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[osdn everything] May 29, 2003
Date: Thu May 29 2003 - 04:45:27 EDT
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Slashdot
Nullsoft's Waste: Encrypted, Distributed, Mesh Net
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/29/0140241
[0]Myriad writes "[1]Nullsoft, makers of the venerable [2]Winamp MP3
player, released today a secure, distributed mesh-like networking
protocal and platform called [3]Waste. This v1.0 beta release uses RSA
(key based) and Blowfish encryption for [4]security, and features
Instant Messanging and group chat, along with file browsing, searching,
and transfer. Waste has been released under the GPL, with source and
binaries [5]available here."
Links
0.
http://`moc.livellafo' `ta' `toor'
1.
http://www.nullsoft.com/
2.
http://winamp.com/
3.
http://www.nullsoft.com/free/waste/
4.
http://www.nullsoft.com/free/waste/security.html
5.
http://www.nullsoft.com/free/waste/download.html
Contactless Credit Cards
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/28/2252233
An anonymous reader writes "According to his article in EETimes, Visa and Phillips are teaming up to introduce a so-called "[0]contactless credit card". Basically it'll work like the proximity cards many of us use for access to our places of work or apartments. You won't need to physically swipe it, simply waving it over a reader is good enough." Links
0. http://www.eetimes.com/sys/news/OEG20030528S0030
A Good Summer Read?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/29/003200
binaryhead asks: "Well, the semester has just ended, and I have graduated from school! :-) I start my full-time job in a month and want to read a good book in the mean time. Having read Snowcrash, Neuromancer, and most of the hacker biographies, I am trying to find a scifi-geek-hacker book that people like. I might try the new [0]Kevin Mitnick book, but I wanted to see what Slashdot preferred. Thanks." Links
Video Games Boost Visual Skills
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/28/2329209
[0]cmburns69 writes "A new study published in Nature Magazine ([1]MSNBC
summary) suggests that [2]playing action games improves visual skills.
Among other things, young adults who played action games such as Grand
Theft Auto and Medal of Honor regularly could track up to five objects
at a time - 30% more than non-players. Apparently, the game type is
important, as ten hours of the block-rotating game Tetris failed to
improve test scores."
Links
0.
http://www.netnexus.com
1.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/919010.asp
2.
http://www.nature.com/nsu/030527/030527-5.html
Slashback: Rendering, Munich, Clones
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/24/2033228
Slashback tonight with a passel of updates, corrections and tangents related to recent Slashdot postings, including GNU/Linux vs. Windows in Munich, Bunnie Huang's book on Xbox hacking, Mozilla's 5-line crash-test, and (sigh) yet another SCO note, but at least it's one to smile at. Read on for the details.
SCO Might Sue Linus for Patent Infringement? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/28/2240224
An anonymous reader writes "[Darl McBride, SCO's chief executive [0]stated] that unless more companies start licensing SCO's property, he may also sue Linus Torvalds, who is credited with inventing the Linux operating system, for patent infringement." It's right at the end of the story and it's quite a statement. Links
Nucular Hydrogen Economy
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/28/149239
[0]Mark Baard writes "The hydrogen economy will at least in part be [1]based on nukes. The DOE will build a pilot high-temperature, gas-cooled reactor (HTGR), which theoretically can co-generate electricity and hydrogen, side by side, inside a cheap modular unit." Links
Play GNU Chess On Your Scanner
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/28/2016232
[0]leighklotz writes "Debian developer and Internet Mail Archive founder [1]Jeff Breidenbach of [2]PARC has made [3]GlyphChess, a chess-playing copier using Python, [4]GNU Chess and [5]DataGlyphs attached to the bottom of the pieces. DataGlyphs are cool 2D barcodes made out of / and \ marks for ones and zeros that use the [6] coding from CDs for error coding. If you don't happen to have a Xerox machine at home, it also works with SANE..." Links
0. mailto:klotz@graflex.org
1.
http://www.jab.org/www/projects.html
2.
http://www.parc.com/
3.
