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[osdn everything] July 28, 2003
Date: Mon Jul 28 2003 - 01:45:28 EDT
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Slashdot
Another Beer Please
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/27/228213
jmichaelg writes "What do you get when you combine a glass, a PIC computer, two capacitors, a coil and a zener Diode? A [0]wireless beer glass that signals your waiter when you need a refill. The circuit is an RFID transponder that measures the fluid level in a glass and transmits a globally unique ID coupled to the fluid level reading when queried by an antenna hidden in your table. The query provides enough power to drive the circuit so no batteries are needed. A [1]technical paper describes the circuitry in the table and the glass." This [2]hit the news over a year ago, but we didn't have the technical details. Links
0.
http://www.merl.com/projects/iGlassware/
1.
http://www.merl.com/papers/docs/TR2002-21.pdf
2.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/04/1752217&tid=134
Microbes for Bioremediation
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/27/1936209
The San Francisco Chronicle has a piece discussing current efforts to
[0]clean up nuclear waste sites with microbes. Current treatment
procedures generally involve pumping out the contaminated groundwater,
filtering it, and pumping it back, which is rather expensive.
Links
0. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/07/14/MN103893.DTL&type=science
MSWL Olmec PBEM Soccer Game GPL'ed
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/27/197225
[0]zeb writes "[1]MSWL is one of the most popular PBEM football (soccer
for North Americans) game, which is itself a variation of a game of
postal soccer invented by Alan Parr in England around 1970. In this
game, each manager has to organise his team, manage fatigue, train his
players and trade them. Olmec is a game engine written by Alla Sellers.
It helps the commissioner (game master) to simulate the games and
publish the results. Allan has decided to release the [2]source code of
Olmec under the GPL, so that everyone can enhance the program. The
actual version of Olmec is written in Visual Basic and uses MS Access
as a database. The author suggests Olmec could be rewritten in a
multiplatform language, for example Java, using MySQL as the database.
This task is made easy because of the rich documentation about the game
engine ([3]PDF format)."
Links
0.
http://www.zebulon.org.uk
1.
http://www.mswl.org/
2.
http://www.mswl.org/mswlsoftware.html
3.
http://www.mswl.org/pdf/12/Rules12-1.pdf
New Testing Version Of Linux 2.6
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/27/2215253
James A. A. Joyce writes "It's all up now at [0]the kernel archives. Get the [1]full 2.6.0-test2 or [2]a patch, whichever suits you. We need to test those new kernels! Hop to it!" Links
0.
http://kernel.org/
1.
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.0-test2.tar.bz2
2.
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/patch-2.6.0-test2.bz2
Why SCO UNIX Is A Bad Idea
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/27/1836219
[0]Ashcrow writes "[1]SCO [2]UNIX has long boasted its 'true UNIX' code
base, but is that really the case? A [3]story running at [4]The Jem
Report looks into SCO's claims and holds it up to other UNIX variants
to try and find validity for SCO's claims." The author has a bit of a
chip on his shoulder, but worth reading for the comparison of various
*nix's.
Links
0.
http://darkfire.sf.net
1.
http://www.sco.com/
2.
http://www.opengroup.org/
3.
http://www.thejemreport.com/articles/sco.htm
4.
http://www.thejemreport.com/German Constitutional Court Blocks Napster Suit http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/27/1821219
djmutex writes "In an urgent ruling, the [0]German Constitutional Court
has temporarily blocked the Napster copyright violations class action
of several American recording companies and artists against
Bertelsmann. The court decided that the German court in Düsseldorf,
which was, according to international conventions, required to serve
the writ, may not do so until the Constitutional Court has checked that
the suit does not violate Bertelsmann's rights granted by the German
constitution. Since, according to those agreements, the service is a
precondition for both the suit to proceed in the U.S. as well as the
later acceptance of the U.S. ruling in Germany, the lawsuit is for now
halted. It is unclear when the Constitutional Court will definitely
decide, but it is not generally famed for its tempo on final rulings,
and it also stated in the [1]press release (in German) that
constitutional rights could possibly be violated if "proceedings before
state courts are obviously abused to discipline competitors through
public media pressure and the risk of a conviction"." Reuters has a
[2]summary.
Links
0.
http://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/
1.
http://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/bverfg_cgi/pressemitteilungen/frames/bvg58-03
2.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=96570
Lindows Webstation
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/27/1753245
[0]dr.karl.b writes "[1]Lindows.com has announced the [2]WebStation, a
hard-disk-less pc that boots from a CD, similar to the now dead
ThinkNIC, for $169 (no monitor). Different versions are available from
2 vendors, [3]TigerDirect and [4]iDOTpc.com. The TigerDirect version
has a 1.1GHz Duron, 256MB PC2100 DDR, 56X CD-ROM, 10/100Mbps NIC,
floppy, modem, keyboard and mouse. The iDOTpc.com version has a 800MHz
C3, 256MB PC133 SDRAM, 56X CD-ROM, 10/100Mbps NIC, but without a
floppy, modem, keyboard or mouse. The TigerDirect looks like a better
deal, at least now ($169 = $189 - $20 rebate). The 2 different versions
seem to have confused the authors at [5]C/Net and [6]The Register, who
only report the specs of the iDOTpc.com version."
