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[osdn everything] July 24, 2003
Date: Thu Jul 24 2003 - 01:45:28 EDT
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Slashdot
X-Plane - An Obsession For Realism
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/1837201
[0]caseih writes "[1]Popular Science is running an [2]article on Austin
Meyer, the creator of the popular X-Plane flight simulator. Although
not an open source project, [3]X-Plane has a devoted community of
flight enthusiasts and developers who are striving to make it the most
realistic flight simulator ever. In fact, flight characteristics are
calculated in real time from aircraft design data, not static tables
like MS Flight Simulator. PopSci has a [4]neat picture showing X-Plane
calculating the lift-drag vectors in real-time across an aircraft.
Meyer's quest for realism in his simulations dominates the development
and use of X-Plane."
Links
0. mailto:caseih@hotmail.com
1.
http://www.popsci.com/
2.
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/aviation/article/0,12543,463052,00.html
3.
http://www.x-plane.com/
4.
http://i.timeinc.net/popsci/images/space/space0803austin_A2.jpg
Digitized Gutenberg Bible Available
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/2310228
Prince_Ali writes "A digital copy of the Gutenburg Bible, the first major Western book printed from movable type, [0]has been made available by [1]The University of Texas, available through the [2]Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. The Ransom Center's [3]copy of the Bible is claimed to be the finest in the world, and is now freely available to anyone who would like to examine it. More information can be found via [4]this CNN.com article." Links
0.
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/gutenberg/
1.
http://www.utexas.edu/
2.
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/
3.
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/gutenberg/html/8.html
4.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/07/23/digital.scripture.ap/index.htmlHouse Overturns FCC Media Consolidation Plan http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/24/0124219
son_of_a_general writes "Looks like the House of Representatives just overturned the FCC's media consolidation rules, previously covered on Slashdot [0]here(1), [1]here(2), and [2]here(3). The article over at CNet shows that the [3]House passed a bill that overturned the rules, by a 400 to 21 vote. All is not clear yet, however, as the bill still must pass through Senate and face being signed by a President who has already indicated that he may veto." Links
0.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/18/0237230&tid=149
1.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/02/1638224&tid=149
2.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/14/1450243&tid=103
3.
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5053421.html?tag=fd_top
Missouri Wins American Solar Challenge
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/2148218
[0]dagoalieman writes "[1]The University of Missouri - Rolla won this
year's 2300 mile [2]American Solar Challenge. The roughly 339lb car
(517lb with driver) with 1500 watts of power won by nearly 5 hours -
here's [3]the final results. UMR has now won two out of the past three
races, finishing second in the last race, to Michigan. Congrats, and
good luck to them in the [4]World Solar Challenge!"
Links
0. mailto:thegoalieman@@@yahoo...com
1.
http://solar42.umr.edu/
2.
http://www.americansolarchallenge.org/
3.
http://americansolarchallenge.org/daily_race_standings.html
4.
http://www.wsc.org.au/
The RIAA's Hit List Named
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/2236234
[0]Carpoolio writes "[1]TechTV is the first I've seen to name names in
the fight between the RIAA and music downloaders. Using an [2]online
court records search service, they've [3]found a number of the
subpoenas served by the RIAA to ISPs, which will ultimately end in
lawsuits for the people named on this list. Right now, they've
published a number of the P2P user names filed with the US District
Court in Washington, DC, mainly Kazaa users. Are you on the list?"
Links
0. mailto:Carpoolio2001@yahoo.com
1.
http://www.techtv.com/
2.
http://pacer.uscourts.gov/
3.
http://www.techtv.com/news/culture/story/0,24195,3484600,00.htmlRe-Opened Computer History Museum Explored http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/2124255
[0]gosand writes "An article over at OSNews gives [1]a nice overview of
the recently re-opened Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.
There are some good pictures in the article, and also [2]at the
Museum's website. They have a lot of very interesting computers,
including an Apple I (signed by Woz), an Enigma machine, and Crays 1,
2, and 3 (yes, there was a 3!) Maybe you have something sitting in your
basement that [3]you would like to donate?"
Links
0. mailto:savemejebus@REMOVETHISearthlink.net
1.
