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[osdn everything] August 16, 2003
Date: Sat Aug 16 2003 - 01:45:28 EDT
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Slashdot
India Plans Moon Mission by 2008
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/16/0124210
[0]LPetrazickis writes "According to [1]the Tribune, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee [1]has announced today that India will send a spacecraft to the moon by 2008. The Chandrayaan-I mission will showcase Indian achievements in science and technology to the world. Both European and Canadian Space Agencies [2]have shown interest in the mission. [3]SifyNews reports that 2008 was initially [4]mispronounced as 1908. Today is the 56th anniversary of India's independence." Previous talk about this has come from the Indian space agency; this announcement from the Prime Minister seems to have more weight. Links
0. mailto:petrazi@nosPaM.sympatico.ca
1.
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2003/20030816/main3.htm
2.
http://www.deepikaglobal.com/ENG3_sub.asp?ccode=ENG3&newscode=18946
3.
http://sify.com/news/
4.
http://sify.com/news/othernews/fullstory.php?id=13226007Hardware Based XRender Slower than Software Rendering? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/16/0034235
Neon Spiral Injector writes "[0]Rasterman of [1]Enlightenment fame has
finally updated the [2]news page of his personal site. It seems that
the behind the scenes work for E is coming along. He is investigating
rendering backends for [3]Evas. The default backend is a software
renderer written by Raster. Trying to gain a little more speed he
ported it to the XRender extension, only to find that it became 20-50
times slower on his NVidia card. He has placed some sample code on this
same news page for people to try, and see if this is also experienced
on other setups."
Links
0.
http://www.rasterman.com/
1.
http://www.enlightenment.org/
2.
http://www.rasterman.com/pages/news.html
3.
http://www.enlightenment.org/pages/evas.html
Mirror, Mirror
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/14/1328214
PSaltyDS writes "A friend forwarded this to me... don't know where he got it from. [0]Daniel Rozin, Director Of Research and adjunct professor at [1]ITP, Tisch School Of The Arts, NYU, and owner of [2]SmoothWare Design, has built a [3]Mirror-like display as an art project out of shiny balls. This seems to be a refinement of a [4]1999 Wooden Mirror project that is also pretty cool." Links
0.
http://fargo.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/~danny/bio.html
1.
http://fargo.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/
2.
http://www.smoothware.com/
3.
http://fargo.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/~danny/shinyballs.html
4.
http://fargo.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/~danny/mirror.html
The Increasing Cost of Red Hat Linux?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/15/233245
An [0]Anonymous Coward asks: "I work at a company with a large number of Linux servers in the data center. We're currently evaluating what distribution we want to use moving forward. Upgrading to Red Hat Enterprise from 7.2 would cost ~$350k just for the systems we already have deployed. Due to the change in Red Hat's release policy, we either have to move to Enterprise, or change distributions. Also, we don't have Oracle on any of these systems, but we will need it in the future. This leaves us with rather limited options. I'm interested hearing what other Slashdot readers are running, and planning?" Links
0. mailto:jrmywllng@yahoo.com
Recommend Apple, Lose Your Job?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/15/2210216
rocketjam writes "While examining whether outsourcing tech work to India is really cost-effective, Robert X. Cringely takes a look at the old conspiracy theory that [0]IT doesn't recommend Apple solutions because they need less support, thus endangering IT professionals' job security." Cringely argues: "Ideally, the IT department ought to recommend the best computer for the job, but more often than not, they recommend the best computer for the IT department's job." Links
0. http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20030814.html
Online Document Search Reveals Secrets
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/15/2042249
An anonymous reader writes "New Scientist is reporting that many documents published online may [0]unintentionally reveal sensitive corporate or personal information, according to a US computer researcher. Simon Byers, at AT&T's research laboratory in the US, was able to unearth hidden information from many thousands of Microsoft Word documents posted online using a few freely available software tools and some basic programming techniques." Links
0. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994057
Verizon Rolling Out Nextel-Like PTT Service http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/15/2023216
[0]aberson writes "Verizon Wireless announced today that it is
[1]rolling out a PTT (push to talk) phone service, targetted at
business customers. They claim better coverage, 'presence'
(away/available), and wireless web for about $10 more than Nextel and
$10 more than a non-PTT Verizon plan. Pricing doesn't mention how
'high-speed' data will roll into this (which you can't get on Nextel),
but you are using the CDMA2000 network to essentially do VoIP. If only
it could be something cross-networkable like [2]Sonim. Just wait a few
months for the other carriers to catch up and [3]cellular [4]number
[5]portability to be enforced. Ironically, you can only get it on a
Motorola made phone. Also, Verizon seems to be not caring about Nextel
trying to [6]copyright a generic technical term."
