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[osdn everything] August 28, 2003
Date: Thu Aug 28 2003 - 01:45:28 EDT
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Slashdot
Learning to Say No in the Workplace?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/015206
Ummagumma asks: "I'm trying to find out how those of you who work in the IT service industry, tell customers 'no', when the requests are unreasonable for whatever reason. There is a culture here of 'piling-on' work with regards to IT - and, unfortunately, I've never learned the proper way to tell people 'no'. It may sound simple, but in this economy, where jobs are tough to come by, I don't want to be seen as the impediment to getting things done Any suggestions on telling people that their work request can wait? Especially in a way that won't jeopardize my future here? I've searched the web, but most of the sites that supposedly have information of this type just want you to sign up for their seminars. I'm looking for actual, real-world experiences, and how the people of Slashdot deal with this issue on a day-to-day basis."
Fastest US Supercomputer Runs Linux
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/2357227
[0]jgercken writes "The Department of Energy's [1]Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory has brought online [2]a 11.8 teraflops
supercomputer based on the Linux operating system, comprised of ~2,000
Itanium processors, and assembled by HP. Touted to be the fastest
unclassified computer in the US, its main duties will be atmospheric
chemistry, systems biology, catalysis and materials science."
Links
0. mailto:jgercken@packetstar.com
1.
http://www.pnl.gov/
2.
http://www.pnl.gov/news/2003/03-33.htm
Mozilla 1.5 Beta Released
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/0133215
[0]asa writes "Today [1]mozilla.org released [2]Mozilla 1.5 Beta,
available for [3]Linux, [4]Mac OS X, and [5]Windows. This beta release
features lots of bugfixes, the inclusion of a spellchecker for
Messenger and Composer, and lots of minor feature improvements to
Navigator, Messenger, Composer and Chatzilla. More information is
available at the [6]Mozilla Release Notes."
Links
0. mailto:asa@mozilla.org
1.
http://www.mozilla.org/
2.
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/#1.5b
3.
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.5b/mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.5b-sea.tar.gz
4.
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.5b/mozilla-mac-MachO-1.5b.dmg.gz
5.
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.5b/mozilla-win32-1.5b-installer-sea.exe
6.
http://mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.5b/
Slashback: Bouncing, Taxing, Releasing
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/2254251
Tonight's Slashback brings you more on Florida's LAN-taxation proposal, the BBC's public archive (which won't be quite as big as you might have hoped), one user's plea to those who respond to viruses, and more. Read on for the details.
Walking Animatronic Dinosaur At Disney Park http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/2157251
[0]Dan Howland writes "Shades of Jurassic Park: Disney's first
walk-around, interactive animatronic character, Lucky the dinosaur, is
now [1]strolling around Disney's California Adventure, but will
probably move to Disney's Animal Kingdom in the coming weeks. It kinda
walks on two legs, just as the rumors promised, but actually pulls a
cart for additional balance (and to hide the computers). Videos can be
found on the link above. More photos, and a video of Lucky blowing his
nose [2]here."
Links
0.
http://dannysland.blogspot.com/
1.
http://www.mouseplanet.com/parkupdates/dlr/dlr030825.htm
2.
http://www.mouseinfo.com/showupdate.php?id=20030821&page=4
OpenLindows.com: Wherefore Art Thou?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/1853224
[0]Joe Barr writes "I ran across a curious website recently:
OpenLindows.com. The name alone intrigued me. It gave rise to
speculation about a weird mix of free-as-in-beer and free-as-in-speech
alternative to the $99/year Click-N-Run software subscription offered
by LindowsOS, the most Windows-like/proprietary Linux distribution out
there. This is a [1]report on what I found, and perhaps even more
importantly, what I didn't."
Links
0. mailto:joe@pjprimer.com
Further Selections From the Mixed-Up SCO Files http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/1411232
[0]grahamlee writes "It may be a case of 'do as we say, not as we do'
over at the Santa Cruz Operation. The [1]Netcraft statistics meter says
that for the last year, SCO's web site has been served by [2]Apache on
Linux. Indeed, it's been more than a year since the site was ever
served from a SCO Unix machine. So what is the possible reason for
this? Your humble author suggests that SCO found themselves requiring a
multithreaded web server, and as SCO UNIX is based on an ancient
version of [3]The UNIX spec it just couldn't cope ;-)." Read on for one
of the strangest-yet turns to the SCO story, and several merely insipid
ones.
