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[osdn everything] July 29, 2003
Date: Tue Jul 29 2003 - 01:45:28 EDT
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Slashdot
India Chooses All-Electronic Voting
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/29/0022242
MaximusTheGreat writes "While the U.S. debates the merits of e-voting, India has decided to have [0]all electronic polls in the next elections for its billion strong population. Though India has used e-voting partially in previous elections, it will be the first time a Lok Sabha (central parliament) election will be held in the country since 1952 without the use of ballot papers. Election Commission plans to use about [1] 800,000 electronic voting machines. Also, taking note from India's experience, other commonwealth countries like Malaysia and Britain will be [2] sending representatives to India to see the use of EVMs during the Assembly elections. On a related note they plan to make voter's identity card [1] mandatory for voting." Links
0.
http://sify.com/news/politics/fullstory.php?id=13201701
1.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/xml/uncomp/articleshow?msid=99968
2.
http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/holnus/03062201.htmMitch Bainwol To Succeed Hilary Rosen As RIAA Head http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/29/043224
bmarklein writes "The [0]RIAA has announced that it has named Mitch Bainwol, former chief of staff to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, as chairman & CEO. He replaces Hilary Rosen, who left earlier this month. This confirms the speculation that the RIAA would appoint a well-connected Republican (Rosen was a Democrat)." Several readers have submitted links to [1]CNET's coverage as well. Links
0. http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=industryNews&storyID=3173482
Mozilla Thunderbird 0.1 Released
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/29/027227
An anonymous reader submits: The [0]Mozilla Thunderbird (stand-alone
Mozilla based mail/news reader) developers have just released their
first milestone: [1] version 0.1, available for Mac [2]Linux, [3]Mac OS
X and [4]Windows. The [5]v0.1 release notes highlight some of the
bigger features like [6]customizable toolbars, [7]UI extensions,
[8]contact manager sidebar, simplified UI, 3-pane mail window option,
and [9]spell checker. Also of note, [10]Mozilla's usage share has risen
from 1.2% in February to 1.6% now, a 33% improvement!"
Links
0.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/
1.
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/0.1/
2.
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/0.1/thunderbird-0.1-i686-pc-linux-gtk2-gnu.tar.bz2
3.
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/0.1/thunderbird-0.1-macosx.dmg.gz
4.
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/0.1/thunderbird-0.1-win32.zip
5.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/release-notes.html
6.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/screenshot.png
7.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/specs/extensions.html
8.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/specs/images/abPicker.png
9.
http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/
10.
http://www.onestat.com/html/aboutus_pressbox23.html
IBM Points Out SCO's GPL Software Distribution http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/29/0049210
An anonymous reader writes "Cnet is reporting that [0]IBM has launched
a counterstrike against SCO Group's attack on Linux users, arguing that
SCO's demands for Unix license payments are undermined by its earlier
shipment of an open-source Linux product." [1]JayJay.br points out a
similar but more colorful article on The Register "in which SCO says
that 'SCO-Caldera [2]does not own the copyrights to JFS (Journaling
File System), RCU (Read, Copy, and Update), NUMA (Non-uniform Memory
Access) software, and other IBM-developed AIX code that IBM contributed
to the Linux kernel.' Gee, now that I was almost buying their license
..."
Links
0.
http://asia.cnet.com/newstech/systems/0,39001153,39143645,00.htm
1. mailto:jjayNO@SPAMlinuxmail.org
2.
http://mozillaquest.com/Linux03/ScoSource-24-Copyrights_Story01.html
What Is The Real Cost of Spam?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/28/236202
[0]securitas writes "The NY Times has a nice feature about the
[1]diverging estimates of the costs of spam ([2]Google). The estimates
vary widely from $10 billion to $87 billion per year for American
workers, and even more for global costs. Critics say that research
firms' estimates vastly overstate the actual cost of spam. Public
institutions like Indiana University have to be sensitive to the First
Amendment rights of the spammers. And at companies like Nortel
Networks, security architect Chris Lewis says that the real economic
burden is the 10 to 15 percent - 5,000 to 10,000 messages a day - of
the spam that still gets through, which costs the company about $1 in
lost productivity per message. The costs can be much higher if a top
executive is upset or mad about spam. "If someone in senior management
gets spammed," Mr. Lewis said, "it could take 20 or 30 hours of
everyone's time, up and down the chain." A chart of the [3]per user
amount of spam and the time spent processing it, as well as the
[4]varying estimates of the per user cost of spam are included in the
article."