Links
0.
http://dumbengineer.com
1.
http://news.vzw.com/news/2003/08/pr2003-08-14.html
2.
http://www.sonimtech.com/
3.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/18/1638222&tid=100
4.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/1659207&tid=100
5.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/25/1427229&tid=193
6.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/24/0038220&tid=155Experts Recommend Keeping Hubble Operational http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/15/198248
foolishtook writes " [0]The New York Times is [1]reporting that a panel of experts is recommending NASA to keep the [2]Hubble Space Telescope operating past 2010 when its replacement, the [3]James Webb Space Telescope, is currently slated for launch. NASA had stated that it wanted to bring the Hubble down in 2006 to make room in its budget for the Webb, but astronomers said that it still has a viable future and the launch date for the Webb is likely to be delayed." Links
0.
http://www.nytimes.com/
1.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/15/national/15HUBB.html?ex=1061524800&en=b265c90e2d78c71c&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE
2.
http://hubble.gsfc.nasa.gov/
3.
http://www.ngst.nasa.gov/index.html
WindowsUpdate.com Secured, Permanently
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/15/1730200
Precisely nineteen months ago, Bill Gates sent out a [0]memo to employees (and the press) announcing that security was Microsoft's number-one priority. Today, about a hundred readers have submitted the news that Microsoft.com [1]went down last night. And now, the company has [2]"extinguished" WindowsUpdate.com (future updates will come from a [3]different domain). All this because of some Microsoft worm that triggers at midnight. Related news: [4]Windows Update says you're protected, but maybe you're not; [5]WU.com briefly ran Linux, heh; [6]worm variant with clever "anatomical term." Links
0.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-817343.html
1.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/08/15/HNmsfalls_1.html
2.
http://news.com.com/2100-1002-5063592.html
3.
http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/
4.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39115732,00.htm
5.
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.windowsupdate.com
6.
http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0308.html#3US Military Develops P2P Wireless Network Sniffer http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/15/152202
Merlin83 writes "As being reported on [0]The Register, the [1]US Military is developing a new system for monitoring enemy battlefield communication. Called [2]WolfPack, each node is a 6"x4" cylinder, launched by missile or dropped from aircraft. Once the node lands, it stands up, extends its antenna and contacts other nodes. The nodes can also jam cellular communications by transmitting a signal themselves. " Links
0.
http://theregister.co.uk/
1.
http://theregister.co.uk/content/68/32361.html
2.
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Aug2003/n08142003_200308147.html
Freshmeat
4est's Weblog 2.40
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132734/
4est's Weblog has pseudo code, emoticons, a censored word list, and time zone offset support with an option for a multi-user interface. Security is provided through a password protected post screen. You can enable or disable commenting.
Access Point Utilities for Unix 1.3.3-pre2 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/132767/
Access Point Utilities for Unix is a set of utilities that configure
and monitor a Wireless Access Point under Unix. It is known to compile
(with GCC and the IBM C compiler) and run under Linux, FreeBSD,
OpenBSD, MacOS X, AIX, and QNX.
AIM Sniff 0.9b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132733/
AIM Sniff is a utility for monitoring and archiving AOL Instant
Messenger messages across a network. It can be used to monitor for
cases of harassment or warez trading. It has the ability to do a live
dump (actively sniff the network) or read a PCAP file and parse the
file for IM messages. You also have the option of dumping the
information to a MySQL database or STDOUT. AIM Sniff will also monitor
for an AIM login and then perform an SMB lookup on the originating
computer in order to match NT Domain names with AIM login names
(handles). A very basic Web frontend is included.
