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[osdn everything] September 16, 2003
Date: Tue Sep 16 2003 - 01:45:28 EDT
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Slashdot
Microsoft Money Leads To Street-Legal Porsche 959s
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/16/0319255
[0]Ken Greenebaum writes "Soon there will be a 'new' Porsche 959 racing
down highway 520 in Redmond. This [1]article in autoweek describes how
Bill Gates, Paul Allen and Ralph Lauren teamed up with Bruce Canepa to
make the 959 street legal. Best quote: Gates 'suggested to Canepa that
perhaps they could federalize the car by buying a number of sacrificial
959s to "crash and test."' They modernized and increased the
performance of the already super car to: 575HP making the 15 year old
cars race to 60 in 3.3 seconds with a top speed of 215MPH."
Links
0. mailto:keng@sworks.com
Xbox Auto-Update Blocks Linux Usage
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/16/0310224
An anonymous reader writes "According to [0]The Inquirer, Microsoft has
used their Xbox Live Vole System to patch any Xboxes that access
it....without asking their permission before installing the software.
However, in this occurrence, the bug appears to be the 'dashboard bug'
that allows Linux to be easily installed on an Xbox. Further, according
to [1]The Xbox Linux Project, users who do not have an Xbox Live
account may find themselves being patched without permission as well.
If a gamer tries to access any part of a game that uses Xbox Live, the
console can 'phone home' and install the patches anyway. While patching
bugs can be a nice touch to poor software, I don't know if I feel
comfortable with ANYONE installing software on my hardware without
asking permission first."
Links
0. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11548
Worst Jobs In Science
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/16/0146237
[0]FortKnox writes "Popular science has the [1]worst jobs in science.
Some are silly, some are sick, some make you angry, and some just
flat-out suck." And some of them sound fun :)
Links
0. http://slashdot.org/~FortKnox/journal
Resolving Everything: VeriSign Adds Wildcards http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/16/0034210
[0]DragonHawk writes "As of a little while ago (it is around 7:45 PM US
Eastern on Mon 15 Sep 2003 as I write this), VeriSign added a wildcard
A record to the .COM and .NET TLD DNS zones. The IP address returned is
64.94.110.11, which reverses to [1]sitefinder.verisign.com. What that
means in plain English is that most mis-typed domain names that would
formerly have resulted in a helpful error message now results in a
VeriSign advertising opportunity. For example, if my domain name was
'somecompany.com,' and somebody typed 'soemcompany.com' by mistake,
they would get VeriSign's advertising." Read on below for some more
information.
Links
0. http://slashdot.org/~DragonHawk
Does C# Measure Up?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/15/2057209
An anonymous reader queries: "Windows::Developer is offering [0]a detailed, quantitative examination [free login required] of C#'s performance versus Java, C, C++ and D. 'Overall the results were surprising, although perhaps unexciting, in showing that C# (and to a less extent Java) is, to a good degree, on a par in efficiency terms with its older and (presumed to be) more efficient counterparts C and C++ at least as far as the basic language features compared in this analysis are concerned,' writes the author, Matthew Wilson. I'm only an amateur coder, and confess to not understanding most of the two-part article. I'd love to hear how true programmers view his results, which are too wide-ranging to summarize easily here. How about it Slashdot, as this special edition asks, 'Can C# keep up with compiled languages like C, C++, and D or byte-code based Java?'" Links
0. http://www.windevnet.com/wdn/webextra/2003/0313/
Can You Raed Tihs?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/15/2227256
An aoynmnuos raeedr sumbtis: "An interesting tidbit from [0]Bisso's blog site: Scrambled words are legible as long as first and last letters are in place. Word of mouth has [1]spread to [2]other [3]blogs, and [4]articles as well. From the languagehat site: 'Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe. ceehiro.' Jamie Zawinski has also [5]written a perl script to convert normal text into text where letters excluding the first and last are scrambled." Links
0.
http://www.bisso.com/ujg_archives/000224.html
1.
http://blogs.salon.com/0001092/2003/09/12.html#a460
2.