Links
0.
http://geartest.com
1.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/28/technology/28SPAM.html?pagewanted=all
2.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/28/technology/28SPAM.html?ex=1059969600&en=03c30276f54a51a7&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE
3.
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2003/07/27/technology/28SPAM.chartjpg.html
4.
http://graphics7.nytimes.com/images/2003/07/27/business/28SPAM.chartjp.jpg
The Failures Of Desktop Linux
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/28/2227246
[0]PDAJames writes "Maybe Linux isn't quite ready for the desktop after
all. After an earlier, [1]very positive evaluation of SuSE Linux
Desktop, ZDNet UK has carried out a more in-depth review, [2]running
the system in a production environment for two weeks, and found it
wanting. A key problem area was interacting with the corporate Windows
network. When will this stuff finally be ironed out?"
Links
0. mailto:pdajames@yahoo.com
1.
http://insight.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020466,2136603,00.htm
2.
http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/review/42/1/5326.htmlNew Directions In Music Tech At Siggraph http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/28/2126254
Cyrrin writes "The 2003 Siggraph [0]conference is under way in San
Diego, and the Emerging Technologies booth is showcasing several
noteworthy projects in the field of human-computer interaction in music
production. First, The Continuator system, from [1]Sony Computer
Science Laboratory, Paris which learns in real-time the style of a
performing pianist, taking into account chord structures, rhythm, and
melody, and then renders a musical performance in a similar style. Next
is [2]The Augmented Composer Project which uses real-time image
processing to read the arrangement and orientation of symbolic cards on
a table to allow a composer to assemble components of a musical phrase.
Finally, those wizards at the [3]MIT Media Lab bring you Hyperscore, a
visual composition program which is intended for childen to be able to
easily create complex and fantastic music sequences. (And it's fun for
adults too!) Hyperscore is part of the [4]Toy Symphony project and is
available for download by going to the Musictoys->Hyperscore-> Showcase
page (Windows-only though)."
Links
0.
http://www.siggraph.org/s2003/
1.
http://www.csl.sony.fr/
2.
http://www.mis.atr.co.jp/~rodney/
3.
http://www.media.mit.edu/
4.
http://toysymphony.net/
Microsoft's Forgotten Mistakes
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/28/2119237
[0]seattlenerd writes "In light of all of the hype about how much cash
Microsoft is sitting on, it's good to be reminded that they do fail. A
lot. [1]This piece in Seattle Weekly points out some of the many
failures -- from ActiMates Barney to Microsoft at Work to pending
disasters in smartphones and interactive TV (despite recent PR-worthy
announcements). But like most litter, the failures are swept under the
rug in the hopes people don't remember that many 'new' Microsoft ideas
are recycled from its own history." Of course, like any big company,
Microsoft is not a monolith.
Links
0. http://www.bytemeonline.com
Tim O'Reilly Interview
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/27/2221217
[0]s4 news machine writes "The UK webcaster [1]stage4 has published a
[2]lengthy interview with Tim O'Reilly in which he talks about why DRM
will fail, Macromedia Central and the rise of webservices, and that
Microsoft should have been broken up."
Links
0.
http://www.stage4.co.uk
1.
http://ww.stage4.co.uk/
2.
http://stage4.co.uk/full_story.php?newsID=272
Essential .NET, Volume I
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/27/2230220
[0]hmobius writes "In a world where developers are baying for
customers' attentions, very few people can claim to command that of the
developer. Their blogs may be the only clue to the higher level of
thinking that they operate at, creating the answers to why and when
code works in addition to the perennial how. Whether he likes it or
not, Don Box is one such system-meister. He may dislike writing books,
but when one comes out, people pay attention and read. His first foray
into text, Essential COM, was the book to explain how COM worked, and
his latest, Essential .NET, takes the .NET Framework’s Common Language
Runtime (CLR), and does exactly the same." Read on for the rest of
hmobius' review.
Links
0. mailto:danm@hmobius.com
Freshmeat
Accessfs 0.16
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130804/
Accessfs is a file system to manage permissions. It is not very useful on its own. You need to load other modules like "User permission based IP ports" or "User permission based capabilities". With these modules there's no need anymore for most Internet daemons to run as root.
AdvanceMAME 0.71.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130820/
AdvanceMAME is a port of the MAME and MESS emulators for arcade monitors, TVs, and PC monitors.
