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[osdn everything] September 20, 2003
Date: Sat Sep 20 2003 - 01:45:28 EDT
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Slashdot
Java Desktop System Rivals XP, OSX in Usability
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/19/2134224
protohiro1 writes "In this [0]glowing review Chris Gulker calls Sun's
[1] Java Desktop System 'the most polished and real-world user-ready
Linux desktop in existence.' Well, I'm sold. Will this finally sell the
PHBs on a linux corporate desktop?" Newsforge and Slashdot are both
part of OSDN.
Links
0. http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/09/18/003212.shtml?tid=23
PHP Usage in the Enterprise
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/19/2133204
[0]acostin writes "Some open survey results were published about PHP
usage in the enterprise on the [1]InterAKT site. An alternative survey
on the PHP open source mouvement can be found on [2]Zend site. See how
we've evaluated the PHP market size($$$), what people think about PHP
as an alternative to Java and .NET, and what should be done in order to
have your large clients adopt open source solutions."
Links
0. mailto:acostin@interakt.ro
1.
http://www.interakt.ro/index_art_11.html
2.
http://www.zend.com/zend/php_survey_results.php
Next-gen PCMCIA: Expresscard
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/19/2119201
An anonymous reader writes "According to [0]this article at WindowsForDevices, the PCMCIA trade association rolled out version 1.0 of its next-generation standard for modular mobile and desktop computer expansion at this week's Intel Developer Forum in San Jose, CA. Dubbed "ExpressCard", the new standard is "thinner, lighter, faster" than the group's previous PC Card standards, according to PCMCIA chairman Brad Saunders. ExpressCard achieves its space reduction by replacing the legacy parallel buses of the first and second generation PCMCIA card standards with state-of-the-art, high-speed serial connections, following a trend common in current computer system design." Links
0. http://www.windowsfordevices.com/news/NS3811053324.html
Tzero Electric Car: 0-60 in 3.7 Seconds
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/19/1952223
If you have a spare 6,800 lithium-ion laptop batteries lying around, you can build your own [0]electric sports car. Links
0. http://nytimes.com/2003/09/19/automobiles/19ELEC.html
P2P Filesharing vs. The Web
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/19/216230
[0]The Importance of writes "The recent RIAA lawsuits have raised
[1]many questions and [2]issues, but the focus has been on P2P
filesharing. Before there was P2P, though, there was filesharing via
webservers. There doesn't seem to be much complaint about the RIAA
shutting down people who upload MP3s to their homepage. Why do many
people seem to treat http filesharing different than P2P filesharing?
[0]LawMeme has [3]one answer."
Links
0.
http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/
1.
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/15/2033232&tid=95
2.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/15/1036231&tid=141
3.
http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1219
Telstar 4 is Down
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/19/1920234
An anonymous reader writes "Sometime this morning (Sept. 19) [0]Telstar 4 had a major onboard failure. I just checked a few minutes ago and there are CW carriers up on 11700 MHz V & 12200 MHz H, so the spacecraft would appear to still be in its orbital slot - just no traffic. The [1]Loral Skynet site has no mention of this yet, but supposedly Telstar 8 was already scheduled to replace T4, so they may just speed the process up. This turn of events will no doubt be of some small concern to [2]Intelsat, who recently agreed to [3]purchase most of Loral's US domestic fleet, including T4." Links
0.
http://www.cyberstar.com/fleet/telstar4/t4ov_us.asp
1.
http://www.loralskynet.com/
2.
http://www.intelsat.com/
3.
http://www.intelsat.com/aboutus/news/articles.aspx?year=2003&art=20030815_01_EN.xml&lang=en&footer=30
S3's DeltaChrome Graphics Chip
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/19/1837243
[0]Noob Jones writes "The Tech Report has an [1]article about a new
video card in the works at S3. 'S3 Graphics is back with a new chip,
dubbed DeltaChrome, which looks like it might just be strong enough to
become a player in the mid-range consumer graphics market.' With a
third player back in the graphics market both Nvidia and ATi are going
to have things to worry about but this can only spell good news for
customers."
