch Class I "Flash attacks." To combat this, Clyde says that patches would need to be developed more quickly and deployed continuously in an automated mode. Admins would need better ways of locking down networks so an attack on one router is automatically recognized by all routers on the network; throttling back the throughput of suspicious packets on the network in order to limit damage; automating tools for ensuring that all network clients are compliant with security policies; and creating Web services technologies that do not interfere with application performance."
Links

    0. http://  
    1. 
http://www.symantec.com/corporate/bios.html#clyde
    2. 
http://www.symantec.com/
    3. 
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=10000117
    4. 
http://grep.law.harvard.edu/article.pl?sid=03/02/15/2159249&mode=thread
    5. 
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Andy_Warhol/

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Java Performance Urban Legends
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/17/175255

An anonymous reader writes "Urban legends are kind of like mind viruses; even though we know they are probably not true, we often can't resist the urge to retell them (and thus infect other gullible "hosts") because they make for such good storytelling. Most urban legends have some basis in fact, which only makes them harder to stamp out. Unfortunately, many pointers and tips about Java performance tuning are a lot like urban legends -- someone, somewhere, passes on a "tip" that has (or had) some basis in fact, but through its continued retelling, has lost what truth it once contained. This article examines some of these urban performance legends and [0]sets the record straight." Links

0. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jtp04223.html?ca=dgr-lnxw01JavaUrbanLegends

Monsanto Plant Patent Case Winds On
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/17/1645212

srw writes "A follow-up to a [0]slashdot story from two years ago: The Supreme Court of Canada is willing to [1]hear the case of [2]Percy Schmeiser -- a Saskatchewan farmer accused of violating Monsanto's IP by growing their patented canola. This article contains [3]more background."
Links

    0. 
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/03/30/146227&tid=155
    1. 
http://www.percyschmeiser.com/Supreme%20Court%20Announcement.htm
    2. 
http://www.percyschmeiser.com/
    3. 
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2003/05/16/89132-cp.html

Gentoo Reviewed
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/17/1638213

An anonymous reader writes "Nick Petreley over at LinuxWorld.com gives the uninitiated an [0]excellent view of what the world of Gentoo is like."
Links

0. http://www.linuxworld.com/2003/0516.petreley.html

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Cheating in Multiplayer Games
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/17/1624237

[0]millertime3250 writes "[1]Tom's Hardware is running an interesting
article on [2]cheating in multiplayer games. In an issues that has gained increasing notority, it is a great read for those Counter-Strike players and others alike. It defines the different types of cheats like Client Hook, OpenGL Hack, and Hard-Coded Hack, and cheating's effect on gaming."
Links

    0. mailto:ludicristo@hotmail.com
    1. 
http://www.tomshardware.com/
    2. 
http://www.tomshardware.com/game/20030517/index.html

Blow the Whistle, Lose Your Job?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/16/2212204

[0]ccnull writes "You're a systems admin. On a routine PC repair, you
discover a trove of child porn on an employee's PC. You call the cops. The employee pleads guilty and goes to jail. Then what do you do? You get fired. InformationWeek has an [1]interesting expose on whistleblowers who lost their jobs, they say, because they publicly embarassed the company. The company has [2]another version of the story. No matter what the reality is, at the center of this is a good question: If you discover illegal goodies on a machine, what should you do about it?"
Links

    0. 
http://www.chrisnull.com
    1. 
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=9800082
    2. 
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=9600218

Matrix Reloads to $42.5 Million Opening
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/17/1436255

[0]Dante Alighieri writes "Box Office Mojo, the [1]Washington Post,
[2]E!, and others reports that [3]The Matrix Reloaded opened with a
record of $42.5 million in ticket sales." I saw it yesterday and have a variety of opinions on it, but the short review is that it isn't the original, but it's pretty damn cool, and I'm first in line for Revolution.
Links

