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Sourceforge
Aleph One 2003-05-30 Mac OS X Carbon and Windows releases
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=282073

    Aleph One plays Marathon 2, Marathon Infinity, and third-party content
    on a wide array of platforms with numerous enhancements. The new Mac OS
    X Carbon and Windows SDL 2003-05-30 releases add significantly improved
    Internet play, Lua scripting, Speex compression for realtime network
    audio (making it much more practical in Internet games), an anisotropic
    filtering option on video cards that support it, and more. 

Moodle 1.0.9 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=282100

    Moodle 1.0.9 was released recently, and contains a very long list of
    new features, performance improvements and fixes. Moodle is PHP
    software that aims to make quality online courses (eg distance
    education) easy to develop and conduct. Learning and development are
    guided using a social constructionist philosophy. Implemented on
    thousands of sites and in 30 languages. Release notes:
    http://moodle.com/doc/?frame=release.html Downloads:
    http://moodle.org/download/ 

MegaMek is June POTM
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=281659

    The good folks at SourceForge.net and Linux Magazine have declared
    MegaMek the June, 2003 Project of the Month! To celebrate, the
    project's developers are scrambling to kill all bugs (priority 4 and
    greater) and release the next stable version: v0.29. We ask all players
    to download the latest developement snapshot (currently v0.29.21) and
    help us find any bugs hiding in the code and confirm that the recent
    fixes have fixed the old bugs (see history.txt or the release notes to
    see what bugs have been fixed). 

Gimp-Print 4.3.15 (development)
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=281411

    Gimp-Print 4.3.15, released June 1, 2003, is a development release of
    this package. Like all development releases, this version is considered
    unstable and should only be used by those individuals tolerant of the
    likelihood of problems. Individuals desiring a stable release of
    Gimp-Print should use the latest 4.2 release. Gimp-Print is a suite of
    printer drivers that may be used with most common UNIX print spooling
    systems, including CUPS, lpr, LPRng, or others. These drivers provide
    high quality printing for UNIX (including Macintosh OS X 10.2 and
    newer) and Linux systems in many cases equal to or better than
    proprietary vendor-supplied drivers, and can be used for many of the
    most demanding printing tasks. This software includes the Print plug-in
    for the Gimp, and Ghostscript and CUPS drivers, including Foomatic
    data. This package requires libxml2 2.5 or above. You may need to
    install a package named "libxml2-devel" or the like on many
    distributions. The Print plugin for the Gimp requires the Gimp 1.2
    (later versions of the Gimp are not supported). You may need to install
    a package named "gimp-devel" or the like on many distributions. The
    CUPS driver requires CUPS 1.1.15 or higher. You may need to install a
    package named "cups-devel" or the like on many distributions. The
    Foomatic data will work with either Foomatic 2.x or 3.x. Foomatic 3.x
    has additional capabilities that this package detects and takes
    advantage of. The IJS-based GhostScript plugin driver requires GNU
    Ghostscript 6.53 or later, ESP Ghostscript 7.05 or later, or APFL
    GhostScript 7.04 or later. It also requires that glib 1.2 be installed.
    You may need to install a package named "glib-devel" or the like on
    many distributions. Users of Macintosh OS X 10.2 and above can use this
    package, as the printing system is based on CUPS, which is supported by
    Gimp-print. Note that Macintosh OS X 10.0 and 10.1 (including 10.1.5)
    cannot use this package. Please read the README file for full
    instructions on installing this package. Gimp-Print 4.3.15 contains the
    following major changes over Gimp-Print 4.3.14: 1) The code for
    handling ink shades and drop sizes has been extensively overhauled;
    results should be much more consistent. In particular, the same balance
    between ink shades is now used at all resolutions for a given printer,
    and the driver always tries to use the smallest ink drop size it
    usefully can. The result is that colors should be much more uniform
    across different resolutions with the same printer (particularly with
    variable drop size printers), and output should be smoother. It is
    likely (although this has not been verified) that printing is faster,
    too. There may still be some issues; please report any problems.
    Internally, this is implemented by means of a new "channel"
    architecture, which is responsible for conversions of this type. 2) A
    long-standing build problem whereby the package will not build on
    systems that already have Gimp-Print 4.2 or earlier versions of
    Gimp-Print 4.3 installed has been fixed. 3) The existing Line Art image
    optimization has been renamed to Uncorrected, which is a better
    description of its effect. There is a new Threshold mode, which simply
    computes a threshold value (either on or off for each color). 4) The
    default image optimization mode is now Photographs (which has the best
    color correction) rather than the old Line Art (which as noted above is
    now called Uncorrected). 5) An experimental driver for the Olympus
    P-300 has been added. This driver has significant limitations; the size
    of an image much closely match the size of a print from this printer.
    6) The Fast and Very Fast dither algorithms are significantly different
    from before. The Fast dither algorithm now uses the same dither pattern
    previously used by the Very Fast algorithm, and the Very Fast algorithm
    only uses the largest drop size. The Ordered algorithm should now run
    as fast as the Fast algorithm did before. 7) This package now uses
    gettext 0.11 internally. 

