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[osdn everything] June 16, 2003
Date: Mon Jun 16 2003 - 04:45:27 EDT
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Slashdot
University of Wisconsin Wins FutureTruck Competition
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/15/2352241
[0]carambola5 writes "No, this isn't a dupe from [1]a year ago. The
[2]University of Wisconsin-Madison [0]team has taken the [3]FutureTruck
title for the second year in a row. The overall goals of the
competition are to modify an existing Ford Explorer (make and model
dependant on year) to improve fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions
while maintaining or exceeding customer expectations. The [4]University
of California-Davis team took 2nd, with [5]Michigan Tech, [6]Georgia
Tech, and [7]Penn State following close behind. Speaking as a member of
the winning team, I am quite sure that all of the students and advisors
from the participating teams are well-deserving of appreciation after
those many, many hours of preparation." Too bad Ford isn't actually
using any of this hard work.
Links
0.
http://www.cae.wisc.edu/~vehicle/
1.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/26/131217&tid=126
2.
http://www.wisc.edu/
3.
http://www.futuretruck.org/
4.
http://www.team-fate.net/
5.
http://www.me.mtu.edu/~fcc/
6.
http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/futuretruck
7.
http://www2.mne.psu.edu/futuretruck/Black Box in Speeder's Car Helped Conviction http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/15/2122240
[0]sessamoid writes "This article in Newhouse News tells the story of a
man who was recently convicted of two counts of manslaughter and
vehicular homicide each, [1]partially on evidence obtained from the
Electronic Data Recorder (EDR) in the car. EDR's are found in all cars
with airbags to measure the performance and effectiveness of the
airbags and the conditions in which they are used. In this case, the
EDR revealed that the driver was not travelling at 60 mph, as he
claimed, but actually peaked at 114 mph (in a residential neighborhood)
just seconds before the collision. Could this be the forerunner of many
such cases in the future, where our cars tell the unadulterated facts,
rather than subjective personal accounts?"
Links
0. http://8zwgw2czpdw001 AT sneakemail DOT com
Weta Prepares to Render LOTR: ROTK
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/15/2119249
Dee Arsmith writes "Peter Jackson's special-effects company Weta Digital has just [0]taken delivery of 588 IBM blade servers, each with two 2.8 gigahertz Intel Xeon processors. Seven racks of IBM blade servers have been added to Weta's existing 15-rack server cluster to make up the largest Intel-based high- performance computer site in the world with more than 2000 linked processors. The cluster will be used to render the frames drawn by the animators to complete the final installment of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Return of the King." Links
QNX: When an OS Really, Really Has to Work http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/15/1730232
An anonymous reader writes "Fortune has this article about how [0]QNX's OS has found a niche and is doing well. Especially after 1996 when Microsoft executives said they would crush them in 2 years. When your software absolutely positively needs to work!" Links
0. http://www.fortune.com/fortune/imt/0,15704,427288-2,00.html
Settling SCOres
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/15/1741253
Israel Pattison writes "[0]The Inquirer is [1]reporting that someone in
Germany is claiming to have viewed the SCO-alleged infringing Linux
source code without having to sign a NDA. The person gives details
about the code that was presented, but the translation-by-software is
difficult to follow." The story also includes a link to a human
translation; maybe some Slashdot reader can do better. Also in the news
is a story about a [2]kernel developer getting uppity with SCO, as well
he might.
Links
0.
http://www.theinquirer.net/
1.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10013
2.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10018
12/7 and Overtime on a Salary?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/15/1952240
over-timeout! asks: A company I work for (in the U.S.A.) had submitted
a statement of work to a client, who waited for a month before signing
the work order. The work order explicitly stated a timeline which would
start from the time the order is signed. However, the client is
insisting on the project being completed by a fixed date, as discussed
with our company's management, instead of the deadline that starts from
the signing of the work order. Although our company representatives
tried to push back on the date, the client refused. Because the client
is among our company's biggest customers, our company's management
caved in and agreed to their deadlines. Management has told us meeting
deadlines means that for the next month to six weeks all of the
developers involved will have to work 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The contractors involved are going to get compensated by being paid by
the hour. But us salaried employees are going to get nothing in return
for trading in what's left of our life so someone else in the company
above us can make money. Obviously this isn't fair, but what are the
alternatives in this down economy, where jobs are hard to find?" A
related articles on this subject discusses [0]suing for overtime, and
[1]California residents should find this companion article pertinent,
as well. What can you do when management agrees to a timeline and a
workload that may make your job, as a programmer,
difficult-to-impossible?