Links
0. mailto: dr DOT karl DOT b AT web DOT de
1.
http://lindows.com/
2.
http://lindows.com/webstation
3.
http://lindows.com/tigerdirectwebstation
4.
http://lindows.com/idotwebstation
5.
http://news.com.com/2100-1003_3-5051631.html
6.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/31883.htmlHigh End Silent Cooling For Graphics Cards http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/27/1735202
[0]SpinnerBait writes "With all the competition these days in the 3D
Accelerator market, Graphics Card OEMs are doing anything they can to
differentiate their products in a sea of competitive solutions.
Recently board designs are getting even more exotic, with brightly
colored PCBs, high end heat sink and fan combinations and even flashing
lights for the case modders out there. However, a relatively new trend
is Quiet Computing. [1] HotHardware has an article up that showcases
two new Radeon 9600 Pro and 9800 Pro cards from Sapphire Tech, that
have rather impressive fanless coolers on them that are virtually
silent. Great stuff for those of you gaming in the library."
Links
Nikon D2H: Digital Camera + 802.11b Option http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/27/152216
[0]k_stamour writes "Wow, the Holy Grail of Digital Cameras! -- [1]the
Nikon D2H. Considering the ever-dropping cost of 802.11b gear, it may
not be too long before WiFi is found in lower-end Digi-Cameras. The
remaining cost would be to get decent performance out of a small
embedded Wifi antenna. This Nikon is Geared for Sport/Action/News
Shots. Think about it: a photographer can be on a scene of a newsworthy
event, and over the hours of attending, the publisher could already be
printing/posting the photographer's pics before he removes the camera
strap from his neck! With this cam, a WiFi access point, and Internet
access, they could post their pics in real time on the web from
anywhere in the world. Of course, the above conditions would need to be
meet every time for real time uploads." The 802.11 access is through an
optional external transceiver module, model WT-1.
Links
How Do You Get Work Done?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/24/2355245
canuck asks: "I am currently a university student and have a major
problem: being able to simply sit down and get work done. I can set
aside a day to work, whether it is homework or contract work, and I
will be lucky to have an hour done before dinner time. The only time I
can actually get solid work done seems to be after midnight under a lot
of pressure (ie. a deadline the next day). This has led to too many 5
a.m. nights and turning down too many invitations to go out only to
stay in and accomplish nothing. I have stopped playing games, stopped
watching TV, tried reading the [0] Seven Habits book, and am currently
seeing what classical music does for me. I don't think I have [1]ADHD,
and I am not sure what else to try. If it is computer work, the web is
always a click away, and I can always escape to my imagination. I know
many of you will have had the same problem. Can anyone please give
advice on how to overcome this problem, be it a little trick,
medication, or anything else?"
Links
Freshmeat
GUI Toolkits for The X Window System
http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/928
This article is aimed at Unix developers who already have some experience with programming languages and want to start developing GUI applications (mainly for The X Window System, though portability is discussed). It may also come in handy if you have used a particular GUI toolkit for some time and want to know whether others might suit your needs better. The main focus is comparison and introduction, but it serves as a bit of tutorial, as well.
Advanced Assembler 0.9.0beta-3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130651/
Aasm is an advanced modular assembler designed to support several target architectures. It has been designed to be easily extended. Its global architecture takes advantages of dynamic libraries to provide input, assembler and output modules. The input module supports Intel syntax (like nasm, tasm, masm, etc.). The x86 assembler module supports all opcodes up to P6 including MMX, SSE and 3DNow! extensions. F-CPU and SPARC assembler modules are under development. Several output modules are available for ELF, COFF, IntelHex, and raw binary formats. Advanced features include symbol scopes, an expressions engine, big integer support, macro capability, and numerous and accurate warning messages (over 300).
Agent Farms 0.3.0-20030727
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130648/
Agent Farms is a system for modeling and simulation of complex, multi-agent based systems. The system can be used for creating models of multi-agent systems, interactive and distributed simulation, observation and visualisation of the simulation, and population modification and migration. On those models one can learn about the evolution of strategies in the populations of agents.
ALE 0.4.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130650/
ALE aligns and merges several similar images from a digitizing device (such as a digital camera or scanner) into a single image. This may have the effect of producing a relatively alias-free image (sometimes called "anti-aliasing").
BEJY 1.2.1.45 (Tiger)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130641/
BEJY is a modular server application. It has functionality similar to inetd and some helper classes/functions to ease the implementation of new protocols. It provides a generic multithreaded TPC/IP server implementation with optional SSL support, covering the complete connection and thread management. Each supported service provides its protocol implementation(s), where the protocol dependend handling is done. The current version comes with HTTP, SMTP, POP3, and IMAP protocol implementations. The HTTP protocol implementation also contains a servlet engine, a JSP engine, a handler to invoke CGI, and other useful things.