Links
0. mailto:lotbot@hotmail.com
More on BTX Motherboards
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/19/186218
venger writes "Anandtech has an article on the [0]new standard of cases and motherboards that is soon to be released. Looks like they are trying to cater for the increase in heat devices are now producing while keeping the noise levels down!" We [1]mentioned BTX earlier. Links
0. http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1876
Review: Sun StarOffice 7
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/19/1730251
[0]ValourX writes "[1]Here's the Internet's first comprehensive review
of Sun's new StarOffice 7 suite. With the ability to export to PDF and
SWF and greatly improved conversion filters, [2]Sun's $80 office suite
is more than a match for the upcoming ultra-expensive [3]Microsoft
Office System 2003."
Links
0.
http://www.thejemreport.com
1.
http://www.thejemreport.com/software/staroffice7.htm
2.
http://wwws.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/index.html
3.
http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/
Microsoft Works on Search Capabilities
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/19/1657231
bl8n8r writes "Microsoft is [0]betting millions that someday it will be as well known for search as Google is. Some of its efforts to simplify search on the Internet will soon be in place. The new version of Microsoft's MSN Internet service, available this winter, will include a tool for retrieving digital photos based on images in the pictures. For example, users can ask their computers to retrieve all pictures that include a specific person's face or background." Links
0. http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/09/19/microsoft.google.ap/index.html
Freshmeat
aiSee 2.1.90 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136447/
aiSee reads a textual, easy-to-read, and easy-to-learn graph specification and automatically calculates a customizable graph layout. This layout is then displayed, and can be printed or interactively explored. aiSee features 15 basic graph layout algorithms (including force-directed layout), recursive subgraph nesting, fish-eye views, and an animation interface. It has been optimized to handle huge graphs automatically generated by applications (e.g. compilers).
ApacheTop 0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136415/
A curses-based top-like display for Apache information, including requests per second, bytes per second, most popular URLs, etc.
CentralNic Toolkit 0.0.9 (PHP)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136424/
The CentralNic Toolkit is CentralNic's system for instantaneous Registry-Registrar Communications. Registrars can use this system to register and modify CentralNic domain names in real time, with no delays for human intervention or e-mail processing. The Toolkit also provides advanced and efficient methods for searching for and querying domain names and whois records, and retrieving account information.
ClanLib 0.7.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136406/
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.
Cloxten 0.1.7-1 Pre-Alpha (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136407/
Cloxten is a digital alarm clock and counter. It is able to execute a variety of events and actions at set times, such as send messages, play sounds or music, show a reminder window, open a file, or execute a program.
ColorDesigner 1.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136466/
ColorDesigner is a small app which lets the user design a color set.
Courier 0.43.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136405/
The Courier mail transfer agent (MTA) is an integrated mail/groupware server based on open commodity protocols such as ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, LDAP, SSL, and HTTP. Courier provides ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, Webmail, and mailing list services within a single consistent framework. Individual components can be enabled or disabled at will. Courier implements basic Web-based calendaring and scheduling services integrated in the Webmail module.
Digital Tester 0.6 ALPHA
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136432/
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.
DKMS 0.36.05
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136464/
DKMS (Dynamic Kernel Module Support) is a framework where device driver source can reside outside the kernel source tree so that it is very easy to rebuild modules as you upgrade kernels. This allows Linux vendors to provide driver drops without having to wait for new kernel releases (as a stopgap before the code can make it back into the kernel), while also taking out the guesswork for customers attempting to recompile modules for new kernels. For veteran Linux users it also provides some advantages since a separate framework for driver drops will remove kernel releases as a blocking mechanism for distributing code.
