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[osdn everything] June 20, 2003
Date: Fri Jun 20 2003 - 04:45:27 EDT
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June 20, 2003 EVERYTHING SERIES
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Slashdot
Mini-ITX PC in an Atari 800
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/20/041246
[0]tgeller writes "As case mods go, this one's not the weirdest, But it
has [1]its own retro charm. Musician and geek [2]Andy Hutson slipped a
[3]Mini-ITX motherboard [4]into an Atari 800 case... and used an old
cartridge as the mouse! Too bad the original keyboard's not
functional." This almost makes me want to tear apart my old Apple //c
and see what I can make. Almost.
Links
0.
http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=tgeller
1.
http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/atari800/
2.
http://www.andylama.com/
3.
http://www.mini-itx.com/
4.
http://members.cox.net/ofs_labs/atari.htm
Flexible Computers in the Future?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/20/0336221
An anonymous reader writes "[0]New Scientist is reporting on [1]Sony
bendable input devices. When computers become too small to be operated
by buttons, how will we control them? The only option will be to gently
bend them, according to engineers at Sony's Interaction Lab in Tokyo."
The diagrams make it look like a warped Game Boy. Looks pretty cool,
though.
Links
0. http://www.newscientist.com/
GIF Patent Prepares to Expire
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/20/0216233
[0]pajamacore writes "It's worth noting that 20 June 2003 is GIF
Liberation Day, the day on which [1]US Patent 4,558,302 expires. The
patent describes the [2]LZW compression algorithm used in .gif files.
That said, maybe the prices of image editing applications will drop
slightly when corporations don't have to pay fees to [3]Unisys."
Links
0.
http://www.pajamacore.org
1.
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%5C'4,558,302%5C'.WKU.&OS=PN/4,558,302&RS=PN/4,558,302
2.
http://dogma.net/markn/articles/lzw/lzw.htm
3.
http://www.unisys.com/
Senator Orrin Hatch a Pirate?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/20/0046237
[0]Stigmata669 writes "Remember a few days ago when Senator Orrin Hatch
decided that [1]software piracy was punishable by destruction of
computers? Well a bored and unemployed Sys. Admin in Houston smelled a
rat when he was rooting through Hatch's website source. As it turns out
Sen. Hatch is a common [2] software pirate himself."
Links
0. mailto:ttrutNO@SPAMcsus.com
1.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/17/220228&tid=103
2.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,59305,00.htmlRIAA CEO Hilary Rosen to Become CNBC Commentator http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/19/2237232
[0]alen writes "According to a story by the [1]New York Post the [2]CEO
of the RIAA is stepping down. She is going to be an anchor on [3]CNBC.
Maybe this is going to signal a change in the way record companies
think about file sharing?"
Links
0. mailto:alent1234@hotmail.com
1.
http://www.nypost.com/
2.
http://www.nypost.com/business/1319.htm
3.
http://moneycentral.msn.com/cnbc/tv/default.asp
KnoppiXMAME 1.0 Released
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/19/1427228
[0]Ant writes "[1]KnoppixMAME is a bootable arcade machine [2]emulator
with hardware detection and autoconfiguration. It works automatically
on all modern and not-so-modern hardware, including gameports and
joysticks. It is powered by Knoppix Debian GNU/Linux, X-MAME, and
gxmame." Update: 06/19 23:18 GMT by [3]S: Although there are earlier
versions in the release directory, looks like V1.0 hasn't made it onto
the FTP just yet. Meanwhile, Jim points out the [4]AdvanceCD image,
which is "..also a bootable ISO image of a minimal Linux distribution
containing MAME, but weighing in at 16 MB rather than 200 MB so there
is more room for ROMs."
Links
0.
http://antfarm.ma.cx
1.
