[osdn everything] September 08, 2003

[0]Anonymous Coward writes "In a [1]paper published today, the point is
made that ISPs should filter some ports (e.g. 135) for good. I guess given what everyone sees hitting their various firewalls these days, this may make sense. But wasn't the Internet supposed to be 'open' at one point? Or are we to the point where Internet=Web (and maybe AIM). The author of the paper is operating [2]DShield and I guess has some insight into this issue. He made the same points before on various mailing lists."
Links

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http://www.sans.org/rr
    1. 
http://www.sans.org/rr/special/isp_blocking.php
    2. 
http://www.dshield.org/

Interview With A Maddog
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/07/2057232

[0]DubiousFreak writes "Tinyminds.org sits down with Linux
International Director, Jon "Maddog" Hall. Jon has been in the computer industry since 1969, using Unix since 1977, and Linux since 1994. He has been a software engineer, systems administrator, product manager, marketing manager and professional educator. Jon has been the Executive Director of Linux International since 1995, the first four years as a volunteer. Jon has been employed by VA Linux systems, Compaq Computer Corporation in the Digital UNIX Marketing group and Bell Laboratories among other companies. Read the [1]full interview at Tinyminds.org." Links

0. mailto:freak@tinyminds.org

http://tinyurl.com/m7nz

14 Years Later, Cold Fusion Still Gets The Cold Shoulder http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/07/2013207

[0]segment writes "It has been [1]14 years since two little-known
electrochemists announced what sounded like the biggest physics breakthrough since Enrico Fermi produced a nuclear chain reaction on a squash court in Chicago. Using a tabletop setup, Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann, of the [2]University of Utah, said they had induced deuterium nuclei to fuse inside metal electrodes, producing measurable quantities of heat. That was the opening bell for one of the craziest periods in science. Cold fusion, if real, promised to solve the world's energy problems forever. Scientists around the world dropped what they were doing to try to replicate the astounding claim." The linked AP story (carried on SFGate.com) is about the [3]Tenth International Conference on Cold Fusion, which took place in the last week of August. Links

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http://(ten.dekcuf-e) (ta) (lis)
    1. 
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/09/05/financial0901EDT0036.DTL&type=science
    2. 
http://www.utah.edu/
    3. 
http://iccf10.org/

Linux Distro For Linksys WRT54G
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/07/1936228

[0]scubacuda writes "Here is a [1]tiny Linux distro for the [2]Linksys
wrt54g ([3]d/l the distro here). In just a few seconds, you can give your access point's ramdisk syslog, telnetd, httpd (with cgi-bin support), vi, snort, mount, insmod, rmmod, top, grep, etc." Interesting

"The script installs strictly to the ram disk of the box. No permanent changes are made. If you mess something up, power-cycle it." Links 0. mailto:scubacuda@in a m e.com

Supersonic Flight Without The Sonic Boom http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/07/1843228

[0]fname writes "Here's a [1]story from Spaceflight Now about a new
test aircraft that can travel at supersonic speeds without triggering a sonic boom. The technology works by modifying the shape of the plane. Although it's been believed to be possible for a long time, this is the first actual flight test, barring black box projects I suppose." Links

0. mailto:fname@mail.com

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0309/06supersonic/

BSDCon '03 Nearly Here (OpenBSD 3.4, Too) http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/07/1710240

[0]robotdreams writes "Once again [1]BSDCon showcases the BSD
community's long history of innovative research, open exchange of ideas, and collaborative work. Tutorials this year feature: an intensive code walkthrough of the new FreeBSD 5.x release, debugging kernel problems on live systems, advanced BSD system and network security, and FreeBSD's new GEOM disk I/O subsystem." Since BSDCon runs from September 8th through 12th, you're probably either already going or out of luck ;) On the other hand, you're still early for OpenBSD 3.4, now taking pre-orders -- details below. Links

0. mailto:apk@localareasecurity.com

http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/

Step-by-Step Computer Destruction
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/07/1528236

[0]Unixrevolution writes "[1]Dan's Data has an excellent [2]article on
how an enterprising user (or repair tech) can easily destroy their computer. Most of us don't destroy nearly enough hardware, so this should be helpful."
Links