Agatha 0.6.6 (Unix)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130821/
Agatha is a Web-based MP3 playing system that allows users to stream music, create and manage play lists, and control the playing of music on the remote server (as in a appliance application). Agatha is implemented with PHP4 and Apache.
Alpaca 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130843/
Alpaca is a multitasking operating system for Z-80 based arcade hardware. It has been designed to run on both Pac-Man and Pengo based arcade machines, but can easily be ported to other machines with similar architectures. It supports four concurrently running processes, task switching, simple inter-process messaging, semaphores, and a basic window-based graphical interface.
amiex 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130780/
amiex is a text advertisement exchange. It can be run out of the box or customized. There are various member area and admin features, like detailed statistics, the ability to edit and delete member accounts, set an exchange ratio, force adverts to be served, send email to members, give credits, and more.
Animail 2.0-pre19 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130866/
Animail is a multiserver POP3/APOP/IMAP4 (with or without SSL) mail retrieval utility. It features an advanced filtering system based on blacklisting, whitelisting, or a combination of both. It is possible to send an autoresponse which prompts people to reply and add themselves to the 'autoaccept' file. It also allows filters based on regular expressions which match against the email headers. (If a message is filtered, only the header is downloaded, not the entire body.) Combining external filtering programs (e.g. SpamAssassin or Bogofilter) as message post-download plugins is also easily acomplished, thus extending filtering capabilities in an unlimited way. Available delivery options include mailbox, maildir, local SMTP, and pipe to a command.
AnnotateIt! 0.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130836/
AnnotateIt! is an open source electronic response system targeted at composition instructors and students. It allows a user to annotate HTML and provides facilities for group interaction. Annotations may be either hyperlinked or inline, depending on the user's preference. It also features reporting of meta information (annotation types and counts), predefined annotations, community annotations, conversion of documents to HTML for annotation, easy document management, and an assignments calendar.
antinat 0.60
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130872/
Antinat is a modular, multithreaded, scaleable SOCKS server for Linux supporting SOCKS 4, SOCKS 5, authentication, firewalling, and name resolution. Modules can be added without modifying the core server, and modules can be removed to remove support for some functionality.
Apollon 0.8.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130757/
Apollon is the filesharing client you were waiting for! It uses giFT/openFT as a filesharing protocol, and the GUI is very user-friendly and intuitive.
Armagetron 0.2.5.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130752/
In Armagetron, you ride a lightcycle around the game grid. You can only make sharp turns of 90 degrees and a wall constantly builds up after you. Make your enemies crash into your wall, but be aware that they are trying to do the same to you. If you are fast enough, you may be able to trap them, but the only way to speed up your lightcycle is to drive close to the dangerous walls. Prepare for exciting strategic preparations followed by action-packed close combat!
Autogg 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130853/
Autogg is an Ogg player that categorizes music independently of the catalog structure. It exclusively uses tags to sort by album and artist. Music can then be inserted into a playlist from the sorted treelist.
BananaPos 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130770/
BananaPos is point of sale system that consists of a server, a client, libraries, and some associated utilities. It uses GTK and includes a Web-based MIS system for administration. It currently supports MySQL.
BattStat 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130717/
BattStat is a short program written to check the battery status on newer ACPI laptops. Multiple batteries are handled.
Bionic Instinct 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130734/
Bionic Instinct is a green theme with a frilly lizard. The background is by weirdone (Michi Brandstetter).
BookmarkManager 0.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130740/
BookmarkManager is an online bookmark manager and is meant as a replacement for a browser's bookmark system. It runs on a servlet container, and needs no database. It uses the Prevayler system for storing its data.
CBT Combo 0.0.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130844/
CBT Combo is a Computer-Based Training program for K-12 teachers who use Linux. It is text based and supports full internationalization and localization. It is a combination of authoring and playback software, and allows everyone to create training courses for others on most subjects. It supports access through serial TTYs, telnet, console, and xterms. X11 is not required but is supported through xterm. It runs extremely well on older 386 and 486 systems as well as more modern systems.
