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[osdn everything] July 04, 2003
Date: Fri Jul 04 2003 - 01:45:28 EDT
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Slashdot
Xbox Linux Made Possible Without a Modchip
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/04/0521245
An anonymous reader writes "Free-X have released an [0] exploit for the Xbox that will let you get Linux on the machine without any hardware mods at all... Microsoft is already [1]threatening them with legal action. Here's the [2]Free-X statement. Free-X say they had been trying to contact MS for a month but were ignored, which is why they've released the exploit. Should be interesting to watch this one." Links
0.
http://lists.netsys.com/pipermail/full-disclosure/2003-July/010895.html
1.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/security/story/0,2000048600,20275965-1,00.htm
2.
http://www.maxconsole.com/?topic=news&sys=all&article=230
dB Drag Racing
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/144236
Exedore writes "For a paltry $80,000 outlay, you too can fight back against the punk kids blasting gangsta rap from their Honda Civics. Enter the strange (and rather loud) world of [0]dB Drag Racing and join a small group of dedicated competitors in their quest for the loudest car sound system possible. The numbers: 130,000 watts output, 177dB, 10,000 lbs. of equipment (including the vehicle and all the sound insulation needed to protect those nearby). It might not be quite up to [1]Disaster Area standards, but it's not far off." Links
0. http://www.popsci.com/popsci/auto/article/0,12543,460648,00.html
Melamine Ceiling Tiles and the Quiet PC
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/2323210
Delta Screemer writes "What good are ceiling tiles when it comes to making a computer quieter? Well, Max Page of [0]FrostyTech has [1]found a use for 'Melamine Foam Sound Absorbing Ceiling Tiles' as a cheap way of lowering the noise a computer produces. By lining the insides of a computer with these $3 24"x24" industrial office panels he was able to quiet a computer by several dBA. That may not sound like much (pun intended), but when you compare the price of these melamine foam panel to products like [2]Dynamat the price difference is substantial." Links
0.
http://www.frostytech.com/
1.
http://www.frostytech.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=982
2.
http://www.dynamat.com/
World Radiocommunications Group OKs New WLAN Spectrum http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/2216225
[0]BenFranske writes "The World Radiocommunications Conference [1]will
allow a portion of spectrum in the 5GHz band to be used for WLANs, a
decision hailed as a 'defining moment' for the WLAN industry. Although
this doesn't impact the US much as this spectrum is already being used
for wireless networking here, this will help standardize the
frequencies worldwide."
Links
Ink More Expensive Than Champagne
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/2037207
laing writes "According to [0]this story, ink for home printers is now seven times more expensive than vintage champagne.Ink in a typical replacement cartridge costs about £1.70 per millilitre, compared with 1985 Dom Perignon at 23p per millilitre." Explains why I get daily spam about toner, but none at all for booze! Links
0. http://www.thisislondon.com/news/articles/5590282?source=Evening%20Standard
Laptops Outsell Desktops in Retail Stores http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/186258
TechnoPope writes "According to [0] this article on MSNBC.Com, laptop
computers accounted for 54 percent of of 500 Million in retail computer
sales last year. Also mentioned was that LCD's outsold CRT's in retail
as well. "
Links
0. http://www.msnbc.com/news/934120.asp?0dm=C18MT
Microsoft Patenting IM Translation?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/1759201
[0]theodp writes "The USPTO just published Microsoft's patent application for a [1]Method and system for translating instant messages, in which the software giant demonstrates how an English-speaking sender can type 'Hi' in an IM and it will be translated to 'Hola' for a Spanish-speaking recipient." Links
0. mailto:theodp@aol.com
Which Organizations Have Standardized on Mozilla? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/0039200
andy brunetto asks: " We are investigating email clients to deploy as our "standard" at the college where I work. I'm trying to find out who is using Mozilla for their email. When I say "who" I mean organizationally, as I realize 99% of us geeks already use it. What organizations out there are rolling out Mozilla as their standard web and/or email client, and why? Yes, we are considering using Thunderbird, once it is final. Thanks!" Hopefully this will make companies realize that the Internet isn't comprised of just IE users.