    0. mailto:unixrevolution@comcast.net
    1. 
http://www.dansdata.com/
    2. 
http://www.dansdata.com/sbs3.htm

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Freshmeat
Alvaro's Messenger 0.82
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135103/

Alvaro's Messenger is a Tcl/Tk client for MSN Messenger. Its features include multi-language support, smileys, docking support for KDE 3 and GNOME 2 (FreeDesktop compatibility), logging, profiles support, email notification, customizable sounds, group management, file transfers with NAT support, and proxy support. Some special features include the possibility of knowing who has deleted you from his/her list, connecting "silently" (appearing invisible), and so on.

Amiga OS 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135066/

Amiga OS was created to give the look and feel of the Amiga OS to GNOME and Metacity. It's not an exact imitation, and it's not meant to be. The design is based on screenshots of AIAB, using Industrial as the base for the GTK themes.

antinat 0.63
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135168/

Antinat is a modular, multithreaded, scaleable SOCKS server for Linux supporting SOCKS 4, SOCKS 5, authentication, firewalling, and name resolution. Modules can be added without modifying the core server, and modules can be removed to remove support for some functionality.

Aquativo 1.51
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135068/

Aquativo is a combination of ideas from many themes.

AutoUpdate 5.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135108/

AutoUpdate is a Perl script which performs a task similar to Red Hat's up2date or autorpm. It can be used to automatically download and upgrade RPMs from different HTTP(S) or (S)FTP sites, while also handling dependencies. Moreover, it can also be used to keep a server with a customized (Red Hat) distribution plus all clients up to date.

Bandwidth Management Tools 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135163/

Bandwidth Management Tools is a total bandwidth management solution for Linux and can be used for firewalling, traffic graphing, and shaping. It is not based on any currently-available bandwidth management software.

BeFree 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135097/

BeFree is a complete implementation of the BeOS Kits and Servers for Linux that doesn't rely on X11. It uses the GGI APIs for its app_server and supports KGI that provides kernel graphic drivers.

Blassic 0.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135106/

Blassic is a classic Basic interpreter. The line numbers are mandatory, and it has PEEK & POKE. The main goal is to execute programs written in old interpreters, but it can be used as a scripting language.

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ClanLib 0.7.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135105/

ClanLib is a cross-platform game SDK currently supporting Windows, Linux, and BeOS. It provides easy-to-use interfaces for 2D graphics, sound, resources, networking, and OpenGL. The goal is to provide a game SDK that does all the dirty work that all modern games need to implement anyway, thus making the game developer concentrate on the gameplay instead of reinventing the wheel over and over again.

CoverViewer 0.1.11pre2 (Prerelease)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135147/

CoverViewer is an XMMS plugin that displays images related to the files being played. The displayed image can be a copy of the cover of the album you are playing or anything else you want. It creates a personalised skin for itself using the current XMMS skin, and you can control song playing from its interface. It includes a function that can automatically retrieve covers you don't have from the Internet, using file tag information to get the artist and album name.

dvdprobe 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135094/

dvdprobe is a Python interface to the tcprobe program from transcode. It scans a DVD for useful information such as titles, chapters, playback time, audio tracks, and subtitles.

Elk 3.99.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135170/

Elk (the Extension Language Kit) is an implementation of the Scheme programming language. It can be used as a standalone Scheme interpreter, or as an embeddable, reusable extension language subsystem for applications written in C or C++ through the libelk library.

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elmo 0.8.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135114/

Elmo is a feature-rich console mail client for power users. It integrates functionality commonly realised by separate pieces of software in other mailers and competes with Mutt.

Email Security through Procmail 1.139
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135132/

Email Security through Procmail provides methods to sanitize e-mail, removing obvious exploit attempts and disabling the channels through which exploits are delivered. Facilities for detecting and blocking Trojan Horse exploits and worms are also provided.