DSPAM 2.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136431/
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.
ego file manager 0.8.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136441/
The ego file manager is a GTK+2 file manager that uses libferris for its VFS and provides evas2 and GTK tree views.
elf 0.5.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136440/
elf is a comfortable command-line ELF object file header analyzer. Unlike many other similar projects, this project is aimed at the analysis of the ELF header, so as a large feature-set as possible is planned.
File::Scan 0.66 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136433/
File::Scan allows users to make multiplataform virus scanners which can detect Windows/DOS/Mac viruses. It include a virus scanner and signatures database.
Firebird viewer and exporter 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136428/
Firebird viewer and exporter is a small Web front-end to register and browse the contents of several Firebird/ Interbase databases. It can export your databases into HTML, Excel, or XML, and import them later.
g5-ish 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136339/
g5-ish is a low contrast theme, inspired by Apple's G5.
Gambas 0.70 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136472/
Gambas is a graphical development environment based on a Basic interpreter, like Visual Basic. It uses the Qt toolkit, but is able to use any other toolkit that a module is written for.
Gestalter 0.6.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136412/
Gestalter is a free vector drawing program. The user interface is loosely modeled after Adobe Illustrator. The central element is the Bezier curve used as a base part for almost every other object. Complex paths are possible, compound paths can be constructed, grouping of elements is enabled, and everything can be screened by a mask. Adding and deleting of nodes is implemented as well as transformations (translation, rotation, scaling, and skewing).
GKrellm SNMP Monitor 0.20
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136437/
GKrellm SNMP Monitor is a plugin for GKrellM that lets you easily monitor SNMP vars. Some examples are server load via UCD-SNMP daemon or ambient temperature via router environment MIB.
Gtk2-Perl 1.00rc2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136402/
Gtk2-Perl allows Perl developers to write GTK+ 2.x applications. The bindings use an object oriented syntax that attempts to remain close to the C API, but take a Perlish approach where appropriate.
Gtk2::PodViewer 0.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136471/
Gtk2::PodViewer is a Perl POD document widget for Gtk2-Perl applications. The module also comes with a simple POD document browser.
istrice 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136454/
istrice allows a client to assign the compilation of a C/C++ source file to a remote server throughout the mediation of a Master Server. It is an implementation of a distribuited compilation environment under Unix systems. Using the ISTRICE environment you can distribuite the compilation across a set of 'friend' computer around the network, reducing the compilation time and system load of a slow or busy computer.
Jay's Iptables Firewall 1.0.1 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/136425/
Jay's Iptables Firewall is a bash script that allows one to easily install and configure a firewall on a Linux system. It was initially written for use on a home LAN, but can be extend to any type of network. It features support for multiple (external/internal) interfaces, TCP/UDP/ICMP control, masquerading, synflood control, spoofing control, port forwarding from specific interfaces, VPNs, ToS (bandwith managment), denying hosts (IP or MAC address), ZorbIPTraffic, Spyware list IP, Pre/Post scripts, log options, and more. The firewall is able to launch custom iptables rules, and the configuration of the firewall is assisted by an optional, interactive, curses-based Perl script.
jMoney@Home 0.52
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136452/
jMoney@Home is a small financial software package that lets you manage your household. It uses MySQL for its data, supports networking, and has multiuser support.
John the Ripper 1.6.36 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136423/
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.
JPluck 2.0 beta 2 (2.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136459/
JPluck converts Web sites and RSS feeds to Plucker documents for offline reading on your handheld.
js2mouse 030919
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136460/
Js2mouse converts joystick events into mouse events, so the user can use his joystick/gamepad as a pointer instead of the mouse. It works with any kind of joystick (analogic or digital) and with any kind of program (XFree86, GPM, etc.). The user does not need to be root. It can emulate PS/2 and IMPS/2 protocols, and joystick keys can be assigned. Documentation is included.