http://www2.parc.com/asd/members/jbreiden/glyphchess.html
4.
http://www.gnu.org/software/chess/
5.
http://www.parc.com/solutions/dataglyphs
6.
http://www.cs.utk.edu/~shuford/terminal/reed_solomon_codes.html
Asia Running Out Of IP Addresses
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/28/1959251
[0]miladus writes "According to a story at [1]Zdnet, Asian countries
are running out of IP addresses. China, for example, was assigned 22
million IP addresses (for a population of 1.3 billion) under IPv4. The
US owns 70 percent of current IP addresses. Perhaps [2]IPv6 will solve
the problem."
Links
0.
http://www.miladus.org/mt
1.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103_2-1010666.html?tag=fdfeed
2.
http://www.ipv6.org/
Real Launches Music Download Service
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/28/1549209
fupeg writes "Spurred on by Apple's success, as well as their own purchase of [0]listen.com, [1]Real Networks announced their own online music service, dubbed RealOne Rhapsody. Here is the [2]press release. They're offering songs at $0.79 per song, but with a $9.99/month subscription. The first two months are free. The press release says that 2/3 of their 300,000 song catalog is available for CD burning, while everything is available for 'on-demand' listening." Links
0.
http://www.listen.com/
1.
http://www.realnetworks.com/
2.
http://www.realnetworks.com/company/press/releases/2003/rhapsody.html
Freshmeat
Access Point Utilities for Unix 1.3.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124237/
Access Point Utilities for Unix is a set of utilities that configure
and monitor a Wireless Access Point under Unix. It is known to compile
(with GCC and the IBM C compiler) and run under Linux, FreeBSD,
OpenBSD, MacOS X, AIX, and QNX.
America's Army Gentoo GameCD 20030528
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124290/
America's Army Gentoo GameCD is a bootable CD that contains the full America's Army combat simulation video game client. It features a completely graphical boot process and hardware auto-detection. It requires a modern PC with NVIDIA or ATI (Radeon 8500+) hardware, and includes accelerated graphics drivers.
Animail 2.0-pre16 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124293/
Animail is a multiserver POP3/APOP/IMAP4 (with or without SSL) mail retrieval utility. It features an advanced filtering system based on blacklisting, whitelisting, or a combination of both. It is possible to send an autoresponse which prompts people to reply and add themselves to the 'autoaccept' file. It also allows filters based on regular expressions which match against the email headers. (If a message is filtered, only the header is downloaded, not the entire body.) Combining external filtering programs (e.g. SpamAssassin or Bogofilter) as message post-download plugins is also easily acomplished, thus extending filtering capabilities in an unlimited way. Available delivery options include mailbox, maildir, local SMTP, and pipe to a command.
ANT is Not a Telephone 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124263/
ANT is a telephone application for GNU/Linux, ISDN4Linux, and OSS.
Apache 2.0.46 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124275/
Apache is the world's most popular HTTP server, being quite possibly the best around in terms of functionality, efficiency, security and speed.
arch revision control system 1.0pre24
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124239/
arch is a modern replacement for CVS, specifically designed for the distributed development needs of open source projects. It has uniquely good support for development on branches (especially good merging tools), distributed repositories (every developer can have branches in their own repository), changeset-oriented project management (arch commits changes to multiple files at once), and, of course, file and directory renaming.
AutoUpdate 5.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124300/
AutoUpdate is a Perl script which performs a task similar to Red Hat's up2date or autorpm. It can be used to automatically download and upgrade RPMs from different HTTP(S) or (S)FTP sites, while also handling dependencies. Moreover, it can also be used to keep a server with a customized (Red Hat) distribution plus all clients up to date.
BANG! R6-V7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124218/
BANG! is a news CGI script written in Perl. It generates an HTML file
(news.txt) containing your news that can be included in your site via
SSI #include directives.