Blender 2.28
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130678/
Blender is the in-house software of a high quality animation studio. It has proven to be an extremely fast and versatile design instrument. The software has a personal touch, offering a unique approach to the world of three dimensions. Blender can be used to create TV commercials, to make technical visualizations or business graphics, to do some morphing, or to design user interfaces. Developers can easily build and manage complex environments. The renderer is versatile and extremely fast. All basic animation principles (curves and keys) are implemented.
Bluefish 0.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130665/
Bluefish is a programmer's Web development editor written using GTK, designed to save the experienced webmaster some keystrokes. It features a multiple file editor, multiple toolbars, custom menus, image and thumbnail dialogs, open from the Web, CSS dialogs, PHP, HTML, Java, C, and XML support, external program integration (tidy, weblint, make, javac), and lots of wizards.
Bourne Again IRC Client 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130657/
Bourne Again IRC Client is a single-file client written entirely in BASH. It supports basic commands and has a nice GUI.
Briquolo 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130668/
Briquolo is a Breakout clone with an OpenGL 3D representation.
carnaval 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130594/
carnaval is a Windowmaker theme inspired by a photograph of the Carnaval de Venise by Roger Beau.
Columba 0.12.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130568/
Columba is a highly multithreaded Java email client. It supports multiple POP3/IMAP accounts, message filtering, the common basic features you would expect, and an address book.
Console Snake 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130655/
Console Snake is an ncurses-based console version of the well-known game.
crosstool 0.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130630/
crosstool is a set of scripts that make it easy to build cross-development toolchains based on gcc, glibc, and Linux. The goal is to make it easy to build and test cross-toolchains for all architectures supported by glibc.
CSound 4.24.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130627/
Csound is a powerful and yet easy to use musical synthesis package. Csound was constructed in the tradition of so-called music-N languages, among which the best-known is Music V. It consists of an orchestra- and score-driven executable, written in C for portability. Since Csound is a computational language, it is highly flexible and efficient; complexity is gained only at the expense of computation power. Basically, Csound reads some files and creates the result as a sound file on disk or, on faster machines, in real time through a DAC.
Electronic Design Automation - Index 0.3-2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130640/
Electronic Design Automation - Index is a system that can be used in the electronic world to keep track of your: Schematic, Printed Circuit Board, Front Plate, and Programmable Logic Unit numbers. This is very useful when you have drawn many electronic schematics and PCBs in an EDA program such as Eagle, gEDA, Protel, or Orcad. It's also useful if you've created a front plate layout in an image editor such as GIMP, Corel Draw, or Photoshop.
ELinks 0.5pre4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130639/
ELinks is an enhanced version of Links, a Lynx-like text Web browser with support for tables, frames, background downloads, etc. It has a menu-fashioned user interface and is smaller and more lightweight than Lynx. ELinks adds many valuable features, like HTTP auth, proxy auth, reasonable cookies support, Lua scripting, etc.
eMATgine S1000 Client 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130672/
The eMATgine S1000 client is a Model View Controller Java Swing application. It scans a POP3 or IMAP mailbox for messages coming from one specific address and saves all attachments to the local drive. If one of these attachments is an HTML file, the default Internet browser can be launched automatically to display it. Combined with the eMATgine S1000 download slave service, it allows eMATgine users to access the Internet transparently through a mailbox.
Employee Scheduler 1.00
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130663/
Employee Scheduler is designed to pick the most efficient schedule, given a matrix of the number of employees per hour per weekday. It has a number of variables to work with in order to tweak the output, such as the number of full-time/part-time employees, at which hours they can start working, what kinds of shifts the program picks, etc.
FLTK 1.14 RC1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130634/
FLTK (pronounced "fulltick") is a cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit for UNIX/Linux (X11), Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X. It provides modern GUI functionality without the bloat, and supports 3D graphics via OpenGL and its built-in GLUT emulation. FLTK is designed to be small and modular enough to be statically linked, and also works fine as a shared library. It also includes an excellent UI builder called FLUID that can be used to create applications in minutes.
Fury 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130652/
Fury is another dark blue theme with some flames for flavor.
Grammatica 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130669/
Grammatica is a parser generator (compiler compiler) for C# and Java. It improves upon similar tools (like yacc and ANTLR) by creating well-commented and readable source code, by having automatic error recovery and detailed error messages, and by support for testing and debugging grammars without generating source code. Grammatica supports LL(k) grammars with an unlimited number of look-ahead tokens.
GRX 2.4.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130660/
GRX is a 2D graphics library originally written for DJGPP. It supports DOS, Linux console (svgalib and framebuffer drivers), X11, and Win32 (using the Mingw compiler).
