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[osdn everything] June 02, 2003
Date: Mon Jun 02 2003 - 04:45:27 EDT
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Slashdot
Gecko Feet Inspire Sticky Tape
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/01/208205
Makarand writes "Geckos have a remarkable ability to climb the most smooth surfaces and hang from glass ceilings with a single toe. Their feet are covered with millions of nanoscopic keratin hairs that can exert an intermolecular force - called van der Waals force - producing an adhesive effect on surfaces they walk on. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon have been able to [0]mimic the adhesive ability of Gecko feet with a synthetic material that could find applications in new types of vehicle tires or allowing robots to climb walls. The material is made by using a mould created by a lithographic process and consists of a flexibile and strong substrate covered with 100 million nanoscopic hair each centimetre square. It might take several more years before Gecko tape is made commercially available to the wanna-be Spiderman, but he will have to thank the Gecko for that, not the spider." Links
0. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993785
SETI Goes to Arecibo To Stat *Candidates* http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/02/0020218
[0]Neuropol writes "In the most rescent [1]Seti@home news letter. Seti recieved (only!) 24 hours of telescope time at Arecibo to investigate interesting points in the sky where signals have not only shown up once but several times in data crunches in the last 4 years. The Planetary Society web site has an excellent [2]summary of the reobservations. The Seti web site lists the reobservation targets and the [3]7,000 users whose computations directly contributed to finding them." Links
0. mailto:mbyland@ioc(no!spam!)us.com
1.
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/index.html
2.
http://planetary.org/stellarcountdown/index.html
3.
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/candidates.htmlOnline Auction Industry In A State Of Limbo http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/01/1958251
[0]theodp writes "It seems the [1]online auction industry is in a state
of limbo after last week's ruling that [2]eBay violated patents
belonging to MercExchange. MercExchange said it will file an injunction
against eBay to keep them from using the technology, eBay said it will
file motions to overturn the verdict, and MercExchange is ultimately
looking to sell its entire portfolio of auction-related patents. Names
being bandied about as possible acquirers include Amazon, Yahoo and
eBay itself. Whoever holds the patents may require other sites to pay
them licensing royalties."
Links
0. mailto:theodp@aol.com
1.
http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abu/y203/m06/abu0096/s01
2.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/27/2351250&tid=155
Three Gorges Dam Begins Storing Water
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/01/195246
[0]Anonymous Coward writes "The Three Gorges Dam, the largest
hydroelectric project in the world, and one of the largest engineering
projects underway right now, has [1]begun accumulating water in the
reservoir."
Links
0. mailto:root_excavator@yahoo.com
PeltierBeer
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/02/0023219
[0]Helstein writes "Finishing a beer in the sun before it gets warm is usually not a problem, but what about those really hot days? Having some hardware lying around there is only one solution to keep the beer cool, that's to make a [1]PeltierBeer." Links
0. mailto:arnesen@ntnu.no
Yoda, Gollum Take MTV Awards
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/01/1835211
zoobaby writes "MTV has given the LoTR franchise credit for spectactular work with Gollum. After being snubbed by the Academy Awards, it is nice to see [0]recognition given to one of the most expressive and best acted roles in recent films." Links
0. http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Movies/06/01/mtv.movie.awards.ap/index.html
Mission to Harpoon Comet is Back on Track http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/01/1828201
An anonymous reader writes "The Rosetta mission planners have
[0]announced today that after an [1]indefinite launch delay earlier
this year, their goal of landing on a comet is back on track. Their new
baseline target is a rendezvous with the comet,
[2]Churyumov-Gerasimenko, in November 2014. En route to the comet,
Rosetta will inspect [3]two asteroids ([4]Otawara and Siwa) at close
quarters."