JSch 0.1.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136450/
JSch is a pure Java implementation of SSH2. It allows you to connect to an sshd server and use port forwarding, X11 forwarding, file transfer, etc. You can integrate its functionality into your own Java programs.
libferris 1.1.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136439/
libferris is a virtual filesystem that exposes hierarchical data of all kinds through a common C++ interface. Access to data is performed using C++ IOStreams and Extended Attributes (EA) can be attached to each datum to present metadata. Ferris uses a plugin API to read various data sources and expose them as contexts and to generate interesting EA. Current implementations include Native (kernel disk IO with event updates using fam), xml (mount an xml file as a filesystem), edb (mount a berkeley database), ffilter (mount an LDAP filter string) and mbox (mount your mailbox). EA generators include image, audio, and animation decoders.
libstldb4 0.3.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136438/
libstldb4 is a C++ wrapper for the sleepycat db4 database. It uses the STL in the API where sensible, allows standard IOStreams for data access where sensible, e.g. getting the value of a key should be able to use an istream interface to allow simple partial value retreival, and moves the transaction parameter to be the last optional parameter or provides two versions of the same method for trans/nontrans. The API has been modified to use more standard types. Operator overloading is used to allow quick and dirty coding (mydb[ "key" ] = "value";) to set and cerr.
Magelan Graphics Editor 1.0 RC3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136435/
The Magelan Graphics Editor is a simple 2D vector graphics editor with basic support for AutoCAD DXF files (both reading and writing). It features complete and easy control over each entity's properties and support for mouse gestures. The package also includes a compact Drawing/Editor API which can be used wherever 2D graphics modelling/editing is required.
ModLogAn 0.8.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136410/
ModLogAn is a modular logfile analyzer that combines speed with flexibility. It parses the logfiles generated by several server-types (HTTP, FTP, mail, streaming, etc.) and other logfile sources (flow-tools, ipchains, PABXs): currently 24 parsers. It features incremental logfile processing and internal resolving, and is able the split (mass-hosting) and combine logfiles (clusters) internally. The output can be based on the internal template engine to generate your own look & feel.
moodss 17.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136467/
Moodss is a modular monitoring application, which supports operating systems (Linux, UNIX, Windows, etc.), databases (MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, DB2, ODBC, etc.), networking (SNMP, Apache, etc.), and any device or process for which a module can be developed (in Tcl, Python, Perl, Java, and C). An intuitive GUI with full drag'n'drop support allows the construction of dashboards with graphs, pie charts, etc., while the thresholds functionality includes warning by emails and user defined scripts. Any part of the visible data can be archived in an SQL database by both the GUI and the companion daemon, so that complete history over time can be made available from Web pages, common spreadsheet software, etc.
mosquitotools 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136418/
The mosquitotools allow to read dive profiles from a Suunto mosquito dive computer and to show them graphically, including depth, tissue saturation, and ascend / descend speed vectors. Additional tools are allow to create dive profiles from a few command line options and to create decompression tables.
Mowitz 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136427/
The Mowitz library contains a large collection of widgets for X applications to use. It complements a widget set such as Xaw3d or neXtaw.
NetInstaller 1.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136421/
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.
neXtaW 0.15.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136426/
neXtaw is a modified version of the Athena Widgets with a N*XTSTEP appearance. It is based on the Xaw3d 1.5 library.
OpenTop 1.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136411/
OpenTop is a cross-platform, high-performance C++ class library that extends the standard C++ library to provide features similar to (and modelled on) core Java facilities such as resource management, networking, I/O, multi-threading and support for the full Unicode character range. OpenTop also contains a supplementary C++ XML Toolkit which features a SAX-based validating XML parser.
pam_radius_auth.c 1.3.16
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136443/
pam_radius_auth is the PAM to RADIUS authentication module. It allows any PAM capable machine to become a RADIUS client for authentication and accounting requests. You will need to supply your own RADIUS server to perform the actual authentication.
phpMyFAQ 1.3.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136409/
phpMyFAQ is a multilingual, completely database-driven FAQ system. It also offers a content management system, flexible multi-user support, a news system, user tracking, language modules, templates, extensive XML support, PDF support, a backup system, and an easy to use installation script.
picoSQL 2.0beta (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136413/
picoSQL is an Italian RDBMS. Because it derives from a commercial project, it is already robust, fast, and rather complete.
