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[osdn everything] September 28, 2003
Date: Sun Sep 28 2003 - 01:45:28 EDT
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Slashdot
GBDE-GEOM Based Disk Encryption on FreeBSD
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/27/2225214
[0]BSD Forums writes "The ever increasing mobility of computers has
made protection of data on digital storage media an important
requirement in a number of applications and situations. GBDE is a
strong cryptographic facility for denying unauthorised access to data
stored on a 'cold' disk for decades and longer. GBDE operates on the
disk(-partition) level allowing any type of file system or database to
be protected. A significant focus has been put on the practical aspects
in order to make it possible to deploy GBDE in the real world.
[1]FreeBSD's Poul-Henning Kamp says in an email to freebsd-current that
he has [2]uploaded this paper and slides which he presented at
[3]BSDcon 2003, California, USA."
Links
0.
http://bsdforums.org
1.
http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=14600
2.
http://phk.freebsd.dk/pubs/
3.
http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/
Major Problems with Cingular Network
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/27/2217206
Wabin writes "It looks like the [0]Cingular GSM network is having serious trouble. My phone stopped working today completely, though my wife's was still able to make outgoing calls. Talking to tech support, they claimed some kind of massive failure across the country starting around 4PM yesterday and possibly a virus attack. [1]Howard Forums is all abuzz, but there really doesn't seem to be any hard info. Glad I haven't totally given up the land line yet... redundancy is good." Links
MacFixIt Details OSX 10.2.8 Bugs
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/27/2145204
[0]mneptok writes "Premier Macintosh troubleshooting site [1]MacFixIt
has just posted [2]a detailed report on the bugs and broken features in
Apple's latest point release for MacOSX. As [3]reported previously on
Slashdot, the 10.2.8 update was released and pulled within hours
earlier this week. Many users upgraded before the update was pulled and
are being bitten, and MacFixIt has run down the behavior you can
attribute to Apple's goof."
Links
0.
http://www.mneptok.com
1.
http://www.macfixit.com/
2.
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20030926163005125
3.
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/23/2237224&tid=179
HyperSCSI Examined
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/27/2142255
An anonymous reader writes "Eugenie Larson of [0]byteandswitch.com has published a brief article that [1]reviews the HyperSCSI protocol, which like iSCSI allows for an IP based san. The twist of HyperSCSI is that it's opensource, and runs over raw ethernet, avoiding the overhead of TCP/IP. The article has some comments from early adopters of HyperSCSI, as well as some comments from top vendors in the iSCSI industry." Links
0. http://www.byteandswitch.com/
Ukrainian Computer Destruction Championship http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/27/1918238
Alien54 writes "Over 300 self-confessed computer addicts have
participated in a competition in the central Ukrainian city of
Zaporizhzhya [0]to destroy their own hardware in a spectacular fashion.
The event, dubbed the "First Open Computer Destruction Championship",
was organised by a local FM radio station with the professed aim of
raising young people's awareness of the dangers of spending too much
time in front of a computer."
Links
0. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3144704.stm
The Weak Signal Challenge - Decode and Win $100 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/27/1916255
[0]superid writes "Several years ago while reading [1]comp.dsp I found
a link to [2]The Weak Signal Challenge. On that page is a .wav file of
a morse code signal bounced off the moon. The page author [3]Mike Cook
is offering $100 to the next person to successfully decode the morse
code. Since I was the one who originally solved this, I promised Mike
that I wouldn't divulge the answer or provide any clues. I can say
thought that I didn't use anything special other than [4]traditional
[5]signal processing [6]techniques, octave, matlab, and patience. I
think that overall I spent about 24 hours total sitting at my '486. I
think it would be great to generate some interest in this. Maybe
someone could come up with a novel solution and win $100!"
Links
0. mailto:ghuntress@comcast.net
1.
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=comp.dsp&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en
2.
http://www.af9y.com/radio30.htm
3.
http://www.af9y.com/
4.
http://www.fftw.org/
5.
http://www.clecom.co.uk/science/autosignal/help/ARMA_(AutoRegressive_Moving.htm
6.
http://www.clecom.co.uk/science/autosignal/help/ARMA_Algorithms.htmSebek2 - A Kernel-based Data Capture Tool http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/27/1913250
[0]LogError writes "Sebek is a piece of code the lives entirely in
kernel space and records either some or all data accessed by users on
the system. This paper is a [1]detailed discussion of Sebek, how it
works and its value."