Links
0.
http://www.astrobio.net/news/article483.html
1.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/17/155250&tid=160
2.
http://cometography.com/pcomets/067p.html
3.
http://www.esa.int/export/SPECIALS/Rosetta/ESAFIF7708D_0.html
4.
http://www.minorplanets.de/rosetta/otawara.html
The Soldier is the Network
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/01/1825223
[0]Roland Piquepaille writes "This article from [1]InfoWorld says that "in the battle of the future, the helmet becomes a data retrieval device." It describes a scenario where soldiers are equipped with sensors and other networking equipment. "Each person is a network with routing capability to everyone else," says Peter Marcotullio, director of development at SRI International. This technology should be available in five years for the military, which probably means that we'll become networks ourselves ten years from now. Check [2]this column for a summary. Please note that this article is part of a special report called "[3]From the battlefield to the enterprise" which looks at why some key technologies -- deployed on a massive scale in Afghanistan and Iraq -- may hold promise for corporate IT." Links
0.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/
1.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/30/22FEbattlefuture_1.html
2.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2003/06/01.html
3.
http://www.infoworld.com/reports/SRbattle.htmlMedia Monopoly: Thomas Edison to Hillary Rosen http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/01/1717224
An anonymous reader writes "George Ziemann has posted two excellent
articles that explore the early days of the recording and music
industry, how their attempts to monopolize their respective mediums in
the past failed, and how their attempts to do so strangely mirror those
presently being undertaken by contemporary media conglomerates to
control digital distribution over the Net. Seems the two industries
back at the turn of the century tried to pool their patents to block
out competition like the RIAA and the big media companies today pool
their copyrights. The first article "[0]The Dawn of Recorded Music and
the First Pirates" focuses on early collusion in the phonograph
industry. The second "[1]Music, Movies and Monopoly" on Thomas Edison's
failed attempts to restrain fair trade in the two new media he gave
commercial rise to."
Links
0. http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2003/monopoly.html
The Mafia Everquest Connection
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/01/1519258
Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to the [0]2003 Melbourne Digital Arts And Culture Conference site, where a large selection of new academic papers about videogaming have been disseminated online. This includes [1]The Sopranos Meets Everquest - Social Networking In Massively Multiplayer Online Games (PDF file), which discusses why "instead of having Gandalf as a role model, [Everquest players] would be better off trying to think as Tony Soprano, a present day mafia boss in New Jersey from the American TV show The Sopranos." Links
0. http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/dac/
Freshmeat
Abbot 0.9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124647/
Abbot is a framework for testing Java GUIs. It lets you launch an application or GUI component, play back user actions on it, and examine its state. Tests may be coded or scripted. The editor supports recording user actions into a script, exploring the component hierarchy, running the script, and other features you'd expect from a script editor. Test scripts are JUnit extensions.
AFT 5.08
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124679/
AFT (Almost Free Text) is a document preparation system. It is mostly free form, meaning that there is little intrusive markup; AFT source documents look a lot like plain old ASCII text. It has a few rules for structuring your document, more to do with formatting your text than embedding lots of commands, and it produces all types of output (HTML, XHTML, LaTeX, roll-your-own XML, etc.). All that needs to be done is to edit a rule file. You can even customize your own rule files for specialized output.
Alana 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124648/
Alana is a highly responsive Turing Machine simulator. The documentation contains an introduction to Turing Machines as well as some interesting theoretical information (halting problem, busy beaver) and pointers to further literature.
Alleyoop 0.7.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124665/
Alleyoop is a GNOME frontend to the Valgrind memory checker. Its features include a right-click context menu to intelligently suppress errors or launch an editor on the source file, jumping to the exact line of the error condition. A searchbar at the top of the viewer can be used to limit the viewable errors to those that match the regex criteria entered. A fully functional Suppressions editor is also included.
Aquativo 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124642/
Aquativo is a combination of ideas from many themes.
avidemux 2.0.6 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124623/
Avidemux is a graphical tool to edit video. It can open AVI, MPEG, Nuppelvideo and BMPs. Most common codecs are supported (M-JPEG, MPEG, DivX, Xvid, huffyuv, WMA, etc.) thanks to libavcodec. Video can be edited, cut, appended, filtered (resize/crop/denoise), and re-encoded to either AVI (DivX/Xvid) or MPEG 1/2.
Bluecurve Oroborus 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124640/
Bluecurve Oroborus is a port of the Metacity theme Bluecurve.
Calendrian 0.24.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124672/
Calendrian is an enhanced calendar application for the Agenda VR3 Linux PDA. It is a lot faster than the original schedule application, and it has multiple alarms, free alarm intervals, and faster navigation.
calmth 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124618/
calmth is a smooth theme. It goes especially well with the H2O GTK 2 theme.