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=4102
2.
http://www.computerhistory.org/
3.
http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/donateArtifact/
Microsoft's Patent Problem
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/1947257
[0]pens writes "Microsoft suffered utter [1]defeat at a crucial
pretrial hearing in what appears to be the highest-stakes patent
litigation ever—one in which a tiny company called InterTrust
Technologies claims that 85% of Microsoft's entire product line
infringes its digital security patents."
Links
A Geek's Tour Of North America?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/22/032205
[0]PlanetThoughtful writes "Later this year I'm taking advantage of a
once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to backpack around the U.S. and Canada
(Sept 2003 to whenever I have to come home again). Being a lifelong
Australian geek (think of Steve Irwin and then stop, because I'm
nothing like that and neither is anyone else, Steve Irwin included) I'm
desperately curious: what would make it to the travel itinerary of
Slashdot's all-time geek-tour of North America? Think electronics,
architecture, astronomy, enlightenment! Think gadgets, bookstores,
software, comics, The Library Of Congress, The Smithsonian, Wanting To
See Really Amazing Things! Think travelling on a budget, then forget
about that if it's a 'You Must See This Before You Die' sort of
suggestion. And then stop thinking about these things, and actually
tell me!"
Links
0. http://www.planetthoughtful.org
Skeptical Reactions To SCO From Around The Globe http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/1741234
Besides the recent action in Australia, lots of others are choosing to make affirmative statements denying SCO's claims to own the name and code of all things *nix. Read below for a wrap-up of some recent public reactions to the SCO claims from a wide range of potential litigants (if the SCO case gets that far): Japanese conglomerates, American department stores, Bruce Perens, kernel developer Richard Gooch via Mozillaquest, and Joe ("Citizen") Barr.
The Wifi Slugfest Over Portland's PGE Park http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/1728242
[0]tomwhore writes "Portland's community wireless networking group,
Personal Telco Project (PTP), recently knocked one into the ball park
with a new WiFi node. The new node covers the area around and inside of
Portland's PGE Ballpark. While free internet access would be welcome by
most, PGE Park managers are not happy. They recently cut a deal giving
Comcast exclusive rights to do up their networking. 'This is our
stadium, and we run the communications for it,' said Chris Metz, a PGE
Park spokesman. To find out more about the impact of the PTPs latest
home run check out this article in the [1]Oregonian and over at the
[2]PTP's website." Let's hope the park also puts a Faraday cage around
the whole park to ensure radio silence.
Links
0. mailto:tom@wsmf.org
1.
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/business/1058962411244460.xml
2.
http://www.personaltelco.net/static/
Freshmeat
amSynth 1.0 rc4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130272/
amSynth is a realtime polyphonic Analogue Modeling SYNTHesizer. It provides virtual analogue synthesis in the style of the classic Moog Minimoog/Roland Junos. It offers an easy-to-use interface and synth engine, while still creating varied sounds.
BEAST/BSE 0.5.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130236/
BEAST (the BEdevilled Audio System) is a GTK+/GNOME-based frontend to BSE (the Bedevilled Sound Engine). BSE comes with the abilities to load/store songs and synthesis networks (in .bse files), play them modify them, etc. BEAST provides the necessary GUI to make actual use of BSE. Synthesis filters (BseSources) are implemented in shared library modules, and get loaded on demand.
BHL 1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130249/
BHL is an Emacs mode which enables you to convert plain text files into HTML, LaTeX, Texinfo, SGML (Linuxdoc), and TXT files. The BHL mode handles three levels of sections, many sectioning styles, common font-styles, any kind of lists, tables, URLs, horizontal rules, and Wiki names. BHL handles a list of links (lol) and a table of contents (toc): you can browse the lol and the toc, insert them where you want, and update the sections' numbers with one keystroke.
bobot++ 2.1.3 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130266/
bobot++ is an IRC bot written in C++. Being the evolution of bobot, it provides time dependent commands, multichannel, flood control and many other features.
bonddb 0.7.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130222/
bonddb is an object orientated wrapper for PostgreSQL. It's a fast data abstraction layer written in C for C/C++ applications, to allow easy access to class objects. You can use existing PostgreSQL databases without any modification or additional tables needed in the backend.