Links
TCP/IP over Bongo Drums
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/27/175242
[0]Michael500 writes "In an attempt to show that primitive
communications can still function in modern networks, a friend of mine
took up a challenge from his professor to replace the lowest layer of
the OSI networking model with a set of [1]bongo drums!"
Links
0. mailto:michael500@sympatico.ca
The Borg MegaCube
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/27/1619219
Alien54 writes "Paramount Pictures this week revealed plans to release
[0]a DVD box set containing every single episode of Star Trek: The Next
Generation. Called the 'Borg Megacube', the box set will include all
seven seasons of TNG across 48 discs, thus collecting all the
individual DVD sets into one package. As the name implies, the set
comes in the form of a Borg cube. Due out at the beginning of
November..."
Links
0. http://www.dvddebate.com/article.php?sid=3574
First Round of AMD Athlon 64 Reviews In
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/27/167209
wrinkledshirt writes "Here's a bunch of [0]AMD Athlon 64 reviews,
courtesy of [1]8Dimensional." [2]AcesHardware and [3]HardOCP match the
Athlon 64 line against the Pentium 4 Extreme Edition. [4]amdmb,
[5]FiringSquad, and [6]SharkyExtreme take a closer look at the FX-51.
[7]AthlonXP and [8]PCStats have glowing reviews of the chips.
[9]Digit-Life compares the new Athlon 64 with Opteron and a Pentium 4.
[10]LegitReviews and [11]Overclockers.com.au also both have succinct
reviews of the FX-51. Overall the reviews speak very highly of the
Athlon 64 and the FX version of the chip, with the only downside being
the cost, especially of the FX chip.
Links
0.
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_9485_9488%5E9563%5E9598,00.html
1.
http://www.8dimensional.com/
2.
http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=60000253
3.
http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NTI0
4.
http://www.amdmb.com/article-display.php?ArticleID=260
5.
http://firingsquad.gamers.com/hardware/athlon_fx_preview
6.
http://www.sharkyextreme.com/hardware/cpu/article.php/3082211
7.
http://www.athlonxp.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Diner_Wrapper&file=index&req=ShowFile&file_wrap=html/reviews_amd_athlon64_3.html
8.
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1469
9.
http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/athlon64fx-athlon64/index.html
10.
http://www.legitreviews.com/Reviews/64fx_1.shtml
11.
http://www.overclockers.com.au/content/a64fx/
Freshmeat
Album Cover Grabber 0.77
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137233/
Album Cover Grabber grabs album covers and artist pictures from Allmusic.com and Google images for an MP3 collection.
Aldo 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137240/
Aldo is a Morse code tutor. At this moment it has three kinds of exercises: Classic exercise, the Koch method, and exercises read from files. In classic exercise, you must guess some random strings of characters that Aldo plays in Morse code.
avidemux 2.0.16 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137215/
Avidemux is a graphical tool to edit video. It can open AVI, MPEG, Nuppelvideo and BMPs. Most common codecs are supported (M-JPEG, MPEG, DivX, Xvid, huffyuv, WMA, etc.) thanks to libavcodec. Video can be edited, cut, appended, filtered (resize/crop/denoise), and re-encoded to either AVI (DivX/Xvid) or MPEG 1/2.
BKchem 0.5.0-pre5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137242/
BKchem is a chemical drawing program written in Python.
byteHoard 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137220/
ByteHoard is aimed at a wide range of audiences, from people wanting a way to quickly access files from work/ school without carrying physical media, to communities wanting a solution to store files. It's an implementation of an online storage system whereby users can upload and download their files from anywhere with an Internet connection. It aims to be an easy solution, similar to projects like phpBB, where minimal configuration is required. It uses a directory listing to list files, which are all automatically compressed (gzipped) to save disk space. It's coded with a skin function, so the theme can be easily changed, and already has many useful features, including auto compression, integrated signup/delete, upload, download, password change, etc.