Enemies of Carlotta 1.0.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135111/

Enemies of Carlotta is a simple mailing list manager. It tries to mimic the ezmlm software somewhat, but is written completely from scratch in Python. It has a less restrictive license than ezmlm and qmail, and is smaller and simpler than GNU Mailman.

Epiphany-browser 0.9.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135129/

Epiphany is a GNOME web browser based on the Mozilla rendering engine. Its goals are simplicity, standards compliance, and integration with GNOME. form2mail .06
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135134/

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form2mail is a script that provides an email form for Web sites. Its main goal is to cut down spam by masking email addresses with usernames so the backend can compare real names to email addresses and deliver the typed form.

FProfiler 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135101/

FProfiler is a Java Profiler using BCEL and log4j. It's very fast because it inserts the needed instructions into the Bytecode of the classes. It can be used to find Hotspots in Java programs, libs, and servlet environments--simply every Java class.

ftv_gnome 1.1pre1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135158/

ftv_gnome is a GNOME front end for the furious_tv personal video recorder (PVR). It is written in C and integrates well with the GNOME desktop. It can search, sort, and filter TV listing, and is considerably faster and easier to set up then ftv_web.

Gander 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135136/

Gander serves Python applications over HTTP by doing as little as possible: a request for a root URL returns an index page, a request for non-valid application returns "404: Resource NotFound", a request for uninstantiated object returns "412: Object Not Instantiated", and all other responses come from the Gander-served application for which Gander translates URL-style requests into object method-calls. Gander comes with two example apps: Trivial, a basic tutorial, and FileTool, a simple browser-based file manager. It also comes with templates for quickly starting your own apps.

gmorgan 0.16
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135171/

gmorgan is a fully programmable General MIDI rhythm station. It features chord recognition for playing in real-time.

gpsdrive 2.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135169/

Gpsdrive is a map-based navigation system. It displays your position on a zoomable map provided from a NMEA-capable GPS receiver. The maps are autoselected for the best resolution, depending of your position, and the displayed image can be zoomed. Maps can be downloaded from the Internet with one mouse click. The program provides information about speed, direction, bearing, arrival time, actual position, and target position. Speech output is also available.

Gv4l 2.1.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135164/

Gv4l is a v4l (Video4Linux) frontend of transcode used to watch and/or record from a v4l-capable device. The v4l device streams can be recorded in both raw and encoded format, such as DivX.

gwyple 2.5.0 (Main)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135154/

gwyple is a GUI, implemented in Perl and Perl/Tk, for handling bug reports. These reports usually arrive by email, are stored by helper scripts called from procmail, and can then be organized by gwyple independently from the used BTS.

hk_classes 0.6.1-test1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135116/

hk_classes is a set of C++ libraries for rapid development of database applications with all features a modern database application should have, like forms and reports. hk_classes is database and GUI independent. It also includes command line tools to use hk_classes in scripts.

IaraJS 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135089/

IaraJS is a set of JavaScript templates for the construction of Web sites, using JavaScript components.

im-ja 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135092/

im-ja aims to be a generic Japanese input module for GTK+ 2. Currently supported input modes are Hiragana, Katakana, Half-Width Katakana, Zenkaku, Canna, Wnn, and Kanji character recognition (based on Kanjipad).

ImageroReader 1.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135123/

ImageroReader is a Java library for reading image files. It can read BMP, TIFF, PNG, and JPEG image files, and can read thumbnails and metadata in TIFF, PNG, JPEG, JFIF, EXIF, and PSD files.

ink 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135120/

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Ink is a command line tool which displays the ink level of your printer. It makes use of libinklevel.

J2SSH 0.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135137/

J2SSH is an object-orientated Java implementation of the SSH version 2 protocol. It provides a rich, powerful, and extensible SSH API that enables developers to gain access to SSH servers and to develop entire SSH client/server frameworks. The API library provides a fully-featured SSH2 implementation specifically designed for cross-platform development. Higher level components, representing both the standard SSH client and SSH servers, are provided which implement the protocol specification for user sessions and port forwarding. The specification currently supports public key and password authentication and a full implementation of the SFTP protocol.