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126525/
2.
http://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/emulators/
3. mailto:simoniker@NOSPAM.slashdot.org
4.
http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/cd-readme.htmlExperiences with Alternate Local Phone Companies? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/19/1943213
[0]chasmosis asks: "In the last few months, I've moved about 25 minutes
outside of [1]St. Louis and discovered that the [2]local baby bell
charges exorbitant rates (at least in my view). I've explored alternate
local carriers like [3]Sprint and others who have had uncompetitive
prices, poor customer service records, or were unclear on things like
'specifically what exchanges can I call that are still considered local
calls'. Right now I'm on SBC's Metro plan where I can call to and from
much of the St. Louis local area as a local call instead of a toll
call. I'd dump my landline entirely and get another cell if I didn't
need it for dial up internet, since I live in the sticks and there is
no cable, no DSL, and the top speed for dialup is 28.8. What are other
people using for alternatives to their local telephone provider? What
are your experiences, good and bad?"
Links
0. mailto:chas_mosis@nOSPaM.yahoo.com
1.
http://stlouis.missouri.org/
2.
http://www.sbc.com/
3.
http://completesense.sprint.com/Using Sling Shot Power to Hurl Into Orbit http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/19/1917241
the_2nd_coming writes "[0]space.com has an [1]article about a new
application of a very old technology. NASA is putting money into
Momentum-eXchange/Electrodynamic Reboost tether technology -- MXER for
short -- an innovative concept that if implemented would station miles
and miles of cart-wheeling cable in orbit around the Earth. Then,
rotating like a giant sling, the cable would swoop down and pick up
spacecraft in low orbits, then hurl them to higher orbits or even lob
them onward to other planets."
Links
EFF Supporting Home DVD Editing
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/19/1925245
cheesedog writes "The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a brief
in federal court in support of companies that offer software to edit
violence or sex from a user's DVD. The full story can be found in
[0]this article from the Salt Lake Tribune."
Links
0. http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Jun/06192003/business/67422.asp
UK Govt Warned: Don't Buy GPL
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/19/197213
JPMH writes "ZDNet is [0]reporting that a UK IT industry body backed by Microsoft, IBM, Intel, BAE Systems and other high-tech heavyweights has urged the UK government not to commission open-source software, and particularly not software covered by the General Public License. According to [1]Intellect, which lobbies for about 1,000 UK IT companies, the requirement of open-source licences for software funded by the government could have a [2]negative impact on competition for contracts, the quality of the resulting software and even the confidentiality of government departments. In particular, Intellect recommends that the government drop the GNU General Public License (GPL), the licence upon which the GNU/Linux operating system is based, from its list of acceptable default licences for government-funded software, and steer clear of the GPL generally." Links
0.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2136285,00.html
1.
http://www.intellectuk.org/
2.
http://www.intellectuk.org/publications/position_papers/OSS_Intellect_Position.pdf
Freshmeat
ADODB 3.60
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126543/
ADODB is a set of advanced PHP database abtraction classes. It supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, Interbase/Firebird, Informix, Sybase SQL Anywhere, Oracle, MS SQL 7, Sybase, DB2, FrontBase, Foxpro, Access, ADO, and generic ODBC. A metatype system is built in, making it possible to figure out that types such as CHAR, TEXT, and STRING are equivalent in different databases. It also features an SQL to HTML popup menu and SQL to HTML table support. It has code to support record paging and blob/clob support.
Agatha 0.6.5 (Unix)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126544/
Agatha is a Web-based MP3 playing system that allows users to stream music, create and manage play lists, and control the playing of music on the remote server (as in a appliance application). Agatha is implemented with PHP4 and Apache.
AvrIDE 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126577/
AvrIDE is an IDE for Atmel's AVR micro controllers. It's based on the gtk2edit program from Victor Porton. It uses other programs like uisp and avr-gcc to compile and transfer the program.
Barbecue 1.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126598/
Barbecue is a barcode generator for Java. It enables barcode to be used as Swing and AWT components, used in printed documents, and generated as images for use in Web pages.