Design Slashdot's New T-Shirt and Win Cool Stuff! http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/1441203
It's been some time since we had a new shirt design for folks to buy, and it's time to change that. More specific guidelines for the contest follow, but in short, we're taking design submissions starting immediately. Winners will get a $75 credit at [0]ThinkGeek, as well as 3 copies of of their t-shirt design. Winners will be chosen by me. Links
Protecting Cities from Hijacked Planes
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/1639249
Kong99 writes "A group at UC-Berkeley has proposed [0]Soft Walls to stop hijacked planes from entering a protected airspace. Interesting read especially since they claim it is 'hack' proof." Links
0. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993893
Freshmeat
aiSee 2.1.88 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128157/
aiSee reads a textual, easy-to-read, and easy-to-learn graph specification and automatically calculates a customizable graph layout. This layout is then displayed, and can be printed or interactively explored. aiSee features 15 basic graph layout algorithms (including force-directed layout), recursive subgraph nesting, fish-eye views, and an animation interface. It has been optimized to handle huge graphs automatically generated by applications (e.g. compilers).
Amrita VPN 0.97-2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128150/
Amrita VPN is an easy-to-use open source VPN solution that runs on the GNU/Linux platform. The implementation is fully in userspace and requires no kernel patches or enhancements. It uses SSL for strong encryption and authentication.
audio recording server 2.2.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128200/
erec is a tool program for recording raw audio stream from the soundcard. Multiple instances of erec can be running at the same time sharing the same audio device. It works as a frontend to the audio device for programs wishing to listen at the same time.
brinance 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128186/
Brinance is a commandline financial planning and tracking program, hoping to be a functional replacement for something overly complicated like GnuCash for those who prefer the commandline. It is written in simple Perl and has a few advanced features, such as scheduling transactions in the future and having as many accounts as one might care to have.
Build it Fast 0.1.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128167/
Build it Fast (BIF) is a PHP Framework. It contains several classes that help you develop complex Web applications in a short amount of time. It brings the concept of the 'widget' to Web development. It features Cascade Skins and transparent session management.
C++ Portable Types Library (PTypes) 1.8.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128133/
The C++ Portable Types Library (PTypes) is a simple alternative to the STL that includes multithreading and networking. It defines dynamic strings, character sets, variants, lists and other basic data types along with threads, synchronization primitives, and IP sockets. It is portable across modern Unix and Windows systems and includes a sample HTTP daemon showing the full power of the library.
Calendario Class 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128162/
Calendario Class is a PHP class that helps you to create calendar and organizers. It's highly configurable, letting you choose how many days are in a week, when a week starts, the details of the HTML output, and so on. It also knows about holidays.
Confirm 0.55
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128185/
Confirm is an email challenge-response system which virtually eliminates all unsolicited email. It is written in C and procmail, and is easily customized. Unsolicited email is checked against valid sender/recipient headers; unauthorized email is held pending a one-time confirmation reply from the sender.
Crimson Fields 0.3.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128054/
Crimson Fields is a tactical war game in the tradition of Battle Isle. Mission objectives range from defending strategically vital locations to simply destroying all enemy forces in the area. Tools are available to create custom maps and campaigns. The original Battle Isle maps can be played if the player has a copy of the game files.
CWirc 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128136/
CWirc is a plugin for the X-Chat IRC client to transmit raw Morse code over the internet using IRC servers as reflectors. The transmitted Morse code can be received in near real-time by other X-Chat clients with the CWirc plugin. CWirc tries to emulate a standard amateur radio rig: it sends and receives Morse over virtual channels, and it can listen to multiple senders transmitting on the same channel. Morse code is keyed locally using a straight or iambic key connected to a serial port, and the sound is played through the soundcard.
Date::Manip 5.42a (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128202/
Date::Manip is a Perl module for handling Gregorian dates. Operations such as comparing two times, calculating a time a given amount of time from another, or parsing international times are all easily done. The library is oriented towards the type of operations people tend to think of rather than those operations used routinely by computers.
DSPAM 2.6.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128156/
DSPAM is a server-side anti-spam agent for UNIX email servers. It masquerades as the email server's local delivery agent and filters/learns spam using a Bayesian statistical approach which provides an administratively maintenance-free, self-learning anti-spam service. Each email is broken down into its most interesting tokens, each assigned a spam probability. All probabilities are then combined to produce a statistical probability of spam. This approach, applied to a mature corpus of email, has the potential to yield a 99.75% success rate with less than a 0.03% chance of false positives.
dutchtpl 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128139/
dutchtpl is a PHP-based template parser which supports multiple templates and subtemplates at the same time. It also has a lot of other handy functions like caching and a parse all function.