    0. 
http://crash.neotope.com
    1. 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64532-2003May16.html
    2. 
http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,11815,00.html
    3. 
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/articles/news/?id=030515m.htm

Finding Friends Via Search Query Analysis http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/17/1416257

[0]prostoalex writes "How many times have you met an interesting
person, who happened to check out the same book in the library, or listen to the same music as you do? Researchers from University of Chicago suggest that [1]it would be kinda cool if you could find like-minded people by analyzing the queries submitted to a Web search engine. [2]Their PDF paper explains the research in more detail." Links

    0. 
http://www.moskalyuk.com/movies
    1. 
http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2003/050703/Net_scan_finds_like-minded_users_050703.html
    2. 
http://arxiv.org/ftp/cs/papers/0302/0302016.pdf

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Freshmeat
Generating PHP Database Access Layers
http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/843

The productivity benefits of the PHP platform are well known. Its easy syntax, latent typing, high level of abstraction, and support for objects simplify and accelerate the production of large applications. In this article, I propose using code generation tools to build even higher-quality and more easily maintained PHP code.

23 Ounces Of Glass GTK 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123079/

23 Ounces Of Glass GTK is a GTK theme for the Enlightenment theme of the same name.

Adit 0.89
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123114/

Adit is another database interface tool built with Java. It is a lightweight tool for querying any database with a JDBC driver. Features include saved connections, saved queries, export to delimited text, and database metadata.

btlc 0.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123133/

btlc (Boot Time Laptop Configurator) is a script that will automagically configure your laptop for the docked and undocked states. It currently works with Red Hat Linux 9 on Dell Inspiron laptops.

Can't find what you're looking for?

Chat Everywhere 0.0.16a (Client-swing)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123098/

Chat Everywhere is a simple and powerful chat client/server system for Web pages. It supports channel administration, IRC-like commands, connection filtering, extensive logging, and much more. The client works in any Web browser that can run Java applets. The server is written in POSIX-compliant C and runs on any kind of Unix.

Chat Everywhere 0.0.16a (Server)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123095/

CoverViewer 0.1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123093/

CoverViewer is an XMMS plugin that displays images related to the files being played. The displayed image can be a copy of the cover of the album you are playing or anything else you want. It creates a personalised skin for itself using the current XMMS skin, and you can control song playing from its interface. It includes a function that can automatically retrieve covers you don't have from the Internet, using file tag information to get the artist and album name.

cpCommerce 0.05
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123121/

cpCommerce is an e-commerce script with a layout that can be completely customized by editing 5 files. It is designed in a modular fashion with templates, and requires PHP and MySQL.

Don't know where to look next?

Darik's Boot and Nuke 2003051600 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123088/

Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN) is a self-contained boot floppy that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data destruction.

dchub 0.4.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123108/

dchub is a Direct Connect hub clone. It resembles an IRC server with some extra features dedicated to file sharing.

Directory administrator 1.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123124/

Directory administrator is a smart LDAP directory management tool. It can be used to manage UNIX and Samba user accounts and groups in a single sign-on setup, corporate address book information, host-based access control and advanced email routing. It's extremely easy to install and use, yet powerful at the same time.

Download.php 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123127/

Download.php can count the download of files and block downloads from another Web site. It's a good download manager.

Confused? Frustrated?

Elm ME+ PL101c (25) (Patch)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123094/

Elm 2.4ME+ is based on Elm 2.4. It contains enhanced MIME and character set support. It can read mail from POP or IMAP folders and can pass mail to the PGP or GPG programs. It also includes modules for TLS/SSL, iconv, and SMTP.

Framework for Object Oriented Web Development 0.8.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/123117/

Framework for Object Oriented Web Development is a collection of base classes (ripe for extending) which handle object persistence, user authorization, security, data administration, input handling, and all the things required to build OO Web applications.

freepia 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123128/

Freepia is small GNU/Linux distribution designed to run on VIA EPIA-M mainboards. It currently only runs on the M-9000. The main goal of this project is to build a full-featured, low-noise media box to play movies, MP3s, images, etc. It currently uses freevo as its media viewer, but in the future there may be support for others, like mythtv or vdr.