CaLStats 0.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126596/
CaLStats is a small set of scripts for monitoring computer availability. It creates images of the network structure and marks active or inactive computers.
cartoon picture filter 0.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126505/
cartoon picture filter is an image filter that can be applied to JPEG, GIF, PNG, and BMP files to make them look like cartoon drawings. If mplayer is available, the filter can also be used to make complete movies that look like a cartoon.
Catweasel Floppy Read/Write Tools 3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126559/
The Catweasel Floppy Read/Write Tools are software for the Catweasel MK1 ISA and Catweasel MK3 PCI universal floppy disk controllers. cw2dmk will read several kinds of floppy disk, some of which ordinary PC controllers have trouble with, and save them in the DMK disk image format (used by the Unix TRS-80 emulator xtrs and David Keil's TRS-80 emulator for MS-DOS). cw2dmk can also handle (at least) any disk written using a Western Digital 177x/179x floppy disk controller, a PC-style NEC765-compatible controller, or a Digital Equipment Corporation RX02 controller. dmk2cw will write any DMK image back to a floppy, handling the same kinds of disks as cw2dmk. jv2dmk and dmk2jv3 convert images between DMK and the older JV1 and JV3 formats without requiring Catweasel hardware. It runs on Linux and MS-DOS.
CCT Chinese TeX system 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126572/
CCT is a Chinese Language Extention to TeX that was developed by the Academy of Sciences in Beijing.
Console Portscanner 0.98b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126564/
Cpscan is a simple portscanner.
curl and libcurl 7.10.6 pre-release 3 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/126584/
curl and libcurl is a tool for transferring files using URL syntax. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, DICT, TELNET, LDAP, FILE, and GOPHER, as well as HTTP-post, HTTP-put, cookies, FTP upload, resumed transfers, passwords, portnumbers, SSL certificates, Kerberos, and proxies. It is powered by libcurl, the client-side URL transfer library. There are bindings/interfaces to libcurl for more than a dozen languages and environments.
cwtext 0.94
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126616/
cwtext converts ASCII streams in stdin to ASCII Morse code (dotscii) or to audio suitable for >/dev/audio on Linux and other platforms. It also has a collection of tools for pulling info from the Internet and presenting it in Morse code.
db4oInterface 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126557/
With this library users can easily develop GUIs for the db4o database. It's based upon the db4o browser, written in Java, and is easily extensible.
Enhydra XMLC 2.2 Beta 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126592/
Enhydra XMLC radically simplifies Web development by cleanly separating presentation from code. Enhydra XMLC parses an HTML file and creates a Java object that enables an application to change the HTML file's content at runtime, without regard for its formatting.
fireflier 1.1.1 (Release)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126585/
Fireflier is a firewall tool which is built on top of the iptables framework. It allows you to create rules based on single incoming network packets or to simply allow/deny single packets to pass. It features a client-server approach for administering from another PC, SSL connection between client and server, rules with timeouts (rules are deleted after some time or when fireflier-server shuts down), and filtering based on applications.
flashboot for OpenBSD 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126556/
flashboot for OpenBSD is a set of makefiles, scripts, and support tools to build an OpenBSD image suitable for booting from read-only media, such as flash memory. The default image (<7Mb) is an image for a firewall/router with support for IPsec, SSH, IPv4 and IPv6 packet filtering, DHCP (client and server), and PPPoE. This image may be further trimmed or extended by editing the packing list files included in the distribution.
flexbackup 1.1.7 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126619/
flexbackup is a configurable and easy to use Perl-based backup tool, that can backup local files as well as remote machines (using ssh). It allows the backup itself to be made with afio, cpio, tar, dump, star, or pax. It can work with tape drives, or can easily archive to on-disk files.
FW1-Loggrabber 1.7.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126637/
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.
Gcount 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126638/
GCount is an attempt to make a solid Web-based counter completely in PHP. It uses MySQL as its backend to store counter information, and the GD library to slice up the images on thy fly and display them.
Gigsaw 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126563/
Gigsaw is a jigsaw puzzle game in Gtk+.
