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[osdn everything] July 31, 2003
Date: Thu Jul 31 2003 - 01:45:28 EDT
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Slashdot
Australian Federal Court Overturns Legal Modchip Sales
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/31/0657224
An anonymous reader writes "Yesterday, the Australian Federal Court
overruled the [0]previous ruling on modchips in Australia. I am pretty
sure the overruled case is the mainstay for the 'legal' use of modchips
in Australia (predominantly Linux on the Xbox). Haven't seen this hit
the media yet, with the exception of the Australian Financial Review
referring to it in the Free Trade Agreement context. The [1]ruling can
be found here. Although not a lawyer, it appears the original judgement
was made on the basis that Sony did not provide a copy protection
system. Also noted is that there is limited commercial use for the mod
other than circumvention. Wonder what will happen to modchips for the
Xbox, given that it can be argued that running Linux could easily be
seen as commercial."
Links
0. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/26/123220&tid=123
OpenGL 1.5
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/30/226218
Yogijalla writes "SGI and OpenGL ARB just [0]announced the OpenGL 1.5 specification, introducing support for a new OGL Shading Language. Also, check out the new [1]Java bindings to OpenGL. OGL 1.5 is a step towards the OGL 2.0, already [2]suggested 2.0 by 3DLabs." Also worth pointing out that [3]OpenML SDK has been released as well. Links
0.
http://www.sgi.com/newsroom/press_releases/2003/july/opengl15.html
1.
http://www.sgi.com/newsroom/press_releases/2003/july/sgisun_opengl.html
2.
http://www.3dlabs.com/support/developer/ogl2/index.htm
3.
http://www.khronos.org/openml/spec.html
Microsoft Research Projects Showcased
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/31/0059243
[0]prostoalex writes "Seattle Times reporter [1]visited the Microsoft
Research expo hosted by the company. The inventions of the future
include a robot that could attend conferences in your behalf and allow
you to communicate via video and audio applications, a software package
that translates the sign language into readable English, e-mailable
identification documents and some enhancements to [2]Microsoft's
operating systems."
Links
0.
http://www.moskalyuk.com/deals/
1.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2001311067_msscience30.html
2.
http://microsoft.com/windows/default.mspx
Palm OS Based Gaming Device Nears Release http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/31/037206
Sokie writes "During the past few weeks [0]Tapwave, a startup founded
by a couple former Palm employees, has been slowly unveiling the
features of their upcoming [1]Helix (Flash heavy link) handheld gaming
device. So far, the specs include a 480x320 16-bit color display, dual
Secure Digital (SD) slots, Bluetooth connectivity for wireless
multiplayer (Wi-Fi available through SDIO), multiple analog controls
including triggers, ATI Imageon graphics, and dual rechargable lithium
ion batteries (no word yet on battery life). In addition to some cool
sounding hardware, several prominent game companies are already signed
on to develop games for the Helix, including Activision and Midway. It
will also run traditional Palm apps like Calendar and Address Book.
Tapwave will continue to unveil a new feature each week for the next
few weeks, and the product is supposed to launch in September or
October and retail for about $299. PC World has [2]some additional
info."
Links
0.
http://www.tapwave.com/
1.
http://www.godoplay.com/
2.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,110676,00.asp
The RIAA Hit List - A Pattern Emerges?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/31/0056254
Desus writes "[0]Slyck News seems to have found a pattern in just what files the RIAA is searching on to find offenders. It seems the RIAA is targeting a wide reach of music, including Hip Hop, R&B, Rap, Rock, Pop and Country songs. Artists such as Ludacris, Michael Jackson, NAS, Busta Rhymes, Keith Sweat and Musiq were very common throughout the subpoenas. They've even created a helpful [1]chart showing exactly what artists and songs seem to get one flagged." Links
0. http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=207
Clammy Modding
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/30/2343209
[0]japala writes "Some people tend to have cold hands while they type
the keyboard or use the mouse. Equally as many suffer from sweaty palms
and that feels really annoying while using the mouse. [0]MetkuMods have
made couple of tutorials in true DIY spirit that will try to make your
life easier. These devices may have started as a joke but trust me,
they do work. See the [1]MouseFan and [2]BreezePad."
