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[osdn everything] August 31, 2003
Date: Sun Aug 31 2003 - 01:45:28 EDT
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August 31, 2003 EVERYTHING SERIES
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Slashdot
Microsoft Introduces IM Licensing
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/31/0059234
[0]prostoalex writes "The [1]MSN Messenger ban of outside clients and
cited security issues might be explained by yet another Microsoft move.
The company's Internet unit, MSN, [2]contacted third-party providers
like Trillian and Odigo with a suggestion to buy access licenses. From
the ZDNet article: 'Running an (IM) network is expensive,' said Lisa
Gurry, group product manager for MSN at Microsoft. 'We can't sustain
multiple other people's businesses, particularly if they charge for
certain versions of their software. We're introducing licensing
processes for third parties like Trillian.'"
Links
0.
http://www.moskalyuk.com/deals/
1.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/20/221226&tid=109
2.
http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/10B2FC6553AB2D7148256D9100318F66?OpenDocument
Nordic Countries to Promote Open Source
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/31/0128252
Nordic Avenger writes "The Nordic countries have launched a website to
promote open source software to consumers and small businesses. People
can submit open source software links as well as exchange information
in the forums section. As the website states: '[0]Nordicos.org is a
project of the [1]Nordic Ministerial Council, and addresses the need
for a comprehensive overview of open source software available for
consumers'. Now, anybody eager to make good suggestions about software
that normal people could find useful and live happily ever after in the
open source world?"
Links
Microsoft vs. Burst.com
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/30/198214
[0]rocketjam writes "Robert X. Cringley has an interesting story on one
of Microsoft's many little-known legal cases. Burst.com is suing
Microsoft, claiming [1]MS negotiated in bad faith for over a year
before stealing Burst's patented technology for increasing the
efficiency of video and audio streaming. After Microsoft submitted all
emails associated with the their dealings with Burst to the court,
Burst's lawyers discovered a 35-week gap of missing mail during a
critical portion of the negotiations. When the judge learned the Sun
vs. Microsoft antitrust case had revealed that MS keeps backups of all
emails on over 100,000 tapes stored offsite, he ordered them to come up
with the missing messages."
Links
2003 Seattle Wireless Field Day
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/30/1857246
[0]propellerhead writes "Today is [1]2003 Wireless Field Day for
Seattle Wireless. 'Similar to amateur radio field day, a mock emergency
network will be created this summer using off-the-shelf 802.11b
hardware, computers, and battery/gas power supplies. Network
applications such as VoIP (Voice over IP or Internet Telephony),
streaming audio and video, file sharing, chat, network games, and
others will be implemented across a multi-hop wireless infrastructure.
If resources allow, the goal is to connect this mobile network to the
existing Seattle Wireless network, which currently exists in the
Seattle area. This network can also provide access to the internet and
our community network partners like Seattle Pacific University and
Council House Projects.'"
Links
0. mailto:slashdot@centraldistrict.net
Virginia Tech to Build Top 5 Supercomputer? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/30/1838222
[0]hype7 writes "ThinkSecret is running [1]a story which might explain
exactly why the Dual 2GHz G5 machines [2]have been delayed to the
customers that ordered them minutes after the keynote was delivered.
Apparently, Virginia Tech has plans to build a G5 cluster of 1100
units. If it manages to complete the cluster before the cut-off date,
it will score a Top 5 rank in the [3]Linpack Top 500 Supercomputer
List. Both Apple and the University are playing mum on the issue, but
there's talk of it all over the campus."
Links
0.
http://emptyskies AT mac DOT com
1.
http://www.thinksecret.com/news/virginiatech.html
2.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=36630&mac
3.
http://www.top500.org/list/2003/06/
Wendy Seltzer Interviewed
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/30/1724205
[0]mpawlo writes "Wendy Seltzer was recently appointed staff attorney
with the [1]Electronic Frontier Foundation. Seltzer is also a fellow
with [2]the Berkman Center. [3]Greplaw has picked Seltzer's brain on
her new position with the EFF, [4]Chilling Effects and the greatest
opera tunes."