phpMyAdmin 2.5.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=281435

    The development team is pleased to present you version 2.5.1, which
    aims to stabilize the 2.5.x series. phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP
    intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the WWW. Currently
    it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables,
    delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on
    fields. 




Slashdot
Rescue Mission For European Space Industry
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/2322221

    [0]metz2000 writes "The New Scientist reports that the European Space
    Agency (ESA) has pledged hundreds of millions of Euros [1]to guarantee
    its independent access to space. Europe also looks set to co-operate
    with the Russian Space Agency. Looks like the space industry is hotting
    up again. How will NASA react to this news after being the dominant
    space agency over the past three decades? A lot of money is going into
    rocket technology also; with this and the 'European version' of GPS are
    we heading towards a future conflict across the Atlantic?" 
Links
    0. http://www.xaprief.com/forums
    1. 
http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/tech/article.jsp?id=99993773&sub=Hot%20Stories

Microsoft Plans An Overhaul For Patch System
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/04/0349240

    [0]sckienle writes "ZD-Net has an article about Microsoft's [1]plans to
    overhaul their patch system. 'Ninety-five percent of attacks happen
    after a patch for a known software vulnerability has been issued' says
    Scott Charney, chief trustworthy computing strategist at Microsoft.
    Basically, Scott is promoting the idea that Microsoft can do a better
    job, in many ways, so people will trust and be able to install patches
    quickly. Microsoft has a [2]transcript of Scott Charney's talk on their
    site." As reader [3]sweeney37 summarizes, " Microsoft's plan is to
    reduce the patch installers from eight to two, they want to have one
    patch installer specifically for the OS side and one specifically for
    the applications." Sweeney37 points out this [4]InformationWeek article
    on the planned change. 
Links
    0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
    1. http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-1012689.html
    2. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/teched/06-03charney.asp
    3. http://{sweene49} {at} {velotel.com}
    4. http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=10300045

Microsoft Orange SPV Phone Review
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/2326235

    [0]Ian Bell writes "HowardChui.com just posted a [1]review on
    Microsoft's new Orange SPV which is the first commercially available
    Smartphone. The SPV stands for Sound, Pictures, Video and you can
    download games like Doom or listen to MP3s on the speaker or even chat
    to your friends using the built-in MSN Messenger. But for all that the
    SPV features, there is no Bluetooth support. It still looks like a
    killer phone and I like that it is smaller than the PocketPC phones
    currently on the market." 
Links
    0. http://www.designtechnica.com
    1. http://www.howardchui.com/modules.php?name=Sections&sop=viewarticle&artid=135

SCO SCO SCO!
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/2012255

    Still more links on SCO's assorted allegations of copyright
    infringement. They say they're going to [0]sue Novell. [1]Software
    analysts refuse to be part of the hoax - also some good quotes from
    Linus here. SCO and UNIX: a [2]Comedy of Errors. Salon has a story on
    SCO too, but sadly it's not available to read freely. And Wired has an
    [3]old story which I think sums up the SCO claims pretty well. 
Links
    0. http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-1011627.html
    1. http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,81695,00.html
    2. http://www.alwayson-network.com/comments.php?id=514_0_3_0_C
    3. http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,57095,00.html