Links
0.
http://metku.net/
1.
http://www.metku.net/index.html?sect=view&n=1&path=mods/rottaflekti/index_eng
2.
http://www.metku.net/index.html?sect=view&n=1&path=mods/breezepad/index_eng
Titania Nanotubes for Hydrogen Sensors?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/30/1817203
[0]Roland Piquepaille writes "Everybody is talking about carbon
nanotubes these days. But what about titania nanotubes? Penn State
researchers think they have a great potential for sensing hydrogen .
According to this [1]news release, "titania nanotubes are 1500 times
better than the next best material for sensing hydrogen and may be one
of the first examples of materials properties changing dramatically
when crossing the border between real world sizes and nanoscopic
dimensions, according to a Penn State materials scientist." And now,
the very good news: titania nanotubes are cheap. So they'll be used in
industrial quality control in food plants and as weapons against
terrorism. [2]My summary contains some more details."
Links
0.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/
1.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-07/ps-tnm072903.php
2.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/categories/sidebars/2003/07/30.htmlWhat Should a Community Computer Lab Offer? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/30/2149238
Ballresin asks: "A local computer company is expanding and including a computer lab in their setup, and they want me to come in as its Administrator. I am supposed to be giving them input on what to teach/host. What does Slashdot think a medium sized tourist town (Okoboji, Spirit Lake, Arnolds Park, Iowa) should have to offer to the locals? I was thinking something along the lines of 'How to Use Windows 101' and 'How to Use Office 101'. My compatriots want to offer some off-the-wall classes such as 'Hacker Ethics: Why and How' and a few other odd classes. I have polled people in the area, which resulted the discovery that 80% of them are from out of town, so don't really care. What you guys think; What kind of classes or what games/LAN party setups should a new, small business offer? Any ideas/input is greatly appreciated."
Predicting H.S. Dropouts With Pervasive Databases http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/30/2132240
rhadamanthus writes "As seen on the Houston Chronicle: 'With a new computer database available at every campus this fall, teachers can keep [0]a virtual eye on every student and identify those at risk of leaving. For the first time, educators can look up a student's attendance, discipline, immigration status, grades, and test scores at one source and use that information to predict dropouts. ... "All students will know someone is watching them, tracking them, and is interested in their success," school board member Laurie Bricker said at a press conference today.' Hooray for surveillance in the [1]HISD." Links
0. http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/2019686
Slow And Steady Leads To Windows Refund Success http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/30/202216
linuxwrangler writes "By proceeding carefully, documenting everything,
being persistent and keeping his cool, Steve Oualline was awarded a
$199 refund for his unused copy of Microsoft Windows XP. See his
[0]Linux Journal howto for the details. Hopefully this is the first of
many victories."
Links
0. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7040&mode=thread&order=0
Freshmeat
AdacURL 7.10.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131065/
AdacURL is an Ada95 binding to the popular curl library for fetching files over various protocols such as HTTP, FTP, or TELNET.
Ainebot 0.8.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131041/
Ainebot is a chatbot software. It contains an interpreter of the Aine language (which allows you to easy create your own bot personality) and ready-to-use personality files. You can make it available on the Web (it needs only CGI), or even put it on an IRC network (with the help of Eggdrop).
ALSA driver 0.9.6 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131020/
The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture is composed of several parts. The first is a fully modularized sound driver which supports module autoloading, devfs, isapnp autoconfiguration, and gives complete access to analog audio, digital audio, control, mixer, synthesizer, DSP, MIDI, and timer components of audio hardware. It also includes a fully-featured kernel-level sequencer, a full compatibility layer for OSS/Free applications, an object-oriented C library which covers and enhances the ALSA kernel driver functionality for applications (client/server, plugins, PCM sharing/multiplexing, PCM metering, etc.), an interactive configuration program for the driver, and some simple utilities for basic management.