Links
0. http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/2342259&tid=123
NASA's Cool Robot of the Week
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/15/1718235
[0]S.Bartfarst writes "[1]NASA's Cool Robot of the Week (which
apparently is about a month long) has produced a huge spike of activity
on our [2]web page from .gov and .mil domains. Most interesting are a
long series of hits from [3] uspto.gov. Maybe looking for "prior art?"
I wonder how much of this Dean Kamen already has tied up?"
Links
0.
http://www.geology.smu.edu
1.
http://ranier.hq.nasa.gov/telerobotics_page/coolrobots.html
2.
http://www.geology.smu.edu/~dpa-www/robo/nbot
3.
http://www.uspto.gov/
A Mighty Wind
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/15/0521234
DoraLives writes "Fascinating New York Times piece regarding a
[0]proposed wind farm for Nantucket Sound. Suddenly, all the
environmentally friendly locals are going ballistic over the prospects
of seeing an 'industrial energy complex' in their backyard. Walter
Cronkite decries it, as do many other local checkbook
environmentalists. Greenpeace says 'Jim Gordon (the developer) is the
real thing, there aren't many entrepreneurs out there willing to take
risks to clean up the environment.' Who's right?"
Links
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/15/magazine/15WIND.html
42-Volt Autos
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/15/1717242
brianlmoon writes "[0]Car Audio Electronics Magazine has a [1]story about the auto industry switching to 36/42-Volt systems starting in 2004 and being completely switched by 2020. The demand for luxuries in cars has grown to where 12/14-Volts is just simply not enough. The automotive sound enthusiasts are going to benefit greatly as amplification will be much easier and cleaner with 3 times the voltage availble. Mobile computing will also benefit: "One of the real benefits of jumping to 42-volt systems, especially for hybrid vehicles, is the ability of the vehicle to offer regular 110-volt electrical outlets". It seems cars will have dual systems for a while for legacy equipment." Links
0. http://www.caraudiomag.com/
Ximian Desktop 2 Reviewed
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/15/1439213
[0]Bruha writes "Lewt over at Warcry News Network has written his
[1]review for Ximian Desktop 2 targeted at the home users that are
looking for a good desktop solution. He mentions this is a good product
that could be bundled with Redhat or Mandrake to provide a one stop
solution for the desktop user where they dont have to install any extra
software to fully surf the web. Which you do with KDE/Gnome installs of
most distro's."
Links
0. http://lewt at warcry dot com
Freshmeat
Agar 06152003
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126120/
Agar is a graphical game engine aimed primarily at applications ranging from SDL 2D games to multithreaded 3D simulations. The engine currently implements tile-based levels, a level editor, a GUI, as well as various other thread-safe interfaces for use in game programming.
AquaLess 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126149/
AquaLess is a text pager for Mac OS X that is intended to replace the less command. It allows you to browse lengthy text output from Unix command line tools in a separate window, so you can keep working in the terminal while you read.
Armagetron 0.2.pre4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126122/
In Armagetron, you ride a lightcycle around the game grid. You can only make sharp turns of 90 degrees and a wall constantly builds up after you. Make your enemies crash into your wall, but be aware that they are trying to do the same to you. If you are fast enough, you may be able to trap them, but the only way to speed up your lightcycle is to drive close to the dangerous walls. Prepare for exciting strategic preparations followed by action-packed close combat!
BBStatus 2.0RC13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126169/
BBStatus is an IP accounting package, and an SNMP and IP monitoring tool for Linux. It collects, summarizes, and displays the values from its database. It can be used for IP accounting (using iptables, you can design various kinds of accounting filters), SNMP monitoring (collects data making SNMP requests), IP monitoring (using ping, it stores and summarizes values like min, avg, max reply time, and packet loss), and client traffic filtering (using various types of filters). It also provides user based access so that every user can log in and check the traffic from/through his/her IP addresses. It requires PostgreSQL, Apache with mod_auth_pgsql, Perl(Net::SNMP), and RRDTool.
cdmp3 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126151/
cdmp3 uses cdparanoia or cdda2wav to extract single tracks or even a whole CD, and converts them on-the-fly into MP3 or Ogg Vorbis files. Using the CDDB database, it is possible to include information like the artist's name or the track's title into the file name or as meta tags in the file content.