Jabberwocky 20.0.07 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135115/

Jabberwocky is a Lisp IDE containing a Lisp-aware editor with syntax highlighting, parentheses matching, a source analyzer, indentation, a source level debugger, a project explorer, and an interaction buffer. It is the replacement for the Lisp Debug project.

JamochaMUD beta12-03-09-06
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135149/

JamochaMUD offers Unicode, plug-in, and multi-language support (8 different languages) to allow a more enjoyable MUCKing/MUDding experience. It features command history, synchronized window controls, experimental SOCKS 5 support, and greatly improved ANSI colour support. It plays nice on Unix systems, supports a wide range of MU*s, and also includes emulation of some TinyFugue editor controls. It uses Java 1.1, and includes classes to be easily reused in other Java applications.

JXMLPad 1.9.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135126/

JXMLPad is a Java component for editing XML document. It includes Java bean usage, syntax coloration (tags, name spaces, strings, entities, etc.), a syntax helper, a look-and-feel plugIn, a customized action toolbar, real time tree location, syntax correction, a template for fast creation, easy integration in your application, several standard actions for XML usage (parse, search, comment, etc.), a standard Swing EditorKit, real time tree text synchronization, auto tag closing, many actions (parsing, searching, adding comments, formatting), and real time text location. It is customizable with a property file

KAlarm 0.9.5 (KDE 3)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135109/

KAlarm lets you configure personal messages to be displayed, commands to be executed, or emails to be sent, at scheduled times. It allows you to choose the message font and color, how often to repeat, whether to display an advance reminder, whether to play a sound when the message is displayed, and whether to cancel the alarm if it can't be triggered on time (e.g. if you are logged out at the time). As well as using the graphical interface to configure alarms, you can use the command line, and there is a DCOP interface for other applications.

kdbg 1.2.9 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135145/

KDbg is a graphical user interface to gdb, the GNU debugger. It provides an intuitive interface for setting breakpoints, inspecting variables, and stepping through code.

Keepalived for Linux 1.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135173/

Keepalived for LVS aims to add a strong and robust keepalive facility to the Linux Virtual Server project. This project is written in C with multilayer TCP/IP stack checks. It implements a framework based on three family checks: Layer3, Layer4, and Layer5. This framework gives the daemon the ability of checking a LVS server pool states.When one of the servers in the LVS server pool is down, keepalived informs the Linux kernel via a setsockopt call to remove this server entry from the LVS topology. In addition, it implements a VRRPv2 stack to handle director failover.

KGuitune 0.3.1 (KDE3)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135113/

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KGuitune is a guitar-and-other-instruments tuner. It takes a signal from the microphone, calculates its frequency, and displays it on a note scale graphic and an oscilloscope. It supports normal, Wien, and physical tuning.

libds 1.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135167/

LibDS is a cross-platform library to support simple networking, threads, as well as data structures. It allows code reuse for common data structures, such as linked lists and hash tables, as well as support for complex entities such as config files.

libDSP 4.9.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135153/

libDSP is a C++ library of digital signal processing routines, including standard vector operations, digital filtering, and transforms.

libinklevel 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135119/

Libinklevel is a linux library for retrieving the ink level of a printer attached via the parallel port or USB.

Liferea 0.3.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135165/

Confused? Frustrated?

Liferea (Linux Feed Reader) is an RSS/RDF feed reader which also supports CDF feeds, Atom/Echo/PIE feeds, and OCS directories. It's intended to be a clone of the Windows-only FeedReader. It can be used to maintain a list of subscribed feeds, browse and search through their items, and show their contents using GtkHTML.

MACAW 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135095/

Macaw is a framework for developing applications in Java that run on a local Web server and are accessed by the user via their Web browser. It provides a layer between non-Web aware application classes and Freemarker templates. Each Web page is deemed to be about a webified object that belongs to a webified class. Form actions are mapped onto webified methods that are invoked on the webified objects. Webified objects also expose properties to the Freemarker templates.