Raiders of the Lost Ark:  The Adaptation
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/1814245

    [0]jonerik writes "[1]Ain't It Cool News has an article on one of the
    more fascinating [2]fan film projects ever conceived: A shot-for-shot
    remake of [3]"Raiders of the Lost Ark" filmed in Biloxi, Mississippi
    between 1982 and 1988 by Eric Zala, Jayson Lamb and Chris Strompolis.
    What's particularly amazing is that the trio began filming the project
    when they were twelve and finished six years later when they were
    eighteen. Now, fifteen years after the project was completed, word of
    the film's existence has gotten out and audiences who have seen it have
    reportedly been stunned by the trio's ingenuity, with none other than
    "RotLA" director Steven Spielberg giving Zala, Lamb, and Strompolis a
    big thumbs-up. The complete film isn't available online, but a
    [4]trailer that gives a bit of the feel of the finished project can be
    viewed. [5]The Austin Chronicle also has [6]a story on the project." 
Links
    0. mailto:jonerik@@gis.net
    1. http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/
    2. http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/display.cgi?id=15348
    3. http://www.indianajones.com/chapter24.html#
    4. http://www.drafthouse.com/trailers/raiders.mov
    5. http://www.austinchronicle.com/
    6. http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2003-05-30/screens_feature4.html

Copyright Defeats?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/1843226

    Uruk asks: "Over the last few years, we've seen what looks like the
    victory of copyright and business interest at the expense of the
    consumer. There's been [0]The DMCA, the [1]UCITA, all of the legal
    wranging over DeCSS, and so on. Copyright holders can even [2]shut your
    website down without doing the research about whether or not it was
    appropriate. Johansen did seem to be acquited of some of what was
    brought against him as a result of [3]the DeCSS situation, but that was
    in Norway. Does anyone know of any copyright or consumer victories on
    the net in the last few years? Something that limits the abilities of
    these laws, or otherwise acts in the copyright spirit of free use? My
    hat is off to [4]GNU and [5]EFF, even [6]Project Gutenberg. What is the
    status of this ongoing battle? I'm looking for the sunny side to a
    situation that seems littered with defeat." 
Links
    0. http://anti-dmca.org/
    1. http://www.cpsr.org/program/UCITA/ucita-fact.html
    2. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30943.html
    3. http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/DeCSS_prosecutions/Johansen_DeCSS_case/
    4. http://www.gnu.org/
    5. http://www.eff.org/
    6. http://www.promo.net/pg/

Violent Video Game Restriction Struck Down
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/2031206

    [0]Nutsquasher was the first to submit news that a ban on selling
    violent video games to minors has been [1]struck down, reversing an
    earlier decision in this case that held that video games were not a
    constitutionally protected form of speech. The [2]decision (pdf) is
    available. Since the Federal government has been considering a
    [3]national law along these lines, these decisions on local laws may be
    important soon. 
Links
    0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
    1. 
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030603/ap_on_re_us/video_games_1
    2. http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data2/circs/8th/023010p.pdf
    3. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/22/196249&tid=153

Interview With Ximian's Nat Friedman
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/1952222

    Sheepish writes "OSNews features a [0]long and interesting interview
    with Nat Friedman, of [1]Ximian fame. Nat tells all and talks about the
    upcoming Ximian Desktop 2 and its differences from Gnome 2, the
    difficulties of developing the MS Exchange Connector, Linux as a
    desktop, Mono and plans for Gnome integration, the hundrends of
    OpenOffice.org changes made to make OOo like a Gnome2 app, and how
    Ximian feels... about Apple's business. Four screenshots of Ximian
    Desktop 2 are included too." 
Links
    0. http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3705
    1. http://www.ximian.com/

More on Oregon and GPS-tracked Gas Taxes
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/1715257