BugMall Shopping Cart 2.5 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130276/
The BugMall Shopping Cart includes everything you need to create, run, and manage an online store.
CalcChecksum 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130268/
CalcChecksum is a simple utility for calculating various checksums easily with a graphical user interface.
CentralNic Toolkit 0.06 (Perl)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130223/
The CentralNic Toolkit is CentralNic's system for instantaneous Registry-Registrar Communications. Registrars can use this system to register and modify CentralNic domain names in real time, with no delays for human intervention or e-mail processing. The Toolkit also provides advanced and efficient methods for searching for and querying domain names and whois records, and retrieving account information.
COnfigurator for Gnome 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130280/
COnfigurator for Gnome is a program for editing advanced GNOME settings in an easy way.
Confirm 0.61
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130205/
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.
cpufreq daemon 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130271/
cpufreqd is meant to be a replacement of the speedstep applet you can find in Windows. It monitors battery level, AC state, and running programs and adjusts the frequency governor according to a set of rules specified in the config file.
CStyleX 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130221/
CStyleX provides ref.xsl, man.xsl, and proj.xsl XSLT transforms that will convert an XML input file describing a library of C routines into an HTML references, man pages, and a project Web page.
Enigmail 0.76.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130233/
Enigmail is a "plugin" for the mail client of Mozilla and Netscape 7.x which allows users to access the authentication and encryption features provided by the popular GnuPG software. Enigmail can encrypt/sign mail when sending, and can decrypt/authenticate received mail. It can also import/export public keys. Enigmail supports both the inline PGP format and the PGP/MIME format, which can be used to encrypt attachments. Enigmail is cross-platform, although binaries are supplied only for a limited number of platforms. Enigmail uses inter-process communication to execute GPG to carry out encryption/authentication.
Epylog 0.9.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130290/
Epylog is a log notifier and parser that periodically tails system logs on Unix systems, parses the output in order to present it in an easily readable format (parsing modules currently exist only for Linux), and mails the final report to the administrator. It can run daily or hourly. Epylog is written specifically for large clusters where many systems log to a single loghost using syslog or syslog-ng. Although Epylog can be used on standalone systems, other packages (like logwatch) are probably better suited for such purposes.
evilwm 0.99.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130225/
evilwm is a minimalist window manager for the X Window System. It maximises screen real estate and provides good keyboard control. It is currently based on aewm.
FCKeditor 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130253/
FCKeditor is an HTML/DHTML editor for ASP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion, PHP, and JavaScript that brings to the Web much of the powerful functionality of known desktop editors like Word. It's very lightweight, and doesn't require any kind of installation on the client computer.
FluxAqua 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130264/
FluxAqua is a pixmap-based Aqua theme. Developed from files found for the Enlightenment XAquaX theme and the Blueflux style file, this is the result of messing with Fluxbox themes and The GIMP in some spare time.
fortunes-random 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130199/
fortunes-random is a 'random' base of fortune strings (cookies). Some of these are funny, while others are witty, or insulting etc.
FOX 1.1.32 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130204/
FOX is a C++-based toolkit for GUI development. It includes a rich set of widgets and has powerful yet simple layout managers, MDI widgets, and mega-widgets. FOX incorporates support for XDND for drag and drop, X clipboard and X Selection, watching other I/O channels and sockets, timers and idle processing, object serialization and deserialization, a registry to save persistent settings, and 3D widgets using Mesa or OpenGL. FOX works on Linux, IRIX, Solaris, HP/UX, AIX, Tru64 Unix, Windows 9x,NT,2K (VC++, GNUWIN32, Borland, VisualAge C++), FreeBSD, and Sequent.
Galeon 1.3.7 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130198/
Galeon is a GNOME Web browser based on Gecko (the Mozilla rendering engine). It is fast, has a light interface, and is fully standards-compliant.
Gander 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130255/
Gander serves Python applications over HTTP by doing as little as possible: a request for a root URL returns an index page, a request for non-valid application returns "404: Resource NotFound", a request for uninstantiated object returns "412: Object Not Instantiated", and all other responses come from the Gander-served application for which Gander translates URL-style requests into object method-calls.