Make CD-ROM Recovery 0.7.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135127/

mkCDrec (Make CD-ROM Recovery) makes a bootable (El Torito) disaster recovery image, including backups of the Linux system to one or more CD-ROM(s) (multi-volume sets). Otherwise, the backups can be stored on another disk, NFS disk, or (remote) tape. After a disk crash or system intrusion, the system can be booted from the CD-ROM and one can restore the complete system as it was. It also features disk cloning, which allows one to restore a disk to another disk (the destination disk does not have to be of the same size, as it calculates the partition layout itself). Currently, ext2, ext3, minix, MS-DOS, FAT, VFAT, Reiserfs, XFS, and JFS filesystems are supported. mkCdrec is also able to restore disks in Software RAID and LVM mode.

Matrix Orbital Daemon 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135128/

Matrix Orbital Daemon is a control daemon for the Matrix Orbital LCD screen that tries to give full power to the user without needlessly complex commands.

Melange Chat Server 3.0RC1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135142/

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Melange is a chat server written in C. It comes in a package with a Java client, so your guests do not need any browser plugin or other additional software. Its main features are channels created by everybody, private channels, channel/user renaming, change channel owner, anonymous channel, private messages, user squelching, cross channel yelling, finger, whois, realtime overview, admin features like user kicking, host banning, loglevels, group commands, optional unique nicknames, idletime and much more. It currently supports English, German, French, Italian and Catalan.

NetInstaller 1.01 (MT)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135104/

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.

netrik 1.12.0 (beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135098/

Netrik is an advanced text mode WWW browser. Its purpose is to give access to as much of the Web as possible in text mode, without forsaking any comfort.

newSphPeek 1.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135148/

newSphPeek is an easy to use newspaper manager, designed to put smaller papers on the Web. It is especially suited for school papers and community news published along with a hardcopy.

Nuku 1.0-SDL
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135093/

Nuku is a port of an old PC-DOS game in the same style as Zool, Jazz Jackrabbit, or Super Mario World. It features more than 30 inmense levels that can be played by one or two players (split screen), races, and diamond collection competition modes.

pam_usb 0.2-rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135122/

pam_usb is a PAM module that enables authentication using a USB storage device (such as a USB pen) through DSA private/public keys. It can be set up to work with any application using PAM, such as your system login (login), your X login (XDM/KDM/GDM), your screensaver (e.g. xscreensaver), and many others. It supports multiple users for the same device, multiple hostnames for the same user, a serial number access list, and private key encryption. It includes usbadm, a tool which helps managing users and keys. In short, you will be able to login by simply plugging in the USB pen and entering your login name.

phpMyAdmin 2.5.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135157/

phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the WWW. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields, create dumps of tables and databases, export/import CSV data and administrate one single database and multiple MySQL servers.

PMK 0.6.2 (Snapshot)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135107/

PMK aims to be an alternative to GNU autoconf configure scripts. It attempts to avoid the use of scripts in packages that can hide trojans, to minimize the number of dependencies, and to be easy to use for users and developers.

RechnungsZentrale V2 1.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135144/

RechnungsZentrale V2 is a multiuser, Web-based billing application. It facilitates the creation of bills and the management of customers. It is written in PHP and uses MySQL. It supports German, English, French, and Dansk languages.

RSSOwl 0.61b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135112/

RSSOwl is an SWT-based GUI desktop client that reads RSS files from a URL or a local file. A tab folder shows RSS channel information and the headings of the selected feed. After selecting a news item, users can read the description and open the news in a tab using an integrated browser. Full-text searching (case-sensitive, entire-word, regex match) and keyword highlighting are supported. Favorites can be saved within unlimited nested categories. It also supports exporting newsfeeds to PDF, HTML, and OPML, importing newsfeeds from OPML, printing news, saving news feeds locally, and subscriptions (sharing news feeds with others).

Ruby-GStreamer 0.7.0 (unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135155/

Ruby-GStreamer is a set of Ruby bindings for the GStreamer multimedia framework.

sdp2rat 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135100/

sdp2rat is a Perl script that parses SDP files and launches RAT (Robust audio tool) with the parameters found in the file. The SDP file can either be a file on disk or a URL.