Links
0.
http://www.pawlo.com/
1.
http://www.eff.org/
2.
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/
3.
http://grep.law.harvard.edu/article.pl?sid=03/08/30/1053201
4.
http://www.chillingeffects.org/
Dotgnu Coding Competition
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/30/1722212
Honestly writes "Apparently [0]DotGNU seems to be offering more than
the 'warm fuzzy feeling' to its contributors. Somebody has funded about
$4500 worth of prizes for code contributions. The developers have
confirmed that the $$$ is in FSF Hands (good hands, I suppose). Here is
the [1]split up of prizes. It's almost strange to earn money writing
open source. Especially when you're not even employed by dotgnu. Anyway
all I can say is ,I like it. It's ideal for a grad student with lots of
free time. But hardly anyone seems to have seen the [2]Newsforge posts
(except maybe me)."
Links
0.
http://dotgnu.org/
1.
http://dotgnu.org/competition.html
2.
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/26/1633251&mode=thread&tid=23
InfoWorld on Switching to Linux
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/30/178254
[0]brentlaminack writes "The latest [1]Infoworld is running a lengthy
piece about [2] The Real Cost of Switching to Linux, where it makes
sense and where it doesn't. As one of their [3]columnists points out,
the debate has switched from "if" to "where". One of the big wins for
Linux was in the area of remote administration. Specifically noted was
ssh. Also of note is the shift in calculating cost from TCO (Total Cost
of Ownership) as has been calculated in the past, to ROI (Return on
Investment) that focuses more on what you can do with the technology to
get work done."
Links
0.
http://www.laminack.com
1.
http://www.infoworld.com/
2.
http://www.infoworld.com/infoworld/article/03/08/29/34FElinux_1.html
3.
http://www.infoworld.com/opinions
MIT Roofnet
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/2320228
[0]prostoalex writes "[1]MIT Technology Review runs a story about MIT
Computer science students [2]building their own mesh network for
Internet access: 'A few weeks ago, MIT graduate student Shan Sinha
canceled his broadband Internet service. Now his Net connection comes
through the chimney. From a computer in the living room of his
Cambridge, MA, apartment, a few blocks from the MIT campus, a cable
goes into the fireplace up to the roof, where it is attached to an
antenna. From there, data packets hop to another roof-mounted antenna
at a nearby student's apartment. That way, from roof to roof in
multiple hops, Sinha's data packets finally reach a gateway--a computer
connected to the fixed Internet--at MIT's computer science building.'"
Links
0.
http://www.moskalyuk.com/deals/
1.
http://www.technologyreview.com/
2.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_guizzo082903.asp?p=0
Xr Renamed to Cairo
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/30/1514245
[0]Charles Goodwin writes "Xr, the vector graphics extension for
XFree86 that Keith Packard, Carl Worth, and a few others have been hard
at work on, has been [1] renamed and is now officially called [2]Cairo.
Keith and Carl recently gave a [3]detailed presentation on Cairo (then
known as Xr) which should be a useful read for those wishing to
understand it a little better. There is already a useful [4]Gtk+
rendering backend that uses Cairo, as well as an [5]SVG test suite.
This, along with Gnome2's subtle adoption of SVG and the inception of
[6]Xouvert (which now has goals for both the [7] short term and [8]long
term, and an [9]initial plan which includes coexisting with XFree86),
spells a bright future for the eye candy of an X desktop."
Links
0. mailto:charlie@@xwt...org
1.
http://cairographics.org/pipermail/cairo/2003-July/000191.html
2.
http://www.cairographics.org/
3.
http://cairographics.org/xr_ols2003/
4.
http://gtk-themes.cairographics.org/
5.
http://www.xsvg.org/
6.
http://www.xouvert.org/
7.
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/xouvert-general/2003-08/msg00002.html
8.
http://www.xouvert.org/modularising-xfree86.html
9.