GL-117 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126623/
GL-117 is an OpenGL- and SDL-based action flight simulator written in C++. It provides a random terrain generator, lighting effects, sounds, and joystick support.
Glub Tech Secure FTP 2.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126560/
Glub Tech Secure FTP is a command-line utility that allows FTP connections to be made using SSL.
gm4lin 1.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126612/
gm4lin is a Linux driver for the serial port GM-45 (and GM-10, but calibration is wrong for that one) radiation detector. The driver is able to handle virtually any number of detectors connected to a single computer and to log data to the screen, to ASCI files or to a MySQL database (local or remote). Average activity and pulse mode with a fake RC decay are available in order to come as close as possible to common analog radiations detectors. This is console-only software.
GNU Libidn 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126630/
GNU Libidn is an implementation of the Stringprep, Punycode, and IDNA specifications defined by the IETF Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) working group. It is used to prepare internationalized strings (such as domain name labels, usernames, and passwords) in order to increase the likelihood that string input and string comparison work in ways that make sense for typical users throughout the world. The library contains a generic Stringprep implementation that does Unicode 3.2 NFKC normalization, mapping and prohibition of characters, and bidirectional character handling. Profiles for iSCSI, Kerberos 5, Nameprep, SASL, and XMPP are included. Punycode and ASCII Compatible Encoding (ACE) via IDNA are supported.
Gwget2 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126600/
Gwget2 is a Gnome2 front-end to wget.
HardInfo 0.3.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126622/
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.
httphaps 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126646/
httphaps captures and outputs statistics on HTTP packets on a network. Statistics are written as well-formed XML.
Interchange 4.9.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126614/
Interchange is a mature Web application development environment with a focus on ecommerce and dynamic content management. It offers session and user management, database connectivity (both via SQL and a database abstraction layer), templating, a shopping cart, payment processing, inventory, encryption (via GnuPG, PGP, etc.), tax and shipping calculation, discounts, Web-based administration, localization, event routing, SOAP-based RPC, a custom tag language akin to CFML, and the full power of Perl. It grew out of two earlier projects, MiniVend and Tallyman.
Isabelle 2003
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126635/
Isabelle is a popular generic theorem prover developed at Cambridge University and TU Munich. Existing logics like Isabelle/HOL provide a theorem proving environment ready to use for sizable applications. Isabelle may also serve as framework for rapid prototyping of deductive systems. It comes with a large library including Isabelle/HOL (classical higher-order logic), Isabelle/HOLCF (Scott's Logic for Computable Functions with HOL), Isabelle/FOL (classical and intuitionistic first-order logic), and Isabelle/ZF (Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory on top of FOL).
Java Gui Builder 0.6a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126545/
Java GUI Builder lets you decouple your GUI building code from the rest of your application. Using an XML description, it will build appropriate windows, controls, and objects for later retrieval by the mainstream code.
JavaBDD 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126552/
JavaBDD is a Java library for manipulating BDDs (binary decision diagrams). Binary decision diagrams are widely used in model checking, formal verification, optimizing circuit diagrams, and other areas.
JFtp 1.31
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126601/
JFtp is a Swing Java network and file transfer client. It supports FTP with its own FTP API, SMB using jcfis, SFTP using j2ssh, and local file IO using the j2se library. It includes many advanced features such as recursive directory up/download, browsing FTP servers while transferring files, FTP resuming, browsing the LAN for Windows shares, and more. The FTP API is separated from the GUI and can also be used in third-party applications or in a commandline mode. It should ideally be launched in a Web browser via Java Web Start (contained by the Java 1.4 plugin) but can also be started locally.
Kickstart Tools 1.33
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126607/
Kickstart Tools is a collection of scripts that can be used to build and maintain your own Linux distribution. You can control what packages make up your distribution, and automate installation and configuration.