Links
0. mailto:g.lee@NOspam.unix.net
1.
http://www.netcraft.com/
2.
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.sco.com
3.
http://www.opengroup.org/pubs/catalog/un.htm
10 Terabit Ethernet By 2010
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/155237
[0]Eric Frost writes "From [1]Directions Magazine: 'Because it is now
impossible to sell networking unless it is called Ethernet (regardless
of the actual protocols used), it is likely that 1 Terabit Ethernet and
even 10 Terabit Ethernet (using 100 wavelengths used by 100 gigabit per
second transmitter / receiver pairs) may soon be announced. [2]Only a
protocol name change is needed. And the name change is merely the
acknowledgment that Ethernet protocols can tunnel through other
protocols (and vice versa).'"
Links
0.
http://www.mp2kmag.com
1.
http://www.directionsmag.com/
2.
http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=372
Mandrake 9.2 RC1
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/176242
RabidChipmunk writes "Mandrake 9.2RC1 is out. Go [0]get it with bit-torrent and speed up my download. I like the idea that posting to Slashdot could actually speed up a download. It seems so wrong." If you're on a slow pipe, don't underestimate the throughput of the postal system. [1]Mark Walker writes "Mandrake Linux 9.2 RC1 is appearing on mirrors as I type this. We're currently downloading it from Mandrake, for [2]http://www.budgetlinuxcds.com." Links
0.
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/torrent/
1.
http://www.budgetlinuxcds.com
2.
http://www.budgetlinuxcds.com/
Teach Yourself AppleScript in 24 Hours
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/162210
[0]honestpuck contributes this review of Sams Publishing's Teach
Yourself AppleScript in 24 Hours, writing "The market for books on
AppleScript cannot be a large one, since there never seem to be many
volumes in it; usually only one at a time is up to date and worth the
money. Now that O'Reilly's AppleScript In A Nutshell is showing its age
(and wasn't that great in the first place), and Danny Goodman's book is
even older, I was pleased to hear that this volume had come along."
Read on for honestpucks' mixed impressions of the book.
Links
0. http://honestpuck.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi
Freshmeat
absence 1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133976/
absence is a calendar tool for keeping track of people (but could be adapted for any other object) on a daily basis. It is meant to replace that ubiquitous whiteboard in the office of the boss. You know the one, where someone has used a permanent magic marker to mark a matrix, and vacations/training/etc. are marked with non-permanent markers as blocks. absence is a CGI system, and has a resolution of one day. It is not intended to be used for keeping appointments or any other activity that requires a finer resolution. It generates an image for each month to be displayed using the GD library, and it can be configured to produce PNG or GIF (or even JPEG).
Asymptopia Flashcard System 1.0h
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133998/
Asymptopia Flashcard System is a C++/Motif flashcard application which replaces paper flashcards. New flashcard contents are entered in LaTeX via interface and converted to .png format via GS. The high-level interface makes it painless. A timer controls frequency of flashcard popups. Enables you to study while surfing the web and otherwise get more out of your time. Supports color, images and anything that's legal LaTeX. Ideal for students.
aww 0.28
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134000/
aww (administer wml websites) is a frontend for WML, the Website META Language. It does much more than the wmk tool that comes with WML, and easily be extended with modules.
Balsa 2.0.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133939/
Balsa is a Gnome e-mail client supporting POP3, IMAP, and local mail delivery. It can be compiled with multi-threading support for faster response, and can do nifty things like read your GnomeCard address book, use LDAP, and render HTML mail.
ccrypt 1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133949/
ccrypt is a commandline utility for encrypting and decrypting files and streams. It was designed as a replacement for the standard Unix crypt utility, which is notorious for using a very weak encryption algorithm. ccrypt is based on the Rijndael cipher, which is the U.S. government's chosen candidate for the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). This cipher is believed to provide very strong security. A compatibility mode is included for decrypting legacy "unix crypt" files.