Chronicle Lite 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124614/
Chronicle Lite provides a friendly client application for Blogger.com. It also aims to satisfy the needs of "power users" who want a local copy of their journal, as well as the copy that is published on an external Website.
cwISPy 1.2.20
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124671/
cwISPY is an ISP billing and management system. It features automatic generation and emailing of invoices and statements, a customer interface, a ticket system, DNS management, and much more.
DCTC 0.85.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124659/
DCTC (Direct Connect Text Client) is a library that gives access to the direct connect world, like IRC but more file-sharing oriented.
dnspython 1.0.0a1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124610/
dnspython is a DNS toolkit for Python. It supports all of the common record types, and will support all types. It can be used for queries, zone transfers, and dynamic updates. It supports TSIG authenticated messages and EDNS0. dnspython provides both high and low level access to DNS. The high level classes perform queries for data of a given name, type, and class, and return an answer set. The low level classes allow direct manipulation of DNS zones, messages, names, and records.
Dustbowl Clan Tools 0.41
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124634/
Dustbowl Clan Tools is a community system for e-sport teams and gaming clans, providing an integrated forum, scheduler, voting system, and lots of other features. It is PHP/MySQL-based and supports multiple languages.
DVB Driver Project 2003-05-24
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124652/
The DVB Driver Project has very good drivers for DVB cards by many manufacturers (e.g., Hauppauge WinTV DVB-s and WinTV Nova, Siemens, Technotrend, Galaxis, and Technisat). It supports DVB-s, DVB-t, and DVB-c.
gimp-print 4.3.15 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124661/
Gimp-Print is a collection of very high quality printer drivers for UNIX/Linux. The goal of this project is uncompromising print quality and robustness. Included with this package is the Print plugin for the GIMP (hence the name), a CUPS driver, and two drivers (traditional and IJS-based) for Ghostscript that may be compiled into that package. This driver package is Foomatic-compatible and provides Foomatic data to enable plug and play with many print spoolers. In addition, various printer maintenance utilities are included. Many users report that the quality of Gimp-Print on high end Epson Stylus printers matches or exceeds the quality of the drivers supplied for Windows and Macintosh.
GNU Lightning 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124646/
GNU Lightning is a library that generates assembly language code at run time. It is very fast, making it ideal for Just-In-Time compilers, and it abstracts over the target CPU, as it exposes to the clients a standardized RISC instruction set (inspired by the MIPS and SPARC chips).
Grutatxt 2.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124621/
Grutatxt is a plain text to HTML converter. It successfully converts subtle text markup to lists, bold, italics, tables, and headings to their corresponding HTML tags without having to write unreadable source text files.
Hardware Monitor applet 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124669/
The Hardware Monitor applet is an applet for the Gnome panel which tries to be a beautiful all-around solution to hardware monitoring. It also tries to be user-friendly and generally nice and sensible, integrating pleasantly with the rest of your Gnome desktop.
HTML::TextToHTML 2.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124629/
HTML::TextToHTML converts plain text files into HTML. It supports headings, tables, lists, simple character markup, and hyperlinking, and is highly customizable. It recognizes some of the apparent structure of the source document (mostly whitespace and typographic layout), and attempts to mark that structure explicitly using HTML. This Perl module can be used inside Perl scripts or called from the commandline, making it versatile and easy to use.
incident.pl 2.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124677/
incident.pl is a small script that, when given syslogs generated by snort or other tools, can generate an incident report for events that appear to be attempted security attacks, gather information on the remote host, and report the attack to the appropriate administrators.
Jacob Oberon-2 Compiler 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124615/
Jacob is a stand-alone Oberon-2 compiler. It compiles a single Oberon-2 module together with its imported modules and links everything together to form an executable. It implements the full Oberon-2 language specifications. External modules allow developers to write library modules in other languages. Instead of an explicit dispose function a garbage collector is implemented using the mark-and-sweep algorithm. There are command line options for enabling and disabling NIL, index, range, and assertion checks.
jCIFS 0.7.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124695/
jCIFS is an SMB client library written entirely in Java. It closely follows the CIFS specification supporting Unicode, named pipes, batching, multiplexing IO of threaded callers, encrypted authentication, full transactions, domain/workgroup/host/share/file enumeration, NetBIOS sockets and name services, the smb:// URL protocol handler, a java.io.File like API, RAP calls, NTLM HTTP Authentication, and more.