Echo Web Application Framework 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128143/
Echo is a framework for developing object-oriented, event-driven Web applications in Java. Echo removes the developer from having to think in terms of "page-based" applications and enables him/her to develop applications using the conventional object-oriented and event-driven paradigm for user interface development. Knowledge of HTML, HTTP, and JavaScript is not required. Tutorials, white papers, and full API documentation are available.
Effort: Zero Franchise Manager 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128198/
The Effort: Zero Franchise Manager (EZFM) is a set of PHP files designed to minimize the effort needed to create a website for a Madden 2003 PC Franchise. One of the modes offered by Madden 2003 PC is the "Franchise" mode which allows you to play and manage a team over multiple seasons. This program aim to reduce some of the busywork by automatically generating Web pages to display the information contained in the Stat Files, and in a consistent and appealing manner.
ego file manager 0.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128171/
The ego file manager is a GTK+2 file manager that uses libferris for its VFS and provides evas2 and GTK tree views.
eXtented SErver Grapher 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128144/
xseg (eXtented SErver Grapher) is a server monitoring tool. It can check whether your server's services are alive. Its output is written to an HTML file. xseg can check the services on both local and remote machines. xseg can also run user-defined shell commands and write the stdout of these commands to an output file. This makes xseg very flexible, since you can write your own shell scripts and xseg will run them and capture their output.
Fink 0.5.3 CVS_SNAP-20030307 (CVS)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128161/
The Fink project wants to bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and Mac OS X. It modifies Unix software so that it compiles and runs on Mac OS X and makes it available for download as a coherent distribution. Fink uses Debian tools like dpkg and apt-get to provide powerful binary package management. You can choose whether you want to download precompiled binary packages or build everything from source.
GCalc 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128128/
GCalc is a well-rounded mature implementation of a graphing calculator, featuring a complete set of often- used functions. It has many convenient features such as predefined zooms and tracing. But it's small, making it reasonable to host on a Web site for download.
GNU Development Environment 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128174/
The GNU Development Environment (GNUDE) is a complete suite of GNU C/C++, Fortran, Java cross compilers, and the GDB simulator/debugger for embedded microprocessor application development.
Grassy Plain 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128164/
Grassy Plain is a landscape theme. The original background is by americanpsycho (Pat Bateman) and was modified by Xeon Inc.
Gridlock 1.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128155/
Gridlock is a collection of grid-based board games for GNUstep, including Ataxx, Reversi, Gomoku, Connect Four, Breakthrough, and Glass Bead. You can play against another person or computer opponents of varying difficulty.
GtkAda 2.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128129/
GtkAda is an Ada graphical toolkit based on GTK+ 2.2. It allows you to develop graphical applications in Ada using GTK+ and Gnome.
GWorkspace 0.5.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128145/
GWorkspace is the official GNUstep workspace manager. It is a clone of NeXT's workspace manager. It is ready for daily usage.
Hastymail 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128122/
Hastymail is a fast, secure, RFC-compliant, cross- platform IMAP/SMTP client application providing a clean Web interface for sending and reading email. It is designed for speed and is small but offers a useful feature set making for an excellent tool for users when away from their desktop client. No frames, cookies, or javascript support is required, and a wide range of browsers is supported (including text based and even PDA browsers like Blazer).
Impact 0.3.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128175/
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.
JACK Rack 1.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128190/
JACK Rack is a LADSPA effects rack for the JACK audio API. It supports MIDI control, arbitrary channels, LRDF XML plugin descriptions, and the LADCCA session management system.
Jameleon 1_0-docs-RC3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128152/
Jameleon is an automated testing tool that separates applications into features and allows those features to be tied together independently, creating test-cases. These test-cases can then be data-driven and executed against different environments. The goal is to create an automated testing tool that can be used for the enterprise. A UI that ties a series of features to a test-case, generating both the test script and the test-case documentation is in the works.
JBoss 4.0 DR 2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128138/
JBoss is an Open Source, standards-compliant, Enterprise JavaBeans application server implemented in pure Java. JBoss provides JBossServer, the basic EJB container and JMX infrastructure, JBossMQ for JMS messaging, JBossMail for mail, JBossTX for JTA/JTS transactions, JBossSX for JAAS based security, JBossCX for JCA connectivity, and JBossCMP for CMP persistence. It integrates with Tomcat Servlet/JSP container and Jetty Web server/servlet container, and enables you to mix and match these components through JMX by replacing any component you wish with a JMX-compliant implementation for the same APIs. The goal is to provide a full J2EE stack in the Free/Open Source software world.