http://joi.ito.com/archives/2003/09/14/ordering_of_letters_dont_matter.html
3.
http://www.languagehat.com/archives/000840.php
4.
http://www.nature.com/nsu/990429/990429-2.html
5.
http://www.jwz.org/hacks/scrmable.pl
Head Of Homeland Cybersecurity Named
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/15/2134248
ziggy_zero writes "Security software industry veteran Amit Yoran is
[0]expected to be named the new head of federal cybersecurity by the
U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Tuesday. The DHS is also
[1]partnering with CERT to form the "US-CERT" cyber-attack coordination
center, coordinating efforts to fight cyber-attacks, worms, etc."
Links
0. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/09/15/HNczar_1.html
Has P2P Become a Passing Fad?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/15/2033232
[0]plasticmillion asks: "As the RIAA launches increasingly rabid
attacks against P2P networks and users, pundits continue to debate the
future of P2P. On the one hand, some argue that P2P is just a clever
way to escape detection from copyright owners, like in [1]this recent
Slashdot story. Others, like Clay Shirky, make a strong case that
processing is destined to move to the 'edges' of the network. I'm
curious to know what Slashdot readers think: is P2P the start of a
major new trend that is just getting started, or is it a passing fad
that will fade once legal client/server systems for media distribution
finally take hold? If the former, which of the supposed advantages of
P2P over client/server systems are really significant?"
Links
0. mailto:matthew@acepoint.cz
Ford To Move To Linux
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/15/1843221
[0]KingDaveRa writes "The Register is reporting that [1]motor giant
Ford is switching to Linux for its sales systems, human resources,
customer relations and infrastructure, referencing [2]a report in
yesterday's Scotland on Sunday. According to The Register, the biggest
battle was over which Linux vendor to use - RedHat or SuSE." Update:
09/16 01:51 GMT by [3]T: An anonymous reader points to this
[4]NewsForge report, according to which Ford is not moving to Linux.
Links
0.
http://www.davidrickard.net
1.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/32837.html
2.
http://www.business.scotsman.com/technology.cfm?id=1014442003
3.
http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
4.
http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/09/15/228202.shtml?tid=3
Borland Releases New C++ Toolkit
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/15/1920232
[0]shelleymonster writes "Infoworld points out that, after two years of
coding, [1]Borland has [2]released its latest C++ development toolkit.
Borland C++BuilderX is a multiplatform IDE for Windows, Linux, and
Solaris that provides a brand-new visual development environment. Press
release [3]here." According to the Infoworld piece, "While newer
languages, such as Java and Microsoft's C#, garner more attention than
C++, research firm IDC projected that C and C++ professionals will
remain the largest group of developers through 2005."
Links
0.
http://www.shelleymonster.com
1.
http://www.borland.com/
2.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/09/15/HNborlandstudio_1.html
3.
http://www.borland.com/news/press_releases/2003/09_15_03_borland_lanches_cbx_estudio_cpp.html
Freshmeat
1060 NetKernel 2.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136013/
1060 NetKernel is a Java-based virtual Internet OS with an XML runtime. It offers a microkernel modular component architecture and integrates a comprehensive set of XML technologies. It features an XML runtime, XML pipeline processes with loops and exception handling, virtualized modular URI address spaces, and a dependency-based cache.
6nome 1.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135979/
6nome is a theme loosely based on the background of the GNOME logo. The Metacity theme has embossed title text, and features the GNOME footprint as the menu button. The GTK theme has light and few colors, and its widgets have rounded corners.
AbstractDB 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135971/
AbstractDB is a PHP wrapper class which provides easy and simple class methods to access the most important database functions. It contains classes implementing the functionality for native PHP functions (MySQL), PEAR, PHPLIB, ADOdb, and METABASE. It allows you to switch between these database abstraction layers by changing only a single line of code, allowing you to use a unified abstraction layer for database access.
Access Point Utilities for Unix 1.3.3-pre3 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/135966/
Access Point Utilities for Unix is a set of utilities that configure and monitor a Wireless Access Point under Unix. It is known to compile (with GCC and the IBM C compiler) and run under Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, MacOS X, AIX, and QNX.