Apolos 0.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132718/
Apolos is a GTK+2 CD player for Linux. It features support for the CDDB protocol, playlists, and normal CD functions.
apt-iselect 2003-08-15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132751/
apt-iselect is a small wrapper for "apt-cache search" and "apt-get install" which uses iselect to search and install packages. Special care has been taken to make this tool easy and fast to use. It is generally several times faster than using aptitude for this task.
Aranha 0.0.483
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132748/
Aranha is a piece of software written to allow Web applications to be written more cleanly and more easily. It is a Local FastCGI Responder, although work is in progress to allow it to work as a FastCGI Authoriser and a FastCGI Filter. It is based on the programming language Lua, and contains many extensions to enable easy Web site development and maintenance.
arCHMage 0.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132719/
arCHMage is an extensible reader and decompiler for files in the CHM format. This is the format used by Microsoft HTML help, and is also known as Compiled HTML. arCHMage is based on chmlib by Jed Wing.
Arno's IPTABLES Firewall Script 1.8.1BETA-3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132721/
Arno's IPTABLES firewall script was originally derived from Seven's
(single-homed) IPTABLES script. The biggest differences are that this
script has support for dual-homed machines, support for masquerading
(NAT), support for ethernet ADSL/DSL modems (for both static and
dynamically assigned IPs), support for all IP protocols, and support
for VPNs like IPSEC (Freeswan). It also features (stealth) portscan
detection, extensive user definable logging with rate limiting to
prevent log flooding, port forwarding, optimizing the throughput of
your internet connection, protection against SYN/ICMP flooding (DoS
attacks), support for UPnP, and much more. It's easy to configure and
highly customizable. It additionally includes a filter script
(fwfilter) to make your firewall log more readable.
Atomic Tanks 0.9.9b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132801/
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.
CgiccExtended 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132811/
CgiccExtended is a C++ library inherited from (and dependent on) GNU Cgicc that abstracts CGI processing from the user even further by loosely mimicking the ease of use provided by Lincoln Stein's CGI.pm for Perl.
crackalaka 1.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132762/
Crackalaka is a small, standalone IRC server. It does not implement the inter-server portions of the IRC protocol, and is meant for use by a small workgroup, preferably behind a firewall.
CrossOver Plugin 2.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132758/
CrossOver Plugin lets you use Windows plugins directly in your Linux browser. With CrossOver you can watch QuickTime movies, play Shockwave Director games, and even view Word, Excel, and Powerpoint documents using the Microsoft viewers.
curl and libcurl 7.10.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132723/
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.
CVSGnome 0.4.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132772/
CVSGnome is a build environment for the GNOME project which allows a systems administrator to install GNOME from either released source Tarballs or from bleeding edge CVS depending on what is wanted. This script also works as a general building wrapper around other sources. When started, it shows an interactive self-explanatory menu.
CvsKnit 0.9.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132717/
CvsKnit is a CVS automation suite to knit up various CVS repositories from existing source packages. This may be useful for starting revision management with CVS, figuring out when a file had been added, modified, or removed, or for browsing source diffs or annotating between packages via a Web interface.
CWirc 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132805/
CWirc is a plugin for the X-Chat IRC client to transmit raw Morse code over the internet using IRC servers as reflectors. The transmitted Morse code can be received in near real-time by other X-Chat clients with the CWirc plugin. CWirc tries to emulate a standard amateur radio rig: it sends and receives Morse over virtual channels, and it can listen to multiple senders transmitting on the same channel. Morse code is keyed locally using a straight or iambic key connected to a serial port, or using the mouse buttons, and the sound is played through the sound card, or through an external sounder.
DBConnect API 0.3.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132744/
DBConnect API is an easy to use C++ object API to allow applications to connect to DBMSs. The API currently implements msql, MySQL, Oracle8, ODBC, and PostgreSQL drivers in the Unix environments and MySQL, Oracle8, and ODBC in the Windows environment.