Silky 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135143/

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Silky is an easy-to-use graphical SILC client written in C and using the GTK toolkit. The aim of this project is to create a simple and easy-to-use graphical SILC client. Silky contains all the necessary features of a SILC client still keeping the UI as simple and clean as possible.

smtpsend 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135057/

smtpsend is a simple SMTP client to transmit an email message to an SMTP server. It is designed for use by programs that need a simple, flexible way to send email, or for experimenting with SMTP. In many cases, sendmail can do what this program does, but it is much more complex, harder to set up and use, and doesn't give you as much lower level control. This program is written in Perl and is based on Perl's Net::SMTP module. It makes a great starting point for writing SMTP client functions into your own Perl program.

SOAP for Tcl 1.6.7 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135156/

The SOAP package provides a mechanism to bind Tcl command procedures to remote procedure calls using the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) over HTTP.

SSHTerm 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135139/

SSHTerm is a Java SSH client that provides a whole range of features, including port forwarding, password authentication, public-key authentication, ANSI/VT100/VT220/VT320 terminal, full clipboard support, record and playback input/output, and the ability to load/save connection settings to a file.

The Gimp 1.3.20 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135172/

The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, a image format converter, etc.

tpop3d 1.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135121/

tpop3d is yet another POP3 server. It is intended to be fast, extensible, and secure. It is especially extensible in regard to its authentication subsystem. Supported authentication mechanisms include auth-pam (Pluggable Authentication Modules) and auth-passwd to mediate access between users and their Unix-style mailboxes, auth-mysql which uses vmail-sql to mediate access to virtual-domain email, auth-ldap which allows authentication of users against an LDAP directory, auth-other which allows you to authenticate with an external program communicating via pipes, and auth-perl which allows you to authenticate users with custom Perl code. There is integrated support for POP-before-SMTP relaying. tpop3d supports traditional (BSD-format) mailspools and the maildir format of qmail.

Unix I-Ching Generator 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135099/

iching is a Unix command line I Ching generator. It accepts questions and generates responses that can be looked up in the I Ching (a Chinese divination book). It is designed around "spiritual algorithms", that is, algorithms that make some sort of sense spiritually, not just programatically.

Verbi 2.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135117/

Verbi is a front-end to the verb interface of the Traduki project, allowing you to generate an HTML file containing all the conjugations for any verb in the languages supported (at the time being, only Italian). A small GUI written in wxLua is provided, but the program can also be run from the console.

Video Disk Recorder 1.2.5pre2 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/135118/

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Video Disk Recorder (VDR) is a digital sat-reciever program using Linux and DVB technologies. It can record MPEG2 streams, as well as output the stream to TV. It also supports plugins for DVD, DivX, or MP3 playback and more.

WinXP 1.1 (Silver)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135069/

WinXP is a set of themes inspired by Windows XP.

Womcat Bookmarks 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135096/

Womcat Bookmarks is a program that maintains Web bookmarks in a set of hierarchical folders. It can output the bookmarks as an HTML page and as an RSS 2.0 file which can be placed on a Web site. The RSS file maps folder names into the "category" element. Womcat Bookmarks can download other RSS files, treating them as categorized bookmarks, to create a local database of web bookmarks that can be browsed by subject. It supports RSS discovery by allowing posting RSS file URL's as new items. It also acts as a basic RSS feed reader.

XScreenSaver 4.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135174/

XScreenSaver is a modular screen saver and locker for the X Window System. It is highly customizable and allows the use of any program that can draw on the root window as a display mode. More than 140 display modes are included in this package.

Newsforge Reports
Open Asia: Open source in East Timor and India http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/1958235

by Frederick Noronha - We continue our country-by-country survey of the availability of open source software across Asian countries with a look at developments in East Timor and India.

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Microsoft Way goes nowhere
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/03/2012254

by David "cdlu" Graham - Microsoft Way is a north-south road in Redmond, Washington. A study of Mapquest's map of the road reveals a number of startling features of this particular road.

Politics in Free Software
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/02/1930234

by Tom Chance - When he added a line crediting the United States Army to four of his applications, Neil Stevens created a small storm in the KDE community; politics, people said, was not to interfere with KDE, and his credit was removed. However, when the KDE Web site took part in the online protest against software patents in Europe, people said politics was important to KDE. So what role does politics play in KDE, and in Free Software in ...