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/xouvert-general/2003-08/msg00072.html
Freshmeat
BlingBling 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134303/
BlingBling is a cross-platform puzzle game. It is a clone of Puyo-Puyo, a popular alternative to Tetris. Currently, it works with Windows and Linux.
Boot Everywhere Linux 0.20-r2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134312/
bootE Linux is yet another minimalist (i386) Linux distribution and is contained entirely on a single floppy disk. It supports only single user mode, and is intended as a repair/rescue/emergency distribution.
Burgner 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134314/
The Burgner project aims to be a complete free burning suite that is written totally from scratch - it does not include any code from cdrtools (cdrecord and mkisofs) or cdrdao, and is not a front-end for these tools. It can generate ISO images with RockRidge and Eltorito extensions, and burn audio, data, and extra CDs.
Burgner 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134272/
The Burgner project aims to be a complete free burning suite that is written totally from scratch - it does not include any code from cdrtools (cdrecord and mkisofs) or cdrdao, and is not a front-end for these tools. It can generate ISO images with RockRidge and Eltorito extensions, and burn audio, data, and extra CDs.
cddb2md 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134286/
cddb2md is a tool for automatically setting the titles of tracks on a NetMD-capable MiniDisc recorder. It fetches the titles from freedb.org and writes them to the disc via a USB cable.
Chump 0.0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134288/
Chump is a table-driven assembler and dissembler with a very fast new architecture input format. Both the assembler and disassembler are created using a single description. It comes with descriptions for ARM, MIPS, Stump, and 6809. It is intended for use as a library compiled with other programs to allow line assembly and disassembly.
CleanIce 1.2.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134254/
CleanIce is a simplistic, semi-flat theme engine for GTK+ 2.x, based on the ThinIce and Clean engines of old. The GTK+ 2.x engine has many benefits over the original theme. The arrows are more consistent, the colors are slightly revised to be more usable, etc.
Cobex 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134269/
Cobex is a small implementation of the OBEX communication protocol for slow serial cables. It's primary use is to communicate with cell phones such as the Sony Ericsson T310 and T300.
config-dhcpd 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134265/
config-dhcpd is a graphical DHCP daemon configuration tool written in Python.
d 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134297/
d is an alternative to ls's --format=long output. It optimizes the file info on the left to add as many as ~20 extra spaces for the filename on the right, especially on systems with short user/group names. It has two options that ls doesn't have: a --dirs-first option to always print directories before regular files regardless of the current sort option, and the --tree option which prints a tree-like output using line drawing or ASCII characters. It allows for system and user configuration files, where the user file can override the system file, and where several options can be set, including the 'color' option which can be used to customize the colorization of the output.
Digital Tester 0.4 ALPHA
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134290/
Digital Tester can be used by testers as a cost-effective test management solution. By using the built-in reports and third-party tools like Crystal Reports, it will help you analyze your test results, allowing you to quickly identify areas of your application that have bugs.
DSPAM 2.6.5-rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134282/
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.
Entagged 0.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134319/
Entagged is a Java MP3 tagger and Library which uses the freedb online database.
epsutil 0.2-rc3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134299/
epsutil is a PyQt3-based graphical Epson inkjet printer toolbox frontend for the command line utility escputil (available from the gimp-print package). It is able to perform basic maintainance steps: check ink level, test nozzles, and clean heads.
fix-mime-charset 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134318/
Fix-mime-charset automatically detects character sets of email message and modifies the Content-Type header appropriately. It can be used as mail filter in mailing lists where users often set the charset of their messages incorrectly. It processes messages fast and accurately, ignoring attachments, and correctly interprets transfer-encodings. None but the Content- Type header is changed.
flscan 1.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134278/
flscan (Fast Light Scan) is a new frontend for the SANE libraries and dlls. It can rotate images by 90° both clockwise and counter clockwise, flip images both vertically and horizontally, correct the horizontal aspect of the image, save aquired images in JPEG or in PNG format, let you view images even at full size after they've been acquired, and potentially supports all the SANE backends.