CheckRDF 36.25
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126164/
CheckRDF is a tool, consisting of a shell script and a Haskell program, for downloading RDF site summaries and showing news in a text file and in an HTML file. It is highly configurable.
Code 6 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126137/
Code 6 is a very powerful assortment of error-correcting algorithms. It includes "code6" for making Gallager codes, "mncN" and "gallager" for sum-product decoding, and "fe" for decoding using variational free energy minimization.
crosstool 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126152/
crosstool is a set of scripts that make it easy to build cross-development toolchains based on gcc, glibc, and Linux. The goal is to make it easy to build and test cross-toolchains for all architectures supported by glibc.
diradm 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126135/
diradm is a simple bash script for managing POSIX users and groups stored in a LDAP directory, offering the same features as the traditional passwd file utilities useradd/usermod/userdel and groupadd/groupmod/groupdel. It uses the ldapsearch, ldapadd, ldapmodify, and ldapdelete utilities from the OpenLDAP project to perform the needed queries against the LDAP database.
disktype 6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126136/
The purpose of disktype is to detect the content format of a disk or disk image. It knows about common file systems, partition tables, and boot codes.
docbook2X 0.8.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126175/
docbook2X converts DocBook documents to man pages and Texinfo.
doxygen 1.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126162/
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 Funktion 5.19
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126118/
Easy Funktion is 2D function plotter software with an equation solver. It has an office-like GUI frontend and features a built-in pocket calculator, calculating with complex numbers (with special extensions for electronics, e.g. capacitor/inductor impedance), a function to export to spreadsheet software, and an advanced formula editor with automatic formatting.
efarm-project 0.1b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125930/
eFarm is a peer-to-peer server based on eDonkey protocol which will offer optimized functionnalities for eMule clients. eFarm is based on module system which offers to developers the ability to write a specified module for other peer-to-peer networks.
Flat Assembler 1.46.9.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126129/
The Flat Assembler is a fast and efficient self-assembling 80x86 assembler for Linux, DOS, and Windows. It supports all 8086-80486/Pentium instructions with MMX, SSE, SSE2 and 3DNow! extensions. It can produce output in binary, MZ, PE, or COFF formats. It has advanced but easy-to-use macroinstruction support, and it does multiple quick passes to optimize the code for size. It is totally written in assembly language.
FW1-Loggrabber 1.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126146/
FW1-Loggrabber is a simple LEA (Log Export API) client for Checkpoint Firewall-1. It was developed to access Firewall-1 Logfiles from commandline from any host in the network. Without an LEA client you can only access logs with graphical Checkpoint Tools or via commandline directly on the Firewall-1 machine. The primary goal was to automate reports of FW-1 logs with LIRE.
Green Understatement 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126128/
Green Understand is a minimalist green and khaki theme. The background is by liquachu (James Wignall).
gtk-gnutella 0.92
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126121/
Gtk-Gnutella is a Unix Gnutella client using GTK+.
HardInfo 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126141/
HardInfo displays informations about the system's hardware in a GTK window. Linux 2.4 is officially required, but it might work with 2.2.
Hardware lister A.01.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126163/
lshw (Hardware Lister) is a small tool to provide detailed informaton on the hardware configuration of the machine. It can report exact memory configuration, firmware version, mainboard configuration, CPU version and speed, cache configuration, bus speed, etc.
Hocus Pocus 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126109/
Hocus Pocus is a theme with bright colours on black. The background is by d-b-c.
Impact 0.3.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126165/
Impact is a finite element program based on an explicit time stepping algorithm. It can be used to simulate dynamic events such as car crashes or other large deformation events. It is written in Java and is kept very simple, to make it intuitive to use and easy to change and extend. It is very flexible and can handle several different input and output formats.
Jawa Open Eyes 4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126131/
Jawa Open Eyes is a visual network monitoring tool developed in Java using SNMPv1/2/2c for collecting MIB-II information. The main features include visual monitoring, an enhanced network topology designer, email alert, trap receiver, trap agent, and real time logging to DB and Web.