Gammu 0.75 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123132/

Gammu (formerly known as MyGnokii2) is cellular manager for various

    mobile phones and modems. It currently supports Nokia 3210, 33xx, 3410,
    35xx, 51xx, 5210, 5510, 61xx, 62xx, 63xx, 6510, 6610, 71xx, 7210, 82xx,
    83xx, 9110, and 9210, and AT devices (such as Siemens, Alcatel, Falcom,

WaveCom, IPAQ, and other). It has a command line version with many functions for ringtones, phonebook, SMS, logos, WAP, date/time, alarm, calls, etc. It can also make full backups and restore them. It works on various Unix systems (like Linux) and Win32.

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GeeXboX 0.90-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123102/

GeeXboX is a standalone media player Linux distribution. It's a small bootable CD which allows you to play your favorites video (DivX, XviD, FFMpeg, MPEG 1/2, VCD, DVD, OggMedia, etc.) and audio (MP3, Audio CD, Ogg/Vorbis, etc.) files. It is based on MPlayer, and can be used on every x86 computer. It supports TV-out for various cards such as nVidia and ATI. A bootable ISO is available, but it's easy to modify the sources to build your own GeeXboX.

hk_classes 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123106/

hk_classes is a set of C++ libraries for rapid development of database applications with all features a modern database application should have, like forms and reports. hk_classes is database and GUI independent. It also includes command line tools to use hk_classes in scripts.

htsneak 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123130/

htsneak is a general-purpose HTTP tunnelling utility written in Python. It can be used for accessing external Internet resources from behind a firewall, through an HTTP proxy. It comes with a built-in proxy server that tunnels data through an HTTP proxy to external servers for POP3, IMAP, SMTP, YMSG, etc.

Ian 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123120/

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.

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Intel Iometer 2003.05.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123103/

Iometer is an I/O subsystem measurement and characterization tool for single and clustered systems.

JFtp 1.29
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123100/

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.

JSGraphics 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123116/

JSGraphics is a library for producing 2D graphics using JavaScript by manipulating HTML tables. It uses 'run length encoding' by taking advantage of colspan attributes in order to reduce the complexity of the output. Images created in this manner can be posted on the pages such as forums or LiveJournal where images are not allowed, and can be animated using JavaScript. Simple 2D graphics functions for drawing lines, points, and circles are included.

KlipReader 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122931/

KlipReader is a script which parses KlipFolio resources. Given a URL, it parses it, keeps a cache for frequent use, and outputs HTML links.

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Knoppix 3.2-2003-05-16
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123091/

KNOPPIX is a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI devices, and other peripherals. It can be used as a Linux demo, educational CD, rescue system, etc. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk due to on-the-fly decompression.

libquantum 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123111/

libquantum is a C library for the simulation of a quantum computer. It provides an interface for a quantum register and for all important quantum operations. An efficient model for decoherence allows an analysis of quantum computation under a realistic environment.

LinuXchangE 0.8.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123092/

LinuXchangE is a powerful integration system that offers corporate network services like email, DNS, WINS, PDC, and mass storage. It pretends to be a complete replacement for Windows servers by storing all its information using LDAP (like Active Directory does).

linuxsms 0.63
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123112/

Linuxsms is a Perl script to send SMS to GSM phones. There is support for multiple servers/gateways (some servers require registration). The script has an adressbook, the ability to compress SMS, and the ability to check for new versions.

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Luola 1.1.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123110/

Luola is a cavern-flying game for 1-4 players. Each player flies a small V-shaped ship and has one special weapon. The object of the game is simply to destroy all other players.