KnokiiSync 0.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126594/
KnokiiSync is a KDE 3.1.x program that transfers entries from a Gnokii-compatible phone to KDE's Address Book and vice-versa. It can transfer all the entries as well as the entry types (home, work, mobile, URL, email, etc).
KOffice 1.3 Beta 2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126569/
KOffice is an integrated office suite based on the KDE libraries. KOffice currently includes KWord, KSpread, KPresenter, KChart, Kontour, Karbon14, KFormula, Kugar, and Kivio. There are no special mail and news clients included in KOffice, because there are KMail and KNode available for KDE anyway. All KOffice components work together, and you can embed every KOffice component into any other KOffice component. This is realized using the KParts object model.
Konstruct 20030619
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126570/
Konstruct is a build system which helps you install KDE releases and applications on your system. It downloads defined source tarballs, checks their integrity, decompresses, patches, configures, builds, and installs them. A complete KDE installation should be as easy as "cd meta/kde;make install". Optionally, you can install additional applications like KOffice, KDevelop, or Quanta (for example, "cd apps/koffice;make install").
libflog 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126588/
libflog is a file-based event logging library for use with any C or C++ program.
LibTomMath 0.06
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126566/
LibTomMath provides highly optimized and portable routines for a vast majority of integer-based number theoretic applications (including public key cryptography).
licq-osd 1.2.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126586/
The licq-osd plugin that enables licq to display new messages as an On Screen Display message.
Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator 4.61
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126591/
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.
mmftpd 0.0.16 devl
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126625/
mmftpd is a secure FTP server that runs as a normal user, and supports virtual users only. Each user may have specific permissions, including the maximum home directory size limit and download/upload speeds. The daemon uses libpth for portable threads instead of fork(). It runs on both BSD and Linux systems, and is ideal for a setup with many Web virtual host customers. It was written from scratch, with no borrowed code.
mmmail suite 0.0.22
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126627/
mmmail provides SMTP and POP3 daemons using MySQL, running as a non-root user. It also supports bandwidth shaping. Relaying is not supported, although it has been designed to handle many users on many virtual hosts. It is fast and secure, uses threads, and has been written entirely from scratch and does not rely on mbox or Maildir formats.
mmstatd 0.0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126628/
mmstatd consists of a C library and server for applications to easily update counters and administrators to maintain them. It supports a crash recovery system using internal logs.
MobileRPC 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126644/
MobileRPC is a tool that generates all of the files required to enable remote procedure calls (RPC) between J2ME client applications and Java servlet servers.
my Wine Database 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126579/
my Wine Database allows the management of data about wine bottles, wine types, and wine producers. It caters for of multiple locations, such as more than one house, basement, kitchen, or anything else, and is written with PHP and mySQL. The database generation script is included, as well as support for multiple languages.
p(y)layer 0.1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126583/
p(y)layer is a jukebox style front end for mpg123 (or mpg321). 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. p(y)layer runs under Python using ncurses, and will scale to a terminal window of any size. p(y)layer has been designed to run quite happily on a diskless Pentium 200 client. p(y)layer, although designed for MP3s, could be extended to play anything that supports mpg123's remote mode (for example, mpg321).
Pebrot 0.7 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126589/
Pebrot is an MSN messenger text client implemented with Python 2 (not 1.5). It also has a pretty curses-based interface.
phpTasks 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126555/
phpTasks is a multiuser task and ticket management system with advanced priority settings and logging facilities.
picoSQL 1.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126578/
picoSQL is an Italian RDBMS. Because it derives from a commercial project, it is already robust, fast, and rather complete.
portmon 1.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126547/
Portmon is a daemon that is able to monitor network services and send notification in the event that a server goes down. Portmon was designed to be able to monitor a large number of servers/workstations and give very configurable notification in the event of a network failure.
qmail Lazydog 1.6 2003/06/19 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126571/
qmail Lazydog (previously known as Big Q) is an installation script for Linux that installs qmail 1.03 with some patches like the qmail-queue patch (for virus scanners), TLS patch (to enable secure SMTP), SMTP auth, oversized DNS patch, glibc patch, tarpit support, regex support, big concurrency, maildir++ , vpopmail for virtual domain management, autorespond, courier-IMAP, the ezmlm/idx mailing list manager, qmailadmin and vqadmin Web administration tools, and more.