    An anonymous reader writes "[0]Wired has an [1]update on Oregon's
    proposed replacement for their gas tax. Currently two candidates are in
    development, the first a GPS based system that tracks where a car goes
    to determine the number of miles driven. The other is a odometer-like
    device. Both would transmit the data to base stations periodically to
    determine the tax on a vehicle. There was a [2]previous slashdot
    article." 
Links
    0. http://www.wired.com/
    1. http://www.wired.com/news/autotech/0,2554,58616,00.html
    2. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/01/1855259&tid=126

Public Domain Enhancement Act petition
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/1641229

    [0]EricEldred writes "Please sign the [1]petition and support the
    proposed Public Domain Enhancement Act. See [2]eldred.cc for details.
    'This statute would require American copyright owners to pay a very low
    fee (for example, $1) fifty years after a copyrighted work was
    published. If the owner pays the fee, the copyright will continue for
    whatever duration Congress sets. But if the copyright is not worth even
    $1 to the owner, then we believe the work should pass into the public
    domain.'" See the [3]brief description of the Act if you aren't
    familiar with what Eldred and Lessig are proposing. 
Links
    0. http://eldred.cc
    1. http://www.petitiononline.com/eldred/petition.html
    2. http://eldred.cc/
    3. http://www.eldred.cc/eablog/EldredActOnePage5.htm




Freshmeat
Addendat 0.7 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124917/

    Addendat is a weblogging (blogging) program that can accept updates
    from either a CGI interface or a shell interface. Additions are stored
    in the 'blogs pages HTML, so you can edit both entries and design in
    any ordinary text editor. Addendat is configured using a simple
    HTML-like config file format. Addendat supports multiple blogs; if you
    want, you can even put them on the same page. It does not require Java
    or Javascript. Addendat can publicize additions on a central hub, so
    web users can readily find recently-updated blogs. 

AFMF 1.0.0 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124696/

    AFMF (another freakin mail filter) provides mail filtering specifically
    designed for maildir or IMAP. It will read each message in the message
    store, apply the rules that have been defined, and then take the
    requested action when a rule hits. Rules are stored in a flat file as a
    list of regular expressions. 

Airport Control 0.7.3 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124905/

    Airport Control is a Unix command-line utility to control an Apple
    Airport Base Station. 

at76c503 linux driver 0.10 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124881/

    at76c503 is a Linux driver for the wlan USB adapter based on the Atmel
    at76c503 chip. It currently supports ad-hoc mode, infrastructure mode,
    and WEP. It supports adapters from Atmel, the Belkin F5D6050, Netgear
    MA101, and others. 

BIE 5.2.0 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124913/

    BIE (Business Integration Engine) is an open source integration system
    that makes it easy for organizations to exchange data with external
    trading partners regardless of their native applications. It competes
    in the same space as applications like Microsoft Biz Talk except that
    it is truly cross-platform since it written in Java. 

broken.miho 1.2 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124861/

    broken.miho is a blue-grey theme based on artwork by Megatokyo artist
    piro. It includes an Xwm menu screen and backgrounds for 800, 1024, and
    1152 screen resolutions. 

Catviz 0.1.0-beta2 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124619/

    Catviz is a content manager with a clean, object-oriented approach,
    full API documentation, a powerful security system (document security
    and application security), templating, Web pages with free layouts, and
    unlimited images/multimedia files. It is W3C XHTML 1.0- and
    CSS-compliant. 

CCT Chinese TeX system 0.5.0 Beta 4 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124843/

    CCT is a Chinese Language Extention to TeX that was developed by the
    Academy of Sciences in Beijing. 

CGI::Application 3.1 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124868/

    CGI::Application is intended to make it easier to create sophisticated,
    reusable web-based applications. This module implements a methodology
    which, if followed, will make your web software easier to design,
    easier to document, easier to write, and easier to evolve.
    CGI::Application builds on standard, non- proprietary technologies and
    techniques, such as the Common Gateway Interface and Lincoln D. Stein's
    excellent CGI.pm module. CGI::Application judiciously avoids employing
    technologies and techniques which would bind a developer to any one set
    of tools, operating system or web server. CGI::Application works
    exceedingly well under Apache/mod_perl. It is also fully compatible
    with any other web server (UNIX or NT) which implements the Common
    Gateway Interface. 