Cantus 1.99.6-2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137210/
Cantus is an easy to use tool for tagging and renaming MP3 and OGG/Vorbis files. It has many features including mass tagging and renaming of MP3s, the ability to generate a tag out of the filename, filter definitions for renaming, recursive actions, CDDB (Freedb) lookup (no CD needed), copy between ID3V1 and ID3V2 tags, and a lot more.
cpudyn 0.4.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137260/
cpudyn controls the speed in Intel SpeedStep, Pentium 4 Mobile, and PowerPC machines with the cpufreq compiled in the kernel. It saves battery, lowers temperature, and can put the computer disks in standby mode if a given period has passed without any I/O operation. It works well even with journaled file systems such as Ext3, XFS, or ReiserFS.
DBAConnect 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137251/
DBAConnect provides convenient administration of an Oracle database through any Web browser. It allows the database administrator to execute any administration command and to control user sessions. It allows the developer to execute any SQL statement. It is designed for fast performance and to preserve the system security.
Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse 1.2.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/137278/
Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse (DCC) is a system of clients and servers that collect and count checksums related to mail messages. The counts can be used by SMTP servers and mail user agents to detect and reject bulk mail. DCC servers can exchange common checksums. The checksums include values that are "fuzzy", or constant across common variations in bulk messages.
Dlume 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137185/
Dlume is nice, Gtk 2-based address book. You can easily add, edit, and delete records from an XML database. A Quick-search makes it easy to find entries, and exporting to CSV and HTML formats is also possible.
E.T. EDITOR 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137227/
E.T. EDITOR is a graphical editor for designing three-dimensional graphs consisting of colored edges and triangles. The intention is to make the modeling process as direct as possible. E.T. TRAVELER lets you view the scenes designed with the E.T. EDITOR. It simulates traveling inside the scene.
ELinks 0.5pre6 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137229/
ELinks is an enhanced version of Links, a Lynx-like text Web browser with support for tables, frames, background downloads, etc. It has a menu-fashioned user interface and is smaller and more lightweight than Lynx. ELinks adds many valuable features, like HTTP auth, proxy auth, reasonable cookies support, Lua scripting, etc.
Elm ME+ PL107a (25) (Patch)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137253/
Elm 2.4ME+ is based on Elm 2.4. It contains enhanced MIME and character set support. It can read mail from POP or IMAP folders and can pass mail to the PGP or GPG programs. It can also view digests as a mailbox and reassemble fragmented (message/partial) messages. It includes modules for TLS/SSL, iconv, and SMTP.
FastFrame 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137168/
FastFrame is a heavily object oriented application framework that is structured around the MVC pattern. The goal is to enable developers to create clean, secure, and robust Web applications quickly. It is written in PHP and provides the common tools a Web application requires: authentication, action handling, error handling, language support, form creation, menus, help boxes, and more.
FastFrame :: Checkout 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137170/
Checkout is a Web-based system for managing an inventory of items and allowing borrowers to reserve and loan out sets of items for a set amount of time. It is written in PHP and utilizes the FastFrame Application Framework.
fauxident.py 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137264/
fauxident is a small Python script that will act as an extremely naive ident server, answering all ident requests with a consistent response (either ERROR or USERID). This can be advantageous on systems where running a true identd is unavailable, where it would be would be a security risk, or when masquerading firewalls are in use, where multiple machines are involved behind the firewall and running a proper ident system is not an option.
Fedora Project 0.94
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137265/
The Fedora Project is a community-run Linux distribution based on Red Hat Linux.
GECO 0.9.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137234/
Geco is an ERP/e-commerce/e-procurement solution for Italian Small-Medium Enterprises (PMI), and is especially suited for accounting/financial purposes. Written in pure PHP (with extensive use of OOP), it can run both in ASP and in "Linux box" mode, and the look and feel is provided by the use of stylesheets for quick and easy personalization.
Gedafe 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137218/
Gedafe (Generic Database Front-End) is an application independent end-user web front-end for databases. Application independant means that the front-end doesn't have any information about the structure and contents of the database.
glinuxsms 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137177/
glinuxsms is a GNOME2 front-end for linuxsms that lets you send SMS messages to cell phones all over the world.
Gnome Wave Cleaner 0.19.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137212/
GWC is an application to do digital audio restoration on wavfile data, i.e. remove hisses and clicks. It features click repair using least squares autoregressive interpolation, and is based on the FFTW library. This is still beta code, so back up your data files first.
Gwenview 1.0.0pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137245/
Gwenview is a simple image viewer for KDE. Image loading is done by the Qt library (so it supports all image formats your Qt installation supports). It features a folder tree window and a file list and thumbnail window to provide easy navigation in your file hierarchy and uses docked windows, allowing you to alter the layout in any way you want.