Joone 0.9.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124649/
Joone (Java Object Oriented Neural Engine) is an artificial neural network Java framework. It is used to build and train neural networks with a powerful visual environment. It has a modular design and can be easily extended by writing new modules to implement new learning algorithms or architectures.
KnowIt 0.9alpha3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124613/
KnowIt is a simple KDE tool for managing notes in a manner similar to TuxCards. Notes are organized in tree-like hierarchy and can store data in a rich text format, so that bold, italics, and lists are supported, as well as any character set.
Lame Node System 0.5-7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124639/
Lame Node System is a Web-based idea repository. It supports files, pictures, external links, and (limited) HTML input.
Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator 4.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124670/
Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator allows beginning-to-advanced network administrators to control bandwidth. It is designed to be completely turn-key in its default configuration. You just plug it into your network trunk, and it self configures and immediately starts slowing "bandwidth hogs". It also comes with finer controls that are easy to use, and can be configured to target specific applications such as Kazaa, IMAP, and POP. Traffic can be limited by host IP, subnet, and time of day controls can be set.
Luola 1.1.5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124666/
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.
MailScanner 4.21-8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124633/
MailScanner is an email virus scanner, vulnerability protector, and spam tagger. It supports the Postfix, Sendmail, Exim and ZMailer MTAs, and the Sophos, McAfee, F-Prot, F-Secure, CommandAV, InoculateIT, Inoculan 4.x, Kaspersky, Nod32, AntiVir, RAV, Panda, and Clam anti-virus scanners. It supports SpamAssassin for highly successful spam identification. It is specifically designed to handle denial of service attacks. It is very easy to install, and requires no changes at all to your sendmail.cf file. It is designed to be lightweight, and won't grind your mail system to a halt with its load; a good PC can process over 1.5 million messages per day. It can be integrated into any email system, regardless of the software in use.
MemCheck Deluxe 1.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124687/
MemCheck Deluxe is a memory usage tracker and leak finder. It allows developers to find memory leaks quickly, as well as providing some memory usage information.
MIMEViewer 2003.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124693/
MIMEViewer is a cross-platform GUI utility for viewing MIME message structure. It can find internal content in Microsoft TNEF (Microsoft Exchange), as well as extract text from RTF, PDF, and HTML, and perform expansion of ZIP files. Other features include extracting and decoding of message parts, a hexadecimal part viewer, and BeanShell support.
Moosic 1.4.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124691/
Moosic is a music player that focuses on easy playlist management. It consists of a server process that maintains a queue of music files to play and a client program which sends commands to the server. The server continually runs through its playlist, popping items off the top of the list and playing each with an external program. The client is a simple command-line utility which allows you to perform powerful operations upon the server's queue, including the addition of whole directory trees, automatic shuffling, and item removal according to regular expressions. The server comes configured to play MP3, Ogg, MIDI, MOD, and WAV files.
MRX PPP 1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124632/
MRX PPP is a simple configuration tool for pppd. It is a subproject of the Murix Linux distribution.
netcat 2.0-alpha1 (IPv6)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124645/
Netcat is a simple Unix utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using TCP or UDP protocol. It is designed to be a reliable backend tool that can be used directly or easily driven by other programs time, it is a feature-rich network debugging and exploration tool, since it can create almost any kind of connection you would need and has several interesting built-in capabilities.
NumericalChameleon 1.5.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124650/
The Numerical Chameleon converts numbers with a precision of up to 1000 significant figures. It supports more than 2300 units in 78 categories,
including lengths, areas, volumes, durations, bits & bytes, angles,
temperatures, exchange rates, Roman numerals, spoken numbers, all 35
radixes, unicode, colorcode, int. dial codes, and more. You have
unlimited access for adding, modifying, and deleting categories, units,
and icons. Update exchange rates with the GUI or at the commandline
(filters for 12 Web services are supported). All configuration data are
stored in flat files.
phpMyFAQ 1.3.3-dev (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124635/
phpMyFAQ is a multilingual, completely database-driven FAQ system. It also offers a content management system, flexible multi-user support, a news system, user tracking, language modules, templates, extensive XML support, PDF support, a backup system, and an easy to use installation script.