Jin client for chess servers 2.07rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126127/
Jin is a Java client for various chess servers. While it currently only supports the Internet Chess Club (chessclub.com) and the Free Internet Chess Server (freechess.org), it is written to be flexible enough to support any chess server. It is based on the Swing UI toolkit and runs on any Java 1.1 compatible JVM.
JPluck 2.0 pre3 (2.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126150/
JPluck converts Web sites to Plucker documents for offline reading on your handheld.
JPluck 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126148/
JPluck converts Web sites to Plucker documents for offline reading on your handheld.
JSyntaxColor 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126154/
JSyntaxColor is a Java library for coloring in real time user text input. Main features include a standard editor kit, a simple property file for each syntax description, real time switch between syntax descriptions, inner cache for limiting parsing scope, tokens libraries customizable by the user, color, underline, and border attributes support, samples for Java, SQL, and Formula syntax, and many samples for interesting API parts.
Large File Btree 1.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126157/
Large File Btree is a btree routine to store/retrieve keys using files larger than 2GB.
m0n0wall pb12r418
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126133/
m0n0wall is an all-in-one firewall software package that is based on FreeBSD. It is geared towards embedded PCs, but the CD-ROM version also works on standard PCs. It includes an easy-to-use Web interface like commercial firewall boxes do. PHP is used instead of shell scripts, and the entire system configuration is stored in a single XML-formatted file. There is support for wireless LAN, VPN, traffic shaping, and more.
mkvtoolnix 0.4.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126144/
mkvtoolnix is a set of tools that allow users to display information about, extract streams from, merge several streams into, and split Matroska media files. Supported stream types include video streams from AVIs or Ogg files and Vorbis audio from Ogg files among many others. The resulting files can be played back with mplayer or the Matroska Direct Show filter under Windows.
mod_psldap 0.63
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126138/
mod_psldap is an Apache module that performs authentication authorization against an LDAP server using several different means of managing the authentication and authorization processes. The distinguishing features of this implementation include the ability to authenticate against an LDAP server that restricts the user from reading the password and the implementation of Kerberos-based authentication to connect to the LDAP server itself.
MozPlugger 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126116/
MozPlugger is a modification of Plugger, a very small multimedia plugin for the Unix versions of Netscape, Mozilla, and Opera which uses external programs to show and play many file formats. This modification fixes bugs which occurred with Mozilla 1.x and allows a player to stream a media file directly from the URL.
myStats 1.0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126173/
myStats is a full statistics system for Web sites, giving a lot of information about people who visit your site, about search engines, keywords, etc.
NewsBro 2.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126180/
NewsBro is a web-based application providing a Usenet newsreader service. It supports multiple users, accessing multiple news groups on multiple news servers. User profiles are maintained in order to allow for individual news preferences. It is implemented as a Java program, and requires the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or Java Development Kit (JDK) to be installed on the server system. Users only require a standard web browser.
Nova Gaming System 0.57 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126112/
The Nova Gaming System is a framework for building online, Web-based, turn-driven gaming systems. Using templates and language files, it is able to power multiple types of games, whether fast-paced space trading or slowly developing post-apocolyptic. The first game hosted on the platform is "The Kabal Invasion", which is in active development.
Orpheus 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126178/
Orpheus is a text-mode menu- and window- driven audio player application for CDs, Ogg, and MP3. It can retrieve CDDB information for compact discs with HTTP (even through a proxy), read ID tags from MP3 and Ogg files, and save and load playlists. The color schemes are configurable.
OZradio 0.9.6.1 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126123/
OZradio is a Linux FM radio player and CD Player for KDE and GNOME. It supports BTTV-compatible FM and TV cards. It features the ability to save up to 10 preset stations, a sound mixer, volume control, a mute button, automatic frequency scanning, on-demand recording and replay of radio, and programmable recording.
p(y)layer 0.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126166/
p(y)layer is a jukebox style front end for mpg321 (or mpg123). Its main feature is the ability to search for songs and queue them up for play. If there are no songs queued, it will play a random song.