CodeBeamer 3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133828/
CodeBeamer allows computer science, engineering, and information systems departments and students to work together on software development projects regardless of their locations. Its Web-based portal provides comprehensive collaborative features (an issue tracker, document manager, and discussion forums) and code browsing for software development teams. It is integrated with Eclipse and other configuration management systems (CVS, PVCS, SourceSafe, ClearCase, CM/Synergy), and can be integrated with existing tools.
Courier 0.43.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133970/
The Courier mail transfer agent (MTA) is an integrated mail/groupware server based on open commodity protocols such as ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, LDAP, SSL, and HTTP. Courier provides ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, Webmail, and mailing list services within a single consistent framework. Individual components can be enabled or disabled at will. Courier implements basic Web-based calendaring and scheduling services integrated in the Webmail module.
CourseForum 2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133960/
CourseForum provides a painless, straightforward and flexible solution for posting and sharing course materials, class discussions, and student collaboration. It can be used for lecture notes, Q&A, class discussions, research, student portfolios, projects, and more. The easy Web browser interface and quick installation lets you get started in minutes, and everyone can easily create, read, and contribute.
cpptools 0.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133962/
Cpptools is a set of C/C++ development tools. This package contains a C++ scanning class coded both in C++ and Python. CppFSMDoc.py is the Finite State Machine diagrammer which uses @FSM comment tags inside sourcefiles. CppClassHierarchy.py parses C/C++ sourcefiles and generates a graphical dependency tree using Graphviz, and CppColorize.py scans sourcefiles and generates a highlighted HTML version.
Damn Small Linux 0.4.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133935/
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.
DSPAM 2.6.5-beta-2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133963/
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.
EPDF 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133955/
EPDF is an Eiffel library that allows the generation of PDF documents. It supports PNG images, 14 base fonts, graphic operations, document compression, viewer preferences, document properties, and document outline.
EzSDK 4.80
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133986/
EzSDK is a PHP SDK which includes a PHP source code generator, a library of PHP classes, and an application environment consisting of premade supporting modules. The modules handle user application and data access security, DB compatibility (with MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle, etc.), a built-in GUI interface with an interactive desktop, and more.
File Service Protocol 2.8.1 Beta 11 (Beta) http://freshmeat.net/releases/134020/
FSP is a UDP-based protocol for transferring files. It has many benefits over FTP, mainly for running anonymous archives. It is usable on lines with high packet loss ratio (70% WiFi), can go behind firewalls and unoticed by port scans (because of UDP), does not overload networks when hosting ISOs or movies, share files on modem lines without eating all of the bandwidth, and keeps lamers away from your site (they don't know how to get to it). This project is active continuation of the FSP code base (abandoned for the last 5 years).
Freecell 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133979/
Freecell is a version of the classic solitaire card game that you can win almost every time, if you have the skill. It features full undo and redo, a game attempt history record, and a hint function.
G Pascal 0.0.6b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134013/
G Pascal is a scripting version of Pascal. It is an interpreter, not a compiler; it is based primarily on UCSD Pascal and tries to adhere to strict guideline standards. Some alternative exceptions are made for convenience, but the standard way of coding is always maintained.
Geo::Weather 1.41
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134003/
Geo::Weather is a Perl module used to retrieve weather.com information based on city/state or US zip code.
giFTui 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133988/
giFTui is a graphical user interface to giFT. It is written in GTK+2 and is designed to be really easy to use. Since it uses giFT, it is virtually able to connect to any file-sharing network (currently OpenFT and Gnutella). Its main features over other clients are multiple "search" and "browse user" tabs, transfer and status tabs, and the ability to stop a search.
GNOME ALSA Mixer 0.9.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134007/
This project is a sound mixer for GNOME written for the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA).