PTlink Services 2.23.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124658/
PTlink Services provides channel/nick registration services for IRC networks. Specially developed for the PTlink IRC daemon, it includes features like channel logging, oper management, helper management, AJOIN user list, memo read acknowledgement, rotated logs, autoidentify on ghost, and ChanServ PROTECTED level. It also integrates NewServ for real time news delivering.
pyDDR 0.6.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124617/
PyDDR is a clone of DDR ("Dance Dance Revolution") written in Python. The idea of DDR is simple. There's a mat with four directional arrows, and the game scrolls arrows up the screen to the beat while playing a song. When the arrows reach the top of the screen (not sooner and not later), the player hits the corresponding arrow on the pad, and given that it's hit on time with the beat, points are scored. Based on how well the dance is put together, s/he is graded at the end of the song. Both keyboard and mat play are supported.
Python 2.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124663/
Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming
language. It combines remarkable power with very clear syntax, and
isn't difficult to learn. It has modules, classes, exceptions, very
high level data types, and dynamic typing. There are interfaces to many
system calls and libraries, as well as to various windowing systems
(Tk, Mac, MFC, GTK+, Qt, wxWindows). Newbuilt-in modules are easily
written in C or C++. Python is also usable as an extension language for
applications that need a programmable interface.
Qixite 0.0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124638/
Qixite is a program for creating Web sites. The user has to provide the information and structure of the site, while Qixite does the rest. It uses predefined templates for site generation, and it is possible to create or edit them using XSL.
Razor! Gaming Engine 0.9.2 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/124620/
Razor! is a C++ gaming engine for Palm devices. It supports sprites, three voice music, sfx, double buffering, hard key polling. It accelerates many gfx operations through the use of optimized assembly code.
ROX-Filer 2.0.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124627/
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.
SAROS 1.1.05 / 1.1.04-2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124651/
SAROS enables you to find the date of any solar eclipse in between 2500 BC and 3500 AD. After entering a period of time, the program will output the dates of every solar eclipse for that period. You may then decide to get more detailed information about a specific solar eclipse and a graphical display of the central line drawn on a world map which can be saved as a JPEG or PNG image file. In addition, you can save a complete report about the solar eclipse as a PDF document. The program uses a GUI and should be very easy to use.
SCREEM 0.7.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124643/
SCREEM is a tag-based Web page editor which aims not only to aid in creating Web pages, but also to provide useful site maintainance facilities, including automatic link updating and site upload facilities. SCREEM has more than just the usual HTML tags, with features for including Javascript, PHP, cascading style sheets, etc within your site.
Screenhack 1.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124660/
screenhack lets you animate static RenderMan scenes (e.g., scenes created by programs such as Moonlight, AC3D, or Mops) using formulae. Currently you can move, rotate, and resize "actor" objects.
ServDoc 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124684/
ServDoc describes your system with just one command without the need to configure the documentation of every piece of software on your system. The idea is to provide a documentation module for every (or at least for many) standard software packages.
Slackware Live CD 2.9.0.16
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124636/
Slackware Live CD is a 200MB live Linux distribution on CD that is based on Slackware. It features many add-ons, including the scripts required to create your own live CD.
StarDict 2.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124653/
StarDict is a powerful Chinese-English / English-Chinese dictionary with many dict data files. It has powerful features such as glob-style pattern matching, fuzzy queries, and much more. When the user selects a word in other software, it can pop up a floating window showing the selected word's meaning, with optional audio output.
The Hunting of the Snark Project 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124688/
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.
ThinkSQL RDBMS 01.00.00
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124628/
ThinkSQL is a powerful, cross-platform, multi-threaded relational database management system. It supports Core ISO SQL, transactions, sub-selects, views, stored procedures, functions, comprehensive constraints, large objects, multi-version concurrency control, on-line backups, and a statistical optimiser that uses constraints and relationships to improve plans. The SQL server is simple to install and bloat-free. It runs under Windows and Linux and includes native ODBC, dbExpress (Delphi/Kylix), and JDBC drivers.
Tk Ecasound 1.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124611/
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.
txt2html 2.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124630/
txt2html is a Perl program that converts plain text to HTML. It supports headings, lists, tables, simple character markup, hyperlinking and is highly customizable. It recognizes some of the apparent structure of the source document (mostly whitespace and typographic layout) and attempts to mark that structure explicitly using HTML.