Cheap Threads 2.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130774/
Cheap Threads is a collection of portable C routines for implementing sychronous threads. It includes a scheduler and a facility for passing messages among threads. Threads may run in a round robin or according to a priority scheme. Each thread must voluntarily relinquish control from time, via an ordinary function return, so that other threads can run. Since the threads are synchronous, i.e. they don't interrupt each other, they don't need to use semaphores, mutexes, critical sections, or other facilities to keep from interfering with each other. One version of Cheap Threads is designed for embedded systems.
cmdftp 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130720/
cmdftp is a command line FTP client for Linux with shell-like functions which uses passive mode only, works in local and remote mode transparently, tries to keep the connection alive, and supports multiple and recursive file transfers. It is aimed at being simple yet powerful.
curl and libcurl 7.10.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130785/
curl and libcurl is a tool for transferring files using URL syntax. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, DICT, TELNET, LDAP, FILE, and GOPHER, as well as HTTP-post, HTTP-put, cookies, FTP upload, resumed transfers, passwords, portnumbers, SSL certificates, Kerberos, and proxies. It is powered by libcurl, the client-side URL transfer library. There are bindings/interfaces to libcurl for more than a dozen languages and environments.
Cut The Crap Software 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130776/
Cut The Crap provides a set of Java packages for system development. From file-based storage utilities, through a generic persistence object model, to a package called "The Alchemist" that generates usable persistent models from simple XML descriptions.
Dante 1.1.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130788/
Dante is a free implementation of the proxy protocols socks version 4, socks version 5 (rfc1928), and msproxy. It can be used as a firewall between networks. The package consists of two parts, a socks server and a proxy client which supports socks, msproxy, and HTTP proxies. Commercial support is available.
Datamaster 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130846/
Datamaster is a set of utilities that generates databases and customizable Web applications automatically from UML class diagrams.
Druid 3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130721/
Druid is a tool to handle database tables. Users can add/modify/delete database objects (fields, tables, etc.) using a simple GUI. When the DB structure is complete, Druid can generate the SQL script to generate the DB and the related docs.
easyGG 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130715/
easyGG is an automatic gallery generator. It features automatic image rotation based on EXIF info, automatic scaling for Web usage, automatic generation of linked pages, and an index page with thumbnails. When executed in a directory with JPEG images, it creates a subdirectory with a ready-to-use gallery.
Exult 1.1Beta1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130842/
Exult is an open-source game engine for playing Ultima7 on modern operating systems, using the game's original data files.
File::Scan 0.60 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130858/
File::Scan allows users to make multiplataform virus scanners which can detect Windows/DOS/Mac viruses. It include a virus scanner and signatures database.
FIRE|GATE 0.78
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130841/
FIRE|GATE is a Linux IPtables script for use as a firewall and NAT/masquerade router for home networks or SOHO applications. It shares access to a single Internet connection from multiple workstations, and can optionally forward all inbound HTTP, SMTP, or other requests to internal servers (as opposed to a DMZ). Hardware requirements are modest, with an i486 with 16MB RAM being capable of handling at least 10 machines (if not many more). FIRE|GATE differs from many online examples in that it is heavily commented, so it's understandable; it is fully contained in one script; it includes SYSCTL parameters for increased strength; it addresses IM client file transfers; and there is no need to specify/grep for the external IP, even if assigned via DHCP.
Flyspray 0.9.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130711/
Originally developed for the Psi project, Flyspray is an easy to use bug tracking system for those who don't require all the complexities of something like Bugzilla. It supports multiple users, file attachments, and Jabber notifications.
FSlint 2.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130811/
FSlint is a toolkit to find various forms of lint on a filesystem. At the moment it reports duplicate files, bad symbolic links, troublesome file names, empty directories, non stripped executables, temporary files, duplicate/conflicting (binary) names, and unused ext2 directory blocks.
FSMGenerator 1.0b4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130855/
FSM Generator allows one to generate FSM implementation source code, in one of the available programming languages, from configuration files. The generated FSM can then be compiled together, executed, and interfaced by the user's software.
Gander 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130824/
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.
GCJ web browser plugin 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130789/
gcjwebpugin is a plugin to execute Java applets in Mozilla and compatible browsers. It uses the JVM provided by GCJ.
Genesis 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130786/
Genesis is a bright orange and dark grey theme.
gif2png 2.4.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130856/
gif2png is a simple command-line utility to convert images from GIF to PNG format. It automatically preserves transparency, interlacing and text comments, and it can do multiple images in one command (e.g., gif2png *.gif). The distribution also includes a web2png script that can be used to convert an entire web tree; it calls gif2png to do image conversions, then patches IMG SRC tags correctly in referring pages.
giFTcurs 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130869/
giFTcurs is the recommended frontend to giFT. It is feature rich, very fast, stable, and is being actively developed. It seems to bring out memories of lost BBS days, and it looks really good.