Amaranth Icons .7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131091/
Amaranth Icons is a smooth icon theme which was made with Adobe Illustrator 10. It will soon be released as SVG icons.
Animal Shelter Manager 1.20 PRE 1 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/131014/
Animal Shelter Manager is a complete computer solution for animal sanctuaries and rescue shelters. It features complete animal management, document generation, full reporting, charts, Internet Web site publishing, and more.
ANT is Not a Telephone 0.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131033/
ANT is a telephone application for GNU/Linux, ISDN4Linux, and OSS.
apricots 0.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131095/
Apricots is a quick, fun, and delightful 2D plane dogfighting game. It supports 1 or 2 players with possible computer AI opponents. Players shoot enemy planes and bomb targets with the aim of attaining the highest score.
Atomic Tanks 0.9.8b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131079/
Atanks is a multi-platform scorched earth clone similar to Worms. Annihilate the other tanks to earn money, then spend it on bigger and better shields and weapons to wipe out the opposition. It features a wide array of weapons, destructible landscape, weather, parachutes, teleports and a wide range of other features.
Boehm-Demers-Weiser Conservative Garbage Collector 6.3alpha1 (Alpha) http://freshmeat.net/releases/131024/
The Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative garbage collector can be used as a garbage collecting replacement for C malloc or C++ new. It is also used by a number of programming language implementations that use C as intermediate code. Alternatively, it may be used as a leak detector for C or C++ programs. A slightly older version of the garbage collector is also included as part of the GNU compiler (gcc) distribution.
BusyBox 1.0.0-pre2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131017/
BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. It provides minimalist replacements for most of the utilities you usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc. The utilities in BusyBox generally have fewer options than their full-featured GNU cousins; however, the options that are included provide the expected functionality and behave very much like their GNU counterparts. BusyBox provides a fairly complete POSIX environment for any small or embedded system.
calc 2.11.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131021/
Calc is arbitrary precision arithmetic system that uses a C-like language. It's useful as a calculator, an algorithm prototype, and as a mathematical research tool. More importantly, calc provides a machine-independent means of computation. Calc comes with a rich set of builtin mathematical and programmatic functions.
Calcoo 1.3.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131032/
Calcoo is a scientific calculator designed to provide maximum usability. Its features bitmapped button labels and display digits to improve readability, no double-function buttons, undo/redo buttons, copy/paste interaction with the X clipboard, both RPN and algebraic modes, two memory registers with displays, displays for Y, Z, and T registers, and tick marks to separate thousands. Calcoo is written in C using the GTK+ widget library (v.1.2).
Cecilia 2.0.6 Beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131060/
Cecilia is a graphic user interface for the sound synthesis and sound processing package CSound. Cecilia enables the user to quickly build graphic interfaces with sliders and curves to control CSound intruments. It is also an editor to CSound with syntax highlighting and a built-in reference.
Clean Slate Smalltalk 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131001/
Slate is a prototype-based object-oriented programming language based on Self, CLOS, and Smalltalk. Slate syntax is intended to be as familiar as possible to a Smalltalker, rather than engaging in divergent experiments in that respect. However, the language semantics, environment, and run-time design are all much more powerful than in traditional Smalltalk systems.
CMake 1.6.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131075/
CMake is a cross-platform, open-source build system. It is used to control the software compilation process using simple platform and compiler independent configuration files. It generates native makefiles and workspaces that can be used in the compiler environment of your choice. CMake is quite sophisticated: it is possible to support complex environments requiring system configuration, pre-processor generation, and code generation.
Conflux Groupware 1.0-5 (Lite)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131006/
Conflux is a Web-based groupware and file management solution intended to organise and facilitate the work of the client. The basic functionality includes shared calendars, tasks, contacts, discussions, and an email client. Built on open source components such as PostgreSQL, Python, mod_python, and Apache, Conflux is a stable and cost-effective solution for optimizing the time you spend on your daily tasks.
cx_Freeze 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131064/
cx_Freeze is a set of utilities for freezing Python scripts into executables in a cross platform way, using many of the techniques found in Thomas Heller's py2exe, Gordon McMillan's Installer, and the Freeze utility that ships with Python itself.