ULN - User Level Networking 20030601
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124654/
User Level Networking is software designed to allow the dynamic allocation of IP addresses. The basic idea is to give different IP addresses to different users, thus identifying the UID-HOST pair with an IP address. It includes a patch to the kernel which must be applied to every client in the LAN, a suid executable which will be used by the users to get their IP address from the server and activate it on a virtual interface (like eth0:*) on the local computer, and an executable which will be launched by sshd on the server host.
VDR MP3/MPlayer Extensions 0.8.0 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/124664/
The VDR MP3/MPlayer Extensions let you play MP3s with Video Disk Recorder and provide a frontend for MPlayer so you can use a DVB card to play files in formats like AVI, ASF, QT, MOV, VIVO, FLI, and FLC.
Video Disk Recorder 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124625/
Video Disk Recorder (VDR) is a digital sat-reciever program using Linux and DVB technologies. It can record MPEG2 streams, as well as output the stream to TV. It also supports plugins for DVD, DivX, or MP3 playback and more.
VideoDB 2003-06-01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124662/
VideoDB is a database to manage your personal video collection. It's mainly designed for videofiles but you can also put your DVDs and VHS tapes in it. It features fetching movie data/covers from the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), local caching of coverimages, an option to mark movies as seen, a search by genre or title/subtitle/plot/cast data, a filter for TV episodes, a random movie function and a simple borrow manager. It is a personal database, so no user management/authentication scheme is implemented. Everybody may add/edit/delete movies.
vimdrop 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124631/
vimdrop is an Applescript droplet that allows you to open up and edit files in your favorite editor by dragging them to the vimdrop icon. The dropped file will be opened in a new Terminal window with the text editor defined in the $EDITOR environment variable. A binary compiled under 10.2.6 and the Project Builder files are included in the distribution.
wdm 1.24
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124622/
Wdm is a modification of the X11 xdm package for graphically handling authentication and system login. Most of xdm has been preserved with the login interface based on a WINGs implementation using Tom Rothamel's "external greet" interface.
WebGUI 5.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124686/
WebGUI is a content management framework built to allow average business users to build and maintain complex Web sites. It is modular, pluggable, and platform independent. It was designed to allow the people who create the content to manage it online, rather than content management taking up the time of busy IT Staff. Whether you are building a consumer site, an intranet, or an extranet, WebGUI has something to offer.
Zoe Intertwingle 0.4.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124641/
Zoe is a Web based email client with a built in SMTP and POP3 server and Google-like search functionality that lives on your desktop. It is written in Java and uses Lucene technology to provided instant searching and threading of your email messages.
Zope Group Calendar 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124644/
The Zope Group Calendar is an effort to create a standards-compliant group calendar in zope.
Newsforge Reports
Answering newbies' "Which distro should I pick?" question
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/28/1748204
- by Lee Schlesinger - Recently I asked for your help in putting together the ultimate guide for potential Linux users to advise them what distribution to use. Oh, what a fool I was. While you came through with plenty of advice, much of it quite passionately expressed, the task itself is a bit beyond the scope of a single article.
SCO-IBM Vs Timeline Inc-Microsoft : Better off with Linux http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/31/1244201
NZheretic writes, "If you are concerned over the treat of lawsuits over intellectual property then you are actually in a better legal position using GPL'ed Linux than using Microsoft's products.
Linux Advisory Watch - May 30th, 2003
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/30/1111246
- By Benjamin D. Thomas This week, advisories were released for squid, BitchX, netpbm, gPS, heimdal, nessus, lprng, gnupg, up2date, ptrace, apache, cups, and glibc. The distributors include Conectiva, Debian, Gentoo, Mandrake, Red Hat, Slackware, and SuSe. Several of the advisories released are updates to vulnerabilities found last week. There is nothing particularly serious this week, but it is always a advisable to have everything patched ...
Newsforge Newsvac
Is Linux really happening in India, or is it just hype?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/01/1826244
It’s being billed as the solution that will deliver the masses from computer illiteracy. And so it was hardly surprising when a recent MAIT-organised seminar on “Open Source Software: A New Direction for India?” drew a larger-than-expected audience that stayed on till the very end.