Advanced Bash Scripting Guide 2.1 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/136029/
The Advanced Bash Scripting Guide is both a reference and a tutorial on shell scripting. This comprehensive book (the equivalent of about 554 print pages) covers almost every aspect of shell scripting. It contains 267 profusely commented illustrative examples, and a number of tables.
aMule 1.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136047/
aMule is short for "another eMule file-sharing program". It is another fork of the xMule project. It connects to the eDonkey2000 network, and supports Linux, *BSD, and Mac OS X platforms. aMule's distinctive feature is its new vision of the GUI.
Analog DJ 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136058/
adj is a command line front end to the SQL database produced by Grip. It will let you search by genre, title, album (disc), and artist using regular expressions, and play them for you using the players you defined in a config file. You can print and or randomize playlists and all that sort of stuff.
Asymptopia Crossword Builder 0.1 (Math Crossword Puzzles) http://freshmeat.net/releases/135954/
Asymptopia Crossword Builder is a JavaScript application. A robust GUI allows users to submit arbitrary length lists of key-hint pairs which can be regenerated an unlimited number of times until the user wants to accept the layout. The dhtml interface provides a configuration panel, key- generating panel (i.e. answer sheet), puzzle-generating panel (blank squares with numbers for accross/down), and an across-down-hints panel which generates the text hints and numerical location on the puzzle. It includes support for hyphenated words, and an example file demonstrating how you can produce math crosswords.
AudioLink 0.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135985/
AudioLink is a tool that makes searching for music on your local storage media easier and faster. Your searches can include a variety of criteria, like male artists, female artists, band, genre, etc. It is flexible: you can use a command line interface or your choice of multiple GUIs, design your own search criteria, etc.
AutoBrowser 0.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136059/
AutoBrowser is a stateful replacement for lwp- request (the "GET"/"POST" commandline tools). It provides a mechanism to describe a series of interactions with a server and tracks cookies, redirections, etc. throughout the interactions. It supports SSL connections via use of Crypt::SSLeay.
avelsieve 0.9.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135956/
avelsieve is a Squirrelmail plugin for creating SIEVE scripts on a Cyrus IMAP server that runs timsieved (Tim's SIEVE daemon). SIEVE is a mail filtering language, intended for server-side filtering of emails. avelsieve provides a user-friendly interface for adding and manipulating mail filtering rules on a Cyrus IMAP mail server.
bandwidthd 1.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136008/
bandwidthd tracks usage of TCP/IP network subnets and builds HTML files with graphs to display network utilization. Charts are built by individual IP. It color codes HTTP, TCP,UDP, ICMP, VPN, and P2P traffic. Unlike MRTG, it tracks each individual IP address, not the status of any particular link. It is easy to install, low overhead, and has few dependencies.
bes-cms 0.4rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135969/
Bes-cms is a multi-user application server which features automatic downloading and installing of plugins with its true tree-like filesysteme structure, Linux-like permissions, internationalization support, and a complete error management system to allow debugging without leaving the site. Bes-cms is appropriate for making small to large Web sites, intranet systems, backup systems, and weblogs.
bond - building object network databases 2.0.0-pre2 (Main tree) http://freshmeat.net/releases/135944/
BOND (building object network databases) is a rapid application development tool which allows you to develop GUI front ends to PostgreSQL databases. It uses XML to define widget layout and how to obtain information from databases. This project is designed to simplify the process of developing database applications for GTK.
bonddb 0.7.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136068/
bonddb is an object orientated wrapper for PostgreSQL. It's a fast data abstraction layer written in C for C/C++ applications, to allow easy access to class objects. You can use existing PostgreSQL databases without any modification or additional tables needed in the backend.