Ginanh 0.1.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130726/
Ginanh (Ginanh Is Neither Adom Nor Hunt) is intended to be an RPG game with a graphical (text mode) user interface and multiplayer support.
gmorgan 0.07
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130716/
gmorgan is a fully programmable General MIDI rhythm station. It features chord recognition for playing in real-time.
GNet 2.0.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130870/
GNet is a network library. It is object-oriented, written in C, and built upon GLib. It is intended to be easy to use and port. It supports abstract Internet addresses, TCP, UDP, IP Multicast, IPv6, asynchronous DNS lookups, SHA, MD5, Base64, URIs, and SOCKS. It comes with documentation and examples.
GNU Parted 1.6.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130743/
GNU Parted allows you to create, destroy, resize, and copy partitions. Supported partition types include ext2, FAT (FAT16 and FAT32), and Reiserfs filesystems and Linux swap devices. Supported disk labels include MS-DOS and PC98 partition tables, Sun and BSD disk labels, Macintosh partition maps, and raw access. Parted is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganising disk usage, copying data between hard disks, and disk imaging.
Grass After the Rain 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130729/
Grass After the Rain is a theme showing raindrops on blades of grass. The background is by Vlad Gerasimov.
Grutatxt 2.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130815/
Grutatxt is a plain text to HTML converter. It successfully converts subtle text markup to lists, bold, italics, tables, and headings to their corresponding HTML tags without having to write unreadable source text files.
GTick 0.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130823/
GTick is a metronome application. It features a scale from 30 beats per
minute to 250 BPM and arbitrary beat modes (meters). It uses GTK+ and
OSS.
gURLChecker 0.5.6 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130724/
gURLChecker is a C/GNOME 2 tool that can check links on a single Web page or on a whole Web site in order to determine the validity of each page.
HardCore Web Content Editor 3.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130777/
The HardCore Web Content Editor is a cross-browser/cross-platform Web content editor. It enables anybody to create, edit, and post Web site content through a WYSIWYG editor with CSS style sheet support and drag and drop editing (to be used as a replacement for HTML form textarea tags).
Hastymail 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130708/
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).
HBCI4Java 0.3 (Passport Editor)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130768/
HBCI4Java is a Java library for the HBCI home banking interface. It supports almost all aspect of the HBCI versions 2.01, 2.1, 2.2, and HBCIplus (with PIN/TAN support). Its API is very application-oriented, so no knowledge about HBCI is required.
HBCI4Java 2.4.1 (Package)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130767/
HBCI4Java is a Java library for the HBCI home banking interface. It supports almost all aspect of the HBCI versions 2.01, 2.1, 2.2, and HBCIplus (with PIN/TAN support). Its API is very application-oriented, so no knowledge about HBCI is required.
Host Grapher 1.0d
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130793/
Host Grapher is a very simple collection of Perl scripts that provide graphical display of CPU, memory, and process information for a system. There are clients for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and Tru64. No socket will be opened on the client, nor will SNMP be used for obtaining the data.
HTTPD::Bench::ApacheBench 0.62
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130733/
HTTPD::Bench::ApacheBench is the foundation of a complete benchmarking and regression testing suite for an advanced, transaction- based mod_perl site. It is useful for stress testing a Web server to its limit while verifying the HTTP responses for correctness.
hYPerSonic 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130710/
hYPerSonic allows you to build and manipulate signal processing pipelines from Python scripts. It is designed for real-time control. It includes objects for oscillators, filters, file IO, and soundcard and memory operations. It is low-level: every byte counts.
ID3 Tag Framework 0.91a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130795/
ID3Tag.framework is a Cocoa-based framework for reading and writing ID3 tags. It supports 1.1 and 2.0 - 2.4 tag types.
ImageInfo 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130801/
Imageinfo is a single Java class that examines InputStream and RandomAccessFile objects. It checks whether the stream/file is in one of the supported image file formats and determines image width, height, and color depth. ImageInfo does not depend on the AWT or additional libraries.
ImageroReader 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130850/
ImageroReader is a Java library for reading image files. It can read BMP, TIFF, PNG, and JPEG image files, and can read thumbnails and metadata in TIFF, PNG, JPEG, JFIF, EXIF, and PSD files.