Perl CD Burning Script 0.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126143/
Perl CD Burning Script is a Perl frontend for cdrtools and mkisofs. It provides a simple and easy-to-use script for creating ISO-files and burning them onto a CD.
pork 0.99.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126174/
pork is an ncurses-based AOL instant messenger client. It uses the OSCAR protocol (the one the Windows client uses) to access AIM. Pork features Perl scripting, an online help system, the ability to configure nearly all aspects of the program's look and feel, an alias system, and a powerful, fully configurable key binding system. It supports being logged in with more than one screen name at the same time. The default look and feel of the client is modeled after the ircII IRC client. Anyone comfortable using ircII (or any clients derived from it, e.g. epic, BitchX, etc.) will feel comfortable using pork.
Recovery Is Possible! 53 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126139/
Recovery Is Possible (RIP) is a CD or floppy boot/rescue/backup/maintenance system. It has support for a lot of filesystem types (Reiserfs, ext2/3, iso9660, UDF, XFS, JFS, UFS, HPFS, MINIX, MS DOS, NTFS, UMSDOS, and VFAT) and contains a bunch of utilities for system recovery. It also has Ethernet/DSL/cable network support.
Scribus 0.9.11 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126117/
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.
SendYmail 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126177/
SendYmail allows you to send email through Yahoo! Mail, using your favorite mail client. It works as a gateway between the Yahoo! Mail Web interface and your email program, and can be used in conjunction with FetchYahoo or YoSucker to emulate a POP3/SMTP-like interface.
SiteBar 2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126130/
SiteBar is a multi-user bookmark server that lets users view, add, and maintain bookmarks from anywhere. It's intended as a Mozilla/Netscape sidebar, but can also be used in a main browser window. SiteBar provides infinite depth of folders, the ability to move anything to anywhere else, and complete sharing of public items between users. It's cross-browser compatible, features a tree-menu and context menus common to file explorers, and supports FavIcons.
Sylpheed LCDProc Plugin 0.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126168/
Sylpheed LCDProc Plugin shows the number of new and unread messages in an LCD display controlled by lcdproc. It requires Sylpheed Claws with plugin support (0.8.11 or higher).
UDP Ping Logger 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126156/
Uplog is an UDP-based ping program that gives an ASCII graphical log of packet loss. Once per second, it sends a UDP packet to the echo port of the target host and waits for a reply. If it gets a reply an X is written, otherwise a dot is written to the log file. If a packet with an incorrect sequence number arrives, a colon is written to the log file. By examining the log file, one can easily see when and how the packet losses occur.
UnrealIRCd 3.2-beta17 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126160/
UnrealIRCd is an IRC daemon whose key features include full SSL support, Trojan protection, and WebTV compatibility. It is a highly stable and feature-packed IRC server daemon.
VDRadmin 0.90
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126125/
VDRadmin is a program to administer VDR (video digital recorder) via HTTP. A small HTTP server is included.
WebCollab 1.40
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126119/
WebCollab is a collaborative Web site for project workgroups. It aims to be easy and intuitive to use without being complicated or graphically intensive.
XMMS Remote 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126172/
XMMS Remote is a two-part software solution that uses Web services to remotely control and display the status of the XMMS media player. Its two parts are a Cocoa application for OS X and a Perl script for Unix.
yudit 2.7.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126113/
Yudit is a Unicode text editor for the X Window System. It can do True Type font rendering, printing, transliterated keyboard input, and handwriting recognition with no dependencies on on external engines. Its conversion utilities can convert text between various encodings. Keyboard input maps can also act like text converters. There is no need for a pre-installed multi-lingual environment. The menus are available in many languages.
Zero Install 0.1.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126158/
The Zero Install system removes the need to install software or libraries by running all programs from a network filesystem. The filesystem in question is the Internet as a whole, with an aggressive caching system to make it as fast as (or faster than) traditional systems such as Debian's APT repository, and to allow for offline use. It doesn't require any central authority to maintain it, and allows users to run software without needing a root password.
Zope Group Calendar 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126142/
The Zope Group Calendar is an effort to create a standards-compliant group calendar in zope.
Newsforge Reports
Real-time alerting with Snort, part 3 of 3
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/206243
- by Jack Koziol - Last time we looked at deploying a hybrid server/sensor using Snort. Larger organizations may prefer to deploy Snort in a distributed three-tier setup. Here's how.
Meet free software developers at LinuxTag http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/14/130256
- by Martin Schulze - More than thirty Free Software-oriented projects will demonstrate their work at the upcoming LinuxTag in Karlsruhe, Germany, taking place from July 10th to 13th. With the presence of so many projects and developers this will essentially be a large Free Software developers meeting, but other visitors will benefit from it as well.