Gwget2 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137250/
Gwget2 is a Gnome2 front-end to wget.
HarvestMan 1.2 rc2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137219/
HarvestMan is a multithreaded off-line browser.It has many features for customizing offline browsing through URL filters, depth-fetching, fetch levels, domain filters, file limits, thread limits, download depth, directory checking, and robot exclusion protocol. It is useful to download an entire Web site or certain files from a Web site to the hard disk for offline browsing later. It features an XML project file, and support for the HTTP/HTTPS and FTP protocols. It works transparently across proxies and can also crawl intranets.
HeroScribe 0.43b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137239/
HeroScribe is designed to produce typographic quality HeroQuest maps (with either European or US layout). It reads XML descriptions of the maps and uses them to output EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) files.
HttpCore 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137259/
HttpCore is a HTTP/1.1 server library written in C++. Its key features are that it is fully multi-threaded, it has a well-designed API, it is platform independent, and it includes user registration of HTTP methods, multiple request handlers, and content filter support.
icoutils 0.21.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137266/
The icoutils are a set of programs for extracting and converting images in Microsoft Windows icon and cursor files. These files usually have the extension .ico or .cur, but they can also be embedded in executables and libraries (.dll-files). Icoutils can also create icon and cursor files.
IOzone 3.203
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137237/
IOzone is a filesystem benchmark tool. The benchmark generates and measures a variety of file operations. Iozone has been ported to many machines and runs under many operating systems.
Issue Dealer 0.9.9 (Main)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137228/
The Issue Dealer is a simple product for managing (structuring, editing, prioritizing, categorizing) issues. It is primarily used to manage information and tasks. It can be used as an issue tracker, knowledge management tool, or outliner.
IzSound 0.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137235/
IzSound is a C++/STL stream-oriented sound processing library. It has been designed around small DSP units that can be chained together to operate on the sound data stream.
Jabber WindowGram Client beta3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137248/
The Jabber Windowgram Client is based entirely on MIT's Zephyr Windowgram Client program, and is designed to behave almost exactly the same. It will support most or all of the same functions that ZWGC and other Jabber clients support.
JWall 0.7.8 (alpha)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137285/
JWall is a Java-based application for graphically building and installing rules for one or more firewalls, local or remote.
JXP 1.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137238/
JXP is a fast Java XPath 1.0-compliant API. It features a SAX-like
event system, an inner expression tree for fast multiple document
evaluation, syntax error location and cause, DOM support, FastParser
lightweight node support, a customizable API with navigator, function
libraries, a plugin for each node type system, and full samples with
DOM.
KSubtile 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137224/
KSubtile allows moving, stretching, and editing of SRT subtitle files and all other subtitle formats understood by MPlayer. It also provides an easy-to-use interface to MPlayer to easily sync the subtitles to a movie.
Kurt's Brainfuck Interpreter 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137272/
Kurt's Brainfuck Interpreter is an interactive interpreter for the Brainfuck language that supports many additional features useful for developers.
LAM/MPI 7.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137269/
LAM/MPI is an implementation of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) parallel standard that is especially friendly to clusters. It includes a persistent runtime environment for parallel programs, support for all of MPI-1, and a good chunk of MPI-2, such as all of the dynamic functions, one-way communication, C++ bindings, and MPI-IO.
libwpd 0.6.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137236/
libwpd is a library designed to help in the process of importing and exporting WordPerfect documents by hiding its stream-based formatting behind a modern C++ API. It is used in the recent versions of AbiWord's WordPerfect filter. A stand-alone utility based on libwpd, wpd2sxw, is available now for converting WordPerfect documents to OpenOffice.org's XML-based file format.
LVE 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137106/
LVE provides frame and GOP accurate editing of MPEG1/2 elementary ("ES") and program streams ("PS"), including VOB format. The cutting engine is based on a frame server (demuxer), which guarantees exact and fast seeking to every frame. The GUI is based on libSDL. Video scenes are handled as thumbnails movable by drag and drop. Final videos can be build with or without re-encoding. Tools for shrinking and DVD authoring are also available.