GameQ 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134294/
GameQ is a small PHP class for querying servers and parsing the returned data. It's designed for easy use and modification.
Guis widget server 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134321/
Guis widget server is a Gtk2 widget server. It listens on pipes for widget requests (in the LUA scripting language), and emits widget events using an XML-based protocol or an equivalent S-expr lispy syntax. It is useful for programs (in particular setuid programs) and scripts that don't or can't link the Gtk2 libraries and need to delegate the user interface to another process.
HotSaNIC 0.5.0-pre4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134276/
HotSaNIC is a Web-based information center for Unix-based systems. It gives you a graphical overview about certain network- and system statistics. HotSaNIC is programmed (mainly in Perl 5) in a modular way to give you a great flexibility of which items you like to use, and it can be extended with further modules written by yourself or others.
KMD 0.9.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134289/
KMD is a multi-processor debugger. It can debug with hardware boards over serial ports or with software emulators (ARM and MIPS emulators are included in the project). Using the pipe option you can debug over the network or any other communication medium. It can load many executable formats such as ELF, and display and follow the original source even from multiple source file programs. There is support for breakpoints and watchpoints which can trap on specific data (such as loading or executing specific instructions). Support for other features such as FPGA's is also available, allowing loading or any control required to drive a specific hardware device. The project uses chump to allow disassembly and line assembly. Chump also allows new architectures to be easily added without the need to recompile the system. Communication with the backend is done using two pipes/fifos using a simple set of codes. Back end communication program can be created using very little memory on the target device.
LilyPond 1.9.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134320/
LilyPond is a music typesetter. It produces beautiful sheet music using a file as input. LilyPond is part of the GNU Project.
LinSMS 4.07.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134036/
LinSMS allows you to send SMS to Spanish mobile phones from Linux.
lyskom-server 2.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134313/
LysKOM is an online, text based, interactive discussion system sort of like a mix between Mail, News, IRC and a BBS system. It's modeled after the KOM system that was available to DECsystems running the TOPS-20 operating system ages ago. The web site for LysKOM is written in Swedish, but the README files on the FTP site are in English. Both the server and (some of) the client(s) can speak both Swedish, English and other languages. LysKOM is a client-server system. This project is the server software itself.
Magma 1.4r3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134279/
Magma is a bash script designed to make CD burning at the console easier. It supports burning normal data CDs, audio CDs, blanking CD-RWs, multisession, and more.
Megamek.NET 0.333
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134295/
Megamek.NET allows you to enter the World of Battletech and become commander of a subsection of the forces of one of the 5 big houses or a minor faction. You then use your lances (groups of Meks) to fight against other players online. The game's community is already quite large, and there are 2 major servers set up. One is using the 3025 timeline and the other one is set in the year 3060.
mkautosmb 1.1.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134317/
mkautosmb autodiscovers the local SMB (Windows) network using smbclient, sets up an autofs configuration, and can optionally create a "virtual" directory hierarchy with symlinks. This makes the network completely transparent for all applications. Most of the smbfs mount options are supported.
MMBase 1.6.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134308/
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.
mooix 1.0rc4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134304/
Mooix is a multiuser object-oriented dimension (a MOO) layered over top of your favorite Unix system. To the user, mooix looks much like any other MOO. To the programmer, mooix objects look like directories full of files: executable methods, properties, and links to other objects. MOOs have historically had poor support for such things as real programming languages, encrypted logins, multitasking, and editors. Mooix inherits all of these things from the Unix system it is based on. At the same time, it's not wedded too tightly to Unix (e.g., it implements its own permissions system that is much more suited to a MOO environment than the historical Unix system).
MozPlugger 1.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134306/
MozPlugger is a modification of Plugger, a very small multimedia plugin for the Unix versions of Netscape, Mozilla, and Opera which uses external programs to show and play many file formats. This modification fixes bugs which occurred with Mozilla 1.x and allows a player to stream a media file directly from the URL.