Pogo 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136416/
Pogo is a lightweight, elegant, programmable, and highly customizable application launcher for X11.
py Request Tracker Report 1.0.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136420/
py Request Tracker Report is a set of tools for generating reports for Request Tracker 2/3 (RT 2/3). Currently, it only supports the Postgres ("pg") and MySQL backends.
Pybliographer 1.1.92 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136419/
Pybliographer is a tool for managing bibliographic databases. It supports several bibliography formats and can be used for searching, editing, reformatting, etc, through its nice graphical interface for GNOME. Due to its nature, it can be extended to many uses (generating HTML pages according to bibliographic searches, etc). It is provided with sample scripts.
S tar 1.5a26 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136417/
Star is a very fast, POSIX-compliant tar archiver. It reads and writes POSIX compliant tar archives as well as non-POSIX GNU tar archives. Star is the first free POSIX.1-2001 compliant tar implementation. It saves many files together into a single tape or disk archive, and can restore individual files from the archive. It includes a FIFO for speed, a pattern matcher, multi-volume support, the ability to archive sparse files and ACLs, the ability to archive extended file flags, automatic archive format detection, automatic byte order recognition, automatic archive compression/decompression, remote archives, and special features that allow star to be used for full and incremental backups. It includes the only known platform independent "rmt" server program that hides Linux incompatibilities. The "rmt" server from the star package implements all Sun/GNU/Schily/BSD enhancements and allows any "rmt" client from any OS to contact any OS as server.
Siag Office 3.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136430/
Siag Office is a free office package which consists of the spreadsheet Siag, the word processor PW, the animation program Egon, the text editor XedPlus, the file manager Xfiler and the previewer Gvu. Siag is easy to use, yet infinitely flexible through multiple embedded interpreters and a plugin mechanism that allows other programs to run inside the main document. The supported interpreters are SIOD, Guile, Tcl, and Python.
Smb4k 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136408/
Smb4K is a SMB share browser for KDE 3.1.x. It provides scanning of workgroups, hosts and shares. The mounted filesystems can be used via Konqueror.
Term::Animation 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136434/
Term::Animation provides a framework to produce sprite animations using ASCII art.
Thy 0.8.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136470/
Thy is a lightweight HTTP daemon that is designed to be clean and fast, yet powerful enough to serve many hits a day. Despite its small size, it supports CGI, IPv6, SSL/TLS, and on-the-fly compression.
Warewulf 1.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136465/
Warewulf is a Linux cluster implementation tool that builds RAMDISK based filesystems and distributes them to the slave nodes. This facilitates a Central administration model for all nodes and includes tools needed to build configuration files, monitor, and control the nodes. It is totally customizable and can be adapted to just about any type of cluster. The node distributions are built from a virtual node filesystem residing on the master and transfered to the nodes either by Etherboot or CD-ROM images. Administration becomes scalable by having only one point of admin for all nodes. Node filesystems are very easy to customize, which makes Warewulf fit many different solutions. There are also a number of add-on software components (MPI, PVM, and Sun Grid Engine) for Warewulf.
weatherspect 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136436/
WeatherSpect provides a reasonably accurate simulation of what the weather looks like outside, in ASCII art. It includes rain, snow, lightning, sleet, and hail.
Webswell Connect 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136386/
Webswell Connect is e-business integration framework based on the ebXML standard. It allows easy, interactive and user-friendly installation. It consists of an ebXML registry/repository server and client, a messaging system for secure and reliable messaging and user interface similar to popular email clients for sending/handling ebXML messages.
wmctrl 1.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136469/
The wmctrl program is a command line tool to interact with an EWMH/NetWM-compatible X Window Manager. It provides command line access to almost all the features defined in the EWMH specification. It's possible to, for example, obtain information about the window manager, get a detailed list of desktops and managed windows, switch and resize desktops, change the number of desktops, make windows full-screen, always-above, or sticky, and activate, close, move, resize, maximize, and minimize them. The command line access makes it easy to automate these tasks and execute them from any application that is able to run a command in response to some event.