Morphix 0.3-6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123107/

Morphix is a modular LiveCD distribution. It is partly derived from KNOPPIX, and the rest comes directly from Debian.

Mulimidix 0.1.9pre
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123097/

Mulimidix is a mini Linux distribution for building a PC-based set-top box and multimedia player system with digital TV, MP3, DivX, etc. support, using VDR, Freevo and other tools. It is currently optimized for i686.

ncc 1.6 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123109/

ncc is a C source code analyzer which generates program flow and variable usage information. Using it should be as easy as changing CC=gcc to CC=ncc in makefiles, and effort has been made to support most common gcc extensions. ncc has been tested with the sources of the Linux kernel, gtk, gcc, gdb, bind, mpg123, ncftp, and many other famous projects.

Can't find what you're looking for?

PHP 4.3.2RC3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123101/

PHP is a widely-used Open Source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. Its syntax draws upon C, Java, and Perl, and is easy to learn. PHP runs on many different platforms and can be used as a standalone executable or as a module under a variety of Web servers. It has excellent support for databases, XML, LDAP, IMAP, Java, various Internet protocols, and general data manipulation, and is extensible via its powerful API. It is actively developed and supported by a talented and energetic international team. Numerous Open Source and commercial PHP-based application packages are available.

ProFTPD 1.2.9 RC1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123090/

ProFTPD is a proven, high-performance, scalable FTP server written from scratch, with a focus toward simplicity, security, and ease of configuration. Naturally, ProFTPD powers some of the largest sites on the Internet. It features a very Apache-like configuration syntax, modules, and a highly customizable server infrastructure, including support for multiple 'virtual' FTP servers, anonymous FTP, and permission-based directory visibility.

QT AGI Studio 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123104/

QT AGI Studio, formerly known as Linux AGI Studio, is a program that allows you to view, create, and edit AGI games. AGI (Adventure Game Interpreter) is the adventure game engine used by Sierra On-Line(tm) to create some of their early games.

RawFrames 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123134/

RawFrames is a program that allows you to send various types of Ethernet frames from the command line. At the data link layer, it supports Ethernet II, 802.3, LLC (802.2), and LLC/SNAP. At the network layer, it can send IP packets. The encapsulation code is included as interfacable C++ class modules.

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RoboRally Board Editor 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123099/

RoboRally Board editor is a Java utility for creating boards for the board game, RoboRally. It has a simple graphical interface where you choose an element of a game and place it on the board where you like it, much like an ordinary drawing program. When elements are in place you can remove, rotate, and edit them as you see fit. When you feel done you can export your board as a JPEG and print it with your favorite printing tool. The current version supports all the features of the standard RoboRally game.

ROX-Filer 1.3.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123115/

ROX-Filer is a fast and powerful graphical file manager. It has full drag-and-drop support and background file operations, and is highly configurable. It can also act as a pinboard, allowing you to pin frequently used files to the desktop background.

Scribus 0.9.10 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123089/

Scribus is a DTP program for Linux. Its goal is to provide an easy-to-use tool for simple Desktop Publishing. It tries be as professional as possible.

SDL_tk 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123129/

SDL_tk is a small, C++ library that extends SDL and provides things like sprites, animated sprites, simple widgets (buttons, checkboxes, and radio buttons), and support for using sprites as mouse cursors (even animated sprites). It is a C++ wrapper for SDL, but doesn't aim to be a 1:1 wrapper. Instead, it aims to be a small 2D gaming library. SDL_tk makes use of SDL_gfx, which provides support for rotating and anti-aliasing sprites and simple geometric objects.

Confused? Frustrated?