Bauk 1.76 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124304/
Bauk is a high performance HTTP server for UNIX-like operating systems. It brings together a rich set of features with real configurability and ease of administration. Some of Bauk's features include virtual hosts, URL aliases, execution of CGI programs, HTTP authentication: Basic method, network traffic per virtual host quotas, connections per client IP number quotas, directory browsing, server host name aliases, access restriction by IP address, configurable HTTP log format, multiprocess architecture, simple configuration, easy administration, flexibility and much more.
beltane 1.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124242/
Beltane is a Web-based central management console for the samhain file integrity system. If samhain is used in a client/server setup, beltane enables the administrator to browse client reports, acknowledge them, and update file signature databases stored centrally on the log server.
bind 8.4.0-RC2 (Bind8-Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124266/
The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) implements an Internet name server for Unix operating systems. The BIND consists of a server (or `daemon') called `named' and a resolver library. A name server is a network service that enables clients to name resources or objects and share this information with other objects in the network.
BinPost 0.3 alpha
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124236/
BinPost is multi-platform tool for posting multi-part binaries to Usenet. It features an intiutive GUI and many features for experts.
Blassic 0.5.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124276/
Blassic is a classic Basic interpreter. The line numbers are mandatory, and it has PEEK & POKE. The main goal is to execute programs written in old interpreters, but it can be used as a scripting language.
Bookcase 0.6.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124225/
Bookcase is a personal book collection manager for KDE. It uses an XML file storage format, and tracks 26 book properties by default. Unlimited user-defined fields are allowed. Author names are automatically formatted, and the collection may be sorted by any property. Filters are available to limit the visible books by definable criteria. Full customization for printing is possible through editing the default XSLT file. Automatic ISBN validation is included. Exporting to Bibtex and Bibtexml is possible.
bosdl 0.11 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124235/
bosdl is a client for Boss Ogg based on the SDL. It features TrueType fonts, album covers, and a progress meter.
cdrtools 2.00.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124245/
cdrtools (formerly cdrecord) creates home-burned CDs with a CDR/CDRW recorder. It works as a burn engine for several applications. It supports CD recorders from many different vendors; all SCSI-3/mmc- and ATAPI/mmc-compliant drives should also work. Supported features include IDE/ATAPI, parallel port, and SCSI drives, audio CDs, data CDs, and mixed CDs, full multi-session support, CDRWs (rewritable), TAO, DAO, RAW, and human-readable error messages. cdrtools includes remote SCSI support and can access local or remote CD writers.
Cone 0.50
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124269/
Cone (COnsole Newsreader And Emailer) is a text-based email client. It seamlessly handles multiple POP3 and IMAP accounts and local mail folders. It is also a simple newsreader. It is designed to be foolproof enough to be used by inexperienced users, but also offers advanced features for power users.
Connect Daily Web Calendar 2.1.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124250/
Connect Daily, a Web-based calendaring system, allows multiple users to add and edit calendar events using a Web browser. The calendar display can be directly integrated into your Web site. It provides advanced capabilities for managing resources and facilities. The approval processes allow many users to edit calendars, with the assurance that all items added are approved. It supports event download to MS Outlook and Palm OS PDAs. Authentication to LDAP directories is also supported.
Crash Core Analysis Suite 3.3-28
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124267/
The Crash Core Analysis Suite utility is a self-contained tool, loosely based on the SVR4 crash command but completely merged with gdb, thereby combining the kernel-specific nature of crash with the source level debugging capabilities of gdb. The utility can be used to investigate live systems, kernel core dumps created from the Kernel Core Dump patch offered by Mission Critical Linux, and kernel core dumps created from the Linux Kernel Crash Dumps (LKCD) patch offered by SGI.
devlabel 0.38.05
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124299/
Devlabel is a program which dynamically creates symbolic links to disk/partition names. It uses the disk's and/or partition's unique identifiers to keep the symlink pointed to the correct location even if the underlying partition's name has changed. So, regardless of whether /dev/sdb6 becomes /dev/sdc6, devlabel figures this all out and points the symlink to the correct data.