MyOrgBook 2.6 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134285/
MyOrgBook is an Open Source online organizer programmed with PHP and MySQL. Its features include multi-user login, a lost password emailer, contacts, a to- do/scheduler, a calendar, and a profile changer. It allows you to edit, delete, and update contacts, and much more.
Natural Docs 1.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134296/
Natural Docs is an extensible, multi-language, source code documentation generator written in Perl. Its syntax is transparent so the source comments read just as easily as the generated documentation. It also focuses on automation and high-quality HTML output.
nautilus-thumbnailers 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134266/
Nautilus-thumbnailers provides scripts that generate thumbnails for several file formats commonly used in the GNOME environment. When used with the Nautilus file manager, for example, icons for PDF files will present the same appearance as the document itself. This has long been the case with images, but this package extends this technique to formats like PDF, PostScript, and GIMP XCF.
Netcurse 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134307/
Netcurse is a GNU ncurses-based network speed monitor written in C. It can also run over networks because of its client/daemon architecture. It supports multiple network interfaces, also over TCP.
NetInstaller 1.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134283/
NetInstaller lets you create setup wizards for Web applications written in PHP. Users only have to upload two files; everything else will be decompressed online on the server, created, and configured. This eliminates the need to perform tedious permission changes (with chmod) or to upload of hundred of files in order to install a PHP application onto a Web server.
Newts 0.12.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134298/
Newts is a notesfile program, a news-like program for use as a message board. Newts is designed for UNIX-like systems, and resembles the Notesfiles program written early in the 1980s at the University at Urbana-Champaign. The client program included emulates the look and feel of Notesfiles, and the UIUC backend is compatible with Notesfiles data files. Future versions of Newts will include a separate daemon to manage multiple local and network connections, additional backends, and additional clients.
pal 0.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134292/
pal is a commandline utility which displays a color calendar and marks approaching events and holidays. It supports several different types of recurring events (one time, annual, monthly, etc.). Events are defined in text files, and pal is distributed with files for significant holidays and events. pal is similar to both the Unix "cal" command and OpenBSD's "calendar" command.
phpOpenTracker 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134268/
phpOpenTracker is a framework solution for the analysis of Web site traffic and visitor behaviour. It features a logging engine that, either invoked as a Web bug by an HTML image tag or embedded with two lines of code into your PHP application, logs each request to a Web site into a database. One installation can track an arbitrary number of Web sites. Through its API, you can easily access the gathered data and perform complex operations on it (for instance, the analysis of your visitors' click paths).
PHPX 3.1.2 (PHPX 3.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134281/
PHPX is a Web portal system, blog, Content Management System (CMS), forum, and more. It is designed to allow everyone to be able to have feature-rich, interactive websites even if you do not know a bit of programming. Some key features include fully-integrated forums, downloads, an image gallery with slideshow and auto-thumbnailing, support ticket system, a GUI interface for Web page content management, news with topics and instances, and a whole lot more. It allows you to fully customize the look of your site.
Pogo 2.0rc4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134263/
Pogo is a lightweight, elegant, customizable application launcher for X11.
QuickDownloader 4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134277/
QuickDownloader is a download manager that accelerates downloads by between 200 and 300%. It provides a resume capability for resuming broken downloads. It supports both HTTP and FTP downloads.
RPM Builder 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134271/
RPM Builder is a druid plugin for Anjuta that makes an RPM spec file and RPM packages from projects and user settings. It featutes a configurable user skill level.
rpmUpdate 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134302/
rpmUpdate is a Perl script to determine which RPMs on your system are out of date. It currently requires that you mirror an RPM database (such as ftp.redhat.com or ftp.rpmfind.net) locally, but will support FTP in the future.