John the Ripper 1.6.34 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128163/
John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix (11 are officially supported, not counting different architectures), DOS, Win32, BeOS, and OpenVMS. Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords. It supports several crypt(3) password hash types which are most commonly found on various Unix flavors, as well as Kerberos AFS and Windows NT/2000/XP LM hashes. Several other hash types are added with contributed patches.
Kadu 0.3.4rc2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128097/
Kadu is a KDE client for Gadu-Gadu, a Polish messenger application similar to AIM or ICQ. It's based on libgadu, a reverse-engineered Unix API for Gadu-Gadu, and implements most features of the original.
Kodo JDO 2.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128197/
Kodo JDO allows you to write database calls using Java statements instead of SQL statements, by supporting the Java Data Objects standard for transparent persistence. It is the most complete implementation of the JDO specification for relational data stores, and comes with tools for producing a schema from an object model, producing class files from an existing schema, and a performance pack (distributed caching and statement batching) that improves performance by 15 - 30 times. It supports most relational databases, application servers, and IDEs, and reduces the total coding effort by 20-40%.
KXParse 2.0pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128153/
KXParse is a PHP-based, lightweight, easy-to-use XML parser. It does not require installation because it's just an include file that's loaded on the fly. It features an API that simplifies the process of reading files.
Leverlåda 2.6.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128148/
Leverlåda is an X-Chat script to retrieve files from FSERVE bots running on IRC. This script is useful when lots of fserves are offering something and you get bored of waiting and hitting a zillion triggers. In addition, fserves tend to come and go capriciously, and their queues are usually full. Leverlåda tries to automate the processes of locating and receiving files, enabling you to spend your time on something more useful.
lfwmail 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128160/
lfwmail is a lightweight webmail program. It will run with acceptable speed even on a Pentium 100Mhz Linux mailserver. It has just basic features and no calendar or folders, but it is fully MIME capable and can handle attachments. It is also very secure when you use https encryption. It converts HTML messages to ASCII for security reasons, but you can still see the HTML versions if you want. The code is clean and structured. The installation is straightforward and doesn't require a lot of non-standard modules.
libferris 1.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128168/
libferris is a virtual filesystem that exposes hierarchical data of all
kinds through a common C++ interface. Access to data is performed using
C++ IOStreams and Extended Attributes (EA) can be attached to each
datum to present metadata. Ferris uses a plugin API to read various
data sources and expose them as contexts and to generate interesting
EA. Current implementations include Native (kernel disk IO with event
updates using fam), xml (mount an xml file as a filesystem), edb (mount
a berkeley database), ffilter (mount an LDAP filter string) and mbox
(mount your mailbox). EA generators include image, audio, and animation
decoders.
libparportled 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128131/
libparportled is intended to control a LED device plugged into a parallel port.
LinPopup 2.0.1 (GTK+ 2)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128121/
LinPopUp is a GTK port of Winpopup, running over Samba. It permits communication with a Windows-running computer that runs Winpopup, sending or receiving messages. Please note that LinPopUp is not only a port, as it includes several enhanced features like it doesn't need to run permanently, full message base management, can be run minimized, full message editor capabilities, clipboard cut&paste, documentation, etc.
Linux 2.5.74 (2.5)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128141/
Linux is a clone of the Unix kernel, written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance. It has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix kernel, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory management, and TCP/IP networking.
Lurker 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128182/
Lurker is a mailing list archiver designed for capacity, speed, simplicity, and configurability, in that order. Noteworthy features include: Google-style searching on all fields, chronology preserving threads, multilingual support, and attachment support.