Linux Advisory Watch - June 13th, 2003
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/13/1114229
- by Benjamin D. Thomas - This week, advisories were released for the Linux kernel, eterm, xaos, ethereal, atftp, gnocatan, nethack, slashem, cupsys, mod_php, zlib, kon2, gzip, KDE, hanterm, pptpd, cups, and lv. The distributors include Debian, Gentoo, Immunix, Mandrake, OpenPKG, RedHat, SuSE, Turbolinux, and Yellow Dog.
Newsforge Newsvac
OS Market-share vs. Installed-Base
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/16/0237220
Eric Peterson writes "We all know what its like to imerse one's self in the age old computer market-share debate. The problem is that when most people use the word "market-share", what they really mean is "installed-base." Because consumers choose a platform based on its popularity, misconceptions about market-share only confuse the issue even further."
Tarent Seeks Contempt Order Against SCO - Munich C http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/15/2340202
Reader writes " MozillaQuest Magazine's Mike Angelo discusses the German legal counter-attack with Tarent attorney Till Jaeger. SCO-Caldera did not fully-comply with the Munich Court Injunction Order to stop spreading anti-Linux FUD. Tarent asked the Munich Court to find SCO in contempt of the Court Order. The Court also found that SCO did not show that the Linux kernel does infringe upon SCO's rights. SCO and McBride also could face lawsuits ...
Sun Microsystems eclipsed by Internet bust, strategy http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/15/1858200
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) It was the leading supplier of the computer servers that fueled the dot-com boom, the Silicon Valley star whose name was nearly synonymous with New Economy chic. But after two years on the bleeding edge of the bust, Sun Microsystems Inc. has fallen victim to the commoditization of the computers that do corporate America's heavy lifting.
Linux kernel coder puts SCO on notice
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/15/1847231
SCO, THAT PARIAH of the IT industry, has received what might turn out to be legally damaging return fire from a Linux kernel developer. An email presenting SCO with formal notice alleging copyright infringement was sent to the firm this weekend. The email to SCO is reproduced below.
Has the Linux desktop wave begun?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/15/1217233
BANGALORE JUNE 14. Is a Linux-based solution for the mass desktop personal computer market becoming reality last? Events this month would suggest that push has finally come to shove, as leading global brands — rather than just local assemblers — are slipping a Linux option into their offerings for more price sensitive markets such as India.
Jahshaka 1.9a1 Alpha released
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/15/1210201
Jah Shaka writes "Jahshaka is an open source in-development effects, compositing and editing system that works in full uncompressed 4:4:4 colorspace. All video processing and i/o will use OpenML. OpenML's high level of integration with OpenGL allows for real-time interactivity while supporting multiple platforms seamlessly. The animation module supports real-time playback with OpenGL. The paint module is an OpenGL-based 3D paint environment. The ...
Mozilla on speed: Firebird 0.6
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/14/2142256
Adam Doxtater writes "We normally don't review web browsers, but what better topic for discussion is there? Most of us use browsers every day of our lives and, if you're like me, rely on them to do your job... Personally, I use Mozilla for 98% of my work and play. It blows all other browsers away in stability and features if you ask me. Opera is the only one that comes close to Mozilla in speed and features, but it seems too bulky to me for some ...
SCO could act Monday in IBM Unix case
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/14/1358240
SCO Group's next move in its legal wrestling match with IBM likely will come Monday, possibly in the form of a request that a judge halt Big Blue's Unix product sales.
Are Open Source Databases Following in Linux' Footsteps? http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/14/1351225
At a partnership announcement with Dell Computer in New York City back in April, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison stood alongside his fellow CEO Michael Dell and discussed how the Linux open source operating system was stealing market share from Microsoft's Windows products.
PeopleSoft sues Oracle after all
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/14/1346230
The lawsuit filed in Alameda County Superior Court calls for an injunction against Oracle in pursuing its $5.1 billion offer for PeopleSoft. This move contradicts earlier reports from Oracle that PeopleSoft would not pursue a court battle. Such a change of heart is to be expected in what is a very fluid situation between the two companies and PeopleSoft's own acquisition target J.D. Edwards.