DHCP-locator 0.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132726/
DHCP-Locator is a pair of programs/scripts that log the switch IP address, port in switch, MAC address, and IP address when a host is getting an IP address from a DHCP server. It uses ISC DHCP server logs as input. It's excellent for abuse issues in large networks.
Dropbear SSH Server 0.34
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132749/
Dropbear is an SSH 2 server, designed to be usable in small memory environments.
DSPAM 2.6.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132792/
DSPAM is a server-side anti-spam agent for UNIX email servers. It masquerades as the email server's local delivery agent and filters/learns spam using a Bayesian statistical approach which provides an administratively maintenance-free, self-learning anti-spam service. Each email is broken down into its most interesting tokens, each assigned a spam probability. All probabilities are then combined to produce a statistical probability of spam. This approach, applied to a mature corpus of email, has the potential to yield a 99.75% success rate with less than a 0.03% chance of false positives.
Dynebolic GNU/Linux 1.0beta (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/132763/
Dyne:bolic GNU/Linux is a live bootable distribution which works directly from the CD without the need to install or change anything on the hard disk. It can recognize most of your hardware devices, and offers a vast range of software for sound and video production, streaming, 3D modeling, peer-to-peer and filesharing, deejaying and veejaying, games, a world navigator with detailed maps and factbooks, and much more.
FireSite 2 Alpha
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132806/
FireSite is a content management system in PHP targeted at web developers needing a fixed framework for handling information and access to that information. The access model is based on roles and users. The system has an API to access information stored, hiding the access management completely. Through modules it is easy to add handling of specific information needs.
FSMGenerator 1.0b6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132736/
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.
FTimes 3.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132786/
FTimes is a system baselining and evidence collection tool. Its primary purpose is to gather and/or develop information about specified directories and files in a manner conducive to intrusion analysis. It was designed to support the following initiatives: content integrity monitoring, incident response, intrusion analysis, and computer forensics.
Gammu 0.82 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132795/
Gammu (formerly known as MyGnokii2) is cellular manager for various mobile phones and modems. It currently supports Nokia 3210, 33xx, 3410, 35xx, 51xx, 5210, 5510, 61xx, 62xx, 63xx, 6510, 6610, 6800, 71xx, 7210, 82xx, 83xx, 8910, 9110, and 9210, and AT devices (such as Siemens, Alcatel, Falcom, WaveCom, IPAQ, and other). It has a command line version with many functions for ringtones, phonebook, SMS, logos, WAP, date/time, alarm, calls, etc. It can also make full backups and restore them. It works on various Unix systems (like Linux) and Win32.
GKrellM Distributed.net Plugin 0.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132761/
GKrellDnet is Distributed.net client monitor plugin for GKrellM. It includes a Distributed.net client wrapper, so you can write monitoring apps for WindowMaker, GNOME, Enlightenment, etc.
Glirnath 0.16
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132775/
The Glirnath is a Web utility to browse and play MP3s on a remote Unix computer dedicated to be a music jukebox, implemented using PHP and Perl. The Glirnath does not stream MP3s to other computers, but rather acts as a remote agent to play music on the server itself. It is useful for keeping in your living room hooked up to a stereo.
GOBLIN Graph Library 2.6.1Build9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132771/
The GOBLIN project consists of a C++ class library for a large series of graph optimization problems, GOSH, an extension of the Tcl/Tk scripting language to graph objects, and GOBLET, a graphical user interface to the library functions. GOBLET includes a graph editor, but provides only basic graph layout methods.
Gossip 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132737/
Gossip aims at making Instant Messaging with Jabber as easy as possible, while giving users of the GNOME desktop a user-friendly way of keeping in touch with their friends.
Graphical certification authority 0.4.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132725/
Graphical certification authority is an interface for managing RSA keys and certificates, and the creation and signing of PKCS#10 requests. It uses the OpenSSL library and a Berkeley DB for key and certificate storage. It supports importing and exporting keys and PEM DER PKCS8 certificates, signing and revoking of PEM DER PKCS12, and the selection of x509v3 extensions. A tree view of certificates is presented.