GtkGLExt 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130670/
GtkGLExt is an OpenGL extension to GTK 2.0 or later. It provides additional GDK objects which support OpenGL rendering in GTK, and GtkWidget API add-ons to make GTK+ widgets OpenGL-capable.
Highlight 2.0-6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130653/
Highlight is a universal source code to HTML, XHTML, RTF, TeX, or LaTeX converter. (X)HTML output is formatted by Cascading Style Sheets. It supports Bash, C, C++, C#, COBOL, Java, Perl, PHP, and 40 more programming languages. It's possible to easily enhance the parsing database.
Java Implementation of Speex 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130662/
JSpeex is a Java port of the Speex speech codec (a patent-free, Free
software audio compression format designed for speech). It provides
both the decoder and the encoder in pure Java, as well as a JavaSound
SPI.
jMax 4.0.2 (Java)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130631/
jMax is a visual programming environment for building interactive real-time musical and multimedia applications by allowing the user to interactively design dataflow circuits. The basic data types that can go through are integers, symbols, lists, etc. It is an event-driven system and has been used for MIDI processing. A second part of the system (DSP) allows a continuous signal to flow through a circuit, which is most useful for PCM sound (ie. microphone, sound files, etc.). The system is extensible by using shared libraries, you may add data processor types, data types, GUI elements, device types, and more. Data processors may also be designed as circuits and reused.
Knoppix 3.2-2003-07-26
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130677/
KNOPPIX is a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI devices, and other peripherals. It can be used as a Linux demo, educational CD, rescue system, etc. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk due to on-the-fly decompression.
LogMon 0.4.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130674/
LogMon monitors several logs from one terminal window (or ssh session). It uses ncurses to split a window into frames, color lines based on regular expressions, and display multiple files with the added ability to scroll through the files.
Lynx Theme for webmin 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130649/
This is very simple theme for webmin based on the appearance of Lynx. It reduces the presence of images to achieve faster navigation, and tries to simplify the webmin look-and-feel to suit Lynx browser users.
MolScript 2.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130638/
MolScript is a program for displaying molecular 3D structures, such as proteins, in both schematic and detailed representations. MolScript has the ability to output in the GIF, JPEG, and EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) formats.
MudPit 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130654/
MudPit is a spool processor for the Snort intrusion detection system. It is similar to the Barnyard project, but is able to process both log and alert streams at the same time. It is simple, modular, and reliable.
OpenOffice.org 1.1 Release Candidate 2 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130642/
OpenOffice.org is the Open Source project through which Sun Microsystems is releasing the technology for the popular StarOffice productivity suite.
pf2x 1..0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130658/
pf2x is a PHP script that will take the output of your pflog and convert it into various different output formats. These output formats include plain text, XML, HTML, PDF, and MySQL INSERT statements for import into a MySQL database. This was developed and tested on OpenBSD 3.3 but should work for any system that uses PF.
Protein Docking and Molecular Superpostioning 2.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130636/
Hex is an interactive protein docking and molecular superpositioning program. It understands protein and DNA structures in PDB format and uses spherical polar Fourier correlations to accelerate docking calculations.
qjackctl 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130659/
Qjackctl is a simple Qt application to control the JACK sound server daemon, specifically for the Linux Audio Desktop infrastructure. It is written in C++ around the Qt3 toolkit for X11, most exclusively using Qt Designer. It provides a simple GUI dialog for setting several JACK daemon parameters, which are properly saved between sessions, and a way to control of the status of the audio server daemon.
Rhino 0.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130647/
Rhino is a GUI Othello/reversi game for the Gnome environment. The goal is to have a game with a strong AI, targeted to experienced players.
SafariToHTML 0.51
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130667/
SafariToHTML creates a Yahoo!-like Web directory from Safari bookmarks. The output is customizable.
Search Site Submitter 1.00
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130666/
Search Site Submitter automatically submits your site to 7 search engines, suggests 8 other freebie sites, and gives out information on several other sites.
Simply Powerful ToolKit 2.0 b1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130635/
The Simply Powerful ToolKit (SPTK) is a powerful widget toolkit based on the Fast and Light ToolKit (FLTK). It is geared for business-style application development with database support (ODBC). All the widgets support database connectivity. A special CDialog class makes editing database records very easy. Every widget can be connected to the field, and CDialog can be connected to the database table.
SkyEye 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130633/
SkyEye is a simulator for typical embedded computer systems. It can simulate Atmel AT91 based on the ARM7TDMI, EP7312 based on ARM720T, StrongARM SA1100/SA1110, and 8019as NIC, etc. Some operating systems, such as ARM Linux, uClinux, and uc/OS-II(ucos-ii), can run and be debugged and analyzed at the source level.
SolarStats 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130671/
SolarStats is an advanced IRC statistics (StatServ) program for IRC networks. It offers features not available in other StatServ packages such as SQL output, SSL linking, multi-lingual support, and much more. It currently only functions with UnrealIRCd networks, but support for other IRCd software is planned.