Bugloo 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136000/
Bugloo is a source level debugger for the Scheme compiler Bigloo. It aims at helping to debug Bigloo programs compiled into JVM bytecode. It is implemented by means of the JVM Debugging Architecture, a set of standard APIs provided by Sun to make debuggers and profilers. Currently, Bugloo can debug Bigloo programs, Java programs, or a mix of both. It is based on the debugging model used in GDB and provides additional features like debug sessions, traces, memory debugging, programmable breakpoints and embeddable interpreters. It is a command-line debugger. For the sake of simplicity, it includes a graphical user environment for GNU Emacs or XEmacs.
Change Password Utility 1.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136041/
Change Password Utility (CPU) gives system administrators the ability to administer users and groups on a wide range of backends, currently including LDAP and flat files. Simply, CPU is for user and group administration. The commandline is almost completely compatible with existing Linux user and group management tools, so it can easily be dropped in place. It supports several different hashing algorithms and allows existing users to be imported from Unix-style passwd and shadow files into the backend of your choice.
checksuite 2.4-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135948/
checksuite is a suite of programs that provide notification and assistance with day-to-day system administration tasks. These programs monitor system resources as well as some security aspects on a system. There are several options that can be passed to the command line, and a full listing can be shown by passing a -h to each program.
chrpath 0.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136056/
chrpath allows you to modify the dynamic library load path (rpath and runpath) of compiled programs and libraries.
ClusterKNOPPIX 3.2-2003-06-06-EN-cl1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135916/
ClusterKnoppix is a modified Knoppix distribution that uses the OpenMosix kernel. It features an OpenMosix terminal server that uses PXE, DHCP, and tftp to boot Linux clients via the network. It also includes openMosix auto-discovery, cluster management tools, and an optional X environment.
College Radio Database 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135996/
The College Radio Database is Web-based software for radio stations. It allows you to track large collections of CDs by unique ID, assign status, do basic searches, and more. It also tracks airplay, allowing easy entry of spins from the CD database, as well as entry of DJ-supplied music. Top XX overall/by genre charts can be generated between 2 dates, and you can check up on DJ attendance, number of spins versus station spins, and more. It also includes the ability to maintain DJ schedules in table form for multiple semesters. This software has been in use at WMBC Radio and evolving since the year 2000.
Cosmos of Methos 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135821/
Cosmos of Methos is a game where you are placed behind the wheel of a Hellenik Trireme, a Phoenecian trade-ship, or a Skythian pirate ship. Nevertheless, you have equal oportunity to rule your destiny--to become from a peaceful trader, or a fearsome captain. After all, was Odysseus better than you?
cuckooo 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136049/
cuckooo is a KDE KPart which allows OpenOffice.org to be run inside a Konqueror window or as a standalone application with the KDE look and feel.
dbf 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135960/
dbf is an easy-to-use command line tool to show and convert the content of dBASE III, IV, and 5.0 files. It reads dBASE databases and prints the content to the screen or converts it to comma-separated (*.csv) files which can be opened in Excel, StarOffice, and most other spread sheets. It can also be used to show some statistics about the content.
DiaSCE 1.4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136024/
DiaSCE is a C/C++ code editor for GNOME. It pretends to be a complement to Glade, so it doesn't include an environment for GUI's development. It has neither a debugger or other kind of tool to help debugging. Its goal is to provide a light code editor that doesn't need too many resources and makes use of external tools (gcc, glade, ddd, etc.) for some tasks.
DSPAM 2.7.0-beta.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136028/
DSPAM is a server-side anti-spam agent for Unix email servers. It masquerades as the email server's local delivery agent and effectively filters spam using a combination of de-obfuscation techniques, token chains, and Bayesian analysis. The result is an administratively maintenance-free, self-learning anti-spam tool. This approach, applied to a mature corpus of email, has the potential to yield a 99.75% success rate with less than a 0.01% chance of false positives.