Damn Small Linux 0.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131048/
Damn Small Linux is a business-card size (50MB) Linux distribution. Despite its minuscule size it strives to have a functional and easy to use desktop.
Distributed Hardware Evolution 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131035/
This project allows the distribution of a genetic algorithm evolving hardware designs across the Internet by setting up an island on each clients' PC which will evolve during idle time. Individuals from these islands will migrate between each other as they compete for survival. All source code is available and is generalizable to any GA or distributed processing task.
dxr3Player 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131046/
dxr3Player is a lightweight command line DVD player for Linux and the DXR3 (aka Hollywood+) MPEG-2 decoder boards. It supports all major DVD features, including menus, navigation, fast forward and backward playback, subtitles, and camera angle changes. The player is very conservative on memory usage and tries very hard (and mostly succeeds) to keep video and audio in sync.
Elm ME+ PL102a (25) (Patch)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131016/
Elm 2.4ME+ is based on Elm 2.4. It contains enhanced MIME and character set support. It can read mail from POP or IMAP folders and can pass mail to the PGP or GPG programs. It also includes modules for TLS/SSL, iconv, and SMTP.
Eternal Lands 0.7.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131087/
Eternal Lands is a multiplatform (Windows/Linux) 3D graphical online world that will evolve into a fully-featured MMORPG. It requires a hardware-accelerated video card that supports at least OpenGL 1.2.
fetchmail 6.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131022/
Fetchmail is a free, full-featured, robust, well-documented remote-mail retrieval and forwarding utility intended to be used over on-demand TCP/IP links (such as SLIP or PPP connections). It supports every remote-mail protocol now in use on the Internet: POP2, POP3, RPOP, APOP, KPOP, all flavors of IMAP, and ESMTP ETRN. It can even support IPv6 and IPSEC.
File Integrity Command & Control 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131063/
File Integrity Command & Control (FICC) helps system administrators manage multiple Tripwire installations across their network. It maintains MD5 hashes for the three key Tripwire files (the config file, executable, and TW database) for every system it monitors. Using SCP, it retrieves these key files from each system and compares the computed signature against the signatures in the FICC signature database. If all three signatures match the database, FICC then connects to the host via SSH and runs Tripwire. In the event that any of the signatures do not match the database or Tripwire detects files changes, an email is sent to the "FICC administrator" of the system in question.
Free Realty 2.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131090/
Free Realty is a PHP/MySQL set of scripts based upon Jon Roig's original Open Realty project. Jon's description of the package, "... so easy even a real estate agent can use it.." is the ultimate goal of this project.
FUDforum 2.5.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131044/
FUDforum is templatable forum with i18n support based on PHP and either MySQL or PostgreSQL. It features a user/group management system, a multi-lingual spell checker, both flat and thread message views, a private messaging system with mult-iuser forwarding capabilities, poll file attachments, and much more. It is an extremely fast and scalable forum that can fulfill the needs of both small and large forum operators.
GNU 8085 Simulator 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130784/
GNUSim8085 is a graphical simulator for the Intel 8085 microprocessor. It contains an inline assembler and a debugger.
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet 2067 http://freshmeat.net/releases/131015/
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet is a German introduction to the technical aspects of the Internet. This book explains both the low-level protocols like IP, TCP, and UDP and the high-level protocols SMTP, POP3, NNTP, HTTP, Gopher, FTP, IRC, DICT, Finger, and DNS.
im-ja 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131042/
im-ja aims to be a generic Japanese input module for GTK+ 2. Currently supported input modes are Hiragana, Katakana, Half-Width Katakana, Zenkaku, Canna, Wnn, and Kanji character recognition (based on Kanjipad).
Jaffm 0.8.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131028/
Jaffm is a lightweight wxWindows (GTK+ interface) file manager for Unix, written in C++. It is aimed at nonsense-free file management. It is mostly inspired by the List View in Mac OS Finder, but does and will have Unix-handy features such as an interactive location bar, and a simple but elegant user interface.