QTParted 0.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126631/
QTParted is a Partition Magic clone. It uses libparted for raw disk access, so you need parted installed to use it. The goal of QTParted is to fully wrap all function of parted and create a user friendly PM clone for Linux.
Quark 3.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126599/
Quark is a daemon-like player that uses Xine-lib to play music. It features a front-end that sits in your system tray.
Quick Album 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126587/
Quick Album is a Kylix-based Wizard which takes you through the steps required to generate your own static Web pages with your photos. It is ideal for cases in which you do not have access to SQL or SSI. It will generate both high-bandwidth and low-bandwidth pages. It will scale, rotate, and convert all your images using a simple GUI which requires no expert knowledge to use.
Reverend 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126551/
Reverend is a general purpose Bayesian classifier written in Python. It is designed to be easily adapted for your application and is not tied to email.
ROX-Session 0.1.20
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126610/
ROX-Session is a simple and easy-to-configure session manager. It allows you to change window managers without logging out (and copes with window managers crashing) and provides a graphical configuration box for your X settings (default font, cursor blinking, mouse behavior, etc.). The default session starts ROX-Filer managing the background and one panel, but it can be easily reconfigured for other purposes.
rpm-analyzer 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126639/
rpm-analyzer is a graphical tool to help you analyze rpm dependencies. You can easily see what packages are required to install or remove a specific rpm. It may also help you to maintain a Red Hat-based distribution by providing hdlist and comps.xml analysis tools.
SAGATOR 20030619
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126562/
SAGATOR is an email antivirus/antispam gateway. It is an interface to any smtpd, which runs an antivirus and/ or spam checker. Its modular architecture can use any combination of antivirus/spam checker according to configuration. It currently supports clamav, nod32d, and spamassassin. It has some internal checkers (string_scanner and regexp_scanner). It can parse MIME mails and decompress archives.
Scout Tracker 0.1b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126602/
Scout Tracker allows Scout leaders and Scouts to track their troop's progress online.
Secure FTP Bean 2.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126561/
The Secure FTP Bean allows FTP connections to be made over SSL, including both implicit and explicit SSL connections, and passive and active data transfers with or without encryption.
SegyMAT 0.43
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126645/
SegyMAT is a set of m-files that allows matlab programs to easily read and write segy data, and a Matlab GUI to read and write SEG-Y files, and edit the SEG-Y headers.
Sherlog 1.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126618/
Sherlog analyzes the logs of your Website, and sends you a report detailing every visit of the logfile, and summarizing the number of bookmarks, the most important referrers, and the most visited page of the period. It is customizable: you can choose the numbers of referrers shown, and which page to show in the list of most visited pages. Sherlog is not a statistics generator like Webalizer. The aim of Sherlog is to provide you an easy view of your visitors route on your website, to allow you to understand why this page is so visited, and why that one isn't, and to correct it to make your Web site better.
Show 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126633/
Show is a fast, flexible, extensible and bloat-free image viewer for X11. It fades images in and out with configurable fade speed and delay, and features an extremely small executable footprint, support for over a dozen image formats, wildcard support, and verbose logging abilities. It can also be easilly incorporated into shell scripts and other utilities.
socklog 1.1.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126608/
socklog cooperates with the runit package to create a small and secure replacement for syslogd. socklog supports system logging through Unix domain sockets (/dev/log) and UDP sockets (0.0.0.0:514) with the help of runit's runsvdir, runsv, and svlogd. socklog provides a different network logging concept, and also does log event notification. svlogd has built in log file rotation based on file size, so there is no need for any cron jobs to rotate the logs. socklog is small, secure, and reliable.