Eternal Lands 0.8.2. Alpha
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135943/
Eternal Lands is a multiplatform (Windows/Linux) 3D isometric MMORPG. It requires a hardware-accelerated video card that supports at least OpenGL 1.2.
fake-tools 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135968/
fake-tools consists of various tiny utilities that help to make building of bigger projects easier. You can merge multiple data files into one, link data files into your executable, and convert from one format to another.
fireparse 3.1 (ADMLogger)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136074/
fireparse is an ADMLogger plugin that emails a report of all packets that have been logged by the kernel's packet filtering subsystem (iptables/netfilter or ipchains). The report includes source and destination ports, direction, logged packet count, matched rule, and fully resolved host names (if available). The email report can be formatted to plain text or a colored HTML table.
Galeon 1.3.9 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136072/
Galeon is a GNOME Web browser based on Gecko (the Mozilla rendering engine). It is fast, has a light interface, and is fully standards-compliant.
GCompris 4.0PRE1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135967/
GCompris is a complete educational suite for children 2 to 10 years old. It includes more than 40 activities. It offers activities dedicated to little kids like learning the mouse and keybord. It teaches letters, numbers, words, basic algebra training, reading time on an analog clock, vector drawing, and much more.
gimp-print 4.2.6-pre2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136076/
Gimp-Print is a collection of very high quality printer drivers for UNIX/Linux. The goal of this project is uncompromising print quality and robustness. Included with this package is the Print plugin for the GIMP (hence the name), a CUPS driver, and two drivers (traditional and IJS-based) for Ghostscript that may be compiled into that package. This driver package is Foomatic-compatible and provides Foomatic data to enable plug and play with many print spoolers. In addition, various printer maintenance utilities are included. Many users report that the quality of Gimp-Print on high end Epson Stylus printers matches or exceeds the quality of the drivers supplied for Windows and Macintosh.
GKrellM gamma 2.03 (GKrellM2)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136048/
Gkrellm gamma is a Gkrellm plugin which allows you to control your monitor's gamma correction with XFree86 (as xgamma).
GKrellM xkb 1.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136050/
GKrellM xkb is a plugin for GKrellM which displays a small country flag indicating the currently-active national keyboard layout. It requires GKrellM2 and the XKB X Window extension.
GNU TeXmacs 1.0.1.23
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135988/
GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific text editor, which was inspired by both TeX and GNU Emacs. The editor allows you to write structured documents via a "wysiwyg" and user friendly interface. The program implements high quality typesetting algorithms and TeX fonts. It is also possible to use TeXmacs as an interface to computer algebra systems. Finally, TeXmacs supports the Guile/Scheme extension language, which makes it possible to adapt the user interface to specific needs, and even to extend the editor.
GnuCash 1.8.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135950/
GnuCash allows you to track bank accounts, stocks, income, and expenses. As quick and intuitive to use as a checkbook register, it is based on professional accounting principles to ensure balanced books and accurate reports. It is backed by an active development community and is blossoming into a full-fledged accounting system.
gqueue 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136006/
gQueue is a Gnome2 frontend for lpq and lprm working with CUPS. It has Gnome system tray support and can show all jobs in printing queues as well remove jobs.
gURLChecker 0.6.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135947/
gURLChecker is a C/GNOME 2 tool that can check links on a single Web page or on a whole Web site in order to determine the validity of each page.
Gv4l 2.1.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135941/
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.
H2O Rotisserie 1.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135999/
H2O is a system that supports gathering people around ideas. In addition to the traditional features of learning management systems, H2O includes support for collaboration between projects through the sharing of syllabus elements and through joint discussions between projects. It also supports Rotisserie-structured discussions, which provide an alternative to traditional online discussion boards by structuring the timing and flow of discussions. It can be used as a traditional course management platform, but it can also be used for more informal projects centered around the exploration of a set of ideas, whether the project be a conference, an ongoing public discussion, or a traditional academic course.
iClip 2.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136067/
iClip is a multiple clipboard/scrapbook application. It lets you quickly store, organize, and access bits of information, and copy-and-paste and drag-and-drop clippings to and from its multiple "clipping bins". The clippings can be text, pictures, URLs, sounds, etc. They can be arranged into unlimited groups called "clipping sets".