Java Business Process Mgmt 1.0 beta4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131018/
jBpm is a business process engine for corporate and enterprise usage. Business process are modeled in a process archive. These process archives are then deployed into the runtime process container. jBpm includes a Web application that generates forms for every step in the process. It provides easy software development, is an excellent integration platform, and is deployable as a Java enterprise application.
Jena 1.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131054/
Jena is Java toolkit for developing semantic Web applications. It includes an RDF API, ARP, an RDF parser used for the W3C semantics Web sandbox, RDQL (an RDF query language and processor), and a DAML API.
JGraphpad 2.2.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131011/
JGraphpad is a powerful diagram editor for Swing that offers XML, drag and drop, zoom, automatic layout, print support, and much more. With JGraphpad, you can create flow charts, maps, UML diagrams, and networks with thousands of nodes. JGraphpad is available with sourcecode, which may be used to develop new (commercial) applications.
jnettop 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131019/
Jnettop allows administrators of routers to watch online traffic coming across the network in a fashion similar to the way top displays statistics about processes. It is useful for quickly evaluating the state of the network.
JS Console 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131029/
JS Console is a Mozilla extension for JavaScript developers. It allows script code to be edited and run interactively in Mozilla. Code output, error tracing, and unit testing are reported and can be saved to files. JS Console relies on Mozlib, a stand-alone library that interfaces with XPCOM Mozilla components.
KFLog 2.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130965/
KFLog (The K Flight Logger) is an aircraft pilot program for KDE. It is used to display, analyze, and evaluate flights logged with a GPS flight recorder (IGC file-format). The user can view the flight track and the task both in 2D and 3D. The user can also optimize the task to get a task which provides a maximum number of points for the logged track. Animation of the track and planning a new task are also possible. KFLog supports a highly configurable vector map, based on DCW-data, as well as digital terrain data, based on GTOPO30. The currently available maps cover all of Europe. The airspace structure available for KFLog covers the whole world, and is updated about every month.
Klearllm 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130956/
Klearllm is a simple, transparent skin for Gkrellm that has 3 different text color schemes.
KMLDonkey 0.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131076/
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.
Lavengro 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131067/
Lavengro is a vocabulary test engine that uses text files as its tests. It reads up these text files and then tests you by using one field of each line of the file for the question, another for the answer. The tests themselves are created by you.
LibTomMath 0.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131055/
LibTomMath provides highly optimized and portable routines for a vast majority of integer-based number theoretic applications (including public key cryptography).
Liferea 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131057/
Liferea (Linux Feed Reader) is an RSS/RDF feed reader. It's intended to be a clone of the Windows-only FeedReader. It can be used to maintain a list of subscribed feeds, browse through their items, and show their contents using GtkHTML.
LightSword File Counter 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131002/
LightSword File Counter is a utility written using GNU source code as a model. It is similar to the DOS command "dir" where it gives the number of files that it has listed. It is written to be very flexible in which files it will count. It has also been tested against the results of kdirstat for accuracy.
Linux 2.4.22-pre9 (2.4-testing)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131013/
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 Security Auditing Tool 0.7.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131078/
Linux Security Auditing Tool (LSAT) is a post install security auditing tool. It is modular in design, so new features can be added quickly. It checks many system configurations and local network settings on the system for common security/config errors and for packages that are not needed. It has been tested on Linux (Gentoo, Red Hat, Debian, etc.) and Solaris (SunOS 2.x).
MemAid 0.2.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131038/
Memaid is a software designed to predict optimal time of repetitions (computes best possible intervals between reviews, using an Artificial Neural Network). It may be used in learning anything. It makes your learning process much more effective: less time wasted, more things you remember.
Mistbox 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130881/
Mistbox is a Blackbox theme to go with the GTK 1.2 and GTK 2 theme Mist. The background was made by zeus at bajingloncat.com.