GNU Talk Filters 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130207/
The GNU Talk Filters are filter programs that convert ordinary English text into text that mimics a stereotyped or otherwise humorous dialect. These filters have been in the public domain for many years, but now for the first time they are provided as a single integrated package. The filters include b1ff, brooklyn, chef, cockney, drawl, fudd, funetak, jethro, jive, kraut, pansy, postmodern, redneck, valspeak, and warez. Each program reads from standard input and writes to standard output. This version of the package also provides the filters as a C library, so they can be easily embedded in other programs. A patch is also included to integrate the talk filters with the GAIM instant messenger program.
GNU TeXmacs 1.0.1.19
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130239/
GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific text editor, which was inspired by both TeX and GNU Emacs. The editor allows you to write structured documents via a "wysiwyg" and user friendly interface. The program implements high quality typesetting algorithms and TeX fonts. It is also possible to use TeXmacs as an interface to computer algebra systems. Finally, TeXmacs supports the Guile/Scheme extension language, which makes it possible to adapt the user interface to specific needs, and even to extend the editor.
Helix DNA Producer 9.2.0.306 (Milestone 5-Beta 1) (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130278/
The Helix DNA Producer is a multi-format media-encoding engine for creating streaming broadcasts, on-demand streaming content, and downloadable audio video files. It supports RealAudio, RealVideo, and Ogg Vorbis, and includes many input and output filters, variable bitrate encoding support, option for two-pass encoding, audio gain control, and Firewire support.
IDMS Database Mail Agent 0.2.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130212/
IDMS Database Mail Agent is an effort to develop a highly-scalable, plugin-based, database-driven mail agent, hopefully replacing the commercial ones used by large ISPs today. It is cluster-friendly and easily configurable. Web-based frontend support is available.
IOzone 3.191
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130289/
IOzone is a filesystem benchmark tool. The benchmark generates and measures a variety of file operations. Iozone has been ported to many machines and runs under many operating systems.
IVS Milter 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130210/
IVS Milter is a virus and spam scanning milter. It makes use of the antivirus package ClamAV and can also read the headers generated by SpamAssassin.
iWebXF 1.0-pre2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130286/
iWebXF is a Website engine which allows users to easily create an uniform layout for a whole site. It can take care of XML documents as long as the corresponding XSLT stylesheet for the document dialect is provided. It has some features which facilitate the localization of a Web site, can create dynamic menus, and includes a cache system.
JMyra 2.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130231/
JMyra is a Java logging and monitoring platform. Using its own lightweight Web server you can view threads, properties, log messages, runtime statistics, MBeans, and more. The log4j API, the Apache Commons Logging API, and the java.util.logging API are supported in addition to the JMyra logging API. JMyra uses an easy Web interface for nearly all) configuration tasks. An integrated user management with fine-grained access rights protects you if you are using JMyra to monitor your server application.
Kleanux 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130248/
Kleanux is a themepack consisting of a clean Metacity theme, which inherits all of its colors from the active GTK theme, and matching GTK 1.x/GTK 2.x themes.
KMD 0.9.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130245/
KMD is a multi-processor debugger. It can debug with hardware boards over serial ports or with software emulators (ARM and MIPS emulators are included in the project). Using the pipe option you can debug over the network or any other communication medium. It can load many executable formats such as ELF, and display and follow the original source even from multiple source file programs. There is support for breakpoints and watchpoints which can trap on specific data (such as loading or executing specific instructions). Support for other features such as FPGA's is also available, allowing loading or any control required to drive a specific hardware device. The project uses chump to allow disassembly and line assembly. Chump also allows new architectures to be easily added without the need to recompile the system. Communication with the backend is done using two pipes/fifos using a simple set of codes. Back end communication program can be created using very little memory on the target device.
KMLDonkey 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130263/
KMLDonkey helps integrate the MLDonkey P2P software into KDE3. It provides a replacement MLDonkey GUI using the KDE framework, ED2K link handling in Konqueror, a Control Centre module for configuring MLDonkey and client connectivity, and a panel applet for Kicker that displays MLDonkey status and can launch the GUI on demand.