SuperKaramba 0.25
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123087/

SuperKaramba is a tool that allows anyone to easily create and run little interactive widgets on a KDE desktop. Widgets are defined in a simple text file and can be augmented with Python code to make them interactive. Current widgets include everything from simple news headline displays to complete custom replacements for kicker, the KDE toolbar.

uEdit 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/122894/

uEdit is a simple plain text editor with useful custom features. It can include existing text files and the output of AppleScripts that generate text parts. Text file can be created from templates, and debugging features are included for Perl, Python, and HTML. Actions are also provided for HTML, AppleScript, JavaScript, CSS, and text manipulation scripts.

xine xine-ui 0.9.21
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123126/

xine is a free multimedia player. It plays back CDs, DVDs, and VCDs. It also decodes multimedia files like AVI, MOV, WMV, and MP3 from local disk drives, and displays multimedia streamed over the Internet. It interprets many of the most common multimedia formats available--and some of the most uncommon formats, too. All those features come in a reusable library (xine-lib) which can easily be embedded in your applications.

Newsforge Reports
Hey SCO, sue me
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/17/1238221

By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Yes, these people are using their 'Hey SCO, sue me' petition to badger poor, hapless SCO. Worse, they're inviting you to join them. If you are the kind of person who enjoys tormenting companies that seem bent on destroying Linux, you may want to sign this petition yourself. Who knows? Maybe you'll get lucky and SCO will actually sue you for using Linux.

Linux Advisory Watch - May 16th, 2003
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/16/1243216

by Benjamin D. Thomas - This week, advisories were released for kernel, mgetty, slocate, evolution, kernel, shadow, kopte, kopte, xinetd, mysql, kde, xinetd, kernel, tcpdump, and openssh. The distributors include SCO, Guardian Digital, Gentoo, Mandrake, Red Hat, and TurboLinux.

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Can Ogg Vorbis change digital audio?
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/12/1527257

by Anne Zieger - When consumers refer to digital music, they usually mean the MP3 format. One open source organization, however, would like to change the terms of the digital audio game. The Xiph.Org Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to creating open source multimedia software, has created an open source audio encoder/decoder named Ogg Vorbis. Vorbis, part of a family of open source multimedia apps, is trying to gain ground as a free ...

Newsforge Newsvac
GNU-Darwin on DVD-R, x86 and ppc
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/17/1254226

proclus writes "Access the full power of GNU-Darwin. Our entire package collection is now available on DVD-R media. This revolutionary collection peaked at over 15,000 titles last summer, and the complete package set is now available DVD-R disc, which should be especially helpful to those without high speed internet access. The x86 packages disc includes nearly 8000 packages, plus GNU-Darwin Office and essential files, all of the packages that ...

Microsoft defends use of special fund
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/17/1242206

Dave_B writes "Microsoft has defended its practise of discounting Windows, even giving it away to beat a Linux alternative. The effect of this public statement from MS, that it will give away its OS to deny Linux deskspace, is yet to be seen. Legal repercussions aside, how are MS reps going to sell licensing 6.0 to customers who know their bargaining power will be subsidised by Redmond's paranoia?"

Mozilla Firebird 0.6 Takes Flight
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/17/1238257

Asa Dotzler writes "Mozilla Firebird 0.6 (formerly Phoenix) is available for download. This release features a fresh new look, a redesigned preferences window, preliminary support for Mac OS X and much more. Read why you should be using Mozilla Firebird and get the latest release at http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firebird/releases/0.6/"

SciTech SNAP Graphics for Linux Beta is available! http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/16/2154210

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Anonymous Reader writes "SciTech SNAP Graphics for Linux Beta is available! SciTech Software, Inc. today announced that it has released a public beta version of SciTech SNAP Graphics for Linux. This release is based on SciTech System Neutral Access Protocol (SNAP) architecture and supports X11, MGL and direct-access all with advanced 2D acceleration, Plug-N-Play support, enterprise level stability and is fully scalable for enterprise and ...

Man arrested in spam case
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/16/1641228

Authorities in New York said Wednesday that they had arrested and arraigned a Buffalo man accused of sending at least 825 million unsolicited e-mails, in a rare criminal case seeking jail time for a prolific spammer.