Mozilla Thunderbird 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131059/
Mozilla Thunderbird is a total redesign of the Mozilla mail component to produce a cross-platform, stand-alone mail application using the XUL user interface language. It has many new features, among them the ability to customize your toolbars the way you want them. a new look and feel with a large number of downloadable themes which alter the appearance of the client, and the ability to add UI extensions.
MP-MPICH 1.3.0a (Production)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131047/
MP-MICH is a Multi-platform uniform MPI implementation, based on MPICH and SCI-MPICH, resulting in a high performance, consistent MPI across both ethernet and SCI networks in a hybrid environment. There is a single, standardized source tree for all platforms. It is compliant with the MPI-1 standard.
MyDNS 0.9.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131086/
MyDNS is a free DNS server for Unix which was implemented from scratch and is designed to serve DNS data directly from a MySQL or PostgreSQL database.
mysqlRadacct 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131058/
mysqlRadacct includes the mysqlRadacct.cgi control panel and a specially patched MySQL radiusd (based on the Cistron 1.6.6 RADIUS server). RADIUS accounting packets are logged directly into MySQL tables. It provides several report formats and control of RADIUS usage via an auto-hold account system. Using mySQL compressed read-only tables, it also warehouses monthly RADIUS accounting data. It allows SMTP-AFTER-AUTH in conjunction with mysqlSendmail. This software is compatible with the mysqlISP suite of ISP management tools.
NanoBlogger 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131070/
NanoBlogger is a small Weblog engine written in bash that's completely commandline driven. It features easy editing and management of entries, customizable templates, archiving, permalinks and RSS syndication. It keeps "clippings" (parts cut out) of the blog for extra portability and modularity. It doesn't require any kind of JavaScript, server-side scripting, or server-side includes.
NewsMonster 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131084/
NewsMonster is a news, Web log, and RSS aggregator that runs in directly in your Web browser. It offers outstanding integration with existing Web sites and Web logs that support RSS, but also works with sites that don't support RSS. It also incorporates an advanced reputation system that prevents spam and discovers and informs you of important news.
PHP Live! Support 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131031/
PHP Live! Support is an alternative to the popular Human Click (Live Person) Live Customer Support Chat system. It uses simple MySQL database tables, PHP, and Javascript. It also features multiple departments, load balancing, new request sound alarm, and much more.
phpMyCoCo 0.9.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131073/
phpMyCoCo allows you to count your visitors and comment your pages with the help of PHP and MySQL. It features a counter (including basic statistics since 0.0.2, including configurable reload-protection since 0.9.9) and a system which allows users of a Webpage to add comments to them (threaded since 0.0.4). Starting with 0.9.9 administration of comments is included as well.
POI 2.0-pre3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131003/
The POI project contains several components for dealing with popular OLE 2 formats in Java. POIFS is a pure Java implementation of the OLE 2 Compound document format. HSSF is a pure Java implementation of Excel 97 XLS file format based on POIFS. HSSF Serializer is a pure Java serializer for Cocoon 2 that uses the Gnumeric XML format to output XLS. Full documentation of the POIFS file format is included. If you wish to output reports in the Excel file format, or if you have existing XML documents that you need to get into Excel, then this project is probably what you're looking for.
PP3 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131037/
PP3 creates celestial charts. It generates resolution-independent maps of very high graphical quality. They can be used, for example, as illustrations in books or on Web pages. It is possible to change many parameters, and arbitrary text can be placed on the maps. The output formats are EPS or PDF.
PPPMon 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131050/
PPPMon is an RP3 clone. It shows the activity in the PPP conection, and starts/stops the PPP conetion in an easy way.
python-stablesort 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131009/
python-stablesort is an adaptive, stable, natural mergesort. It is a back-port of the new Python 2.3 stable listsort algorithm to all Python versions (tested with all versions from 1.5.2 to 2.2.3). It can also be regarded as some sort of forward-port in case the default Python list sort() method will change to a non-stable algorithm in the future again.
Python/XML 0.8.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131036/
The Python XML package contains parsers, SAX and DOM interfaces, sample programs, and documentation. It is currently in beta.