GNUstep 1.7.3 (LaunchPad)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134016/
GNUstep is a set of general-purpose Objective-C libraries based on the OpenStep standard developed by NeXT (now Apple) Inc. The libraries consist of everything from foundation classes, such as dictionaries and arrays, to GUI interface classes such as windows, sliders, buttons, etc.
GStreamer 0.6.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134017/
GStreamer is a streaming media library and set of tools that enable applications to share a common set of plugins for things like video decoding and encoding, audio encoding and decoding, audio and video filters, audio visualisation, Web streaming and anything else that streams in real-time or otherwise. It is modelled after research software worked on at the Oregon Graduate Institute.
gtkgrepmail 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133934/
gtkgrepmail is a GTK frontend to grepmail, which provides you with a GUI interface to search through your sent and saved mail. Support is provided for both local mailboxes and remote mailboxes that are accessible using IMAP and SSH/RSH.
HardCore Web Content Editor 3.5.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133886/
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).
Hardware Monitor applet 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133983/
The Hardware Monitor applet is an applet for the Gnome panel which tries to be a beautiful all-around solution to hardware monitoring. It also tries to be user-friendly and generally nice and sensible, integrating pleasantly with the rest of your Gnome desktop.
iksemel 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134010/
iksemel is a simple XML-parsing library written in C, oriented towards use in the Jabber network. It's fast, has low memory overhead, and is used in a number of embedded Jabber projects.
ImageSpace 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134018/
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.
Inti-SourceView 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133991/
Inti-SourceView is an Integrated Foundation Classes binding for the GTK+ source editing widget, GtkSourceView. GtkSourceView extends the standard GtkTextView widget by adding syntax highlighting add other features typical of a source code editor.
Jaxe 1.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133952/
Jaxe is a Java XML editor with a graphical document-oriented interface. It is configurable with an XML schema and a configuration file. It supports validation at element insertion, and is customisable with Java modules. There is an HTML preview with an XSLT stylesheet. Examples include XHTML strict and a Docbook article.
JRobin 1.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133965/
JRobin is a 100% pure Java implementation of RRDTool's functionality. If you provide the same data to RRDTool and JRobin, you will get exactly the same results and graphs. JRobin follows the same logic and uses the same data source and archive types and definitions as RRDTool. JRobin's API is made for those who are familiar with RRDTool's concepts, but prefer to work with pure Java. JRobin does not use native functions, has no Runtime.exec() calls, and does not require RRDTool to be present. JRobin supports all standard RRD operations: create, update, fetch, last, dump, and graph.
jSai 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133990/
jSai is a servlet authentication implementation which aims to allow easier to use, more powerful authentication for Java servlets. It is aimed at servlet developers who want more than the servlet spec, but not as much as a full Enterprise Server. It provides a powerful set of authentication and authorization features for user level security in servlet-based Web applications.
KBabel 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133950/
KBabel is a set of tools for editing and managing PO files created by gettext. Its main component is a powerful and comfortable PO file editor which features full navigation capabilities, full editing functionality, the ability to search for translations in different dictionaries, spell and syntax checking, showing diffs, and much more. It also includes a "Catalog Manager", which is a file manager view that provides an overview of PO files. Last but not least, it includes a standalone dictionary application which provides the additional capability of accessing KBabel's powerful dictionaries.
Knoppix Auto-configuration 0.2.2 (Red Hat) http://freshmeat.net/releases/133836/
Knoppix Auto-configuration for Installed Distributions is a port of the hardware detection package from the Knoppix Live CD to Mandrake Linux and other distributions.
libgtk++ 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133948/
libgtk++ is a C++ wrapper for GTK 2.x that aims to create a GTK API similar to the API for Qt.
libinklevel 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134001/
Libinklevel is a linux library for retrieving the ink level of a printer attached via the parallel port or USB.
libubiqx 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133996/
libubiqx is an in-memory database suitable for use in embedded systems. The libubiqx database management system is a fully functional DBMS API which supports both hierarchical and relational data architectures. The libubiqx DBMS provides developers with robust and scalable data management tools for use in embedded systems or SNMP Agent applications.