DHCP Usage Statistics 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124273/
DHCP Usage Statistics is a Perl script that analyzes your dhcpd.conf and dhcpd.leases files and generates output for a Web page.
doxygen 1.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124249/
Doxygen is a cross-platform, JavaDoc-like documentation system for C++, C, C#, Java, IDL, and PHP. Doxygen can be used to generate an on-line class browser (in HTML) and/or an off-line reference manual (in LaTeX or RTF) from a set of source files. Doxygen can also be configured to extract the code-structure from undocumented source files. This includes dependency graphs, class diagrams and hyperlinked source code. This type of information can be very useful to quickly find your way in large source distributions.
Easy-to-Say password generator 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124248/
Easy-to-Say password generator is called as a PHP function with arguments. You can specify a predefined part of the password, password length, "fuzzy factor", and other characteristics.
Edit Source 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124202/
Edit Source is a script that allows files on a Web site to be edited without requiring FTP. It features the ability to create directories and normal text files, as well as editing and deleting files.
Elm ME+ PL102 (25)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124286/
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.
eXtended Account Managing Software 0.0.13 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124252/
eXtended Account Managing Software (XAMS) allows Administration of Unix, Web, FTP, DNS, and email accounts to manage a provider's typical userbase. Especially focusing on email account management, it enables you to easily create accounts, set aliases, and delegate domain administration to 2nd party resellers or customers. It uses PHP with MySQL or PostgreSQL as a backend, and is therefore able to manage tons of email accounts independently from your Unix/Linux accounts. Exim for SMTP and Courier for POP/IMAP are fully supported, but postfix, Cyrus, and qmail can be used too.
eZ publish 3.1 Beta 1 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124240/
eZ publish is an open source content management system and development framework. As a content management system (CMS) it's most notable feature is its revolutionary, fully customizable, and extendable content model. This is also what makes it suitable as a platform for general Web development. Its stand-alone libraries can be used for cross-platform, database independent PHP projects. eZ publish is also well suited for news publishing, e-commerce (B2B and B2C), portals, and corporate Web sites, intranets, and extranets. eZ publish is dual licenced between GPL and the eZ publish professional licence.
findutils 4.1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124282/
The findutils package consists of three programs. `find' is a program which searches a directory tree to find a file or group of files. It walks the directory tree and reports all occurences of a file matching the user's specifications. `locate' scans one or more databases of filenames and displays any matches. `xargs' builds and executes command lines by gathering together arguments it reads on the standard input. Most often, these arguments are lists of file names generated by `find'.
Free Bangla Fonts 0.6.0 (Sagar)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124233/
The Free Bangla Fonts project is a volunteer run project dedicated for creating Free, high quality, completely Unicode compliant Open Type Bengali fonts. This project aims to be the central resource for getting and developing Free Bengali fonts. The initial aim of this project is to release a full set of Bengali fonts that supports all the major Bengali Yuktakhars (conjuncts).
Free Bangla Fonts 0.8.5 (Akaash)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124232/
The Free Bangla Fonts project is a volunteer run project dedicated for creating Free, high quality, completely Unicode compliant Open Type Bengali fonts. This project aims to be the central resource for getting and developing Free Bengali fonts. The initial aim of this project is to release a full set of Bengali fonts that supports all the major Bengali Yuktakhars (conjuncts).
FreeBSD-boot-rescue 1.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124257/
FreeBSD-boot-rescue is a small FreeBSD system for the purpose of system booting or repairing a boot/rescue system. You can put it on a CD or floppy and boot it. It has support for many filesystems (ext2, ufs, ntfs, msdos, and iso9660).
Genius 0.5.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124309/
Genius is an arbitrary precision integer and multiple precision floating point calculator. It includes its own programming language similiar in some aspects to C,bc or pascal. It can deal with rational numbers and complex numbers. It has matrix support as well. It uses the gmp library so it is very fast for calculations of large numbers. It has a command line and a GNOME interface.
giFToxic 0.0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124308/
giFToxic is a GTK 2-based client for giFT
Gmemo 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124231/
Gmemo is an applet which reminds you of birthdays, feasts (with first
name, Mother's day, etc.), or any other event. It is customizable
(name, type, date & time, repeat mode, multi-alarm mode, etc.).
gURLChecker 0.4.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124291/
gURLChecker is a C/GNOME 2 tool that can check links on a single Web page or on a whole Web site in order to determine the validity of each page.