Krename 2.8.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130288/
Krename is a very powerful batch file renamer for KDE3 which can rename a list of files based on a set of expressions. It can copy/move the files to another directory or simply rename the input files. Krename supports many conversion operations, including conversion of a filename to lowercase or to uppercase, conversion of the first letter of every word to uppercase, adding numbers to filenames, finding and replacing parts of the filename, and many more. It can also change access and modification dates, permissions, and file ownership.
LAN Instant Messenger 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130242/
LAN Instant Messenger is a client/server chat/messenger application written entirely in Java. It supports common chat, direct messages, colors, emoticons, secure login (CHAP-like), ICQ-like status, experimental voice support, intuitive installation, and more.
LiteSpeed Web Server 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130251/
LiteSpeed Web Server is a full-featured, high-performance, secure, and easy-to-use Web server that runs on Unix and Linux. It supports HTTP/1.1, SSL, CGI, FastCGI, PHP, JSP, Servlets, GZIP compression, IP level throttling, connection accounting, DoS attack prevention, and instant recovery mechanisms. Installation is very easy with pre-built binary. Administration and configuration is very easy through a Web interface.
m3u2toc 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130208/
m3u2toc is a script which creates a CD-Text enabled cdrdao TOC file from a XMMS MP3 playlist. For those who backup MP3s as CD audio and want CD-Text data, this script takes the pain out of manually preparing a TOC file with CD-Text author and title data by extracting that info from MP3 ID3 tags.
Mailbox Copy 0.92
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130260/
Mailbox Copy is a set of tools to copy/archive email accounts. It works with IMAP, mbox, and maildir mailboxes. You can use the copy tool to migrate from one IMAP server to another, to archive your IMAP email to a local mbox copy, to move some maildir email to an IMAP server, etc. This project was previously called IMAP Copy/imapcp because it worked only with IMAP. It has been renamed to reflect its more general purpose.
Medialibrary 0.3b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130237/
Medialibrary catalogs all of your media files (on hard disk and CD). You can browse, sort, search, and organize them once indexed. It features a user-friendly GUI, hierarchical categories, ADC (.cat) file support, search, and statistics, and MP3 ID3 parsing.
MiddleMan 1.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130244/
Middleman is a robust proxy server with many features designed to remove unwanted content, increase privacy, and to simply make surfing the Web a more pleasant experience. Some of the highlights include banner and popup blocking, HTTP and FTP content caching, NTLM and Basic authentication when forwarding through another proxy server, regular expression substitution in downloaded files and HTTP headers, regular expression substitution on requested URLs, many URL commands to temporarily change the proxy settings or to view information about a requested file, complete support for HTTP/1.1 including persistent connections and gzip encoding, and an intutive Web interface for configuring the proxy.
Mr Commander 0.1a-preview6 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130217/
Mr Commander is a file manager based on GTK+ 2.0. It behaves like the Total Commander program, which is available on MS Windows. It features SMB and FTP support.
mypasswd_cgi 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130232/
mypasswd_cgi is a tool which allows users to update passwords stored in a MySQL database. It was written for mysql_auth, a basic authenticator module for Squid. With its configuration file, you can update any kind of records that use MySQL. You can customize the style and language of texts.
MySQL Database Server 4.0.14 (Production (4.0.x)) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130209/
MySQL is a widely used and fast SQL database server. It is a client/server implementation that consists of a server daemon (mysqld) and many different client programs/libraries.
Naken Chat 2.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130228/
Naken Chat is a port of Javachat to C. Javachat can be directly replaced with this server and the Java chat client or telnet client will talk to it as if it was Javachat. Naken Chat is multithreaded (like Javachat) and has all the features (channels, gagging, squelching, private messages, etc) and has been tested on: Linux, FreeBSD, Irix, Solaris, and Win32.
Natural Docs 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130238/
Natural Docs is an extensible, multi-language, source code documentation generator written in Perl. Its syntax is transparent so the source comments read just as easily as the generated documentation. It also focuses on automation and high-quality HTML output.