Zina 0.10.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136404/
Zina is a graphical interface to your MP3 collection, a personal jukebox, and an MP3 streamer. It can run alone, be embedded into an existing Web site, or be used as a Postnuke/PHPNuke module. It is similar to Andromeda, but is released under the GPL.
Newsforge Reports
Monolithic software decimates IT budgets
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/19/032238
- by Jeff Childers - Corporate IT budgets have become paralyzed by their resistance to monolithic, all-or-nothing upgrades accompanied by painful services interruptions and unexpected cost overruns. Their obstinacy has been learned by hard experience, and is caused by the near ubiquitous use of Microsoft software in business.
Linux Advisory Watch - September 19, 2003 http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/19/2251233
Folks, there are a lot of advisories this week. Be sure to check your distribution carefully, as many of them are significant. This week, advisories were released for mana, pine, gtkhtml, openssh, sendmail, MySQL, xfree86, buffer, kernel, and KDE. The distributors include SCO, Conectiva, Debian, EnGarde, FreeBSD, Gentoo, Immunix, NetBSD, Red Hat, Slackware, SuSE, Trustix, TurboLinux, and Yellow Dog.
Review: Java Desktop System on Linux
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/18/003212
- by Chris Gulker - Open source is ready for the real world. Sun Microsystems' just-released Java Desktop System for x86 is a polished Linux desktop that rivals Windows XP and even Mac OS X for fit, finish and ease of use. Whether corporations, governments and educational institutions adopt it will likely have more to do with migration issues and financial concerns than the viability of this Gnome-based user environment.
Newsforge Newsvac
Lycoris' Award Winning OS Raises the Bar
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/20/0153247
Jason Spisak writes "Lycoris' Award Winning OS Raises the Bar. Redmond, WA - September 19, 2003- Lycoris Desktop/LX Update 3 hits shelves this week, combining all the power and simplicity of Desktop/LX with the latest Lycoris technology. This much anticipated Update the the award winning Desktop/LX OS features a new Help Center with interactive audio-visual tutorials, hundreds of updated drivers, crisper font handling, increased printer support ...
Launch of LQT Network Solution
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/19/2126255
Philippe Gagne writes "You can now have a perfectly functional network for less than $800 US. LQT Network Solution includes: a mail server with anti-virus and anti-spam, a VPN, a PDF print server, etc. Based on linux technology, LQT Network Solution is a software solution that can be installed in less than 30 minutes, without any prior knowledge of linux required. www.lqtsystems.com"
Hackers Pass Out New Software For Attacks http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/19/2117216
Robert E. Harvey, M.D. writes "Security researchers on Tuesday detected hackers distributing software to break into computers using flaws announced last week in some versions of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system. The threat from this new vulnerability - which already has drawn stern warnings from the Homeland Security Department
- is remarkably similar to one that allowed the Blaster virus to infect hundreds of thousands of computers ...
Sun's Schwartz Speaks Out on Linux, SCO
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/19/2114201
Sun Microsystems Inc. last week announced its Java Enterprise System and its Java Desktop, which will fundamentally change Sun's software pricing, delivery and licensing models. After the announcement at the Sun Network conference in San Francisco, Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's executive vice president for software, sat down with eWEEK senior editor Peter Galli.
Device Profile: D-Link "Central Home Drive" http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/19/2049228
Digital home communications technologies specialist D-Link worked with Intel to build an innovative "Central Home Drive" that leverages an embedded Linux operating system and Universal Plug-n-Play (UPnP) technology to create a network-attached repository for shared multimedia files in the home that works in heterogeneous networks out of the box. The device will ship mid-October 2003 with an MSRP of $249.99.