Mod WASap 0.0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137284/
Mod WASap is an application firewall for Apache. It uses plugins to do each check on the values of header, GET, and POST variables and values. It can also restrict the size of said variables. It also checks the syntax of the requests sent to the Web server.
modplugplay 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137223/
modplugplay is a command line player for many music modules (669, amf, ams, dbm, dmf, dsm, far, it, j2b, mdl, med mod, mt2, mtm, okt, psm, ptm, s3m, stm, ult, umx, and xm) using the libmodplug library.
mod_caml 0.8.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137252/
mod_caml is a set of Objective CAML (OCaml) bindings for the Apache API. It allows you to run CGI scripts written in OCaml directly inside the Apache Web server. However, it is much much more than just that. You can bind to any part of the Apache request cycle, read and modify internal Apache structures, share modules of code between handlers and scripts, or use the CGI library and templating system (allows separation of code and presentation).
mod_tsunami 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137231/
mod_tsunami is a module for Apache 1.3.x which dynamically limits the number of httpd slots used per vhost. It is useful if you provide homepage hosting and don't want one site to use all the resources.
Musicextras 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137286/
Musicextras is a program for automatically retrieving extra information for songs. Currently it only retrieves lyrics and album covers, but it was designed to make it easy to add other functionality. Information is obtained using plugins that parse Web page data. An example for having XMMS automatically load lyrics for the current MP3 is included.
onis not irc stats 0.4.1 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137279/
Onis is a script that converts IRC logfiles into an HTML statistics page. It provides information about daily channel usage and user activity. It provides a configurable customization and supports perlbot, eggdrop, and mIRC.
OpenGUI 4.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137246/
OpenGUI (formerly FastGL) is a high-level multi-platform, thread-safe C/C++ graphics and windowing library built upon a fast, low-level x86 ASM graphics kernel. It provides 2D drawing primitives and an eventdriven windowing API for easy application development, and it supports the BMP, JPG, TGA, PNG, and PCX image file formats and TTF fonts. You can write apps in the old Borland BGI style or in a windowed style like QT. OpenGUI supports the keyboard and mouse as event sources, the Linux framebuffer, SVGAlib, and XFree86/DGA2 (HW accelerated) as drawing backends, Mesa3D under Linux, and 8, 15, 16, and 32-bpp color modes.
pal 0.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137283/
pal is a commandline utility which displays a color calendar and marks approaching events and holidays. It supports several different types of recurring events (one time, annual, monthly, etc.). Events are defined in text files, and pal is distributed with files for significant holidays and events. pal is similar to both the Unix "cal" command and OpenBSD's "calendar" command.
PHP LetterIt 2 030925
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137216/
PHP LetterIt is a newsletter script. It features the ability to change all settings via the admin- script, deletion of emails (direct input, alphabetical list, or search), a changeable footer and header, the ability to display subscribers, and the ability to generate statistics regarding the newsletter. It requires MySQL, and HTML or text email is available.
PhpICalendarX 3.4 (Main)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137258/
PHPICalendarX is a calender generation class defined from customizable parameters. You can set you own stylesheet and output template for the calender.
PMK 0.6.5 (Snapshot)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137263/
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.
PMtool 1.1c
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137256/
PMtool is a PHP web-application to create tasks for change/bug requests, post timesheets, and calculate number of times used.
pppusage 0.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137247/
pppusage summarizes average and total transfer volumes, number of connections, and average and total online time for PPP connections. The data is collected by reading the syslog files which contain the ppp[d] messages. A database file is used to store the relevant data. Certain time ranges (that is: a year, month, or day) may be specified on the command line.
RetroLisp 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137193/
RetroLisp is a compact Lisp interpreter that was designed for use as a scripting language or as an interactive interpreter.
RIMPS 3 beta 3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137255/
RIMPS is a Web based frontend written in PHP, to make Apache an MP3 and Ogg server. It features searching, individual song-playing, and playlist creation. RIMPS is meant to resemble a personal mp3.com of your own MP3s and Oggs, with the addition of playlists.
Room Juice 0.1.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137281/
Room Juice is a multi-user jukebox Web frontend. It currently supports mpg321, ogg123, mikmod, and xmp to play music. It's designed to be simple to use, understand, and hopefully, not too difficult to install. No SQL database is required.
Silky 0.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137268/
Silky is an easy-to-use graphical SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) client. It contains all the necessary features of a SILC client while keeping the user interface as simple and user-friendly as possible.