NumericalChameleon 1.5.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130270/
The Numerical Chameleon converts numbers with a precision of up to 1000 significant figures. It supports more than 2300 units in 78 categories,
including lengths, areas, volumes, durations, bits & bytes, angles,
temperatures, exchange rates, Roman numerals, spoken numbers, all 35
radixes, unicode, colorcode, int. dial codes, and more. You have
unlimited access for adding, modifying, and deleting categories, units,
and icons. Update exchange rates with the GUI or at the commandline
(filters for 12 Web services are supported). All configuration data are
stored in flat files.
OpenVPN 1.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130235/
OpenVPN is a robust and highly configurable VPN (Virtual Private Network) daemon which can be used to securely link two or more private networks using an encrypted tunnel over the Internet. You can tunnel any IP subnetwork or virtual ethernet adapter over a single UDP port, use all of the encryption, authentication, and certification features of the OpenSSL library to protect your private network traffic, use any cipher, key size, or HMAC digest (for packet authentication) supported by the OpenSSL library, choose between static-key based conventional encryption or certificate-based public key encryption, use static or TLS-based dynamic key exchange, and tunnel networks whose public endpoints are dynamic such as DHCP clients or dial-in users.
Penguin Greetings 0.8.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130241/
Penguin Greetings is a Perl Web application to implement Internet greeting cards on Linux and other Unix-based systems. It can be run as a standard CGI application or as a persistent Perl interpreter (via SpeedyCGI) for production settings. It also supports multiple sites running on the same server. It includes a complete e-card Website with 85 cards for users who want a "plug and play" e-card solution. It is intended to make e-cards more like email by using multipart MIME email and including message text. The HTML for the cards and the creation screens are stored in templates based on Embperl so that users can completely customize the look of the program. Via Embperl, Perl expressions can be incorporated into templates for server-side processing. Access to the card creation functions can be optionally restricted to users in an htpasswd file. Cards are emailed and databases updated by a separate daemon program which allows for card scheduling and improves security and logging. Extensive documentation is provided as well as demonstration Web sites that make full use of the Embperl scripting capabilities.
Perfect Blue for FluxBox 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130194/
This is a FluxBox port of the Window Maker theme called Perfect Blue. It has a really fantastic CG background.
photos 4.0b3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130206/
photos is a Web-based photo database for storing metadata about digital photos so you can find them again later. It supports adding photos one at a time, or as a group by directory. It is intended to be run locally but can be run on a remote Web server if you've got the space and the bandwidth.
Pipe Viewer 0.5.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130229/
pv (Pipe Viewer) is a terminal-based tool for monitoring the progress of data through a pipeline. It can be inserted into any normal pipeline between two processes to give a visual indication of how quickly data is passing through, how long it has taken, how near to completion it is, and an estimate of how long it will be until completion.
pmacct 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130234/
pmacct is a network tool to gather IP traffic information (bytes counter and number of packets). Aggregation of statistics is done using simple primitives (MAC addresses, source host, destination host, ports, and IP protocols) that can be used alone or combined together to form complex aggregation methods. Data is stored in a in-memory table or using an SQL database (currently only MySQL). The content of the tables can be later retrieved by a client program or via an SQL client for simple output or export to other programs, such as MRTG. Gathering packets off the wire is done using the pcap library and the promiscuous mode of network interfaces.
Prayer Request Program 1.0 alpha
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130201/
Prayer Request Program is meant to be a way of keeping track of prayer requests for yourself and eventually for a group, such as a Sunday School class, Bible study group, or anything else you can think of. It tracks the user that submitted the request, the date requested, the date answered, if it is a private request or viewable by everyone, and the request itself.
PXES Linux Thin Client 0.6-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130214/
PXES is a micro Linux distribution for thin clients that converts any suitable machine into a versatile thin client within minutes. It can access XDM servers presenting a graphical login screen, Microsoft Terminal Servers, Citrix ICA, and VNC servers, or a local X session with simple desktop and window manager. A graphical configuration tool allows parameters such as the server to be set. Local devices can be accessed, including sound, printers, and disks. It boots on a variety of hardware, and does not require NFS. It can be used over low bandwidth WAN and VPN connections, and can also be booted from local media like hard disk and CD-ROMs where network boot cannot be used.