LiteSpeed Web Server 1.0.3 (Professional) http://freshmeat.net/releases/133928/
LiteSpeed Web Server is a full-featured, high-performance, secure, and easy-to-use Web server that runs on Unix and Linux. It supports HTTP/1.1, SSL, CGI, FastCGI, PHP, JSP, Servlets, GZIP compression, IP level throttling, connection accounting, DoS attack prevention, and instant recovery mechanisms. Installation is very easy with pre-built binary. Administration and configuration is very easy through a Web interface.
Magic Charts 2.7 beta2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133989/
Magic Charts is a tool to easily follow the stock market using Point and Figure charts. It allows you to get a set of updated charts everyday in your mailbox or, if you prefer, download the charts files from a Web site. Charts of the following markets are available: US, US mutual funds, ETFs, iShares, Canada, United Kingdom, and Europe. A sample portfolio is sent every day.
Mass Rotate 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133945/
Mass Rotate is a program that quickly and losslessly rotates JPEGs. It is useful for rotating images from digital cameras.
MilterQuota 0.25
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134019/
MilterQuota is a milter (mail filter) for sendmail using libmilter. It implements quotas for inboxes without any influence of the amount of disk space the user can fill. There is one central configuration file where you can enter pairs of user/max.inboxsize and you can also enter a default value for all users. This makes a site-wide configuration easy. An additional feature is the override address: as an administrator you can still send important mail to users with full inboxes.
mjbWorld 5.17
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133947/
mjbWorld is a 3D editor, which can graphically edit and allow users to see and interact with VRML and other 3D formats. It is also intended to provide a platform which can be used to experiment with physics, animation, etc. Versions for Java and managed C++ (.NET) are included.
MMBase 1.6.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133977/
MMBase is an Open Source Java-based content management system that can be used for publishing Internet content (e.g. Web sites, mailing lists, etc). It covers the whole spectrum needed to import, manage, maintain, export, and publish information. In other words, it contains Web-based editors for editorial people to insert, manipulate, and delete information. MMBase uses a jsp-taglib for Web designers to publish the information dynamically.
Monster Masher 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134005/
Monster Masher is a mash'em-up action game for GNOME. Each level contains a number of blocks and monsters. You're a little gnome running around. By pushing the blocks you can mash the monsters one at a time. There are various power-ups and different kinds of monsters.
mozplayerxp 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133972/
mozplayerxp is a scriptable Mozilla mplayer plugin. It supports stop, play, pause, fullscreen, and JavaScript calls.
mvc 0.8.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133941/
MVC is a text mode v4l video capture program that features motion detection. It is very small and easy to use, and could be used to monitor and record the people that enter your room.
Network-Accounting Daemon for Netfilter 0.4.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133959/
ulog-acctd is a userspace network accounting daemon which generates log files of network traffic for accounting purposes. It collects headers of IP packets that travel through the Linux 2.4+ netfilter. It writes accounting information to a log which can include protocol type, source and destination address, port numbers, byte and packet count, and incoming and outgoing interfaces. It is easily possible to generate CISCO "IP accounting output-packets" style logs with this tool.
Open Source Portfolio 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134004/
Open Source Portfolio is an ePortfolio tool, which is a digital record of learning. It allows each learner to easily and effectively store, view, and selectively share parts or all of a rapidly growing digital learning record with anyone, anytime. Digital learning records may consist of transcripts, scanned diplomas, resumes, photographs, videos, audio records, and other formats demonstrating learning outcomes. The Open Source Portfolio is a Java Web application that uses Struts and JSTL. It requires Tomcat 4.1+, JDK 1.4+, and a MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL database.
OpenThought 0.70
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133992/
OpenThought is a powerful and flexible Web application environment. OpenThought applications are different from other Web applications in that all communication between the browser and the server is performed in the background. This gives a browser the ability to receive data from the server without ever reloading the currently loaded document. Data received can be displayed automatically on the existing page, can access JavaScript functions and variables, and can load new pages. Additionally, OpenThought completely manages all of your session data for you. These features give the look and feel of a full-blown application instead of just an ordinary Web page.
pam_dotfile 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134024/
pam_dotfile is a PAM module which allows users to have more than one password for a single account, each for a different service. This is desirable because many users have objections to using the same password for (as an example) an IMAP4 mailbox and SSH access.