Carricaburu: SCO Lawsuit Shakes Up IT Industry http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/01/1825223
By Lisa Carricaburu - Salt Lake Tribune Columnist - Outside the world of software developers, it can be hard to grasp why SCO Group's legal challenge of the Linux operating system is a big deal. The fact is, though, that anyone who works on a networked computer stands to be affected by Lindon-based SCO Group's controversial allegations.
How to Beat Microsoft
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/01/1823248
Lawsuits by the government and competitors against Microsoft have failed to break down Microsoft’s monopoly within the software industry. This has just reinforced the free market argument that the real way to beat Microsoft is through competition. Unfortunately, most of Microsoft’s most promising competitors have failed to do the four things necessary to beat Microsoft – sell easier to use products, at a cheaper price, using mass simple ...
Indian President backs `open' software initiatives http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/01/1738206
Anonymous Reader writes "The Indian president Dr. Abdul Kalam expresses his support for open source software."
SCO Teleconference transcript
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/01/1339250
Karsten M. Self writes "A text transcript of SCO's Friday, May 30 teleconference call is now available."
Why Run Linux?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/01/1338241
Anonymous Reader writes "As with trying anything new there are often questions and or events that lead up to the point of diving in to trying it. GNU/Linux is no different than trying a new flavor of ice cream, you do it because you want to. Now we ask why."
Make way for the contender to Google's crown http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/31/1315203
You're not going to believe this, but a new search engine has just appeared and, well, it may be better than Google. Obviously, that sounds slightly ridiculous but after having spent a day devising weird and wonderful searches and comparisons, not only has it stood up to the test but it's so good that you realise how much of an effect Google has had on your thinking when it comes to searching the Net.
Free software a boon for developing nations http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/31/137219
From creating new software distributions to giving a nudge to education, from offering solutions to the industry to helping young techies pick up skills they never would have access to, free software is attaining this and much more in Asia.
IDC: Server Sales Down Overall, But Linux Servers Way Up http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/31/134253
In a report just released by IDC, the total number of servers shipped with the Linux operating system preinstalled hit almost 171,700 in the first quarter of 2003, up 29.5 percent from the 132,500 Linux servers sold in the first quarter of 2002.
SCO's CEO says buyout could end Linux fight http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/31/130258
NZheretic writes "If IBM wants to buy The SCO Group Inc. and end SCO's ongoing Unix licensing assault on Linux, CEO Darl McBride is apparently all ears. "If there's a way of resolving this that is positive, then we can get back out to business and everybody is good to go, then I'm fine with that," McBride said today in an interview with Computerworld. "If that's one of the outcomes of this, then so be it.""
Thinkgeek
Computing: ThermalTake HardCano 10
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/6055/
Computing: ThermalTake Xaser PC Cases
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/6036/
Computing: ThermalTake Aquarius II CPU Cooler http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/6044/
Gadgets: Squid Light
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Gadgets: USB Memory Watch
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Cube Goodies: R/C Hovercraft
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Caffeine: Octane Energy Gel
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Gadgets: Yes Solstice
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Computing: TouchStream LP ZeroForce Keyboard http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5fff/
Cube Goodies: Duct Tape Wallet
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Computing: Ideazon Zboard
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5fed/
Gadgets: Inova X5 LED Flashlights
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5fd3/
Tshirts: fork agent smith
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Tshirts: Follow the white rabbit.
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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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Tshirts: M.A.D.
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Gadgets: USB Digital Voice Recorder
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5ec3/
Sourceforge
phpWebSite 0.9.2 Stable released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=281285
Final version of phpWebSite 0.9.2. Includes many bug fixes, new control panel, categorized pages, and more. Developed by the Web Technology Group at Appalachian State University, phpWebSite provides a complete web site content management system. All client output is XHTML 1.0 and meets the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative requirements.
HP Inkjet Linux Driver 1.4.1 release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=281289
The Hewlett-Packard Co. Linux Inkjet Driver Project is a add-on to the GNU Ghostscript application. This driver is based on the Hewlett Packard Appliance APDK for deskjet printers. This release includes bug fixes. This HP Linux Inkjet Driver (HPIJS) release has the following changes. 1. Fixed a GCC 2.95 compile problem with debug.h. 2. Fixed a foomatic-install issue with gzip 1.3 in Makefile.am. Removed the gzip -r option. 3. Updated the foomat