Megamek.NET 0.323
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128189/
Megamek.NET allows you to enter the World of Battletech and become commander of a subsection of the forces of one of the 5 big houses or a minor faction. You then use your lances (groups of Meks) to fight against other players online. The game's community is already quite large, and there are 2 major servers set up. One is using the 3025 timeline and the other one is set in the year 3060.
miASMa 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128178/
miASMa is a powerful 2 pass macro assembler for x86 machines that generates relocatable object Files that conform to the ELF format. It uses LEX/YACC for scanning and parsing of the source file, unlike most other assemblers which use customized routines. It is supported with extensive documentation that can serve as an introduction to understanding assemblers in general as well as understanding the ELF Format. It is bundled with example assembly language programs which can help one better understand the syntax used by it (which closely resembles MASM).
migrate-me 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128011/
migrate-me migrates users' mail boxes from an Exchange server to a Linux mail server using the Maildir format. With the help of imapsync. It has only been tested by migrating accounts from Exchange 5.5 using the IMAP protocol to a courier-imap server, but it should work with any IMAP to IMAP migration. It features a single mode and a batch mode and a simple menu interface.
Minibar Drink Guide 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128191/
Minibar is a bartending application for PalmOS. It includes a database of over 100 mixed drink recipes and filters for searching by drink and ingredient type.
MP3Gain 1.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128127/
MP3Gain analyzes and adjusts mp3 files so that they have the same volume. It does not just do peak normalization, as many normalizers do. Instead, it does some statistical analysis to determine how loud the file actually sounds to the human ear. Also, the changes MP3Gain makes are completely lossless. There is no quality lost in the change because the program adjusts the mp3 file directly, without decoding and re-encoding.
nb++ 0.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128154/
nb++ is a nuts-and-bolts C++ toolkit. It includes classes for basic operating system features such as sockets, threads and regular expressions, along with threading strategies, a framework for writing daemons and tools for reference counting and event dispatching. Special attention has been given to thread safety. There is an emphasis on supporting Unix idioms.
OpenInteract 1.99_01 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128159/
OpenInteract is an extensible Web application server written in pure Perl. It includes a robust system of components, object-oriented data access, a consistent security scheme for both tasks and data objects, a simple user and group management system, and a convenient packaging system that makes it easy to distribute custom applications, amongst other things. It is stable, and runs out of the box on five different databases.
Oralux 0.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128176/
Oralux is a GNU/Linux distribution for blind or visually impaired people. It is based on Knoppix, and runs from the CD-ROM. An audio desktop replaces the graphical user interface.
Panoptis 0.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128169/
Panoptis is a tool to detect and stop DoS/DDoS attacks. It relies on data provided by NetFlow-enabled routers, and includes functionality to cooperate with other "Panoptis" detectors in order to trace the attack back to its source.
pkdump 0.96
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128140/
pkdump detects TCP and UDP port scans and connection attempt from foreign hosts over the Internet.
PowerDNS daemon 2.9.10 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128137/
PDNS is an advanced high performance authoritative nameserver with a host of backends. Besides plain BIND configuration files, PDNS reads information from MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL and many other databases. Backends can easily be written in any language, and a sample Perl backend is provided. PDNS powers http://express.powerdns.com, a Web-based DNS maintenance site, and the top level domain .TK.
reciteword 0.8.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128126/
reciteword is education software developed using GTK 2 to help people study English and recite English words. It has a very beautiful interface to make reciting words an interesing thing. It can change skins, and comes with many sound events, including over 400 books for you to choose. It also includes a dictionary, which can also run separately.
RFC 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128170/
RFC (Remote Filesystem Checker) is a set of scripts that aims to help system administrators run a filesystem checker (like tripwire, aide, etc.) from a "master-node" to several "slave-nodes" using ssh, scp, sudo, and few other common shell commands.
RSSCreator 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128158/
RSSCreator is a PHP class that provides an easy way to create RSS feeds from within PHP. RSS 0.91, 1.0, and 2.0 are supported.
Samba Make Logon Script 2.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128125/
Samba Make Logon Script is a shell script to produce Windows logon scripts with Samba.
ServoMaster 0.6p1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128192/
ServoMaster is a project dedicated to providing a consistent hardware independent way of controlling R/C servos with a personal computer.
SKYRiX Web Groupware 4.1pl11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128187/
SKYRiX Web Groupware is a set of Web-based applications for contact, appointment, project, and content management. It is comparable to Exchange and SharePoint portal servers. SKYRiX servers run on almost any Linux system, can synchronize with Palm PDAs and are completly scriptable using XML-RPC.
Struts 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128184/
Struts is a Jakarta project that provides a J2EE framework for building Web applications. It is based on a Model 2 approach, a variant of MVC. Struts provides its own Controller component and integrates with other technologies to provide the Model and the View. For the Model, Struts can interact with any standard data access technology, including Enterprise Java Beans, JDBC, and Object Relational Bridge. For the View, Struts works well with JavaServer Pages, Velocity Templates, XSLT, and other presentation systems.