Siproxd 0.3.5 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134293/
Siproxd is a SIP proxy for SIP based softphones hidden behind an IP masquerading firewall. It includes an RTP data stream proxy for incoming audio data (outgoing RTP data should be handled by IP masquerading by the firewall). Multiple local users/hosts can be simultaneously masqueraded. All configuration is done via one simple ASCII text file.
Sisela 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134291/
Sisela is a 1.44MB Linux-based boot disk that allows you to turn any spare PC system into a router, firewall, wireless access point, or any combination of these functions. It supports ISA, PCI, PCMCIA, and CardBus network cards, including wireless adapters. It provides a DHCP client/server, remote access through SSH2, DNS caching/forwarding, and iptables-based firewalling.
Software Suspend 1.1-rc7 (2.4 Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/134275/
Software suspend (swsusp) allows you to suspend your machine without needing APM, BIOS, or ACPI support. It creates an image that is saved in your active swap partition or swap files. At the next system bootup, the kernel detects the saved image, restores the memory from it and then it continues to run as if you'd never powered down.
Stuffed Tracker 1.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134270/
Stuffed Tracker is used to track Return on Investment (ROI). It might be very useful for any site that uses advertising to attract visitors and that have some sort of ordering process (registration, selling products, etc.). With the help of the Stuffed Tracker, the site owner can learn how many visitors that came from online advertising were converted into customers, as well as the actual return on investment for every advertising campaign. Stuffed Tracker also provides referrer-based tracking.
Tcpreplay 1.4.5 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134267/
Tcpreplay is a set of Unix tools which allows the replaying of captured network traffic in pcap (tcpdump) format. It can be used to test a variety of network devices including routers, firewalls, and NIDS.
Timeless Meaning 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134257/
Timeless Meaning is a Java library that supports schema evolution for rapid development. Information stored in an application is encoded as a series of method calls written with method names that are meaningful sentences. The method calls are serialized to create a data dump and then deserialized to reload the data dump into a new version of the application. The semantics of the data dump are grounded in natural language, which makes upgrading relatively painless and robust.
Veejay 0.4.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134305/
Veejay is a live performance tool featuring non-linear editing and mixing from multiple sources (to one). It lets you load multiple video clips or Edit Decision lists, cut and paste portions of video/audio, and save it as a (new) Editlist. Also, you can create video samples from clips or tags from (live) streams. With these samples, you can change playback speeds (slow motion/acceleration), set looptypes, and set markers. With both samples and tags, you can edit the effect chain and mix from multiple sources to one. Veejay has 50+ video effects and many frame blending methods. "Gveejay", a graphical interface, maps the control keys to mouse-click buttons and sliders. Gveejay communicates over TCP/IP, and can be invoked from a remote machine.
Windmill 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134232/
Windmill is a theme for those living in South Texas, the land of the big iron sunflower. The background image comes from the author's own backyard.
Yet Another Passwd 2 LDIF Converter 0.5.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134280/
Yap2lc (Yet Another Passwd 2 LDIF Converter) is an LDAP migration tool which extracts information from passwd, shadow/passwd, and master.passwd formatted files, combines them with a user specifiable template, and writes an LDIF file you can import into your LDAP server. It supports BSD-like and non-BSD-like systems, and performs sanity checks on user entries to detect invalid fields.
Zoinks 0.3.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134315/
Zoinks is a programmer's editor and development environment for Unix/X11 systems. The editor has features similar to Mac text editors like MPW and CodeWarrior. It also has some features for HTML authoring. Zoinks supports comparing/diffing files and directory hierarchies. It also supports inputting and editing multi-byte text (e.g. Japanese and other Asian languages).
Newsforge Reports
Maintaining SCO compatibility
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/30/1433255
NixWarrior writes "NOTE: This report hereby placed in public domain, use it as you wish, at your own risk! Obviously it is a concern to GPL software authors that they maintain compatibility with the SCO platforms, while SCO publicly abuses them, tries to get the GPL declared invalid, and while SCO profits from selling their software and integrating it into future releases of the SCO product line.