Who Will Defend HTTP?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/19/187224
Ernest_Miller writes "All sorts of organizations have made their voice heard in defense of filesharing via Kazaa, Grokster, BearShare, and other P2P services. LawMeme asks why no one is defending filesharing via http."
Boot Linux faster
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/19/1757200
Idean writes "This article shows you how to improve the boot speed of your Linux system without compromising usability. Essentially, the technique involves understanding system services and their dependencies, and having them start up in parallel, rather than sequentially, when possible."
[Romania] MS Quietly Bags Government while Entrepreneurs Eye First Linux/FLOSS Expo http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/19/1628243
On September 17 Romanian IT&C minister Dan Nica and Steve Balmer signed a strategic partnership between the Romanian government and Microsoft.
Sun StarOffice 7 Reviewed
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/19/1546212
Jem Matzan writes "After days of testing every program in the suite I've finally completed a comprehensive review of StarOffice 7. It's inexpensive, powerful, and it converts to Flash, PDF, and other proprietary formats without any trouble. With the scant few feature additions and high pricetag of MS Office System 2003, Sun's cheaper and more stable suite could be in a position to damage Microsoft's Office sales."
Intel net processors, Linux power new Radisys telecom hardware http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/19/1527237
Radisys unveiled two processor boards and an integrated system at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Jose, CA this week. According to Radisys, the trio of new products -- all designed to do heavy lifting in telecom/datacom applications -- include: the industry's first dual processor Processor PMC (PrPMC) based on the Intel IXC1100 control plane processor; the industry's first fully integrated PICMG 2.16, dual OC-3c ATM-to-IP gateway line ...
Thinkgeek
Gadgets: Sidewinder Cell Phone Charger
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Gadgets: Computer Microscope
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Interests: Volatile Hyperlinkage
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Interests: Mainline Geek Culture
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Electronics: Nikon Coolpix SQ
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Computing: 2-Port Integrated KVM Switch
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Gadgets: X-Linx 2-Way Personal Communicator http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/6316/
Computing: Logitech Internet Chat Headset http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/speakers/6326/
Electronics: iRock! Bling CD/MP3 Player
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Cube Goodies: Hot/Cold Mini Fridge
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PC Mods: Velcro Wire Ties
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Books: BOFH 4 - Dummy Mode Is Forever
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Gadgets: Mobile Power Inverter
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Gadgets: Presentation Remote
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Sourceforge
Istrice 1.3 Released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=311993
Istrice is a distributed compilation environment for Unix systems (tested on Linux and Solaris) , it allow a parallel and remote compilation of c/c++ projects of any size (compatible with configure script generated with autoconf). This version fix same bug and a new distribuited algorithm is added. You can download the new release here: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=66634&release_id =185211
JPTC 0.2.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=311989
JPTC is a graphical tool for testing the performance of java-classes.
JPTC is written using java and java-swing. The new release fixes some
smaller bugs and adds new behaviour to the existing package, please
look to the release letter and visit http://www.jptc.org. You can
download the latest release here:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=50653&release_id
=84527
EsiObjects V4.1.1 Released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=311830
V4.1.1 of EsiObjects has been released. This is the latest development environment. It contains too many new features to list. Please refer to the V4_1 New Features.txt file for a complete list. EsiObjects - An Object Oriented Programming Language and Development Evironment - Extending ANSI MUMPS. This version of EsiObjects has been under development for some time and is currently running in a production environment. The documentation has not been completely updated in this release. The Language Reference Guide is complete and submitted. The other guides are not complete but will be submitted soon.