Gtk2-Perl 0.94
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132755/
Gtk2-Perl allows Perl developers to write GTK+ 2.x applications. The bindings use an object oriented syntax that attempts to remain close to the C API, but take a Perlish approach where appropriate.
Highlight 2.0-8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132776/
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.
ImageSpace 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132778/
ImageSpace creates 2D images by mutating syntax trees according to user input. The user acts as the fitness function and selects images by aesthetic criteria. Selected images can be rendered and saved in resolutions up to 2048x2048.
Issue Dealer 0.9.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132790/
The Issue Dealer is a simple product for managing (structuring, editing, prioritizing, categorizing) issues. It is primarily used to manage information.
IzPack 3.1.0a (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132750/
IzPack is a powerful Java installer builder. It is able to create lightweight and modular installers. You have the choice of the installer panels you want to use (some can do the same job, so that you can select the one you prefer), and you even have the choice of the kind of installer that you want to use. IzPack doesn't use any portion of native code, it is designed to be fully independent from the operating system that runs it. It is very easy for the end user with a properly installed JVM to use an installer made with IzPack, since a single "java -jar installer.jar" will launch it.
jamChess 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132798/
Just Another Mail Chess (jamChess) is a chess game played by email. The players will get an email when their opponent makes a move, which shows the current chess board and the history.
JCards 4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132730/
JCards is a free Java application designed to store and manage data in any format that the user defines. Instead of having multiple applications/spreadsheets to manage passwords, tasks, shopping lists, etc., JCards allows the user to define a database that contains the fields they want. This is accomplished via an easy to use interface that requires no understanding of SQL or any other database jargon. JCards was initially developed for the Sharp Zaurus SL-5x00 PDA, but will run on any desktop or PDA that has a 1.1 or above version of the Java Virtual Machine on it. The advantage of this is that the user can use the same application on the PDA and desktop to manage their data.
JFtp 1.34
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132739/
JFtp is a Swing Java network and file transfer client. It supports FTP using its own FTP API and various other protocols like SMB, SFTP, NFS, HTTP, and file I/O using third party APIs. It includes many advanced features such as recursive directory up/download, browsing FTP servers while transferring files, FTP resuming and queueing, browsing the LAN for Windows shares, and more. The FTP API is separated from the GUI and can also be used in third-party applications. It should ideally be launched in a Web browser via Java Web Start (contained by the Java 1.4 plugin), but can also be started locally.
JPluck 2.0 pre15 (2.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132732/
JPluck converts Web sites to Plucker documents for offline reading on your handheld.
Karchiver 3.0.5 (KDE 3)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132810/
kArchiver is a KDE utility made to ease working with compressed files. With kArchiver, you can create tar.gz, tar.bz2, .zip, and other files, and you can add, remove, or view one or more files with a multiselection window. Its interface merges with konqueror, allowing you to view and extract all of your archives within the file manager. Right-clicking on an archive allows you to extract archives in background. You can also convert files between .tar.gz and .tar.bz2. It also provides an automatic splitter/unsplitter to fit a file onto a set of floppies, and wizards that will help you step by step to compile and install software through kArchiver's interface.
Koalog Constraint Solver 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132729/
Koalog Constraint Solver is a constraint solver written in Java. It provides cutting-edge technology for solving satisfaction and optimization problems, including scheduling, time-tabling, resource-allocation, and configuration (Koalog Configurator is powered by Koalog Constraint Solver).
KOffice 1.3 beta 3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132720/
KOffice is an integrated office suite based on the KDE libraries. KOffice currently includes KWord, KSpread, KPresenter, KChart, Kontour, Karbon14, KFormula, Kugar, and Kivio. There are no special mail and news clients included in KOffice, because there are KMail and KNode available for KDE anyway. All KOffice components work together, and you can embed every KOffice component into any other KOffice component. This is realized using the KParts object model.