TN3270 Resource Gateway 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128165/
TN3270RG is a TCP/IP TN3270 gateway that dynamically assigns resources to a connection from a pool of available addresses. Features include an easy to use Web interface for management and a PostgreSQL database backend.
Turck MMCache for PHP 2.3.18
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128142/
Turck MMCache is a PHP accelerator and encoder. It increases performance of PHP scripts by caching them in a compiled state, so that the overhead of compiling is almost completely eliminated. It also uses some optimizations for speeding up PHP scripts' execution. It typically reduces server load and increases the speed of PHP code by 1-10 times. It is tested with PHP 4.1.0-4.3.2, and Apache 1.3 and 2.0 under Linux and Windows.
tvlisting 2.0.14 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128130/
tvlisting is a Perl script that retrieves and displays the TV listing from the Internet. It currently uses tvguide.com as the source of the listings. This script can output the listing as text, HTML, LaTeX, and Xawtv. It can also be used as a CGI script with HTML output.
Veejay 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128199/
Veejay is a video tracker/editing tool for Linux, which is similar in concept to FastTracker and ProTracker but for video. You can make video samples and line them up on a pattern. You can set looptype, playback speed and do a number of effects or transitions on them while playing back from multiple video sources in realtime. The project emphasizes direct (user) interaction. It is possible to navigate through video samples, define various types of looping, increase and decrease playback speed, and navigate through the effect chain to apply a chain of effects using the keyboard while the interface keeps track of what you are doing.
vshnu 1.0115
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128193/
Vshnu is a visual shell for Linux/Unix finally done right. Best used as an optional color visual mode to a regular command line shell, vshnu is handy for powerful directory listing and navigation, Unix command assembly, special actions on file types, and fileset handling. Written in Perl for portability and high configurability, it also provides the advantages of a Perl interpreter as part of your Unix shell environment.
WebShop 0.9.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128181/
WebShop provides a framework for an Internet shop using EJB 2. It includes the beans necessary to operate an e-commerce enterprise, as well as a sample servlet/JSP implementation of a shop.
WebUtils 1.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128179/
WebUtils is a Java library and toolkit for making the development of Web portals much more rapid and routine. It provides generic styles of reporting and look-and-feel, database connectivity, and much more.
Youhp3 3.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128151/
Youhp3 (Youpee's One Unlimited HTML PreProcessor) is an HTML preprocessor that allows you to embed code of any script language, as well as calling any external program to generate text files. It is specifically designed to work with HTML/XML documents, and provide traditional features, such as define, include, macro, conditional tests, and loop.
Newsforge Reports
Dear Microsoft resellers: It's time to look at Linux
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/30/2322205
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - We've been seeing stories lately indicating that Microsoft is beefing up its direct sales staff and relying less on independent resellers. If you're one of those resellers, it looks like it's time for you to start offering Linux and Free/Open Source solutions in addition to the Windows-based ones on which you've based your business in the past, if only in self-defense. Chances are, you and your clients will like ...
Fight spam with the DNS, not the CIA
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/02/0347225
- by John Fitzgibbon - It seems like spam is in the news every day lately, and frankly, some of the proposed solutions seem either completely hare-brained or worse than the problem itself. I'd like to reiterate a relatively modest proposal I first made over a year ago: Require legitimate DNS MX records for all outbound email servers.
Hosed by application software
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/27/1939214
- by Lee Schlesinger - When I pulled out my garden hose at the end of the winter, I found it was kinky and cracked, and let little sprays of water shoot out in odd places. ("Like its owner," my wife says.) It still did its job, mostly, but I can't say I'm really happy with it. Which brings us to application software. I've been trying a number of programs lately that allow clients to communicate with each other, and I've been tearing my hair out ...
Newsforge Newsvac
Would Microsoft Open Sourcing NT be Linux's Nemesi
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/2113210
Anonymous Reader writes "Microsoft has killed off Windows NT, but it should now release its source code to the open-source community in order to fight off the challenge from Linux, Munir Kotadia claims. OSNews debunks the suggestion and explains that it wouldn't make business sense for Microsoft."