Qastrocam 3.6.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131039/
Qastrocam is a capture program that can work with any video4linux device. Its main purpose is to do astrophotography. It can control a telescope to do guiding with the images received from the video device. It can also control the extended features of a webcam modified to do long exposure (several seconds) captures.
QTParted 0.4.0-beta1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131066/
QTParted is a Partition Magic clone. It uses libparted for raw disk access, so you need parted installed to use it. The goal of QTParted is to fully wrap all function of parted and create a user friendly PM clone for Linux.
quicktables 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131049/
quicktables is an iptables firewall/NAT (gateway) script generator. It was created to quickly provide a secure set of iptables rules. It will ask you to answer a small handful of questions, and generates your very own personalized firewall script. It supports NAT and no NAT (firewall only) options, default policy of DROP on INPUT and FORWARD chains (all packets dropped), TCP and UDP ACCEPTs on INPUT chain (open ports to the firewall machine), TCP and UPD port forwarding with NAT (forward ports to multiple internal hosts--NAT only), multiple ICMP (ping) options, multiple logging options (syslog - kern.info), explicit host drops, and multiple port forwards for multiple external IP addresses.
rackview 0.06
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131097/
rackview is a tool for visualizing the layout of rack- mounted equipment. It can load data either from database tables or a flat file. It can be used to assist in planning and tracking hardware changes to racks in a data center, and to provide a host-oriented interface into other database tools. The core of rackview is implemented as a Perl module, which can be integrated into a variety of different tools. Sample command line and CGI scripts are included, which should be sufficient for basic needs.
rawdog 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131088/
rawdog is an RSS Aggregator Without Delusions Of Grandeur. It uses Mark Pilgrim's feed parser. It runs from cron, collects articles from a number of feeds, and generates a static HTML page listing the newest articles in date order. It supports per-feed customizable update times, and uses ETags, Last-Modified, and gzip compression to minimize network bandwidth usage.
RFID C library 3.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131025/
The rfid library is a set of C functions to communicate with RFID devices. A RFID transponder is a wireless memory area made of a chip and an antenna. A RFID reader creates a magnetic field that is used as a power source by RFID transponders and as a carrier for communication. A program can use the rfid library to be notified when a RFID transponder enters or leaves the range of a RFID reader. When a RFID transponder is in range, data can be read from its memory or written into it.
Software Suspend 1.1-pre1 (2.4 Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/131007/
swsusp enables you to suspend your machine without having to use APM or BIOS support. It creates an image which is saved in your active swaps. At the next system bootup, the kernel detects the saved image, restores the memory from it and then it continues to run as before you've suspended.
tgen 1.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131096/
tgen generates a Web site from a collection of input files of a variety of types, using a set of registered HTML autogenerators. This allows, for example, the generation a Web site consisting of plain text pages, EtText formatted files, man or POD documentation, and/or custom formats, with a consistent and attractive look-and-feel. It is a driver program; the actual conversion work is done by a set of plugin filters or "autoformatters" (named *2hts[.*]).
The BWidget Toolkit 1.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131061/
The BWidget Toolkit is a high-level widget set for Tcl/Tk that uses native Tcl/Tk 8.x namespaces. They feature a professional look and feel and don't require a compiled extension library.
Towel 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131027/
Towel is a fairly basic program to play audio files. It works as a front-end to GStreamer to play both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files. It runs on GNU/Linux and FreeBSD, using gtkmm 2.2.x, the C++ bindings for GTK+ 2.2.x. It features a heirarchical tree-like playlist system.
UO Web Map 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131012/
UO Web Map is Web-based map over the different lands and dungeons in Ultima Online. It is possible for the users to zoom and add their own points of interest directly on the map.
VIC 2.8ucl-1.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131080/
VIC is a real-time, multimedia application for Internet video conferencing. It was designed with a flexible and extensible architecture to support heterogeneous environments and configurations, and allows users to participate in point-to-point and multi-point video conferences over the Internet.
Vyger 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131030/
Vyger offers a D & D and Rogue-like environment in a graphical online roleplay game.