Newsforge Newsvac
Microsoft's patent loss rattles tech community http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/06/1311253

A.Guru prasath writes "Companies with products that work on the Internet are slowly waking up to the broad implications of a recent judgement against software behemoth Microsoft Corp. in a patent infringement case. The $520 million award to Eolas Technologies Inc. of Chicago and the University of California (UC) stemmed from a 1999 lawsuit in which Eolas and UC charged Microsoft with infringing on a 1998 patent owned by the university and ...

Microsoft and Be, Inc. reach agreement to settle lawsuit http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/06/1310249

Anonymous Reader writes "Remember the Be lawsuit against Microsoft? The lawsuit alleged that Microsoft harmed Be through a series of illegal exclusionary and anticompetitive acts designed to maintain its monopoly in the Intel-compatible PC OS market and created exclusive dealing arrangements with PC OEMs prohibiting the sale of PCs with multiple preinstalled operating systems. Pretty much what MS does today to Linux vendors! Be and MS announced ...

Speculation on a Microsoft strategy to co-opt Linux http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/06/138200

pbrittan writes "I have recently posted two entries in my blog exploring how Microsoft might be able to turn the tables on Java and co-opt Linux: .NET on Linux, .NET on Linux, part 2 - "It's the API, stupid""

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Linux for Windows administrators with Delixus 8.0 http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/06/133246

MadPenguin writes "Delixus 8.0 makes administering a Linux server almost seamless to the Windows environment most people are used to. Even though I would not be inclined to use the software, I would recommend it to clients who would like to make the switch to Linux but do not have the appropriate amount of 'Linux knowledge' in-house, or who simply lack the budget to acquire that knowledge through training or hiring capable staff."

openMosix 2.4.22-1 released
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/06/130258

Bruce Knox, openMosix Project writes "The openMosix Project has announced the release of openMosix version 2.4.22-1. This 2.4.22-1 release is the port to the 2.4.22 Linux kernel of the stable and reliable openMosix 2.4.21-1. RPMs and Source files can be downloaded from the files section of our website. CVS files are available now. openMosix is a Linux kernel extension for single-system image (SSI) clustering that allows building a cluster from ...

Microsoft steps up Linux assault with benchmark claim http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/1531208

OwlWhacker writes "Microsoft has released file and web server benchmark results which claim to show that Linux on the mainframe lags behind Windows 2003 on Intel systems in a price-performance comparison."

SCO in fight with self
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/1534234

Anonymous Reader writes "Since at least August, SCO have been floating the idea of sending invoices to Linux users. It's even been reported, seemingly incorrectly, back in August, that SCO was beginning to send invoices. The invoice story has been taken up with a vengence in the last few days, for example, here, here and here. Now SCO in Australia says the invoicing plan doesn't "ring true" and contradicts recent very strategy discussions. ...

Germans Have It Right, Standing Up to SCO! http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/1837213

Jim Musser writes "SCO fined for Linux claims." The SCO Group Inc. has been fined $10,800 for violating a German court's ruling that SCO must cease claiming that the Linux source code violates its intellectual property, the Lindon, Utah, company confirmed on Monday.

The Linux Test Project ltp-20030905 Released http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/1835214

Robbie Williamson writes "The Linux Test Project test suite has been released. The latest version of the testsuite contains 2000+ tests for the Linux OS. Our web site also contains other information such as: test results, a Linux test tools matrix, an area for keeping up with fixes for known blocking problems in the 2.5/2.6 kernel releases, technical papers and HowTos on Linux testing, and a code coverage analysis tool.

UNDP releases OS primer for public review http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/1811221

An anonymous coward writes "The UNDP is putting out a open source primer draft for public review for three weeks before the document is sent for publication and distribution through UNDP communication channels. After initial publication, the primer will be maintained as a live document, updated to reflect recent changes. Feedback on this primer is being solicited. Further details can be found here. A previous paper on FOSS and governments, based ...

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