Human Activity Logger 2.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124224/
Human Activity Logger allows you to keep track of your time. It lets you add, edit, and delete log entries, which are classified according to categories of your choosing. You can quickly browse around old log entries, go to a date, and search. You can maintain separate logs accessible from the same installation of the program (e.g., for separate projects). You can browse statistics by day, week, month, and year, each screen providing totals and averages. There are various other helpful functions.
Ian 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124222/
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.
ifGraph 0.4.9 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124246/
ifGraph is a set of Perl scripts created to help network administrators
to visualize network flow on a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly
basis. The graphics are created with RRDTool, and it shows bytes
(in/out) and errors for each interface. It also shows the
current/average/max use and the respective link/interface usage in
percentages. The program also outputs HTML files to make the
visualization of the PNG/GIF/GD images more friendly and easy.
Internet Communications Engine 1.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124285/
Ice is a modern alternative to object middleware such as CORBA or COM/DCOM/COM+. It is easy to learn, yet provides a powerful network infrastructure for demanding technical applications. It features an object-oriented specification language, easy to use C++ and Java mappings, a highly efficient protocol (including protocol compression), asynchronous method invocation and dispatch, dynamic transport plug-ins, TCP/IP and UDP/IP support, SSL-based security, a firewall solution, and much more.
j 0.19.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124278/
J is a multifile, multiwindow programmer's editor written entirely in Java. It features syntax highlighting for Java, C, C++, XML, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Lisp, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Scheme, Tcl/Tk, Verilog, and VHDL, automatic indentation, directory buffers, regular expressions, multifile find and replace, autosave and crash recovery, undo/redo, and FTP/HTTP support. All keyboard mappings can be customized. Themes may be used to customize the editor's appearance.
Ksetiwatch 2.6.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124229/
Ksetiwatch is a monitoring tool for the SETI@home distributed computing project, which searches for signals of extraterrestrial life. It displays the state of the Seti@home client(s) running on your computer or in your local network, and logs/manages completed work units.
libposition 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124297/
libposition provides a set of functions for calculating motion and displacement in one-, two-, and three-dimensional space. It is part of The Universe Project.
Links 2.1pre11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124271/
Links is graphics and text mode WWW browser, similar to Lynx. It displays tables, frames, downloads on background, uses HTTP/1.1 keepalive connections, and features Javascript. In graphics mode it displays PNG, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, and XBM pictures, runs external bindings on other types, and features anti-aliased font, smooth image zooming, 48-bit dithering, and gamma and aspect ratio correction.
Luola 1.1.4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124279/
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.
Mailgust 1.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124234/
Mailgust is a mailing list manager, newsletter distribution tool, and message board system. All sent mail is stored on a Web message board for visitors to read. It features unlimited lists, many different read and write permission settings, HTML newsletters, post approval, no timeouts, a Web archive, list importing, notification management, and much more.
N-View 2.7 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124238/
N-View is a network monitor for small and medium-sized networks. It features automatic scanning of subnets for host addresses, monitoring of ICMP responses from all hosts, signalling of timeouts and delays in the GUI and by mail, a portscanner, an SNMP client (MIB browser and trap receiver), a graphical display of network traffic for network interfaces, connectivity to hosts by telnet, HTTP browser, or an arbitrary external program (such as ssh), printing of network diagrams, automatic generation of HTML pages, and more.