Wallpaper Tray 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130873/
Wallpaper Tray is a wallpaper utility that sits in your GNOME Panel Notification Area. It gives you a random wallpaper from your chosen directory at logon, and allows you to select a new wallpaper at random from its menu.
white_dune 0.25beta56 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130904/
white_dune is a graphical VRML97 editor. VRML97 (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) is the ISO standard for displaying 3D data over the Web via browser plugins. It has support for animation, realtime interaction and multimedia (image, movie, sound). White_dune can read VRML97 files, display and let the user change the scenegraph/fields, and load and store x3d (the next generation VRML XML format) files if configured to work with the nist.gov x3d translators. It also has support for stereoscopic view via "quadbuffer"-capable stereo visuals, and support for 3D input devices like a joystick, spaceball, or magnetic tracker.
Working Overloaded Linux Kernel 4.4s-Final (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/131034/
The Working Overloaded Linux Kernel (WOLK) project provides stable and development kernels for either server or testing purposes. These kernels provide a server kernel and also a service for developers and end users who can't be up-to-date with the latest kernels/patches but want to test new kernel features. Patches may be added upon request.
Newsforge Reports
ArabEyes celebrates 2nd anniversary with IRC 'party'
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/30/187239
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - The ArabEyes project does just what it sounds like it ought to do: Builds support for Arabic in the Unix/Linux environment. Yesterday, the project celebrated its 2nd anniversary with an "Evolution Party" that started at 2. p.m. UTC on irc.freenode.net's #arabeyes channel.
Scribus excels at DTP
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/28/2119258
- by Joe Barr - Scribus, a new desktop publishing and layout program for Linux, is the most impressive new free software application I've ever seen. Period. No contest.
Proprietary voting computers: Threat or menace? http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/25/1349255
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - There has been a great deal of noise recently about the evils of closed-source voting computers and how easy it might be to rig elections with them because their proprietary code hides miscounts from public view. It's a little shocking that government agencies like the Federal Election Commission and mainstream news media haven't paid more attention to this problem. But do voting machines in common use today really ...
Newsforge Newsvac
IBM Forges Ahead With Linux Plans
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/30/204211
The current legal brouhaha between IBM and The SCO Group is not preventing Big Blue from moving forward with its Linux product offerings, support and services. IBM on Wednesday will announce a new server; a DB2 Linux integrated clustering environment; extended Linux support for the Lotus client and server; as well as three key Tivoli offerings.
Meet Microsoft's 'Joe Friday'
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/30/2019258
Martin Taylor, Redmond's new point man on Linux, says he plans to change Microsoft's open-source competitive strategy by focusing on 'just the facts.'
Quick Takes: Correlation engine goes open source http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/30/1931229
Michael Mimoso writes "Security firm releases correlation engine as open source. Security audit and vulnerability management firm Qualys Inc. announced this week that it has released its Quidscor correlation engine as open source. Quidscor merges Qualys vulnerability data with Snort intrusion detection events to reduce IDS false positives up to 70%. Quidscor prioritizes events that need administrative attention. "Enterprises requiring a secure ...
Getting a Windows Refund in California Small Claims Court http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/30/2016247
Thanks to good records and a Small Claims judge, Steve Oualline got a $199 refund for his unused copy of Microsoft Windows XP. One Linux user's story shows how to establish a good refund case.
First beta of NewPKI 2.0
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/30/1845258
Anonymous Reader writes "Here comes the first beta of NewPKI v2.
PostNuke releases v0.726 update...
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/30/1838245
Harry Zink writes "After a few weeks of additional hard work .726 is ready for download. This release is an excellent package and provides a system you can use on any professional site today!
Rumor: iPod Movie Player
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/30/1810237
Anonymous Reader writes "MP3newswire.net is running a story on rumors that the next version of the iPod will play and record MPEG4 video files. It is less focused on what features the player will have than how it will integrate with an updated version of iTunes selling movie files. It also talks how it will serve Apple by helping Quicktime catch up to Microsoft and Real as a lead Internet delivery format."