SiouX 0.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137249/
SiouX is an HTTP server developed mainly for use in Linux. It supports CGI/1.1, and forks off children to serve connections. It is designed to be fast and easy to use.
snescom 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137280/
snescom is an assembler for the 65816 processor, which is used in the SNES. It produces relocatable object files which are compatible with xa65.
Sorttag 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137211/
Sorttag is a tag library that let you sort a collection by any properties in ascending or descending orders. You could also sort on several columns. It could be useful for a shopping card to let users sort by price, item name, or anything else.
Spam-me-not 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137275/
Spam-me-not is a JavaScript form that helps you encode email addresses for Web pages (no JavaScript is needed on target pages). It is meant to hide email addresses from address-collecting spam spiders. There is also a Java version for server-side use.
SSC 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137222/
SSC is a fast paced arcade space shoot'em-up featuring many colorful bouncy balls. The game focuses on interesting play and physics themes.
SSHTerm 0.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137243/
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.
SWISH++ 5.15.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137244/
SWISH++ is a Unix-based file indexing and searching engine (typically used to index and search files on web sites). It was based on SWISH-E although SWISH++ is a complete rewrite. SWISH++ is at least 10 times faster and can handle much larger numbers of files. Additionally, it has unique features such as selective non-indexing, on-the-fly filters, user-selectable stemming, and more.
TkPhone 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137267/
TkPhone is an application that allows you to record telephone numbers in books, select the book you want to browse, select the name of a person you want to call, and call that person's number, assuming you are connected to a modem and you have the right permissions.
ViewIt 2.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137254/
ViewIt is a fast and easy to use image viewer that supports most popular image formats, including JPEG, TIFF, PNG, PSD, and more. Important features include a unique, intuitive interface, fullscreen mode, quick image sorting, printing, digital camera support, and EXIF tags. It currently includes plugins to convert file formats, create Web pages, create Finder previews, lose less JPEG transformations, support shell scripts, rename images sequentially, and to create contact sheets.
WeeChat 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137226/
WeeChat (Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat) is a fast and light IRC client for many operating systems. Everything can be done with a keyboard, and it is customizable and extensible with scripts. Many GUIs are available (Curses, Gtk, Qt, and text). It is compliant with RFCs 1459, 2810, 2811, 2812, and 2813.
WeWiMo 0.0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137262/
WeWiMo (Web WiFi Monitor) is a script for monitoring computers connected to access point running Linux and hostap WiFi card driver (ZCom XI-626).
Whoson 2.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137276/
Whoson (WHO iS ONline) is a proposed Internet protocol that allows Internet server programs know if a particular (dynamically allocated) IP address is currently allocated to a known (trusted) user and, optionally, the identity of the said user. The protocol could be used by an SMTP Message Transfer System in conjunction with anti-spam-relaying filters to implement a scheme similar to the one described here to allow roaming customers use their "home" SMTP server to submit email while connected from a "foreign" network.
xCHM 0.8.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137225/
xCHM is a graphical CHM viewer for UNIX. It's based on CHMLIB and written with wxGTK. It is able to display the topics tree, work with displayed pages history, print the current page, work with bookmarks, change fonts and fast search through all the pages of the loaded .chm document. Being indirectly dependent on GTK+, the possibility of changing GTK+ skins makes xCHM theme-friendly.
XNap 3.0-beta1 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137261/
XNap is a plugin-based filesharing client. It currently includes an OpenNap plugin with multiple server support, automatic downloading, resuming of incomplete files, chat, hotlist, and an advanced media library. It features a Swing GUI and a terminal mode.
Zmscanner 0.22
http://freshmeat.net/releases/137277/
Zmscanner is an extensible modular content filter for the Zmailer MTA. It is designed to be fast and efficient and thus suitable for high traffic mail systems.
Newsforge Reports
Sun's software revolution
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/168231
- by John O'Sullivan - I finally realized the revolution is on after reading about the Java Enterprise System in Fortune. I'd thought Sun's new software strategy was just the latest of the company's attempts at figuring out how to make money from Java. But there are three threads that together change the whole game. First is a practical, functional Linux desktop aimed at the business customer from a big and respected company. Second is a simple, ...
Strong reactions to CCIA security report give it added credibility http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/161219
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Ed Black, head of the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) -- the group that released the infamous report titled CyberInsecurity: The Cost of Monopoly (pdf download) -- says, "If it wasn't the truth, they wouldn't react so strongly." And one of the strongest reactions was from @Stake, a computer security company that fired its CTO , Dan Geer, who was one of the report's authors.