CodeViz 0.10 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124922/

    CodeViz is a call graph visualisation tool which uses a variety of
    different data collection methods to generate its call graphs. Using a
    modified version of the GNU Compiler, very accurate call graphs that
    precisely reflect the compiled code may be created. If using a compiler
    is undesirable, CodeViz is able to directly parse C/C++ code itself,
    and even analyse binaries with objdump, so it will work if the source
    isn't available. 

Comanche HTTP Server 6.1 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124916/

    Comanche is a Web serving platform for Smalltalk. It currently
    available for the Squeak dialect, but could be ported to other
    Smalltalk dialects without too much effort. 

Cone 0.51 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124887/

    Cone (COnsole Newsreader And Emailer) is a text-based email client. It
    seamlessly handles multiple POP3 and IMAP accounts and local mail
    folders. It is also a simple newsreader. It is designed to be foolproof
    enough to be used by inexperienced users, but also offers advanced
    features for power users. 

Coriander 0.33 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124853/

    Coriander is a GUI that let you control your 1394 digital video camera
    interactively. It features SDL display, FTP image posting, file saving,
    and Real streaming. It is for IIDC cameras, not for consumer grade DV
    cameras. 

DaveDAP 0.8.1 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124877/

    DaveDAP is a PHP LDAP administration tool which allows you to browse
    your LDAP tree, create, delete, edit, and copy objects, and perform
    searches. You can even copy objects between two LDAP servers and
    recursively delete/copy entire containers. 

DSPAM 2.6.0.65 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124872/

    DSPAM is a server-side anti-spam agent for UNIX email servers. It
    masquerades as the email server's local delivery agent and
    filters/learns SPAM using a Bayesian statistical approach which
    provides an administratively maintenance-free, self-learning Anti-Spam
    service. Each email is broken down into its most interesting tokens,
    each assigned a spam probability. All probabilities are then combined
    to produce a statistical probability of spam. This approach, applied to
    a mature corpus of email, has the potential to yield a 99.5% success
    rate with only 0.03% chance of false positives. 

Enrapture 0.3 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124912/

    Enrapture is an OpenGL-based 3D space/RPG game. It takes its influences
    from the old master piece Elite. 

F-Script 1.2.4 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124856/

    F-Script is an Open Source scripting environment for Mac OS X. F-Script
    is based on Smalltalk syntax and concepts, but instead of using
    Smalltalk's object model and frameworks, it uses Apple's Cocoa object
    model and frameworks to provide interactive and scripting access to
    Cocoa objects. It also introduces a brand new model for high level
    object oriented programming (including sophisticated object query
    capacities), based on an advanced integration between object techniques
    and array technology. Finally, it sports an innovative object browser
    for graphical interactions with Cocoa objects: interactively invoke
    methods on Cocoa objects, or on your own custom Objective-C objects,
    without writing a line of code. 

File::Scan 0.55 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124855/

    File::Scan allows users to make multiplataform virus scanners which can
    detect Windows/DOS/Mac viruses. It include a virus scanner and
    signatures database. 

FreeVMS 0.0.45 (Unstable kernel)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124896/

    FreeVMS is an OpenVMS-like operating system which can run on several
    architectures like i386, PPC, Alpha, and many others. It consists of a
    POSIX kernel and a DCL command line interpreter. The only architecture
    currently supported is i386. 

g4u 1.10 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124869/

    g4u ("ghost for unix") is a boot-floppy/CD that allows one to
    easily clone PC harddisks by using FTP. This is often done to deploy a
    common setup on a number of PCs. The floppy/CD offers two functions: it
    uploads the compressed image of a local harddisk to a FTP server, and
    then it can retrieve that image via FTP, uncompress it, and write it
    back to disk. Network configuration is fetched via DHCP. As the
    harddisk is processes as a image, any filesystem and operating system
    can be deployed using g4u. 