IMDB Console Client 2807-2003
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130816/
The IMDB Console Client gathers information about all your movies and TV shows (seperated with flags) from the Internet Movie Data Base. It supports ratings, genre, tagline, plot outline, and cast.
Impact 0.3.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130838/
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.
Inside Systems Mail 1.7-pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130808/
Inside Systems Mail is a Webmail system that is programmed in PHP, makes heavy use of Javascript/DOM, and is designed to work with any IMAP server (including Microsoft Exchange). It aims to be quick and easy to use, with an interface that most users will find familiar and several options that help fine tune the Webmail experience.
IOzone 3.196
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130796/
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.
Iperf 1.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130849/
Iperf is a tool to measure IP bandwidth using UDP or TCP. It allows for tuning various parameters, and reports bandwidth, delay jitter, and packet loss. It supports IPv6 and multicast.
ipfreeze 0.4.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130848/
Ipfreeze is a program that listens to the netlink device. It takes the source address from every incoming packet and adds it to a Netfilter "blacklist" chain. The address is removed from this chain after a user-definable period of time. This allows you to create rules that detect and halt certain odd behaviors, such as ports scans, syn floods, or connection attempts on forbidden ports. The attacker's IP address is blacklisted using the QUEUE target. There is also a whitelist where you can declare hosts that you never want to be blacklisted.
istrice 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130834/
istrice allows a client to assign the compilation of a C/C++ source file to a remote server throughout the mediation of a Master Server. It is an implementation of a distribuited compilation environment under Unix systems. Using the ISTRICE environment you can distribuite the compilation across a set of 'friend' computer around the network, reducing the compilation time and system load of a slow or busy computer.
J-Lan Communicator 1.1 Build 20030728
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130819/
J-Lan Communicator is a small application that facilitates communication between different hosts on the same local area network. It does not require a central server and uses very little bandwidth by taking advantage of a lightweight protocol and UDP packets.
JFaceDbc 2.0 beta2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130778/
JFaceDbc is a JDBC client application written in Java. It can run as a stand-alone application or as an Eclipse Plugin, and features a GUI based on JFace and the SWT libraries from the Eclipse Project.
JFreeChart 0.9.10 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130764/
JFreeChart is a chart library for Java that supports a wide range of
charts including pie charts (2D and 3D), bar charts (horizontal and
vertical, regular or stacked line charts with optional 3D-effects, XY
plots, scatter plots, time series charts, high/low/open/close charts,
candlestick plots, Gantt charts, Pareto charts, combination charts, and
more. It is suitable for use in applications, applets, servlets, and
JSP.
JGraph 2.2.1 (For Java 1.3)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130748/
JGraph is a robust and complete graph component that is better than many of its commercial competitors. With the JGraph zoomable component, you can display objects and relations (networks) in any Swing UI. It can also be used on the server-side to read an GXL graph, apply a custom layout algorithm, and return the result as an SVG image.
Jin client for chess servers 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130723/
Jin is a Java client for various chess servers. While it currently only supports the Internet Chess Club (chessclub.com) and the Free Internet Chess Server (freechess.org), it is written to be flexible enough to support any chess server. It is based on the Swing UI toolkit and runs on any Java 1.1 compatible JVM.
jMusic 1.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130762/
jMusic provides a library of classes for generating and manipulating music, and is a solid framework for computer assisted composition in Java. jMusic supports composers by providing a music data structure based upon note/sound events, and methods for working with that musical data. jMusic can read and write MIDI files, audio files, and its own .jm files. jMusic is designed to be extendible, encouraging you to build upon the functionality of jMusic by programming in Java to create your own music composition tools.
Kahakai 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130709/
Kahakai is a fork of the Waimea window manager, adding scripting support for many languages through SWIG.
kbarcode 1.3.4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130769/
KBarcode is a barcode and label printing application for KDE 3. It can be used to print everything from simple business cards up to complex labels with several barcodes, such as article descriptions. KBarcode comes with an easy-to-use WYSIWYG label designer, a setup wizard, batch import of labels (directly from the delivery note), thousands of predefined labels, database managment tools, and translations in many languages. Even printing more than 10,000 labels in one go is no problem for KBarcode. Additionally, it is a simple xbarcode replacement for the creation of barcodes. All major types of barcodes like EAN, UPC, CODE39, and ISBN are supported.
kdissert 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130854/
kdissert is an attempt to make a mindmapping-like tool to help students to write texts like dissertations, theses, and reports. It is meant to organize the ideas faster, not to actually write the documents themselves.