A sense of wonder at MIT Emerging Technologies Conference http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/0026221
- by Lee Schlesinger - I hear frequent advertisements on my local radio station for brain supplements. I got the same effect without a pill by attending Technology Review's Emerging Technologies Conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology this week. Speakers in various disciplines provided fascinating glimpses of future technology.
Newsforge Newsvac
Linux 2.6-test6 Development Kernel
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/28/062201
Anonymous Reader writes "Linus Torvalds released the 2.6-test6 development kernel with a number of exciting changes. Most notably this includes some impressive performance enhancements written by an Australian dentist, Con Kolivas. Additionally, it includes Al Viro's "32-bit dev_t" patch, bumping up the number of device types that can be allocated by the Linux kernel."
Browser holes lead to AIM, dial-up attacks http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/28/067226
SAN FRANCISCO, California (Reuters) -- Security holes in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser have been exploited by hackers to hijack AOL instant messaging accounts and force unsuspecting Web surfers to run up massive phone bills, computer experts cautioned Friday. Editor's note: You may want to remind Explorer-using friends that Mozilla -- a free download -- is not subject to MSIE exploits *and* it can block popups.
IBM counterclaim document
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/28/028206
Anonymous Reader writes "The official IBM counterclaim document. Yup, on SCO's site no less."
Philips Talks to Web Music Stores, Blocks WMP http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/28/026244
OwlWhacker writes "Philips, which globally ranks No. 3 behind Japan's Sony and Matsushita, has chosen not to support Microsoft's Windows Media Player in its consumer electronics products, a company spokesman said separately. "We need a technology that works, that is available to everyone, managed in a fair way and not constrained to any particular group," Blanford said."
Know Your Enemy: Sebek2 - A kernel based data capture tool http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/27/1752209
LogError writes "Sebek is a piece of code that lives entirely in kernel space and records either some or all data accessed by users on the system. This paper is a detailed discussion of Sebek, how it works and its value."
Source Mage GNU/Linux v0.7, code name Flare, released http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/27/1750209
The Source Mage GNU/Linux developers team would like to invite you to try our newest release, code named "Flare":
LinuxInstall.org supports Fedora Project http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/27/1448204
Thomas Chung writes "LinuxInstall.org supports Fedora Project The Fedora Project is a Red-Hat-sponsored and community-supported open source project. LinuxInstall.org now supports Fedora Project by offering Fedora Core 0.94 Test Release (3 CD-SET) for only $5 including basic installation support. LinuxInstall.org is planning to offer its own distribution based on Fedora Core Final Release with value added packages when it's available.
IRC Linux Help for beginners
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/27/1444237
jleveille writes "#linuxbeginner on freenode.net is a channel for beginners. we are here to help and if others want to chip in and help beginners join us."
Linux Warcry Launches
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/27/1443241
Anonymous Reader writes "Linux Warcry has now officially launched and aims to provide news and information to the Linux gamer and home user. Linux Warcry is powered by all volunteer staff and is part of the Warcry News Network providing gaming news for over 5 years."
yellowTAB Now Sells Hardware with Zeta
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/27/1435256
Anonymous Reader writes "BeOS users rejoice, it seems that BeOS is making a real come back. The German company yellowTAB started selling their Zeta operating system (based on an unreleased BeOS 6 codeline with lots of enhancements and new drivers) with hardware: buyers can get fully supported systems: Centrino laptop, P4 and AthlonXP-based desktops. Alternatively, you can buy the Zeta 1.0-RC1 OS stand-alone (with free upgrade to 1.0 when it ...
Thinkgeek
Cube Goodies: R/C Shooting Battle Tanks
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/6279/
Other Apparel: The ThinkGeek White or Black Hacker Hats http://www.thinkgeek.com/apparel/hats/6345/
Cube Goodies: SuperMag - Magnetic Genius http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/6266/
Cube Goodies: The Great Circle Challenge http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/6397/
Books: Masters Of Doom
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PC Mods: CoolerMaster Musketeer
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Computing: Auravision Mouse
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PC Mods: CoolerMaster Aerogate II
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Gadgets: Ultimate Toolkit
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/tools/62fd/
PC Mods: MSI Mega PC Barebones Kit
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Gadgets: Sidewinder Cell Phone Charger
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/tools/6383/