PCGen 5.3.9 is available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=311454
PCGen is a Java-based RPG character generator and maintenance program
that works on all platforms (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, etc). All
datafiles are ASCII so they can be modified by users, and are available
through the pcgendm project. An XML conversion is underway. Mac OS X
users - if you quit PCGen using close or quit, your preferences will
not be saved. The preference files are only saved if you use the
File->Exit menu item to exit PCGen. This is a java issue (our thanks to
Conor for finding the reason for this long-standing issue!) The pdf
library that we use to generate the way cool pdf character sheets
changed in version 5.3.3. If you've updated beyond version 5.3.3 and
want to use the pdf character sheets and you haven't downloaded the new
pdf library yet, it can be found at:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pcgen/pdf_new.zip?download unzip the
above library into your pcgen's lib folder. Data for the core 3.5e
books is being actively developed on our yahoo site. It should soon be
ready for inclusion in a beta release. After that release we will move
PCGen to be based upon java 1.4, which means that releases after that
will require users to download java 1.4. We've been encouraging users
to install java 1.4 since it runs faster than java 1.3. Those on Mac OS
9, Mac OS X (10 - 10.1) will need to upgrade to Mac OS X (10.2 or
higher) in order for their machine to handle java 1.4. For users who
have trouble getting the 3 zip files to unzip properly, we have some
OS-specific installs that should help minimize the chance of install
related errors. Links to these installs can be found at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pcgen/files/Alternate%20PCGen%20Releases/
These are the same PCGen everyone else uses, just packaged with
installers which target Windows and Mac OS X users specifically.
Typically there is a lag between when the official release is done and
when these special installers are ready. We always recommend that users
install new versions of PCGen in a 'new' directory. Below is a list of
everything that has been addressed in this release. If you reported one
of these, please verify that it is was addressed properly. PCGen is
available at http://pcgen.sourceforge.net , and the main discussion
group is at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pcgen . If you wish to
discuss making your own custom lst files for use with PCGen, the data
monkeys have made their home at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pcgenlistfilehelp and they pride
themselves in being able to field all questions about the data - from
very basic to very advanced. All three zips are required to run PCGen:
pcgen539_part1of3.zip, pcgen539_part2of3.zip and pcgen539_part3of3.zip.
Bugs 808310 Copy in Lst Editor not working 807478 HP window pops more
times than it should 801481 Can't create custom potions/items 802004
CMP:SUBCLASSLEVEL and SPELL don't work together properly 802758 SPELL
getting evaluated regardless of level 800830 HPs changing for another
character 792369 Martial Weapon Proficiency appearing twice after
reload 800756 Specialist Wizards have no Class Skills Features 782638
CLASSES:TYPE.blah=x 806718 CLASSES:ALL=x 801152 BONUS:SKILLPOOL|NUMBER|
803527 Improve Add All on equipment tab PCGenDM: Bugs 805384 Green
Steel Monk AC and movement not stacking with Monk 805381 Cleric and
Paladin not qualifying for Extra Turning 798167 Military / Riding
Saddles Weight Incorrect 804165 Duplicate entry in phb.pcc file
PCGenDM: Tag Additions 711063 Boots of Str/Spring: Speed not right
PCGenDM: Tag Modification Request 711565 BONUS:MOVE replaced with
BONUS:MOVEADD The PCGen Development Team
New eGroupWare module available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=311427
"JiNN is a multi-site, multi-database, multi-user/-group, database driven Content Management System written in and for the eGroupWare Framework. JiNN makes it possible to have a lot of site-databases moderated by a lot of people all in one system. Access Rights are assigned at table-level and every site can have one or more site-administrators. JiNN is a very useful tool for webdevelopers who need to setup a CMS for their frontend website product. Developers able to setup a nice idiot-proof interface for a complex database design within minutes. Even complex field relations are a peace of cake. JiNN support field-plugins for table fields. This way HTML-form-fields can be specially formatted or the inserted data can be filtered, validated or processed before its stored in the database. Some plugins are: Image Upload and Resize plugin, Attachment Upload plugin, WYSIWYG-plugin, date-plugin, boolian yes/no plugin, selectbox plugin, etc ... Currently it's only tested with MySQL but