Back to BASIC
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/2021257
Few languages have been as popular over the years as BASIC. Until about a decade ago, almost every programmer cut his teeth learning BASIC. Indeed, the name itself came from Beginner's All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. If you've had BASIC training, can you find a familiar flavor that runs under Linux? Because it is not enough to find a good BASIC language implementation for Linux; one must find a BASIC language variant that approximates ...
Linux v Microsoft: the battle for hearts and servers http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/2019255
Storage on demand is a new concept that will help organisations maximise the value of their information assets. Find out how IBM on demand technologies like storage virtualisation and autonomic computing could help your company reduce costs and exploit enterprise data to the full.
Athene 3.1 Puts a New Face on Desktop Computing http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/1959240
Rocklyte Systems writes "Rocklyte Systems is pleased to announce the latest version of its free multi-platform operating system environment, Athene 3.1. Available for Linux and Windows, Athene supports the rare ability of being able to function on competing operating systems, while also maintaining its own independent OS infrastructure (the Athenyx 2003 CDROM series). The 3.1 release of Athene continues to make significant gains in the ...
ING Canada to Embrace Linux in Network Upgrade http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/1918204
Financial services firm ING Canada is now among the latest enterprise networks to embrace open-source operating system Linux as part of a wide-ranging plan to upgrade its Internet-based operations.
Playing with disaster could save lives for real http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/1833230
In a major disaster, it's one thing being able to put out fires efficiently and deal with medical emergencies on the spot, but you have to get your emergency vehicles there first.
EC funds project to promote Open Source in embedded systems http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/1728236
The European Commission (EC) has funded a project to promote the adoption of Open Source software, including Linux, in embedded systems. The project, known as Industrial Embedded Systems (INES), was funded by the European Community's Fifth Framework Programme for research, technological development, and demonstration activities. The initiative is investing in twenty-three "key actions," and the INES project is part of key action 4.2.4, ...
The Age: Samsung releases Contact client for Mac http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/1639200
Anonymous Reader writes "Samsung has released a version of its desktop mail user client for the Mac OS X,... Samsung Contact is a HP OpenMail-based alternative to Microsoft Exchange Server. It is used on Linux and Unix platforms."
Software that makes you say Ahhhh!
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/1629252
Anonymous Reader writes "Lets face it, I love using Linux. I'm not a new comer to the world of Open source nor to Linux itself. As a fairly seasoned user, I enjoy the Linux shell terminal and the wonders of bash, awk, grep, egrep. I feel a greater sense of efficiency when in the terminal and dealing with administration tasks. However I too enjoy my Linux desktop. And when running on the desktop I too (like many people) enjoy a solid, complete ...
Ah, the 4th of July. Hotdogs, apple pie, fireworks ... and hacking?!? http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/163257
While most Americans will spend the holiday weekend relaxing, a band of hackers may or may not be trying to prove who's the best cyber villain, according to warnings from private and government security officials.
Thinkgeek
Interests: Broken Miho Poster
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/megatokyo/coolthings/6188/
Interests: Ph34r t3h Cute Ones Poster
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/megatokyo/coolthings/6193/
Caffeine: Chargers Caffeinated Espresso Beans http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/candy/5f75/
Caffeine: Shock Triple Mocha
http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/drinks/6122/
Caffeine: Brute Force Energy Drink
http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/drinks/6184/
Computing: ICE-Cube Barebones Mini-PC
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/handhelds/5fd7/
PC Mods: ThermalTake SubZero CPU Coolers http://www.thinkgeek.com/pcmods/cooling/603e/
Computing: Archos AV120 w/ DVR Attachment http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/handhelds/5fe2/
Cube Goodies: I Brake For LAN Parties Bumper Sticker http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/stickers/5fbe/
Cube Goodies: geek. bumper sticker
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/stickers/5f96/
Interests: Megatokyo Bumper Sticker 3-pack http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/megatokyo/coolthings/5fc2/
Cube Goodies: There's no place like 127.0.0.1 bumper sticker http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/stickers/5fa6/
Cube Goodies: hacker. bumper sticker
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/stickers/5f9e/
Cube Goodies: Killer coding ninja monkeys Bumper Sticker http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/stickers/5faa/
Gadgets: USB Memory Watch
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/5eec/
Caffeine: Jolt Gum - Spearmint Office Fishbowl http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/candy/612a/
Gadgets: Biometric Mouse
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/security/5f11/