IlohaMail 0.8.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136025/
IlohaMail is a lightweight, multilingual Webmail client that is easy to use and install. It runs on a stock build of PHP, and does not require databases (although database support is available) or the IMAP library (it is powered by a custom IMAP/POP3 library). It also includes basic PIM-like features, including a calendar/scheduler, a full fledged contacts manager, and a bookmarks manager.
Jameleon 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136077/
Jameleon is an automated testing tool that separates applications into features and allows those features to be tied together independently, creating test-cases. These test-cases can then be data-driven and executed against different environments. The goal is to create an automated testing tool that can be used for the enterprise. A UI that ties a series of features to a test-case, generating both the test script and the test-case documentation is in the works.
JATOMIX-DEPOT 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135970/
JATOMIX-DEPOT is a persistence layer for Java, working on relational databases, and offers fast, efficient, and easy development of Java-based database applications. JATOMIX-DEPOT carries out the entire communication with the database through a simple API, automatically generates the data model for any unmanipulated Java class, and permits the storage, loading, changing, and removing of any Java object. The intuitive generated data model allows easy access and change of the data on an SQL level at any time. It supports any relational database, versioning of different versions of a Java class, multiple user operations based on a transaction system, and excellent performance because of an elaborate cache system.
Jeff's Mailing List Manager 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135952/
Jeff's Mailing List Manager is a really simple Python mailing list package that is intended for those who do not have a dedicated server. It turns any POP3 account turn it into a full-featured mailing list.
JFtp 1.35
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135992/
JFtp is a Swing Java network and file transfer client. It supports FTP using its own FTP API and various other protocols like SMB, SFTP, NFS, HTTP, and file I/O using third party APIs. It includes many advanced features such as recursive directory up/download, browsing FTP servers while transferring files, FTP resuming and queueing, browsing the LAN for Windows shares, and more. The FTP API is separated from the GUI and can also be used in third-party applications. It should ideally be launched in a Web browser via Java Web Start (contained by the Java 1.4 plugin), but can also be started locally.
JMail 0.8.6 RC2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135991/
JMail is a Java mail client that handles attached files, HTML mail, and more. It can also be used with an LDAP directory.
John the Ripper 1.6.35 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135973/
John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix (11 are officially supported, not counting different architectures), DOS, Win32, BeOS, and OpenVMS. Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords. It supports several crypt(3) password hash types which are most commonly found on various Unix flavors, as well as Kerberos AFS and Windows NT/2000/XP LM hashes. Several other hash types are added with contributed patches.
Knoppix Auto-configuration 0.2.3 (Red Hat) http://freshmeat.net/releases/136071/
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.
Knoppix Auto-configuration 0.2.3 (Mandrake) http://freshmeat.net/releases/136069/
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.
Kraken 1.9.19
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136011/
Kraken is an application for managing knowledge objects, which can be documents, remote or locally cached Web pages, personal information, todo list items, appointments, and so on. It also allows users to annotate these knowledge objects with metadata, perform complex queries about these annotations, and to present the queries as HTML pages. The format of annotations is RDF, thus the annotation files can be easily parsed by third party applications.
LaptopConfig 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136021/
LaptopConfig is a GUI for accessing laptop ACPI events (such as hotkeys), LCD brightness, and powerprofiles.
libtc 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136022/
Libtc is a collection of useful functions for C programming. It includes implementations of linked list, hash table, red-black tree, and priority queue. There is also a flexible configuration file parser and some other odds and ends. All functions are totally reentrant and thread safe.
log4php 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136046/
Log4php is a PHP port of the most popular Java logging framework, log4j. It supports configuration through an XML file (with the same structure as log4j) and custom Configurators. File, RollingFile, DailyFile, Echo, Console, Mail, PEAR::Db, PHP error, Syslog or NT events, and socket appenders are supported. Simple, TTCC, Pattern, Html, and Xml Layouts are supported. Internal debugging can be switched on and off. Log4php can be used inside a class or inside a main/sub function.