Synaesthesia 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130656/
Synaesthesia is an eyecandy program that represents music graphically in real time as coruscating fields of fog and glowing lines. It is intended as a visual accompaniment to music. Its display combines information about the frequency, location and diffuseness of sound. It can take input from CD, line, piped from another program, or from EsounD. It also functions as a CD player.
The Puto Amo Window Manager 1.9.2 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130644/
The Puto Amo Window Manager is a full featured window manager, but without useless bells and whistles. It is small, fast, etc.
Thunderbolt Integration Suite 3.00 (Database Connector) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130673/
The Thunderbolt Integration Suite is a full integration server infrastructure featuring two phase commits between connectors, multiple stage failure recovery, a drag and drop business process design console, and runtime monitor GUIs. The engine was developed in C++ on Linux; Node controllers and connector libraries are in Java. The GUIs require Windows.
TOra 1.3.10 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130676/
TOra is a Toolkit for Oracle which aims to help the DBA or developer of database application. It features an SQL worksheet with PL/SQL block parsing, a PL/SQL debugger and editor with syntax highlighting, a Schema browser, UNICODE support, printing, and a full suite of DBA management tools.
VideoDB 2003-07-27
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130675/
VideoDB is a database to manage your personal video collection. It's mainly designed for videofiles but you can also put your DVDs and VHS tapes in it. It features fetching movie data/covers from the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), local caching of coverimages, an option to mark movies as seen, a search by genre or title/subtitle/plot/cast data, a filter for TV episodes, a random movie function and a simple borrow manager. It is a personal database, so no user management/authentication scheme is implemented. Everybody may add/edit/delete movies.
_malloc 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130646/
_malloc is a library that is able to randomize the normal malloc function to make it more secure from possible memory reading. It allocates data in bits with random keys, without increasing size or the time required to access the data. The library includes rewritten versions of all ANSI C functions for memory use (such as memset and memccpy). There are also some functions for debugging, querying the memory status, and changing the keys.
Newsforge Reports
Why governments should be allowed to specify Open Source software
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/19/1713232
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - The idea of governments giving preference to Open Source over proprietary software angers short-sighted 'free market' advocates. But businesses that want to deal with governments have always been expected to meet special conditions, and requiring software vendors to make all code they sell to governments Open Source is no worse than many other government purchasing conditions. Let's start by talking about glue.
Linux Advisory Watch - July 25th, 2003
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/25/0344235
- by Benjamin D. Thomas This week, advisories were released for apache, kernel, nfs-utils, cups, phpgroupware, fdclone, several, gnupg, phpgroupware, mpg123, mozilla, semi, ethereal, and xpdf. The distributors include Conectiva, Debian, Guardian Digital's EnGarde Linux, Gentoo, Mandrake, Red Hat, Trustix, TurboLinux, and YellowDog Linux.
Gambling on Linux pays off in Nevada
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/1646215
- by Karen D. Schwartz - When Churchill County School District in Fallon, Nev., asked Dan O'Barr to find a replacement for an aging and expensive PIX firewall in 2000, the technology manager for the school district learned it would cost $20,000 to upgrade the hardware and acquire additional licenses through Cisco Systems. O'Barr decided he had nothing to lose by trying to create a firewall with Linux. Even though he didn't have much experience ...
Newsforge Newsvac
Slackware 9.0 on fire
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/27/1115227
MadPenguin writes "Building Slackware Linux with the latest 2.6 test kernel. I'm guessing here, so correct me if I'm wrong... but due to the fact that you are reading this article you like to fly by the seat of your pants. New isn't new enough for you. Fast isn't fast enough for you. Linux isn't Linux enough for you. Am I right? Sure I am. I'm right next to you, my friend. Pull up a /dev/chair and we'll take a look at the new 2.6.0-test1 kernel ...
Tide turns against SCO
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/27/1113213
Anonymous Reader writes "SCO shares fell nearly 10% Friday, after an IBM memo rejecting SCO's Linux claims turned up. Meanwhile, Andy Butler of Gartner said "Users should not start waving their cheque books" in apparent contradiction of earlier comments by his colleague George Weiss. GROKLAW lists several other analysts taking anti-SCO positions on Linux licensing. Bill Gates crawled out, to talk about Linux IP issues. I wonder if this will help ...
Linux to animate South African film
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/27/1110213
Kodek writes "South Africa's Wits University 3D animation team plans to make the country's first full-length computer animated film, using a Linux-based server donated by the Shuttleworth Foundation."
"Mad Penguin" Book Signing
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/27/118247
Anonymous Reader writes "From PCLinuxOnline: Mad Penguin's Adam Doxtater will apparantly be signing copies of the Syngress publication "Snort 2.0 Intrusion Detection" at this year's Black Hat convention in Las Vegas. Wonder if there are any Mad Penguin goodies to be had? Date: Thursday July 31st, 2003. Time: 12:00PM - ???. Place: Black Hat 2003, Caesars Palace, Breakpoint Books."