Quick Spam Filter 0.7.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130227/
Quick Spam Filter is a small, fast spam filter that works by learning to recognise the words that are more likely to appear in spam than non-spam. It is intended to be used in a procmail recipe to mark email as being possible spam.
rdiff-backup 0.12.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130203/
rdiff-backup backs up one directory to another. The target directory ends up a copy of the source directory, but extra reverse diffs are stored in a special directory so you can still recover files lost some time ago. The idea is to combine the best features of a mirror and an incremental backup. rdiff-backup can also operate in a bandwidthefficient manner over a pipe, like rsync. Thus you can use rdiff-backup and ssh to securely back up to a remote location, and only the differences will be transmitted. It can also handle symlinks, device files, permissions, ownership, etc., so it can be used on the entire file system.
Sacred 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130279/
SACRED is an enhanced version of the ROM 2.4b6 codebase. The enhancements include new player skills, spells, classes, and races. Also included are arenas, OLC, Mud Compression Protocol, a Clan system, new flags, questing, color, automatic auctions, enhanced immortal utilities, spellchecking, hints, and many more features.
Secure FTP Wrapper 2.5.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130216/
Secure FTP Wrapper is a server based package that enables an existing FTP server to become a Secure FTP server. In this release the wrapper allows a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connection to be made to your FTP server.
Sigit 0.2.4 (Diku-Patch)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130187/
Sigit is a customisable signature creator that can be run either as a daemon or as a normal foreground process. It allows you to have a changing signature. If it's configured correctly, it will also change the information displayed when someone fingers you. It also supports multiple signature files for different newsgroups, and NFS-mounted $HOME shares.
SoftwareHouse SPSS Utils 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130213/
SoftwareHouse SPSS Utils is a collection of Java classes that help with manipulation of SPSS data files.
sqlDESKTOP 1.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130258/
sqlDESKTOP is a computerized manual filing system arranged just like an ordinary office with pictures of real cabinets and real folders. You can arrange by project, by department or whatever makes sense to you. sqlDESKTOP doesn't tell you how to organize, it lets you do things your own way. Documents are easy to find because you don't have to remember the exact name of the document or where you put it. Instead, you can visually locate what you are looking for in a familiar office environment and click on it.
swaret 1.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130252/
swaret lets you keep your Slackware system up to date. It functions similarly to apt-get, the Debian package manager.
tin 1.6.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130267/
Tin is a powerful text mode news reader. It features threaded news reading, regex driven killfiles/message selections, pgp encryption, ispell support, and can read from both a local spool or from a remote NNTP server.
TOEJAM 3.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130211/
TOEJAM is a telephone answering machine. It uses a voice modem as the base of an IVR system, and sends its results via email. Only the US Robotics 56K Pro Msg is currently supported, though the USR Sportster may work.
Vesta 2.1.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130240/
Vesta is an advanced system for source code control, versioning, configuration management, and building. It is an alternative to CVS+make. It has a variety of unique features including automatic language-independent dependency detection, guaranteed repeatability of builds, and seamless multi-site collaboration.
viPlugin 0.1.19
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130284/
viPlugin is an Eclipse plugin that adds vi functionality to the editors that are provided with Eclipse (JDT, CDT, etc.).
WeDeS 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130226/
WeDeS is a WEbsite DEployment System, featuring Smarty templates, user management, PEAR DB, and user modules. It can be used for a wide range of PHP Web applications.
Winzig 1.27
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130202/
Winzig is suite of a PIM style applications written in Python/GTK. It includes an address book, a calculator, a calendar, and a todo list. It was written with small code size and small screen real estate usage in mind and should be suitable for PDAs.
yawk 1.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130215/
yawk is a wiki clone written in gawk. It supports the usual text styles, lists, and tables. Additional and optional features are formatting with stylesheet classes, file uploads, and a framed user interface mode. It works on plain text files and does not require a database.
Newsforge Reports
Migrating CommuniGate Pro from Windows to Linux
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/22/1623218
- by Scott Stahl - Stalker Software's CommuniGate Pro is an affordable, robust, cross-platform email server that supports nearly every mail standard out there. I recently migrated a live CommuniGate Pro installation from Windows NT 4.0 to Red Hat Linux 9 and improved my client's messaging performance. The process wasn't difficult, but if you're contemplating a similar migration, let me warn you about a few things to watch out for.