PHP Generic Access Control List 3.2.0b2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134002/
PHP Generic Access Control List is a PHP class that offers Web developers a simple, yet immensely powerful "drop in" permission system for their current Web-based applications.
Pmw 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133969/
Pmw is a toolkit for building high-level compound widgets in Python using the Tkinter module. It consists of a set of base classes and a library of flexible and extensible megawidgets built on this foundation. These megawidgets include notebooks, comboboxes, selection widgets, paned widgets, scrolled widgets and dialog windows.
Pogo 2.0rc3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133954/
Pogo is a lightweight, elegant, customizable application launcher for X11.
Pram
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133975/
Pram is a Java-based implementation of a hybrid v3 Zmachine / decompiler (as in Zork and other Infocom games).
Project LRNJ: Slime Forest Adventure (Quantum) http://freshmeat.net/releases/134012/
The goal of Project LRNJ is to create an entertaining console-style RPG that teaches Japanese. Slime Forest is the prototype line: a simple NES-like CRPG using graphics from the upcoming katakana adventure and a training set of 1000 kanji. Its purposes are to attract interest and funding, and to gather data and feedback on compatibility and effectiveness.
ProjectForum 2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133961/
ProjectForum provides a powerful but easy-to-use solution for flexible workgroup collaboration and coordination of projects and teams over the Web. Easier to use and more interactive than conventional forum, wiki, collaboration, or intranet software, it lets you build an intranet or project site where everyone can actively and directly contribute, without complex software or a full-time administrator getting in the way. It can be used for project planning, task assignments, meeting notes, team discussions, research, brainstorming, and more.
QTParted 0.4.0-beta2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134009/
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.
Rocks'n'Diamonds 3.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133985/
Rocks'n'Diamonds is an arcade style game for color X11 with stereo sounds. It's a game like "Boulderdash" (C64), "Emerald Mine" (Amiga) and "Supaplex" (PC). Included are many levels known from the games "Boulderdash," "Emerald Mine," "Sokoban" and "Supaplex," and a lot of new levels designed by other players.
RPMAutoUpdate 1.3.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133940/
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.
rtf-converter 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133944/
rtf-converter is a command line RTF to HTML converter application written in C++. It removes specific font and font-size references leaving only the basic paragraph styles and bold, italic etc. This application has been compiled and run successfully on Redhat 6.2 and NT 4.0.
Show 3.0a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133956/
Show is a fast, flexible, extensible, and bloat-free image viewer for X11 that can fade images in, display them, and fade them out according to user-specified values of fade speed, fade type, and delay. It features an extremely small executable footprint (about 36KB), support for well over a dozen image formats, variable scaling, magnification, window positioning, clockwise and counterclockwise image rotation, X/Y axis flipping, over 200 different color transition modes, wildcard support, and logging abilities. It can also be easilly incorporated into multimedia presentations, shell scripts, and other utilities.
Siege 2.57b15 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133974/
Siege is a regression test and benchmark utility. It can stress test a single URL with a user defined number of simulated users, or it can read many URLs into memory and stress them simultaneously. The program reports the total number of hits recorded, bytes transferred, response time, concurrency, and return status. Siege supports HTTP/1.0 and 1.1 protocols, GET and POST directives, cookies, transaction logging, and basic authentication. Its features are configurable on a per user basis.
SiteBar 3.0pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133937/
SiteBar is a multi-user, multi-group bookmark server that lets users view, add, import, and maintain bookmarks from anywhere. It offers enterprise-quality access rights and granular permissions. Corporations can use it as a complete intranet bookmark solution, and end-users can use it to access their bookmark collection from anywhere, and share it with friends. It is intended for use in a browser's sidebar, and offers a clean, easy to use interface.
Slibo 0.4.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133966/
Slibo aims to be a comfortable replacement for the xboard chess interface, written for OpenGL and KDE. It uses the xboard protocol and can be used with common chess engines like crafty or gnuchess, but it provides its own chess engine too. Though its designed to be easy to use for the new chess player, it supports playing multiple games the same time, or anaylzing PGN files with multiple engines.