New Kinetics DB/Java Mapper 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124228/
The New Kinetics DB/Java Mapper is a GUI tool used to create Java source code files which map to a JDBC reachable database table. The tool not only produces Java bean pattern representations of database tables, it also inserts Javadoc comments automatically. The code generating methods are also available as a library that can be used from within your own code.
newsgrab-ui 3.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124265/
newsgrab-ui is simple graphical user interface for the newsgrab.pl "complete set" binary downloader. It uses a Perl background daemon for downloading and an object oriented PHP Web interface.
newsgrab-ui 3.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124223/
newsgrab-ui is simple graphical user interface for the newsgrab.pl "complete set" binary downloader. It uses a Perl background daemon for downloading and an object oriented PHP Web interface.
PsyncX 2.0b2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124281/
PsyncX allows you to backup either part or all of your hard drive. You
can mirror your selected folder to a FireWire drive, a disk image, or a
network drive (this feature doesn't seem to be working right now). In
addition, psync will create a bootable drive if you mirror your entire
harddrive. PsyncX allows you to schedule regular backups as well.
(Note: your computer can't be asleep for this to work properly).
QTads 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124289/
QTads is a graphical, non-HTML interpreter for Tads games. Both Tads 2 as well as Tads 3 games are supported. It uses Trolltech's Qt library, which means it's highly portable. It has some nice features, like fullscreen mode, text justification, margins, and font anti-aliasing. It fully supports Unicode in Tads 3, ISO Latin character mapping files in Tads 2, and the full set of Multimedia Tads character entities in both Tads 2 and 3 (like "curly" quotes and typographical dashes).
RH Email Server 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124259/
The RH Email Server uses OpenLDAP authentication for IMAP, POP3, SMTP, and SSL/TLS protocols. It includes a Web interface, administration, and filters.
RSS-IM Gateway 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124198/
The RSS-IM Gateway allows you to let visitors read your RSS feed through an instant messgaing network such as AIM, MSN, ICQ, YIM, or Jabber. It is very easy to set up and can easily handle hundreds of users.
samhain 1.7.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124241/
samhain is a daemon that can check file integrity, search the file tree for SUID files, and detect kernel module rootkits (Linux only). It can be used either standalone or as a client/server system for centralized monitoring, with strong (192-bit AES) encryption for client/server connections and the option to store databases and configuration files on the server. For tamper resistance, it supports signed database/configuration files and signed reports/audit logs. It has been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and Unixware.
SBAM 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124264/
SBAM (Software Based Abled Mixer) is a new approach to computer-based DJing.. This project aims to help DJs concentrate on the important aspects of DJing and to decrease the stress factor. It is intended for the DJs that have no need for beatmixing or other advanced mixing techniques, which means you'll be limited when it comes to creative individual mixing of tracks. Instead, you'll be able to concentrate on finding the right track for the audience.
screen-scraper 0.8.7b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124270/
screen-scraper is a tool for extracting data from Web sites. It consists of a proxy server that allows the contents of HTTP and HTTPS requests to be viewed, and an engine that can be configured to extract information from Web sites using special patterns and regular expressions. It handes authentication, redirects, and cookies, and contains an embedded scripting engine that allows extracted data to be manipulated, written out to a file, or inserted into a database. It can be used with PHP, Java, or any COM-friendly language such as Visual Basic or Active Server Pages.
Scribe Email Client 1.86-test29 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/124255/
Scribe is a cross platform email client, address book, and calendar. It is small, fast, and easy to install. It has multi-language support, and currently includes English, French, Chinese, Italian, Czech, Spanish, German, and Dutch. It is very expandable via a plugin interface, and uses its own HTML engine (and not IE when run on Windows). It supports POP3, [E]SMTP, MIME, IMAP4, and MAPI. An integrated contact database and calendar are included.
shellforge 0.1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124045/
shellforge enables you to write shellcode programs in C. It transforms C program code into shellcode that will run on a Linux/x86 system. It provides macros to substitute libc calls with direct system calls and a Python script to automate compilation, extraction, encoding, and tests.
shsql 1.21
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124258/
shsql is a a reasonably full-featured, efficient SQL database for Unix/Linux that can be downloaded and installed by a non-privileged user in 5 minutes. It can be embedded directly into applications requiring no persistent server process, has a small code size and memory footprint, uses plain ASCII whitespace-delimited data files which can be modified in a text editor, and is easy to administer. It can be used for rapid prototyping situations, demos, exploratory work, one-developer projects, etc. where full-blown packages like MySQL or Oracle aren't already available or are unacceptable.