Looper Event / Alert System 1.0b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136060/
Looper is a highly modularized application designed to simplify the event / alert model. Primarily used for Network Management, this application can be used to accomplish a variety of tasks related to logging and alerting such as listening for SNMP traps and logging to a file or sending notification to Netcool (a la "trapd probe"), reading a log file for alerts and sending notification via e-mail, parsing syslogs and sending notifications to Netcool (a la "syslog probe"), etc. Looper can also be used as an ad-hoc Netcool probe or Gateway.
man-pages-ja 20030915
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136051/
man-pages-ja is a comprehensive collection of Japanese man pages for Linux. It contains Japanese version of LDP man-pages, man pages for GNU tools, and ones for various opensource applications.
Mercury Splat 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136061/
Mercury Splat is a theme containing a splat of mercury. The background is by Aphaits.
Mimir 2.0-alpha-10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136066/
Mimir is an overkill, threaded, antiflood plugin for X-Chat 2.0.x.
mkxvcd.sh 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135990/
mkxvcd.sh is a shell script that creates a VBR VCD MPEG1 stream that fits up to 2 hours of movie data on an 80-minute CDR. It can use any file that can be played by mplayer as input. It only requires tools from the mplayer, transcode, and mjpegtools packages.
mpgfe 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135976/
mpgfe is an ncurses front-end to mpg123 with mouse support via GPM, advanced playlist editing features (load/save/add playlists in m3u format, order/shuffle a playlist, move/add/delete playlist entries), and resizing support. An interesting feature is the ability to display the lyrics of the song that is playing (provided that you added the name of the lyrics file after the song file. Song information is displayed while playing, in a customizable format. Volume control is available (both channels at a time) and also movement. You can display the length of every song and total playing time. The super user may run the player with real-time priority (playing will not be interrupted by disk access).
Multivalent PDF Tools R7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135963/
Multivalent PDF Tools is a suite of tools for manipulating PDF documents. It includes tools for compressing, uncompressing, obtaining information, splitting and merging, encrypting and decrypting, validating, extracting text, and full-text indexing (with Lucene). The compress tool shrinks the PDF 1.5 Reference from 13.5MB down to 8MB in PDF 1.5/Acrobat 6 format and way down to 5.1MB in a new proposed "Compact" format.
MUSCLE 2.44
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136045/
MUSCLE (Multi User Server Client Linking Environment) is a messaging server and networking API. It is portable to any OS with a sockets API and a C++ compiler. It lets programs communicate via streams of PortableMessages (very similar to BeOS's BMessage class) layered over TCP streams. The included server program ("muscled") lets its clients message each other, and/or store information in its serverside hierarchical database. The database supports queries via regex and "live" updates via a subscription mechanism, and may be subclassed to if application-specific logic is needed.
My Address Book SQL 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136030/
My Address Book SQL is a Web-based contact list program. It stores information like addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and Web sites, and has a notes section for custom information. Add, delete, and edit functions can be password protected using htaccess.
MySQL Database Server 3.23.58 (Recent (3.23.x)) http://freshmeat.net/releases/136055/
MySQL is a widely used and fast SQL database server. It is a client/server implementation that consists of a server daemon (mysqld) and many different client programs/libraries.
Natural Docs 1.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136023/
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.
NetCPR 0.90
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136052/
NetCPR is a tool to get remote network services back online after your machine gets another IP, killing your remote connections. When machine A changes its IP, some services on machine B don't see the change until restarted. This program has machine B monitor machine A, and gets those programs on machine B to connect to the new IP of machine A (software to be run on machine B).
NetMRG 0.10pre2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136014/
NetMRG is a network monitoring, reporting, and graphing system. Using MySQL, PHP, C++, pthreads, and RRDTOOL, it is capable of monitoring thousands of variables on five-minute intervals. Graph templating allows network admins to begin monitoring devices with minimal overhead. NetMRG is also capable of responding to programmable events, such as variables exceeding accepted tolerances. It can accommodate server hosting and Internet service provider environments with different users allowed to view only their own equipment's graphs.
newsPro mail 1.0.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136018/
newsPro is a Web interface for newsletters/announcements. Users can include their email address in the database, and they will receive email newsletters sent by this script. It is available in English, German, and Russian. In contrast to other similar scripts, no SQL is needed for newsPro.