SLRN 0.9.8.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133967/
SLRN is an NNTP-based newsreader for Unix, VMS, win32, BeOS, and OS/2 systems. Unlike many other newsreaders, SLRN supports color terminals and displays a thread tree.
SOHT 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133878/
SOHT (Socket over HTTP Tunneling) allows you to tunnel socket connections through an HTTP proxy. Restrictive firewalls often prohibit all outgoing trafic except for HTTP. This application allows you to tunnel socket connections over the HTTP protocol. This application consists of a server that serves as a proxy and a client which tunnels a socket connection over an HTTP connection to the server. The current release is written in Java, and a .NET client is under development.
Spreadsheet::WriteExcel 0.42
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133958/
Spreadsheet::WriteExcel is a Perl module which can be used to create native Excel binary files. Formatted text and numbers can be written to multiple worksheets in a workbook. Formulas and functions are also supported. It is 100% Perl and doesn't require any Windows libraries or a copy of Excel. It will also work on the majority of Unix and Macintosh platforms. Generated files are compatible with Excel 5, 95, 97, 2000 and 2002, and with the Linux/Unix spreadsheet applications OpenOffice and Gnumeric.
Subversion 0.28.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134023/
The goal of the Subversion project is to build a version control system that is a compelling replacement for CVS in the open source community.
Summersby 1.005
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133925/
Summersby is a nicely-designed, proportional OpenType font with partial Unicode support. The main goal is to have English, Danish, German, Russian, and kokuji + kanji glyphs with aesthetically pleasing designs. Legibility is priority number one, and it's hinted for best results.
SVN::Web 0.30
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133953/
SVN::Web provides a Web interface to Subversion repositories. You can browse the tree, view history of a directory or a file, see what's changed in a specific revision, track changes with RSS, and also view diffs. It also tracks the branching feature (node copy) of Subversion, so you can easily see the relationship between branches.
Sws Web Server 0.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134014/
Sws Web Server is a fast, secure, and simple Web server.
TextTools 2.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133968/
The Texttools packages are an ncurses-based library for the Linux console written in Ada 95. It contains more than 600 procedures and functions to create windows, draw scroll bars, handle the mouse and keyboard events, play sounds, and much more. It also provides a thick binding to Linux kernel calls. You can create a wide variety of application programs using Texttools alone.
The Distributed Library Project 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134011/
The Distributed Library Project is a distributed library of people's books and videos, an experiment in creating community and sharing information. Users create accounts complete with bios and interest enumerations, then list the books and videos that they own. Those users are then free to browse the books that others have listed, sorted by proximity, interest, and book commonality. If a book or video is available, a user can check it out directly from the owner. There is an eBay-style feedback system for managing trust--users who return books on time get positive feedback, while users who damage books or return them late get negative feedback. These points create an overall "score" that lenders can use to judge the trustworthiness of a borrower. The system also supports user reviews, ISBN lookups, and collaboritve filtering.
TIA 0.7.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133964/
TIA is an ncurses-based console IDE for GCC, G++, Java, Perl, BASH, BUSH, HTML, and GNAT (Ada 95). It has integrated support for CVS and ncurses compatible mice. Features include a ddd-style console debugger, automatic spelling correction, keyword hilighting, project statistics, automatic backups, and keyboard macros. The project window controls optimization and debug settings all in one place. TIA supports make, cook, and gnatmake project builders. For large projects, each user has a separate preference file.
TinyCA 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133980/
TinyCA is a simple GUI written in Perl-Gtk to manage a small certification authority. It works as a frontend to OpenSSL. TinyCA lets you manage x509 certificates. It is possible to export data in PEM or DER format for use with servers, as PKCS#12 for use with clients, or as S/MIME certificates for use with email programs. It is also possible to import your own PKCS#10 requests and generate certificates from them. TinyCA is available in English and German.