Sluice 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124251/
Sluice is a workflow engine Jabber component. Its goal is to allow users to create and configure an automated workflow or business process with ease. The clients should be very simple with all the work being done on the server/component end. The main component and modules are done in perl. The Web client is done in PHP.
Songer 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124155/
Songer is an ID3 tagger designed for the ROX desktop that supports the drag-and-drop nature of ROX. It is designed to be a simple tagging utility. Songer currently only supports MP3s and ID3 version 1 tags. Future support of ID3v2 and OGG files is planned.
Support Information Tracker 0.16
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124280/
Support Information Tracker is a knowledge base for organizations. Features include multiple document versions, group permissions, document submission reviews, and many more.
Swiss-PdbViewer 3.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124268/
Swiss-PdbViewer is an application that provides a user friendly interface for analyzing several proteins at the same time. The proteins can be superimposed in order to deduce structural alignments and to compare their active sites or any other relevant parts. Amino acid mutations, H- bonds, angles, and distances between atoms are easy to obtain with the intuitive graphic and menu interface.
SX 1.1.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124288/
SX is a graphical 3D geometric object editor implemented in Scheme (GNU Guile). It can create, edit, or modify any geometry consisting of points, one dimensional elements (lines), triangles, quadrilaterals, and boxes in 3D.
taglog 0.1.40
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124227/
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.
TextMaker Release
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124226/
TextMaker is a word processor that launches quickly, needs little memory, does not require complicated setup, and has the full feature set of a modern high-end word processor. It reads and writes Microsoft Word 6/95/97/2000/XP files.
Tk Ecasound 1.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/123732/
Tk Ecasound is a frontend for Ecasound. It has the look of a multitrack recorder. It supports Ladspa plugins, multiple devices inputs/outputs, and multiple effects.
TransFlat 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124137/
TransFlat is a clean, flat theme.
uClinux 2.5.70-uc0 (2.5.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124221/
uClinux is a set of patches for Linux that supports MMUless processors. It brings a full featured operating system onto platforms that would otherwise run less advanced, simpler operating systems. uClinux gives the programmer a Linux API with remarkably few concessions to the lack of MMU (Memory Management Unit), and in terms of code size and efficiency it has an advantage over standard Linux.
vsftpd 1.2.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124305/
vsftpd is a secure and fast FTP server for UNIX-like systems that is used on many large and critical Internet sites. Despite its small size, it is surprisingly configurable.
VT Survey Tool 2.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124287/
Survey is a Web-based tool which allows users to autonomously create and run online surveys, feedback, or registration forms.
WANPIPE beta7-2.3.0 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124272/
WANPIPE S-series is a family of intelligent multi-protocol WAN and ADSL adapters that support data transfer rates up to 8Mbps. All WAN protocols supported by WANPIPE are implemented in firmware and run on the card. An advantage of an intelligent adapter is that it offloads the system CPU and improves stability. By adding a Sangoma WAN/ADSL component to the Linux kernel, one can create a powerful multi-T1/ADSL router/firewall with proven reliability of Linux. Sangoma S-series cards support an optional on board T1/E1 CSU/DSU that eliminates all external components of a traditional routing solution: i.e. T1/E1 line can be directly connected to the card. WANPIPE supports the following protocols, ATM, ADSL, Frame Relay, PPP, MULTILINK PPP, CHDLC, X25(API), BitStreaming (API), BiSync(API), and SDLC(API). Furthermore, WANPIPE supports custom API development such as: Credit card verification, Voice-over IP, Satellite Comm. All device drivers are part of the standard Linux Kernel distribution.
ZWarehouse 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124274/
ZWarehouse is an e-commerce solution with a Web management interface, support for skins, multi-language by default, and well-documented interfaces for extensions. It has multiple user-defined currencies, exchange rates (manual and automatic), custom images to set multiple configurations, intuitive navigation, real time order tracking, unlimited product options, real time UPS shipping calculation, an unlimited number of custom-defined shipping modules, and credit card and PayPal payment modules.