GAUL 0.1844 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124842/

    The Genetic Algorithm Utility Library (GAUL) is a programming library
    for evolutionary algorithms. Both steady-state and generation-based
    evolution is supported, together with the island model. GAUL supports
    the Darwinian, Lamarckian, and Baldwininan evolutionary schemes.
    Standard mutation, crossover, and selection operators are provided,
    while code hooks additionally allow custom operators. It provides data
    structures and functions for handling and manipulation of the data
    required for a genetic algorithm. Additional stochastic algorithms are
    provided for comparison to the genetic algorithms. Much of the
    functionality is also available through a simple S-Lang interface. 

gm4lin 1.2.3 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124894/

    gm4lin is a Linux driver for the serial port GM-45 (and GM-10, but
    calibration is wrong for that one) radiation detector. The driver is
    able to handle virtually any number of detectors connected to a single
    computer and to log data to the screen, to ASCI files or to a MySQL
    database (local or remote). Average activity and pulse mode with a fake
    RC decay are available in order to come as close as possible to common
    analog radiations detectors. This is console-only software. 

Group-Office 1.05 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124848/

    Group-office is Web-based office suite written in PHP that is
    extensible with modules. It features user management (optionally
    synchronized with system and Samba), module management, an e-mail
    client, a file manager, a scheduler, and project management. 

gSoko 0.4.2 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124927/

    gSoko is GTK+ clone of Sokoban, a puzzle game where you have to push
    boxes over special squares. 

Gwget2 0.3 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124858/

    Gwget2 is a Gnome2 front-end to wget. 

Horgand 0.90 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124813/

    Horgand is a graphical FM real time organ. It is jack capable, with DSP
    effects to emulate and store organ sounds. 

icoutils 0.20.0 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124885/

    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. 

initscripts-generic 7.14-1 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124727/

    initscripts-generic is a modified version of the initscripts package
    included in Red Hat's Linux distribution. It is modified to allow more
    versatile usage of ppp interfaces, such as with different tunneling
    systems. It isn't very useful by itself, but is a prerequisite for some
    other packages. 

initscripts-vpn 1.0-1 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124728/

    initscripts-vpn is a "plugin" for Red Hat Linux systems that
    allows you to easily create secure, encrypted tunnels between routers.
    It uses SSH for the encryption and PPP for the tunnel. These two pieces
    of software are almost always installed on any Linux system. The
    package integrates into Red Hat's initscripts and won't work without
    it. The modified initscripts-generic package is needed to use
    initscripts-vpn. 

Inside Systems Mail 1.5.3a 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124924/

    Inside Systems Mail is a Webmail system that is programmed in PHP,
    makes heavy use of Javascript/DOM, and is designed to work with any
    IMAP server (including Microsoft Exchange). It aims to be quick and
    easy to use, with an interface that most users will find familiar and
    several options that help fine tune the Webmail experience. 

Interactive Television Publishing System 0.4 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124911/

    The Interactive Television Publishing System (ITPS) offers a simple way
    to produce ATVEF-A compliant ETV features. At the heart of the system
    is a database that separates form (in this case, device-specific markup
    code) from content (text and images appropriate to show segments).
    Database content is published to HTML via Perl using device-specific
    modules. A handful of additional static HTML pages, such as the search
    form, make up the remainder of the code required to support a
    particular client device. Devices are routed to appropriate pages via a
    "sniffer" page, implemented using the XSSI syntax available
    in Apache 1.3 or higher. 

ipkungfu 0.5.0 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124906/

    IPKungFu is an iptables-based Linux firewall. It aims to simplify the
    configuration of Internet connection sharing, port forwarding, and
    packet filtering. 

ispbs 2.3.7b 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124824/

    ispbs (internet service provider billing system) is a free user
    management and billing system designed for ISP, hosting, and voip
    providers. It uses functions of PHP, Java, MySQL, and shell scripts.
    Its main features include automated invoicing, client search by
    name/account name/credit card number/business name, automatic email or
    paper billing, balance tracking, past due balance reminder, suspend and
    unsuspend customer, automatic account creation and removal, support for
    hosting, dial-up, DNS zone, email account, or voip, administration of
    an unlimited number of Unix servers, a Web-based interface, qmail
    support, multiple customizable packages, and more. 

jGnash 1.5.0 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124857/

    jGnash is a personal finance application written in Java. A JVM of 1.4
    or greater is required. jGnash supports basic account types and simple
    investment accounts at this time. jGnash has support for split
    transactions, nested accounts, and currencies. jGnash can import QIF
    files excluding investment accounts and transactions. Data is stored in
    an XML format so it is easy to manipulate and read the data external to
    the program. 