Feisty Oracle Pushes Licenses, Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/16/1633228

Oracle's brash CEO Larry Ellison might have resigned his board seat at Apple, but he can still think different. For years, Oracle built its reputation as the bulletproof database that companies just had to deploy, price be damned. But as IT spending has slumped, so have appetites for even more powerful databases. So Oracle has pushed into Linux, seeking to outflank Microsoft for mid-sized businesses.

Oracle, Sun set 'low-cost computing' announcement on Monday http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/16/1632241

The top executives at Oracle Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. are due at a news conference in San Francisco on Monday to make "significant announcements" that will bring "choice and innovation to the economics of low-cost computing," according to an invitation to reporters.

When good dogs go bad
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/16/1618241

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Anonymous Reader writes "Caldera was once beloved by its many users, but it has now, as SCO, taken on the characteristics of a rabid dog, writes Dennis E. Powell in "The view from the desktop." But why? His theory might surprise you, but it shouldn't."

Successfully making the transition to GNU/Linux http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/16/169242

Some people believe that linux is not for the desktop. However, the stream of reports of people successfully deploying linux on their (home or office) desktop is more and more outweighing the number of reports of people who tried but moved back to their former platform. In other words, linux can clearly be used on the desktop, and in many cases the transition can be done fairly easily. Unfortunately not in all cases.

Linux Game: Space Tripper
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HTML Parser Integration Release 1.3-20030511 is out http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=275867

This is the third candidate for the final release of version 1.3. HTML Parser is a library released under LGPL, which allows you to parse HTML (HTML 4.0 supported), written in Java(TM). It has been used by people on live projects. The architecture is flexible, allowing you to enhance capability easily, and configure.

JGraph Geneva (v2.1.1) released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=275839

JGraph is the most powerful, lightweight, feature-rich, and thoroughly documented open-source graph component available for Java. This release (Geneva) includes minor changes: bean property methods and empty constructor added to ConnectionSet for XMLEncoding, added Null-Check to isCellEditable, fixed shared points bug in DefaultEdge, disable autosize during in-place edit.

JGraphpad Salamance (v2.1.1 RC3) released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=276899

JGraphpad is the first free diagram editor for Java that offers XML, Drag and Drop and much more. This release (Salamance) offers full TikiWiki integration, remote diagrams and libraries, custom cell properties, overview with panner, right-button panning, accepts files, urls, images and text via clipboard/drag and drop, exports GXL to clipboard, new graph explorer tool with automatic layout, enhanced GXL import, image export, and major and minor bug fixes, such as incorrect cell order after grouping, slow painting and Mac OS X, and status bar not working.

AOLserver 4.0 beta 6 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=276881

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Sixth beta release for AOLserver 4.0. Detailed information about the bugs fixed in this release can be found in the release notes on the files download page. AOLserver is a multithreaded, Tcl-enabled, massively-scalable and extensible web server tuned for large scale, dynamic web sites. AOLserver also includes complete database integration and a dynamic page scripting language.

ScummVM 0.4.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=276225

Five months after our last release, 0.3.0b, and over 2500 CVS commits/adds later, the ScummVM team proudly presents ScummVM 0.4.0. The source code, as well as binaries for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, PocketPC, Solaris and PalmOS are already available at our download page . Other binaries for MorphOS, Dreamcast and others, will follow shortly. ScummVM is a cross-platform interpreter for SCUMM-based games, used by LucasArts in games like: Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island, Day Of The Tentacle, The Dig, etc. It also includes an non-SCUMM interpreter for Simon The Sorcerer 1/2. To get an overview of what is new in 0.4.0, please consult our release notes:
https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=158604 We hope you will enjoy the best ScummVM ever! The ScummVM Team

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

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    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)

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    - ----------- ------------------------------- 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. ------ ------- -----------
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      - ------- ----------- ------------------------------- 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. ------ ------- -----------
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- ------------------------------- [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)

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.

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