Newsforge Reports
Tux goes to college
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/1514225
- by Russell Pavlicek - In an era when mature Linux distributions abound, do you need a special one just for college? Robert Kennedy Collegein Delémont, Switzerland, thinks so. This institution allows its students to learn entirely via the Internet, so the computer tools at the student's disposal are critical to the success of both the learner and the college itself. The school's CollegeLinux 2.3, a single-CD Linux distribution, is a ...
Commercial CAD/CAM for Linux?
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/28/138215
- by Carl Brown - I recently returned from my annual pilgramage to the Eastec 'Advanced Productivity Exposition' trade show in Springfield MA, billed as 'The East Coast's Largest Annual Manufacturing Event.' Every year since 1999, I have made the rounds there, asking all the CAD/CAM vendors at the show the same simple question: "Do you have any plans for a Linux version?" The answer has always been an unequivocal "No." The excuses varied, but ...
Replacing MS Exchange with Bynari
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/126249
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - The company's Web site says, "Bynari makes a Linux email server and components that connects to Outlook clients using our own unique middleware called the Connector. The current products are the Insight Family of messaging services consisting of Linux based Mail Server, InsightConnector, and the LDAP Client. Bynari utilizes an open standards model for its mail and messaging server and supports, not only the Intel ...
Newsforge Newsvac
HP's Linux Laptops Prove Popular
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/28/219207
Public demand for the low-cost Linux-based laptops Hewlett-Packard began selling in Thailand earlier this month has been "overwhelming," a company representative said this week.
Why Munich Dumped Microsoft for Linux http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/28/2035243
Microsoft on Wednesday lost its bid to keep the German city of Munich a Windows customer. The Munich City Council on Wednesday announced that it has decided to deploy the Linux open-source operating system and will migrate its 14,000 desktop and notebook computers away from Windows products to Linux.
City of Munich (Germany) replaces Windows with Linux http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/28/1927202
Anonymous Reader writes "Its official. Munich council will be replacing its 14,000 MS Windows servers and clients with SuSE Linux."
Benefits of Carrier Grade Linux Under Discussion at SUPERCOMM 2003 http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/28/1853248
Annette Oevermann writes "May 28, 2003On June 4th the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) invites attendees of SUPERCOMM 2003 in Atlanta, Georgia, to learn about the benefits of using carrier-grade Linux in telecommunications infrastructure equipment. At their panel discussion Running Your Business on Carrier Grade Linux, HP, IBM, Intel, MontaVista Software, Nokia and SuSE Linux will discuss the technology and business advantages of this ...
Head of German branch of Microsoft quits. http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/28/1831233
Anonymous Reader writes "Old news (24 May), but interesting. As the title states, the head of MS Germany has resigned. The german gov't has been an enthusiastic adopter of Linux. SuSE linux is based in Munich, Germany."
AUUG Calls For SCO To Cease Destructive Actions http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/28/1619236
Gordon Hubbard writes "AUUG Inc. calls on SCO to cease its destructive actions and to work toward the constructive resolution of intellectual property issues.
Hospital Case Study of FOSS Use
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/28/169238
Joseph Dal-Molin found this case study of Open Source Software in a Dublin, Ireland hospital: 'This study describes the implementation of open source software in a large Irish public sector organization, Beaumont Hospital.
Getting Serial: The Ultimate Linux Box S-ATA Disk Subsystem http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/28/1355223
One of the big advantages of Linux is you don't need all that much buck to get maximum bang. With the advent of serial ATA disk drives and controllers, I thought we might undertake this approach in hardware as well. Street prices on comparable RAID controllers--I compared the 3Ware Escalade 8500-4, which we use here, to an Adaptec 2400--seem to be fairly close.
Japan Embraces Linux on the Desktop With Lindows.com/EDGE Partnership http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/28/1351232