Krefty 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132794/
Krefty is an application that runs under KDE. It is designed to display short cuts, hot keys, and command lines in a "Quick Reference Sheet" fashion. The data is held in XML files and can thus be modified and added to as necessary. Display fonts and colors are controlled by a CSS stylesheet and can also be modified as necessary. It is hoped that over time other people can contribute their "Krefty Sheets" to the project and a set of files will be built up. NOTE: the data files come in a separate tarball available from the home page.
KSlide 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132813/
KSlide is a simple puzzle game compatible with the K Desktop Environment. The playing principle of KSlide is very simple. From a square set of tiles, one is removed, allowing at least two adjacent tiles to be shifted. This way, the puzzle is scrambled by the program, and the player's goal is to restore the original order.
Landscape Themes for Window Maker 0.91 (Part of a Lake) http://freshmeat.net/releases/132754/
Landscape Themes for Window Maker contains themes created with landscape paintings by the artist B. Kaemper.
LaTeXDB 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132773/
LaTeXDB brings together LaTeX and a MySQL database. You can use SQL queries in your LaTeX document and loop over the result sets creating tables, serial letters, and other stuff.
Lazy8 Ledger 2.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132780/
Lazy8 Ledger is a very simple yet powerful accounting program designed for people who have experience in bookkeeping. It is a plugin for jEdit. You can enter any type of bookkeeping activity and break out the activities to any number of accounts. There are numerous standard reports that are the basis of accounting needs and then there are tools to make your own reports. Furthermore, it is Unicode-compatible in all respects.
libRASCH 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132787/
Devices for the measurement of signals use different data formats to store the data on disk. libRASCH provides a common application programming interface to access such signals, regardless of which storage format is used. Additionally, it provides support for processing (e.g. detects beats in an ECG) and viewing the signals. This functionality and the access to the various file formats is realized with plugins.
Loudmouth 0.13.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132731/
Loudmouth is a lightweight Jabber client library written in C/Glib.
Mahogany 0.65
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132742/
Mahogany is a GUI email client for the X11/Unix, Windows, and Mac platforms. It supports a wide range of Internet protocols (IMAP4, POP3, ESMTP, NNTP) and encrypted communications using SSL, includes full MIME support, and aims to be fully standard-compliant. It allows the use of unlimited number of servers, supports filters and identities, and offers optional HTML viewing and much more.
mod_cplusplus 1.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132815/
mod_cplusplus does for C++ programmers similar things to what mod_perl does for Perl. It not only cleans up the interface to Apache by wrapping common structures and functionality with objects and methods, but it also allows you to implement any type of handler simply by subclassing, instead of hooking functions.
MyDNS 0.10.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132743/
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.
mySiteMaker 3.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132764/
mySiteMaker is a collection of CGI tools to rapidly create Web interfaces to database tables. It includes a Web-based configuration tool that automatically generates search, results, and edit HTML screens. The search screen is easy to use and allows the data to be exported in a variety of formats.
MythTV 0.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132785/
MythTV is a project aiming to create a homebrew set-top box. The end goal is to have a nice interface for watching TV, recording shows, listening to music, etc., all displayed on a TV and controlled by a remote.
Network Probe 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132727/
Network Probe is a network monitor and protocol analyzer that gives you an instant picture of the traffic situation on your network and enables you to identify and isolate traffic problems. Traffic statistics are graphically displayed in real-time.
nVidia XFree86 4.x Drivers 1.0-4496
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132716/
These are XFree86 4.x drivers for the TNT, TNT2, TNT2 Ultra, GeForce, and Quadro chipsets. The GLX component is also included. Currently, there are drivers for both Linux and FreeBSD.
OJB Console 1.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132774/
OjBect Console is a Web application that provides administrative facilities for the Object Relational Bridge (OJB) persistence framework. This console provides transparent browse, search, create, update, and delete functionality for the objects configured within OJB. In addition, it provides administrative functionality such as cache management and a configuration viewer. Finally, it can be extended to build a data management Web application. The general idea is to provide a useful administrative tool to OJB and a solid reference application for OJB/Struts.