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OpenEJB 0.9.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=282705
The 0.9.2 release is one that the whole team is quite proud of. OpenEJB
0.9.0 marked are first release with special Tomcat embedded support.
Thanks to all the user feedback that support has just gotten better and
better. The 0.9.2 release contains a neat surprise for OpenEJB/Tomcat
users -- TOOLS! The new integration features a webapp with a setup
verifier, JNDI browser, EJB viewer, Class browser, and even an Object
invoker! You can browse the OpenEJB namespace and know right away
exactly where the ejb is and what it is called. When you find one you
like, just click it and it will open up into the EJB viewer. While
there you can check out it's home, remote and bean classes in the class
browser. The Object invoker allows you to actually create and invoke
your EJBs without writing a single line of code. OpenEJB 0.9.2 also
contains a new openejb.base variable to complement the openejb.home
variable. The openejb.base variable allows you to have several
configurations of OpenEJB all running against the same OpenEJB install.
This makes using OpenEJB in IDEs like Eclipse or NetBeans even easier.
Move the openejb_loader-0.9.2.jar into your project's lib directory,
set the openejb.base, and you'll be debugging your EJB apps
front-to-back without the need for remote debugging support or special
editor plug-ins. Thanks to all the OpenEJB users for all the great
ideas! You speak, we listen.
http://openejb.sourceforge.net/download.html
LTI-Lib Version Beta 1.9.3 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=282700
LTI-Lib is an object oriented computer vision library written in C++ for Windows/MS-VC++ and Linux/gcc. It provides lots of functionality to solve mathematical problems, many image processing algorithms, some classification tools and much more. This release provides new functors and features, many bug fixes and more documentation. Download -------- You can get this and previous releases from: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=45767 Homepage
- For more information please visit our homepage: http://ltilib.sourceforge.net ChangeLog --------- For more details about the changes in this release please visit the ChangeLog page at: https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=163728 Acknowledgments --------------- Thanks to all developers at the Chair of Computer Science: Suat Akyol, Pablo Alvarado, Daniel Beier, Axel Berner, Ulrich Canzler, Peter Doerfler, Thomas Erger, Holger Fillbrandt, Peter Gerber, Claudia, Goenner, Xin Gu, Michael Haehnel, Christian Harte, Bastian Ibach, Torsten Kaemper, Thomas Krueger, Frederik Lange, Henning Luepschen, Peter Mathes, Alexandros Matsikis, Bernd Mussman, Jens Paustenbach, Norman Pfeil, Jens Rietzschel, Daniel Ruijters, Thomas Rusert, Stefan Syberichs, Guy Wafo Moudhe, Ruediger Weiler, Jochen Wickel , Benni Winkler, Xinghan Yu, Marius Wolf, Joerg Zieren
Gallery v1.3.4 Release Candidate 2 available http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=282686
Gallery v1.3.4 Release Candidate 2 - This is the second (and, we fully
expect, final) *release candidate* for Gallery v.1.3.4. Changes from
RC1 essentially amount to small fixes for errors discovered since the
first release candidate in the backup_albums.php script and the new
"custom fields" code. Gallery is slick, intuitive web based photo
gallery with authenticated users and privileged albums. Easy to
install, configure and use. Photo management includes automatic
thumbnails, resizing, rotation, etc. User privileges make this great
for communities. Download it:
http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7130 Read more about this
release candidate: http://gallery.sf.net/article.php?sid=75
phpwsBB 0.1.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=282990
phpwsBB is a native bulletin board module for the phpWebSite content management system, version 0.9.2 or later. Today we release version 0.1.0 of phpwsBB. Features include anonymous posting, message editing and deletion for registered users, thread locking and message forking for admins, and ... well that's probably it. Be sure you have the latest version of phpWebSite installed: http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu and then download phpwsbb from: http://phpwsbb.sourceforge.net.
Aleph One 2003-05-30 Mac OS X Carbon and Windows releases http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=282073
Aleph One plays Marathon 2, Marathon Infinity, and third-party content on a wide array of platforms with numerous enhancements. The new Mac OS X Carbon and Windows SDL 2003-05-30 releases add significantly improved Internet play, Lua scripting, Speex compression for realtime network audio (making it much more practical in Internet games), an anisotropic filtering option on video cards that support it, and more.
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