JSVN 0.6 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124866/

    JSVN is a Java graphical front-end to the Subversion revision control
    system. It uses the svn CLI instead of JNI for repository access, and
    includes Ant tasks for accessing Subversion repositories and a plugin
    for IntelliJ IDEA. It is 100% Java, very small, and very portable. 

JZlib 1.0.2 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124889/

    JZlib is a re-implementation of zlib in pure Java. The first and final
    aim for hacking this was to add packet compression support to pure Java
    SSH systems. 

KDE Interactive Geometry 0.5.1 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124864/

    KDE Interactive Geometry (KIG) is a program for use in math classes in
    high school, much like KGeo, KSeg, Dr. Geo, and Cabri. It allows
    students to interactively explore geometric concepts. 

KGSueMe 0.1 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124765/

    KGSSueMe aims to provide a sample implementation of a client for the
    popular Kiseido Go Server. The project stresses documenting the
    protocol by giving developers code, so that they can write their own
    clients, rather than to provide a featureful client. 

KRconLinux 0.1RC2 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124899/

    KRconLinux is a KDE tool for querying and managing game servers like
    Half-Life mods (Counter Strike, Dod, etc.), Quake series, and more. It
    features a console to send rcon commands, a server log receiver, an
    (incomplete) IRC bot to monitor the games, and a chat console to
    interact with the players inside the game. It is capable of listing the
    available server maps and changing them, establishing server settings
    via configuration files, changing the current server password, updating
    and modifying the server ban list, kicking and banning players, and
    changing server variables. 

Ktctool 1.0 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124878/

    Ktctool is a graphical user interface to tc, a commandline program for
    network bandwidth management in Linux. With Ktctool you can view
    information about tc objects (qdiscs, classes, filters), create and
    change qdiscs (CBQ, DSMARK, FIFO, PRIO, RED, SFQ, TBF, Ingress), create
    and change classes, create filters (fw, route, tcindex, u32), add
    police info, delete tc objects, get help about any parameter, view and
    edit the logfile of executed tc commands, view a hierarchical structure
    of all tc objects, and more. 

Libckpt 1.01 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124862/

    Libckpt is a portable checkpointing tool for Unix. It provides a
    mechanism for enabling fault-tolerance for long-running programs.
    Libckpt implements most optimizations that have been proposed to
    improve the performance of checkpointing. Additionally, it implements
    "user-directed" checkpointing, a new optimization unique to
    Libckpt. 

libSigC++ Extras 0.6.4 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124900/

    libSigC++ Extras is a library consisting of new features built on top
    of libSigC++ and features that formerly were in libSigC++ and were
    removed from it. The new features focus on thread support and provide
    type safe inter-thread communication. 

log4cxx 0.0.1 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124907/

    log4cxx is a port to C++ of the log4j project. 

Mamory 0.2.6 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124926/

    Mamory is a library for ROM management in emulator-related projects. It
    also has a CLI client. 

Meltdowns Anti Advertise 1.2 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124655/

    Meltdowns Anti Advertise is an anti-advertising script that checks for
    public and private messages, notices, and onjoin messages, and kicks
    and bans offenders that aren't known to the bot. Each
    "forbidden" word can be associated with its own kick message
    and can be listed, added, and deleted on the fly. It also provides
    statistics that can be calculated by month, week, day, or hour. 

microCODE PHP encoder 0.98 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124875/

    microCODE allows you to encode your PHP script before publication. This
    allows you to protect your code against unauthorized viewing or
    modification by third parties. This is in particular required with
    commercial applications where protection of intellectual property is
    important. 

midriff 1.22 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124892/

    MIDRIFF is an easy-to-understand, CGI-based tool for implementing
    dynamic Web forms, data views, and other content. It includes an
    embedded SQL database and can also be linked with embedded charting
    package (ploticus). The result is fast development of active,
    graphically rich Web content, with low administrative burden. It allows
    you to download, install (without root privileges), and build real
    dynamic Web-based database applications and prototypes quickly, and
    deliver applications with no dependencies on other systems such as
    MySQL or PHP. It has minimal administration requirements, and requires
    no control over a Web server and no special server modules. 