OSSP fsl 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135975/
OSSP fsl offers the syslog API otherwise provided by libc. Instead of writing to the syslogd process, it uses the powerful OSSP l2 logging capabilities. It is a drop-in link-time replacement which enables any syslog consumer to take advantage of OSSP l2 by just linking this library in before libc. The program is intended to apply OSSP l2 functionality to existing syslog-based third-party programs without the requirement to change the source code of the program.
OSSP l2 0.9.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135974/
OSSP l2 is a C library providing a very flexible and sophisticated Unix logging facility. It is based on the model of arbitrary number of channels, stacked together in a top-down data flow tree structure with filtering channels in internal nodes and output channels on the leave nodes. Channel trees can be either constructed manually through lower-level API functions or all at once with a single API function controlled by a compact syntactical description of the channel tree. For generating log messages, a printf-style formatting engine is provided which can be extended through callback functions. The data flow inside the channel tree is controlled by logging message severity levels which are assigned to each individual channel.
P1 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135780/
P1 is a theme featuring Tux in the antarctic.
PBButtonsd 0.5.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135997/
PBButtons is a daemon to handle special hardware on the Apple iBook/PowerBook/TiBook. It controls the display brightness, the sound volume, mutes the sound, changes the trackpad mode, puts the machine to sleep, or ejects the CDROM on command. It also provides basic power management features. An included client gives the user visual feedback about all actions with nice little popup windows.
phpOpenTracker 1.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135982/
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).
phpWebDesk 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136035/
phpWebDesk aims to provide a transparent conversion and compression system for Websites. It aims to provide a simple 'plugin' for a Website so that all files are compressed in the optimum format for both size and the receiving system, and so that the images are converted to the best format from just one file format, even .raw or other less well-used filetypes. Web pages can also be converted to other formats (i.e. WML, PDF) dynamically or validated and any errors corrected if possible.
Portfolyo 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135965/
Portfolyo is a Web-based tool for professionals to manage their portfolios and, in a broader sense, all information that constitutes them as professionals. It aids you in keeping track of your projects and skills, and it presents the captured data on your Web site to show off to potential clients, employers, or your peers. It's a CGI application written in Python.
Pram 0.0.3 alpha
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135995/
Pram is a Java-based implementation of a hybrid v3 Zmachine interpreter and decompiler for Zork and other Infocom games.
proSilla 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135977/
ProSilla is a program which speeds up file transfers over ssh (scp-like) by opening multiple connections (just like typical download accelerators like prozilla). It also supports resuming interrupted proSilla and scp transfers.
pytai 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135923/
pytai is a Python function and class library for creating, decoding, and using TAI timestamps in the formats described (and designed) by Dan Berstein.
qjackctl 0.0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136038/
Qjackctl is a simple Qt application to control the JACK sound server daemon, specifically for the Linux Audio Desktop infrastructure. It is written in C++ around the Qt3 toolkit for X11, most exclusively using Qt Designer. It provides a simple GUI dialog for setting several JACK daemon parameters, which are properly saved between sessions, and a way to control of the status of the audio server daemon.
RenderX XEP 3.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136081/
RenderX XEP is a commercial-grade application written in Java for dynamic rendering of XML documents. XEP is a pluggable architectural component that takes two open standard inputs, XML data and XSL FO stylesheet, and produces the industry's defacto standards for high-quality rendered electronic documents, Adobe PDF and PostScript. XEP supports many extensions to the XSL FO specification, including SVG graphics and PDF-to-PDF linking.
RoadMap 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135958/
RoadMap is a GIS program for Unix that displays street maps. The maps are provided by the US Census Bureau, and thus only cover the US. Specific areas are displayed by selecting a street address (street number, street name, city, and state). It interfaces with gpsd to track a GPS position, and has been designed to be usable on both a desktop or laptop computer, or on a PDA.
Rocks'n'Diamonds 3.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135994/
Rocks'n'Diamonds is an arcade style game for color X11 with stereo