Comparing Server OSes: Why SCO UNIX Is A Bad Idea http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/27/116253
Jem Matzan writes "I've finally reached critical mass with the SCO FUD, so I spent the past three days researching and writing about the Unix family. I thought it was going to be difficult to show that UnixWare and OpenServer are inferior to non-trademarked Unixes, but the facts speak for themselves. Read on to see an in-depth comparison of the pros and cons of server-class Unixes including trademarked UNIX (AIX, Tru64, Solaris, UnixWare, ...
Who's committing Random Hacks of Kindness? http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/27/115224
affero writes "Recognized for providing valuable support and information in online communities, dai, jt1020, and TomFlocco are highlighted in Affero's community newsletter Random Hacks of Kindness - Vol #6. Geeklog, a web content management system, is the featured open source project in this edition."
Kroupware Project finished -- Kolab emerges http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/27/113232
Bernhard Reiter writes "The German Kroupware project reached its goals with stable Kolab Server 1.0 and KDE Kolab Client 1.0.1 releases."
Why Windows Isn't Hell Or Why Linux Isn't Bliss http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/25/2046208
To me, it's a miracle how every tiny article on OSNews.com, or any other tech-site, ends up in people shouting all sorts of nonsense at each other like "Linux is gonna bring back Elvis", "Windows shot president Kennedy", "Linux kept the cold war cold" or "Bill Gates wants to buy the moon and charge people for looking at it". Do these people really know what they are saying, or are they just going with the Open-Source flow?
HP, IBM and Sun to unveil server security initiative http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/25/1619243
Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM and Sun Microsystems Inc. are allying with three security providers to announce an open-standards initiative for safe computing on Aug. 5.
Savage to support Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/25/1616227
A Linux version of S2 Games' hybrid real-time strategy and first-person shooter will ship on the same CD as the PC version.
Thinkgeek
Cube Goodies: Levitating Desktop Globes
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/61da/
Tshirts: No, I will not fix your computer http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/frustrations/388b/
Interests: ph34r t3h Cute Ones T-Shirt
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/megatokyo/leetware/6155/
Tshirts: anti-RIAA
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/61e7/
Tshirts: Safe Hex
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/coder/61be/
Computing: USB Sharing Hub
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5f2a/
Computing: Logitech Cordless MX Keyboard & Mouse http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/61af/
PC Mods: Lian-Li Side Panel Aquarium Kit http://www.thinkgeek.com/pcmods/cases/6151/
Cube Goodies: LED Binary Clock
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/lights/59e0/
Gadgets: Ambient Orb Device
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5da2/
Cube Goodies: Desktop Retro Wind-ups
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/6028/
Cube Goodies: The Red Swingline Stapler
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/61b7/
Cube Goodies: Futurama Tin Signs
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/60e2/
Gadgets: FM Radio Pen
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/60bf/
Gadgets: USB Memory Pen
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/60a3/
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/
Sourceforge
gtk2-perl beta 0.91 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=296371
This project provides perl bindings for gtk+ 2.x and a few related libraries. This release includes several bugfixes, portability issues, and missing functions in the latest betas for Gtk2 and Glib. Some dependency issues for Gnome2 and Glade were also fixed.
Columba 0.12.0 (stable) released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=296551
A new stable version of Columba is now available. Columba is an email
client written in Java, featuring a user-friendly graphical interface
with wizards and internalionalization support. Its a powerful email
management tool with features to enhance your productivity and
communication. So, take control of your email before it takes control
of you! This version has lots of new features and includes many fixes
since our last development release.
http://columba.sourceforge.net/downloads_stable.php For more
information visit:
http://columba.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=29 Frederik
SOURCEFORGE.NET UPDATE - 2003-07-24 EDITION http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=296604
0. Intro 1. Revolution OS 2. Project of the month: Tiki 3. Quad 64bit Operton System on Compile Farm 4. Download and CVS Statistics Update 5. Changes to Nightly CVS Tarballs 6. SourceForge.net Site Enhancements 7. Stats and Top Projects
Dear SourceForge.net User, In my last email to you, I mentioned that the biggest issue with the running of the site is managing our growth. Adding 700 new users and 70 new Open Source projects a day can, at times, create strain on critical systems that drive the site. As you may have noticed, CVS is visibly having growing pains. Due to system load, we have had to move anonymous checkouts to our backup server. This has made the code of our 65,000 projects more accessible. However, since data is synchronized from the primary CVS servers to the backup CVS servers at specific times during the day, it has also caused up to a 24 hour delay in getting the freshest code on the site. I know this temporary solution has frustrated some of you and I want to apologize for that. The good news is, in the very short term, we will have a solution that will solve this issue. We are upgrading our hardware from one aging system to six new speedy boxes; this hardware is a portion of the new CVS infrastructure that we are implementing to improve CVS performance and reliability. The solution will be in place by the time I write you next month. You'll know when we make the change. It will be hard to miss. In the mean time, hang in there. I know it's frustrating, but help is on the way. As always, if you have some feedback or issues related to the site, please feel free to email me directly at pat@sf.net. Patrick McGovern Director, SourceForge.net Pat@sf.net
Revolution OS -------------------------------------------- I want to
bring an excellent documentary about Open Source to your attention, now
on DVD. It's called 'Revolution OS' and it does a remarkable job giving
the history of Free Software, Open Source Software, Linux and why
sites, such as SourceForge.net, exist. All the fathers of the Free/Open
Source movement are interviewed, including: Linus Torvalds, Richard
Stallman, Bruce Perens, Eric Raymond, Brian Behlendorf, Michael
Tiemann, Larry Augustin, Frank Hecker, and our very own Rob Malda from
Slashdot.org I have shown the DVD to a number of family and friends.