Unix architecture yields cost, competitive advantage http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/22/1557255
- by Paul Murphy - Last week I introduced the Unix business architecture and contrasted its technology -- big servers with smart displays -- with that of the Microsoft client/server environment. Today I'll look at the direct costs of both architectures in the context of a typical midsized business.
20% Linux is all we need
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/15/140205
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Let's get over Linus Torvalds' old "world domination" goal (which was a joke), stop gnashing our teeth over The Evils of Microsoft, and think rationally about what percentage of the world's desktops we really need to switch to Linux. I figure 10% would be a minimum, and 20% would be more than enough. Enough for what? For everything we really want.
Newsforge Newsvac
Major Japanese firms won't pay off SCO
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/1751249
The biggest computer manufacturers in Japan that build systems running Linux will hold out against blustering by SCO to extract license fees based upon unsubstantiated infringement claims, it has emerged.
Industrial Linux monitors pipelines
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/1934259
Verano, which sells software for industrial infrastructure such as factories and power plants, has found a customer for its Linux product. Edmonton, Candada-based Enbridge will use Verano's Linux-based Industrial Defender Watch software to monitor the performance and security of its pipeline infrastructure, Verano said this week.
Qt 3.2 released
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/1749234
Trolltech announced the release of Qt version 3.2. the popular C++ multiplatform application framework. According to Trolltech, the new version of Qt includes hundreds of enhancements and features that enable developers to build high-performance, low maintenance multiplatform applications.
Small Business Dilemma: Open Source or Proprietary http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/1930246
Anonymous Reader writes "Small business owners now have a software choice. Just a few years ago the only business choice was to either run legitimate or pirated versions of proprietary software. Open source is now in a position to challenge proprietary software on the business and home desktop. Read the editorial at OSNews."
Console Server with 32-bit Processor, Embedded web server, and Linux platform http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/1742222
Sena Technologies is pleased to introduce the Linux-based console management server, 'VTS series' with 32-bit Processor, Embedded web server, and open Linux platform for customization. VTS series has the support of Dynamic DNS, and PPPoE (PPP-over-Ethernet) allowing serial devices to be accessed over DSL-based broadband network or conventional LAN (Local Area Network) environment through the 10/100 Mbps (10Base-T, 100Base-TX) ethernet interface.
Free Linux reference design for PowerQUICC II http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/1740210
Arabella Software announced a free Linux reference design for the Motorola PowerQUICC II microprocessor. The free Linux package supports Motorola's PQ2FADS-ZU evaluation board (and also the earlier 8260FADS boards). The Arabella Linux CD-ROM is included with Motorola's evaluation boards, and is also available directly from Arabella on request, the company said.
Open source group files complaint against SCO http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/177240
An open source grouping has gone on the offensive against the SCO Group after the latter told companies using Linux to pay up or else face liability for running the open source operating system. Open Source Victoria today filed a complaint with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, asking it to investigate SCO's activities in light of "unsubstantiated claims and extortive legal threats for money" against possibly hundreds of ...
Open Source Satire: Higher Primates Can Program http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/173256
primateprogramming writes "From the article: "Here at the San Diego zoo, experiments last month with baboons have proven that higher primates can perform software testing, traverse complex menus, and code simple XML schemas. The finding have implications for the entire software industry. This research may effect software developer education, open source programming, H1-B visas, and commercial software testing.""
Novell NetWare 6.5 Delivers Advanced Network Services for Business http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/1653248
PROVO, Utah -- July 23, 2003 -- Novell today announced the August availability of Novell(R) NetWare(R) 6.5, advanced network services for business on the industry's most secure and reliable platform. A Novell Nterprise(TM) product, NetWare 6.5 includes business continuity, open source, Web application services and "virtual office" capabilities to reduce network costs and complexity while giving users around-the-clock access to the tools they ...
Linux Show Powers Up
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/1624235
Linux users from around the world are gathering this week at the annual Linux Symposium here.
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