LabPlot 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130759/
LabPlot is a KDE application for data plotting and function analysis. It support both 2D and 3D plots and tries to emulate most of the functions supported by programs like Microcal Origin or SPSS Sigmaplot.
lescegra 20030728
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130830/
Lescegra is an object-oriented 3D graphics engine based on OpenGL. It is written in strict ANSI C and brings no dependencies other than an OpenGL implementation.
Linux 2.6.0-test2 (2.5)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130680/
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.
Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator 5.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130741/
Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator allows beginning-to-advanced network administrators to control bandwidth. It is designed to be completely turn-key in its default configuration. You just plug it into your network trunk, and it self configures and immediately starts slowing "bandwidth hogs". It also comes with finer controls that are easy to use, and can be configured to target specific applications such as Kazaa, IMAP, and POP. Traffic can be limited by host IP, subnet, and content blocking.
LKL 0.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130761/
LKL is a userspace keylogger that runs under Linux on the x86 architechture. LKL sniffs and logs everything that passes through the hardware keyboard port (0x60). It translates keycodes to ASCII with a keymap file.
LTI-Lib 1.9.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130750/
The LTI-Lib is an object oriented library with algorithms and data structures frequently used in image processing and computer vision. It was developed at the RWTH-Aachen University as a part of many research projects on computer vision dealing with robotics, object recognition, sign language, and gesture recognition. It provides an object oriented C++ library that includes fast algorithms, which can be used in real applications.
LTOOLS 6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130754/
The LTOOLS are a set of command line tools for reading and writing Linux ext2 and ext3 filesystems from DOS, Windows, Solaris, or Linux. They are useful for dual-boot configurations and system recovery. It features Java-based and .NET graphical interfaces, an Explorer-like interface in a Web browser, and a method of providing remote access to filesystems.
MarsDict 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130845/
MarsDict is a GTK dictionary frontend which uses plugins to get words from data sources. With the appropriate plugin, it can connect to MySQL, dict servers, or plain text files.
mdadm 1.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130868/
mdadm is a tools for creating, maintaining, and monitoring Linux "md" device arrays, also known as Software RAID.
Meld 0.8.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130861/
Meld is a GNOME 2 visual diff and merge tool. It integrates especially well with CVS. The diff viewer lets you edit files in place (diffs update dynamically), and a middle column shows detailed changes and allows merges. The margins show location of changes for easy browsing, and it also features a tabbed interface that allows you to open many diffs at once.
Memory Allocation Checker 0.1.3 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130810/
Memcheck provides the ability to fault on pointer overrun (read or write) or freed pointer deference (read or write), logs double free and realloc of already freed pointers and memory not freed on exit, checks for pointer underrun on free and realloc, optionally reverses the behavior of overrun and underrun, "churns" reallocations to always return a different pointer, and logs pointer overruns instead of faulting. It has a very small performance impact, with the tradeoff of a large memory footprint. It includes a validation test suite to verify correctness of the library. It is tested on a variety of architectures, including Alpha, ARM, HPPA, PPC, ix86, IA64, rs6000, S390, SPARC, and SPARC64. It is tested on a variety of platforms, including OSF, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Linux, HP/UX, Mac OSX, AIX, SCO, and Solaris.
Metalcity 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130718/
Want that Java Swing look and feel? Use the Metalcity theme for Metacity with the GTK Metal theme.
Moa Snippets 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130751/
Moa Snippets allows you to create editable areas in your Web site. It features a powerful backend administration tool that lets you display snippets in predefined locations, in any order, or by category, and includes the ability to create multiple users to access the backend tool.
Modeling Framework 0.9pre11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130779/
Modeling Framework fills the gap between the Python object world and relational databases in that it allows users to transparently create, retrieve, update, or delete Python objects from a database without having to write a single line of SQL. Main features include generation of database schema, generation of Python code templates ready to be used, support for transparent mapping of (class) inheritance in relational databases, object-oriented query language, use of standard Python getters to traverse relationships (the related objects are automatically fetched when needed and when appropriate), and automatic checking for referential-integrity constraints, etc. Supported databases are PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite.
mod_auth_bsd 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130867/
mod_auth_bsd is an Apache module which provides HTTP Basic authentication via the BSD Authentication framework as available in OpenBSD.
mod_mylo 0.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130798/
mod_mylo is a dynamic module that can be added to Apache to do logging to a MySQL server, in addition to the normal access logs.