Not only did they find it interesting, they also better understood what
I did for a living (which was a bonus). It's available now on a few
sites, including our sister site Thinkgeek.com. Netflix has it
available for rental as well.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/nonfiction/5dd5/
http://www.revolution-os.com/index.html
http://www.revolution-os.com/photos.html If you have interest, check it
out and let me know what you think (pat@sf.net). SF.NET Project of the
Month: Tiki --------------------------------------------- Keeping a
busy web site up-to-date with fresh, engaging content is hard work.
There are timelines, multiple contributors, editing of content, and the
graphical layout of the site. Content Management System (CMS) is a
class of software that aims to make all these chores easy.
SourceForge.net's July project of the month, Tiki, is a project that
executes on this promise and sports the latest content management
features including: Wikis, Forums, Article/Submissions, Journals,
templates and 370 other features. Tiki has been on SourceForge.net
since October, 2002 and currently enjoys an activity ranking in the top
ten of our 65,000 projects. The code is licensed under the LGPL and
will run on any web server supporting PHP. The SF.net team is proud to
make Tiki project of the month. Project page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tikiwiki/ Home page:
http://tikiwiki.sourceforge.net AMD Quad Opteron System on Compile Farm
- Are you curious how your latest code runs on a 4-way 64bit Opteron system? Now you can find out using the latest addition to Sourceforge.net's compile Farm. AMD has been kind enough to provide SF.net hardware for the community to use. Running SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 this new system is now available for you to use. Enjoy! The SF.net team would like to give a big thank you to AMD for their support. To find out more about the compile farm: http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=762&group_id=1 Download and CVS Statistics Update
- As we covered in our previous site-wide newsletter, work is under way To correct inaccuracies with the download statistics system. As of the beginning of this week, all required code changes have been made, testing of the new code has been completed, and we have started reprocessing the log data used to generate download statistics. Current (i.e. for recent dates) download statistics are expected to be accurate; most projects will notice an increase in their download counts. We expect this statistics regeneration to take a couple weeks. Aggregated statistics (such as project activity percentile) are also expected to change as the download statistics are regenerated. CVS statistics data will also be reprocessed, pending completion of the download statistics correction. Nightly Tarball Changes
- Nightly CVS tarballs are generated automatically for all hosted projects, as part of our project CVS service. Information about nightly CVS tarballs may be found in the Site Documentation and on the CVS section of the Project Admin pages. In early August, the nightly CVS tarballs generated for each project will be changing format from gzip-compression to bzip2-compression. bzip2 compression/decompression tools are available for all major OS platforms; use of bzip2 for compression represents a significant space savings over gzip compression. Additional information regarding this change will be provided on the Site Status page (link found in left navbar) during the last week of July. SourceForge.net Site Enhancements
- In the past month, a
number of enhancements have been made to the SourceForge.net site; most
of these enhancements focus on improving the project support process.