TrackStudio Enterprise 2.7.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133982/
TrackStudio is a hierarchical Java-based issue tracking and bug tracking system. It includes per-project workflows, user role specific actions, filters, notification rules, subscriptions, access control lists, and reports. Both hierarchical categorization and cross-cutting views of your issue space are provided.
Traditional ex/vi 8/27/03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133946/
Traditional vi is derived from the 4BSD source and includes support for modern operating systems, international character sets, and features demanded by POSIX.2. It contains few additions beyond this, so it is of interest for those who look for a small but well-defined vi implementation close to that of most commercial Unix systems. It also has some features to cope with primitive terminals or slow connections.
Virtual Sound 0.1.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133987/
Virtual Sound provides unlimited effects and modulation for sophisticated audio generation, with unique instrument simulation capabilities to craft your own unique soundscapes. All effects are parametrized and their parameters may be controlled through the outputs of other effects, through samples, or through special modulators. Instrument simulation is based on recursively-linked filter networks. Actual instruments can also be simulated by learning the filter parameters using a hidden-control neural network.
Wallpaper Tray 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133933/
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.
xMule 1.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133942/
xMule is a multi-platform clone of the popular eMule client for the eDonkey filesharing network. Currently supporting various Linux/Unix/BSD platforms, it aims at higher stability and portability than the competitors.
Yerase TNEF Stream Reader 1.0 (libytnef) http://freshmeat.net/releases/133874/
ytnef is a program to decode TNEF streams (winmail.dat). Unlike other similar programs, it can also decode meeting requests and create VCal entries for easy import. It can also create vCard entries from contact cards and vTodo entries from task entries. It also has a Perl script that can be used in procmail recipes to automatically reformat incoming mail appropriately.
ZPyIrc 0.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133999/
ZPyIrc is a Web-based IRC client for Zope that allows you to set a client for as many clients you want on your Zope server. It's fully configurable and leave you the possibility to decide how many connetions you'll leave open, the default server, default port, default nickname, etc. It also offers you the ability to set up some bots. It is based on the pyirc Python module.
Newsforge Reports
OpenLindows.com: wherefore art thou?
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/26/1258238
- by Joe Barr - I ran across a curious website recently: OpenLindows.com. The name alone intrigued me. It gave rise to speculation about a weird mix of free-as-in-beer and free-as-in-speech alternative to the $49/year Click-N-Run software subscription offered by LindowsOS, the most Windows-like/proprietary Linux distribution out there. This is a report on what I found, and perhaps even more importantly, what I didn't. Updated: originally I ...
Bayonne bridges open source, telecom
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/1338217
- by Anne Donker - The telecom market is traditionally so steeped in proprietary systems that it makes Microsoft seem like a fraternity for free software fanatics. David Sugar is on a quest to disrupt that status quo. Sugar is development leader for GNU Bayonne, a telecommunications server project licensed under the GPL. To support the project, Sugar founded Open Source Telecom Corp. (OST), a profitable business selling products and services ...
Solving the payment problem for open source and P2P file sharing http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/26/143247
- by Matt Asay - The software and entertainment industries have a problem, but it's not the problem they think it is. Both believe they have intellectual property problems. In the case of software, large software vendors are struggling to figure out how to keep their IP and associated revenues from being cannibalized by open source software. Record labels and movie studios, for their part, believe that peer-to-peer piracy is destroying their ...
Newsforge Newsvac
Thailand's cheap PCs 'force Microsoft's hand' http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/2244243
gulker writes "Microsoft declined to participate in Thailand's program to offer $250 computers to citizens (whose average income is $7,000) because it didn't want to lower the price of XP and Office. After 1 million of the machines were purchased, with Linux as the OS, MS has relented and will now offer XP home and the standard Office suite for $40, down from $500."
Microsoft's Friendly Foes?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/1850202
BigBlueLinux.org writes "Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is certainly eager to do battle with proprietors of the Linux operating system, but is it ready to take on its hardware partners in the server space? It is a question that has to be asked. Dell (Nasdaq: DELL) , Hewlett-Packard, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and others are increasing platform support for Linux server software and, in some instances, have more boxes that run Linux &