Super Flexible File Synchronizer 1.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126538/
Super Flexible allows users to update laptops, PCs, or backup storage. Settings can be stored in multiple profiles. The software detects moved files and performs the same moves on the mirror. It is database-safe and comes with a scheduler for automated backups. Multiple backup versions of each file can be kept, with all transactions logged.
the breve simulation environment 1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126615/
breve is a 3D simulation environment designed for the simulation of decentralized systems and artificial life. While the concept is similar to existing packages such as Swarm and StarLogo, the implementation, which simulates both continuous time and continuous 3D space, is quite different. It also includes an experimental physics engine, allowing the user to implement real-time physical simulations. Simulations are written in a simple object-oriented language called "steve". Users define an agent's behavior by specifying how the agent interacts with the world at each timestep and how the agent interacts when it collides with other agents. The ultimate goal of the system is to allow decentralized simulations to be implemented quickly and easily while providing a sophisticated set of object classes and libraries to facilitate the construction of advanced artificial life simulations.
TN5250j 0.5.7 pre2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126573/
TN5250j is an AS400 Telnet 5250 written in Java. The emulator provides some of the more advance functions of the 5250 datastream such as edit masks, graphical windows, continued editing fields, etc. It includes a file transfer function to multiple formats such as Open Office and Excel via full SQL query statements, spool file exporting to text or PDF, the ability to email after transfer or export, scripting in Python via the jython language, and more.
top 3.5beta12.5 (Delta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126582/
Top is a Top-CPU usage display. It provides a rolling display of top-CPU using processes on a Unix system and also displays other information about the overall health of the system, including load averages and memory utilization.
UnderC C++ Interpreter 1.2.4 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/126568/
UnderC was designed as a compact fast interpreter which does most of the ISO standard. It does templates, and comes with 'pocket' versions of the standard library classes like string, vector, map, etc. It is very straightforward to load functions from shared libraries using a simple pragma and an external "C" directive. UnderC is a fully interactive system, so single lines of code can be quickly evaluated and tested.
vcr 1.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126642/
VCR enables you to record TV programs using a video4linux-compatible video grabber card. It doesn't require a graphical environment, and by using the avifile library, it can use popular Windows codecs (DivX, Indeo Video 5) for realtime encoding.
WebCalendar 0.9.41
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126542/
WebCalendar is a PHP application used to maintain a calendar for one or more persons. MySQL, PosgreSQL, Oracle, or ODBC is required.
Wine 20030618
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126624/
Wine Is Not an Emulator. It is an alternative implementation of the Windows 3.x and Win32 APIs. Wine provides both a development toolkit (Winelib) for porting legacy Windows sources to Unix and a program loader, allowing unmodified Windows 3.1/95/NT binaries to run under Intel Unixes. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely alternative implementation consisting of 100% Microsoft-Free code, but it can optionally use native system DLLs if they are available.
XMLStarlet 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126540/
XMLStarlet is a set of command-line XML utilities which can be used to transform, query, validate, and edit XML documents and files using a simple set of shell commands, similar to the way it is done for plain text files using grep/sed/awk/tr/diff/patch.
Yed 1.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126581/
Yed is a C software library made of modules (objects) instanceable according to the main paradigms of Object Oriented Programming: incapsulation and data hiding.
Zsh 4.1.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126590/
Zsh is a UNIX command interpreter (shell) which of the standard shells most resembles the Korn shell (ksh). It includes enhancements of many types, notably in the command-line editor, options for customising its behaviour, filename globbing, features to make C-shell (csh) users feel more at home and extra features drawn from tcsh.
Zsh 4.0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126593/
Zsh is a UNIX command interpreter (shell) which of the standard shells most resembles the Korn shell (ksh). It includes enhancements of many types, notably in the command-line editor, options for customising its behaviour, filename globbing, features to make C-shell (csh) users feel more at home and extra features drawn from tcsh.