OpenCT 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132793/
OpenCT is a library for accessing smart card terminals. It provides a rich set of functions for driver writers, and protocol drivers for T=0 and T=1, serial, and USB functionality, including USB hotplugging. The main user of OpenCT is the OpenSC smart card framework, but OpenCT can of course be used by other applications. Shims that allow OpenCT drivers to be used from pcsc-lite and CT-API applications are currently under development.
OpenSC 0.8.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132791/
OpenSC consists of a SmartCard library that uses PC/SC Lite as its backend and applications that use the library. It has been tested extensively on Finnish Electronic Identity (FINEID) cards, but it should also work on other PKCS #15 and ISO 7816 compatible SmartCards such as the Swedish Posten eID card. Also implemented are a PKCS #11 module (e.g. for WWW authentication), a PAM module, somewhat working OpenSSH support, a few basic tools, and a PKCS #15 structure generation tool.
Pan 0.14.0.95
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132768/
Pan is a newsreader which attempts to be pleasing to both new and experienced users. In addition to the standard newsreader features, Pan also supports yEnc, offline newsreading, article filtering, multiple connections, and more features for power users and alt.binaries fans.
pg Request Tracker Report 1.0.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132735/
pg Request Tracker 2/3 Report is a set of tools for generating reports for Request Tracker 2/3 (RT 2/3). Currently, it only supports the Postgres ("pg") backend, but MySQL support may be added in later releases.
phpStreamcast 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132765/
phpStreamcast is an advanced Web frontend for streamcast or stream-db, both streaming (and playlist) engines for icecast.
PyGgy 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132789/
PyGgy is a Python package for generating parsers and lexers in Python. The distribution contains a generator for generating complicated multi-state lexers with support for backing up. It also includes a generator for generating GLR parsers capable of parsing arbitrary grammars.
RealBasic ColumnMover 2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132779/
RealBasic ColumnMover is a class that allows the user to change the column order of a listbox in a graphical manner, similiar to a Cocoa application like Mail.app.
Retro Native Forth 6.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132802/
Retro is a clean, usable Forth-based operating system. It attempts to be a simpler and easier-to-use alternative to more complex operating systems.
RPMAutoUpdate 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132808/
RPMAutoUpdate is an RPM update management and reporting tool that can tell you exactly which RPMs provide updates relevant to your system. It is intended for systems administrators and power-users.
Scout Tracker 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132777/
Scout Tracker allows Scout leaders and Scouts to track their troop's progress online.
Simple Colourized Helpful Logs 0.5 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/132745/
Simple Colourized Helpful Logs can remove process IDs from service names, reformat the date, and execute external programs depending on the recieved message's host name, service name, or based on a custom string. The program also includes a built in 'tail -f' function, so you don't need an external script to set up a pipe.
Simple Python Blogger 0.7.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132756/
Simple Python Blogger is a small Python script to handle entries, users, sessions, and comments of a blog. the files are very simple to edit, change, and set up. Entries are stored in XML. The script also generates an RSS feed of the recent subjects and their authors.
Snd 6.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132747/
Snd is a freeware sound editor modelled loosely after Emacs and an old, sorely-missed PDP-10 sound editor named Dpysnd. It can accommodate any number of sounds, each with any number of channels. It can be customized and extended using Guile or Ruby.
SpamDam 0.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132770/
SpamDam allows you to get rid of spam using disposable email addresses. You can disable compromised addresses, or auto-reply with a Web form allowing actual humans to get through. It rewrites all email messages to include the actual "To" address, so you know who gave out your address. You can then use your favorite email client's filter to sort the email as it comes in. It is an easy PHP based frontend for managing sendmail aliases.
Track Keeper 0.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132746/
Track Keeper works as a middle layer between a video player and the actual media. It provides frequently-used track caching, invisible track recompression, track integrity checking, track cataloging, and track archiving.
translucency loadable kernel module 0.5.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132722/
translucency is a loadable kernel module for Linux that virtually
merges two directories, making it possible to overwrite files on
read-only media and compile projects (such as the Linux kernel) with
different options without copying sources each time. No user-space
tools have to be changed. The process is also known as inheriting
(ifs), stacking, translucency (tfs), loopback (lofs), and overlay
(ovlfs).