SCO/Microsoft's attack on Linux is backfiring http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/25/1117203
- by Rick Smith - If you keep up with technology news at all, you know all about SCO's fight with IBM, and now, with the Open Source community that developed Linux. But what you may not see is the forest through the trees. There are some fundemental things going on in this turf war that the big boys are missing, and if you look at the headlines over the past 6 months, or even the past year, you'll see them loud and clear.
Why offshore IT outsourcing can't be stopped http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/132243
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - I have many friends who have lost high IT industry paychecks and are struggling financially because their jobs are now being done in lower-cost countries. But none of the legal remedies currently proposed are going to stop this problem -- assuming it really is a problem in the long run.
Newsforge Newsvac
MS Sued for Stealing Linux-compatible Streaming Technology
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/30/2115242
Anonymous Reader writes "Burst.com is reported to hold numerous technology patents for 'increasing the efficiency of video and audio streaming', according to Robert Cringely. A suit is pending against Microsoft for trying to 'steal' this technology from Burst. If Microsoft successfully beats the suit, Burst's multi-platform technology (which includes Linux) could give Microsoft a significant edge in 'streaming's' future, possibly at the expense ...
When License Keys Cost More Than You Ever Imagined http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/30/152204
"An interesting issue has occured with a client of North County Computers and we feel its NCC's duty to warn our clients of potential legal and financial issues of buying a PC from an OEM with a Windows operating system pre-installed. Our client has ordered over 200 Dell Optiplex and Dimension systems over the last three years. Financial issues have led to layoffs at the company in recent months. One of the recent layoffs included the systems ...
EFF email & fax campaign against SCO lawsuit http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/30/1435251
Anonymous Reader writes "The SCO Group, Inc. recently announced that it plans to sue individual Linux users if they refuse to pay the company a $700 licensing fee. This is an effort designed by SCO to bolster its licensing claims against IBM and Red Hat by beating up on people who can't afford a multimillion-dollar defense. SCO hasn't proven that it has a right to collect this money at all, so its attempt to hold end-users liable is a terrible ...
No plans to sue Linux users - SCO's Red Hat defense? http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/30/1431200
Anonymous Reader writes "According to an article in the Sydney Morning Herald "The SCO Group said today it had never planned to sue any Linux companies, had no concrete plans to sue anyone and also no current plans to take a commercial Linux customer to court."
The tortoise and the hare
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/30/1449251
Linux has long been seen as the IT industry’s country cousin: good enough to drive low-end PCs and web servers but not sophisticated enough to support high-end enterprise systems. However, the open source operating system has come a long way, and a growing number of IT directors are finding a role for Linux in the back office.
Lindows: A Real Linux Desktop Alternative to Windows http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/30/1429216
Anonymous Reader writes "OSNews hosts a third party review regarding a Windows user who tried Lindows and liked it."
AUUG finalises nominations for open source awards http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/30/1426251
The Australian Unix and Open Systems User Group has finalised its nominations for the second annual Australian Open Source Awards, a media release says.
Motorola sells stake in Symbian to Nokia, Psion http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/30/1445238
Motorola Inc., which helped found Symbian Ltd. five years ago to develop software for mobile phones, is selling its stake in the venture to partners Nokia Oyj and Psion Plc to focus on other cell-phone programs.
Jousting To Be Server King
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/30/1443208
NEW YORK - Talk about jockeying for position. Today, Hewlett-Packard and IBM are feverishly putting their spin on the latest market share data in the $40 billion-plus market for computer servers.
700,000 Flawed Routers Flood University of Wisconsin http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/2229253
gulker writes "700,000 low-cost Netgear routers were shipped with a flawed SNTP client that pings a hard-coded IP address at the University of Wisconsin once a second, amounting to a 150 Mbit/second flood. U of W expects the flood will last for at least 5 years."