Newsforge Reports
Oracle vs. PeopleSoft: Linux wins no matter what
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/13/1556219
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Oracle is a vociferous Linux supporter. PeopleSoft is busily porting all of its applications to Linux. If Oracle manages to buy PeopleSoft, we'll see a growing push toward more Linux in the enterprise. And if PeopleSoft stays independent, we'll see... a growing push toward more Linux in the enterprise.
Review: Not a WASTE of effort
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/13/2315227
- by Lee Schlesinger - Nullsoft last month released Waste, an application "designed to permit secure distributed collaboration and communications for small trusted groups of users," according to the developers. Nullsoft corporate parent AOL Time Warner yanked the software from Nullsoft's site within a day, saying it had been illegally posted. The software is still available on mirror sites, however, so, open source mavericks that we are, we ...
CeBITes: Report from the first U.S. CeBit http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/18/1541235
- by Lee Schlesinger - CeBIT America, a new American version of the venerable European trade show, opened Wednesday at the Javits Center in New York City. With the IT industry struggling, now seems an odd time to start a major new venture. Both the attendance and the mix of exhibitors indicate that there's no groundswell of enthusiasm for a new show now.
Newsforge Newsvac
Puget Sound Technology teaching Samba lecture in Everett, Washington
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/19/1748236
PST writes Continuing its series of monthly open source lectures, Puget Sound Technology's next workshop covers beginning Samba administration for Windows file and printer sharing. The workshop will be held Tuesday, July 29, 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., in Everett, Wash. It will cover the basics of Samba installations and configurations for providing standard Windows file and printer services.
More FUD from analysts
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/19/175206
Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier writes "Rob Enderle, an analyst for Forrester Research, is supposed to be the voice of reason for folks looking for guidance about their IT decisions. Instead, he's spreading some serious FUD about Linux. Here's why he shouldn't be taken seriously."
Dissenters fight Corel deal on-line
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/19/1610250
Disgruntled shareholders are taking their crusade on-line to quash a takeover deal between Corel Corp. and Vector Capital Corp.
HP's Red Hat stake may grow
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/19/164200
Chief Executive Matthew Szulik of Red Hat Inc. said yesterday that Hewlett-Packard Co., the world's second-biggest maker of computers, is increasing its investment in Red Hat's Linux and Open Source systems.
Schools still handing cash to Microsoft
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/19/1559204
Education Secretary Charles Clarke was last night under renewed pressure to close a loophole allowing computer giant Microsoft to charge schools thousands of pounds for using its software. As heads in Norfolk battle to cope with a £700,000 budget shortfall, and with almost 100 posts forecast to be axed, Bill Gates' company is still making a mint by charging schools up to £15,000 to use products such as Microsoft Office.
Trustix Offers Linux-Based Small Office Server and Small Office Suite Through US Channel http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/19/1546245
Trustix, the IBM independent software vendor of security and network management solutions for Linux, announced today that its Small Office Server is now available through US channel partners. Trustix also announced that Texum Technology, Inc. and Interpretis, Inc. have joined its growing list of US-based resellers.
Win4Lin 5: A Real Win for Linux Users
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/19/1542252
About a month ago, NeTraverse contacted OfB Labs with an early release copy of Win4Lin 5.0, the follow-up to the already impressive Win4Lin 4.0 released in May 2002. Win4Lin, for those not familiar with it, offers near-native (or better) speed "virtualization" of a Windows box so that one can run Windows 9x (95/98/Me) inside GNU/Linux.
The Next Big Thing? Open Peripheral Hardware Connectivity - Part II http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/19/1539237
Recently, an article published in OSNews by Joshua Boyles entitled "The Edge Computing System" captured my attention. This led me to publish my own article entitled "The Next Big Thing? Open Peripheral Hardware Connectivity." I appreciate all the feedback, but I feel that there is still a certain amount of confusion concerning what I was proposing. So, here is a Part II. follow-on article...with some insights that hopefully may flesh things out ...
Is Linux worth the effort?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/19/1533259
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