Major enhancements include: - A special search page has been added
(https://sourceforge.net/support/filefinder.php) to allow you to search
through the files released by SourceForge.net projects, based on a
known file name. Users who download software from a SourceForge.net
project sometimes forget which project the software came from,
complicating their lives when they need support for that software. To
help reduce this confusion, users may simply enter the file name of the
file they downloaded and they will be presented a listing of projects
that may have released that file. - The old "Contact SF.net Support"
page has been replaced with a new "Get Support" page that provides
information about project support and site support. Project
administrators may now specify (via the "Preferred Support Mechanism"
area, in the Public Info section, of the Project Admin pages) which
forum, mailing list, or Tracker they suggest their end-users use when
reporting support issues. When the "Get Support" page is accessed from
a project page, this information will be provided. When the Preferred
Support Mechanism is set, a new link will appear in the top portion of
the Project Summary page, helping direct end-users to the right support
resource. - By popular request, the SourceForge.net team now maintains
an abridged (short) version of the Site Status page. The abridged
version of the Site Status page includes only information about major
issues (i.e. site-wide issues which impact many projects) and includes
information about the scope of issues, ETA for resolution and possible
workarounds. This page is accessible from the Site Docs page (see link
in left navbar; doc C9) or from the top of the main Site Status page. -
Finally, some developers have reported confusion regarding the status
of their requests for project hosting on SourceForge.net. We now
provide a "My SF.net Projects" page, accessible from the "My SF.net"
page, which provides status information on project registrations -- you
can see whether your project registration is pending review, has been
approved, or has been rejected. The SourceForge.net team is continuing
to pursue new enhancements to the site, both based on our own
experience and based on your suggestions. If you wish to suggest a
change or enhancement to the SourceForge.net site, we may be reached
regarding issues, concerns or feedback by following the instructions
at:
https://sourceforge.net/support/getsupport.php?group_id=1#sitesupport
Stats and Top Projects. ---------------------------------------------
Number of Projects: 65,717 Number of Registered Users: 666,125 Daily
Stats for July 22, 2003 SF.NET : 2,026,117 pages served SF.NET project
web space : 4,508,266 pages served Total Pages: 6,534,383 CVS updates:
16,047 Open Source Files downloaded in 24 period: 312,948 Outgoing
Mailing list emails: 1,841,764 Top 25 Projects: 1. Gaim
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim Gaim is a GTK2-based instant
messenger application. It supports multiple protocols via modules,
including AIM, ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN, Jabber, IRC, Napster, Gadu-Gadu and
Zephyr. It has many common features found in other clients, as well as
many unique features. 2. phpMyAdmin
https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin phpMyAdmin is a tool
written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the
WWW. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter
tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys
on fields. 3. Compiere ERP + CRM Business Solution
https://sourceforge.net/projects/compiere Smart ERP+CRM solution for
Small-Medium Enterprises in the global marketplace covering all areas
from customer management, supply chain and accounting. For $2-200M
revenue companies looking for "brick and click" first tier
functionality. 4. AWStats https://sourceforge.net/projects/awstats
Advanced Web Statistics (AWStats) is a free powerful and featureful web
server logfile analyzer that shows you all your Web (but also FTP or
Mail) statistics including visits, unique visitors, pages, hits, hours,
search engines, keywords, robots, etc... 5. Tiki CMS/Groupware
https://sourceforge.net/projects/tikiwiki Tiki is a powerful
CMS/Groupware. Features: article, forum, newsletter, blog, file/image
gallery, wiki, drawing, tracker, directory, poll/survey & quiz, FAQ,
chat, banner, webmail, calendar, category, ACL, etc in Single Sign-on
or LDAP.(PHP/MySQL/Smarty) 6. Armagetron - Multiplayer Lightcycle Game
https://sourceforge.net/projects/armagetron Armagetron is a simple
action game modeled after the lightcycle sequence of the movie Tron.
The main focus lies on the multiplayer mode, which has already made
Armagetron a popular warmup game on LAN parties. 7. guliverkli
https://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli Home of VobSub, Media
Player Classic (MPC) and other misc utils. 8. MAMEoX (MAME on XBOX)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mameox MAMEoX is a port of the popular
MAME (Multi Arcade Machine Emulator) system to the XBOX. The main goals
of the project are to provide a well documented port with a consistent
coding style. 9. Firewall Builder
https://sourceforge.net/projects/fwbuilder Object-oriented GUI and set
of compilers for various firewall platforms. Currently implemented
compilers for iptables, ipfilter and OpenBSD pf. 10. WinMerge
https://sourceforge.net/projects/winmerge A visual text file
differencing and merging tool for Win32 platforms. Useful for determing
what has changed between project versions, and then merging changes
between versions 11. TUTOS https://sourceforge.net/projects/tutos TUTOS
is the ultimate team organization software, a webbased groupware or
ERP/CRM system to manage events/calendars, addresses, teams, projects,
tasks, bugs, mailboxes, documents and your time spent with these
things. 12. ScummVM https://sourceforge.net/projects/scummvm ScummVM is
a cross-platform interpreter for SCUMM-based games, used by LucasArts
in games like: Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island, Day Of The Tentacle, The
Dig, etc. It also includes a non-SCUMM interpreter for Simon The
Sorcerer 1/2. 13. PDFCreator
https://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator PDFCreator is the easy way
of creating PDFs out of common software Like Word, StarCalc oder every
other Windows Application that uses the Windows Printers. 14. eMule
https://sourceforge.net/projects/emule eMule is a filesharing client
which is based on the eDonkey2000 network but offers more features than
the standard client 15. Dev-C++
https://sourceforge.net/projects/dev-cpp Dev-C++ is an full-featured
Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Win32. It uses GCC, Mingw
or Cygwin as compiler and libraries set. 16. wxWindows
https://sourceforge.net/projects/wxwindows wxWindows is a free C++
framework that facilitates cross platform software development,
including GUIs, threads, sockets, database, file system access, etc.
- JBoss.org https://sourceforge