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Release 0.4.9
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=305585
KGuitar aims to develop a free, full-featured guitarist helper program, focusing on tabulature editing and MIDI synthesizers support. Ported to KDE3 the first time officially, introduced basic KDE help center documentation. More usability features (zooming, navigation). Brand new tools - melody/solo editor, rhythm constructor, support for native Qt tabulature printing (with standard notescore notation). More complete MIDI playback feature, more complete MusicXML support. New Guitar Pro 3 import support. And, as usually, lots of refactoring and numerous bug fixes. The latest file release can be found here: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7693&release_id= 180645
GAUL 0.1846 - Now for Windows!
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=305677
San Diego, CA, August 27, 2003 -- The GAUL project announces the latest release of GAUL(TM) - the Genetic Algorithm Utility Library, a leading open-source programming library for evolutionary computation. GAUL 0.1846 contains significant enhancements to its features and usability. This is the first version to officially support the MS Windows environment, in addition to the prior supported UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems. An already impressive set of features are further enhanced by the new version of GAUL. Support for the MS Windows platform bolsters a long-time aim of the GAUL project to create a robust and portable framework for evolutionary algorithms. "Development of a native Windows version of GAUL is a major milestone," says Stewart Adcock, Lead Developer of the GAUL project. "Programmers requiring a feature-complete, but portable, framework for evolutionary computation now have the open-source GAUL as a viable option." GAUL is already applied in many important domains, including protein structure prediction and drug discovery. With release of this new version, GAUL becomes available to a larger community of research scientists and software developers. About GAUL: The Genetic Algorithm Utility Library (or, GAUL for short) is an OSI certified programming library for evolutionary computation. It is a copyrighted work released under the terms of the GNU General Public License. GAUL is deployed in several institutions and corporations, on hardware ranging from low-end desktop PCs through to top 500 supercomputers, in North America, Europe and Japan. Further information is available on the GAUL website at http://gaul.sourceforge.net.
Moodle 1.1 is now available!
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=305709
Moodle 1.1, the best system for managing and conducting online courses, is now available. Highlights include: - A completely new packaging system for backup, transfer and restore of courses - A new workshop module for peer grading - A new chat module for synchronous discussions
- All-new course manager to handle very large numbers of courses (tested with 3700) - Custom-defined grading scales that can be used throughout a course - Performance improvements in many areas - Many interface improvements and fixes http://moodle.org has all the information and download links.
Miranda IM v0.3.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=304290
The Miranda Instant Messenger project is happy to announce a new public release of Miranda IM. Miranda IM is a free multi protocol instant messenger client for Windows designed to be resource efficient and customisable. It uses very little memory, requires no installation and runs fast even on very old computers. Its powerful plugin system makes Miranda IM extremely flexible. Only the most basic features are built in, but there are currently almost 200 free plugins available for download that allows users to extend the functionality in Miranda IM. Miranda IM is open source and published under the terms of the GNU General Public License. OS support: Windows NT4, 95, 98, Me, 2000 & XP. Protocol support: Support for ICQ, AIM, MSN, IRC and Jabber is included in this release. The following protocols are available as separate downloads on the website: Gadu-Gadu, ICQ Groupware, Yahoo, Netsend, EmLanProto, Vypress Chat, POP3, Tlen and more! Official Website:
http://www.miranda-im.org Screen Shots:
http://www.miranda-im.org/about/screenshots.php Download:
http://www.miranda-im.org/release/download.php Additional components
(plugins, icons, sounds, etc): http://www.miranda-im.org/download/
Progect for Palm released today: 0.26 - Stability Release http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=304323
Progect is a project manager application for Palm type PDA's, it is very simple and easy to use, but powerful nonetheless. If you manage projects and you have a Palm type PDA you will want to look at this software. Today version 0.26 was released, it includes a large number of stability fixes and has no major stability problems. People use Progect to manage more than just projects. They use it to manage inventory lists, shopping lists and many other things. Progect is very flexible, try it today and get your life organized! Download it now at: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/progect/progect_0_26.prc?download
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