UNH-iSCSI 1.3.19b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132753/
The UNH-iSCSI project consists of vendor-independent reference implementations of both a software initiator and a software target emulator for the latest draft (20) of the new IETF protocol for Storage Area Networks (SANs) called iSCSI. The initiator and target are implemented as independently loadable modules for the Linux kernel, versions 2.4.18 or later. The software performs extensive checking for conformance to the standard during operation. It supports almost all components of the iSCSI standard, and development is underway to provide support for the remaining components. Although these modules have been developed and tested together, they operate independently of one another, and do not have to be used together. That is, the unh-iscsi initiator is capable of connecting with a target from any vendor, and the unh-iscsi target is capable of accepting connections from any vendor's initiator.
VACUM 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132797/
VACUM is framework for video analysis and comparison. It provides flexible input handling, an image processing library, and tools for objective and visual measurement of the video quality. It includes a video player that can play multiple video files side-by-side, compare video frames and generate "visual diff", display PSNR values, and single step through the frames.
Virtual Universe / Virtual Worlds 0.29
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132741/
VU/VW is a 3D cyberspace which offers more possibilities than just chat: it is a combination of the Web, chat, and instant messaging within a realistic, three-dimensional cyberspace. Here people can meet, interact with each other, and build houses and whole worlds. The Virtual Universe is a virtual reality environment which runs on top of the Internet.
w3Chess 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132728/
w3Chess is a Web- and email-based chess system. You make your move in your Web browser, and get the latest move of your opponent via email. w3Chess has only a few dependencies, and doesn't require Java, Javascript, or even graphics support.
WebCollab 1.42
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132803/
WebCollab is a collaborative Web site for project workgroups. It aims to be easy and intuitive to use without being complicated or graphically intensive.
Wine 20030813
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132757/
Wine Is Not an Emulator. It is an alternative implementation of the
Windows 3.x and Win32 APIs. Wine provides both a development toolkit
(Winelib) for porting legacy Windows sources to Unix and a program
loader, allowing unmodified Windows 3.1/95/NT binaries to run under
Intel Unixes. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a
completely alternative implementation consisting of 100% Microsoft-Free
code, but it can optionally use native system DLLs if they are
available.
XML Siter 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132738/
XML Siter is a content management system that is easy to use and affordable for small businesses and private groups. It lets you you define your site layout and appearance once. After that, you can work on the content using XML Siter's editor, not worrying about the content output in a browser. Publishing your changes to a Web server takes one click.
Yellow dog Updater, Modified 2.0.1 (RPM >= 4.1.1) http://freshmeat.net/releases/132782/
Yum (Yellow dog Updater, Modified) is an automatic updater and package installer/remover for RPM systems. It automatically computes dependencies and figures out what things should occur to install packages. It makes it easier to maintain groups of machines without having to manually update each one using rpm.
Zuul 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132752/
Zuul is yet another PHP frontend for mldonkey. It allows full access to many of the features of mldonkey, including starting/viewing downloads, viewing uploads, viewing servers, and setting all the options.
Newsforge Reports
Linux Advisory Watch - August 15th 2003
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/15/1135217
- by Benjamin D. Thomas - This week, advisories were released for lynx, zblast, perl, kernel, signal, iBCS2, ddskk, konquerer, man-db, xpcd, stunnel, postfix, and php. The distributors include Conectiva, Debian, FreeBSD, Gentoo, Red Hat, SuSe, Trustix, and TurboLinux.
Linux: Just what the doctor ordered
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/13/1622242
- by Joe Barr - Ever wonder how the general public would cope with Linux on the desktop if they tried it?  Here is one small data point suggesting that the delta in ease of use between the Linux desktop and the monopoly desktop is not that great.  No, I'm not talking about the recently released usability study comparing the ease of use between Windows XP and Linux by relevantive in Germany.  I'm talking about a public wa