Mini-XML 0.9 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124914/

    Mini-XML is a small XML parsing library that you can use to read XML
    and XML-like data files in your application without requiring large
    non-standard libraries. It only requires an ANSI C compatible compiler
    (GCC works, as do most vendors' ANSI C compilers) and a
    "make" program. Mini-XML was created to support the basic
    hierarchy provided by XML and some simple data types, but doesn't do
    validation or other types of processing on the data. 

mod_auth_any 1.3.2 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124909/

    mod_auth_any is an Apache DSO module that allows arbitrary
    authentication mechanisms. It allows users to specify a command line
    program to use for Apache's basic server security authentication. 

MPEG Menu System Version2 0.73 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124933/

    MPEG Menu System Version2 is a menu system for easy movie and audio
    playback. It is controlled using a remote control or keyboard. It
    supports dxr3 output and framebuffer output. 

MUSCLE 2.40 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124841/

    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. 

myDVDs 2.1 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124873/

    myDVDs is a complete personal Web-based graphical DVD inventory
    database based fully upon PHP with a MySQL backend and the master
    Region1 DVD database. Additionally, it makes use of the :CueCat:
    barcode reader for database Adds and Searches. It represents an easy
    and efficient way of managing that ever-growing collection of DVDs. 

NSD 1.0.2 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124920/

    NSD is a complete implementation of an authoritative DNS nameserver. 

OutGoing 0.6 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124860/

    OutGoing is a Perl script that is designed to aid with financial
    planning. It takes a list of your regular monthly outgoings and
    generates an HTML file that details the total amount of money going out
    for the month, a week-by-week breakdown, and a list of the payments
    left during the remainder of the month. 

OZradio 0.9.5.2d beta 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124865/

    OZradio is a Linux FM radio player for KDE and GNOME. It supports
    BTTV-compatible FM and TV cards. It features the ability to save up to
    10 preset stations, a sound mixer, volume control, a mute button,
    automatic frequency scanning, on-demand recording and replay of radio,
    and programmable recording. 

PAM/NSS-DCE for Linux 1.2 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124890/

    PAM/NSS-DCE for Linux is a nice and portable way to integrate Linux
    clients into existing DCE/DFS environments. The basic idea is to make
    use of PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) and NSS (Name Service
    Switch). DFS access is gained using the so-called NFS to DFS gateway
    that comes with DCE/DFS. A PAM module is used to authenticate against
    the DCE registry and to set up the appropriate NFS/DFS mappings. A
    separate NSS module is responsible for the name service lookups. 

porn.pl 0.42 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124910/

    porn.pl gets a list of domains from hosts linking to porn sites. The
    list is used by squid to block the hosts. There's also a whitelist
    feature. 

prometeo 1.3 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124839/

    Prometeo is a modular, extensible proxy. It comes with HTTP, FTP (with
    SSL support), POP3, and SSL modules. Modules can be added or removed at
    runtime and everything can be configured through a Web interface. 

Python Desktop Server 0.5.1 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124852/

    The Python Desktop Server is a combined Weblog authoring tool,
    XMLRPC/SOAP server, and news aggregator. It allows one to read RSS news
    feeds, post to a community server (such as Radio Userland or any Python
    Community Server installation), and includes tools for Weblog and
    homepage management. It features a Web interface, a built-in Web
    server, extensibility through scripts that connect via XMLRPC or
    macros, and a plugin architecture. 

RabbIT 2.0.26 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124923/

    RabbIt is the mutating, caching webproxy which is used to speed up
    surfing over slow links like modems. It does this by removing
    advertising and background images and scaling down images to low
    quality JPEGs. RabbIT is written in Java and should be able to run on
    any platform. It does depend upon an image converter if imagescaleing
    is on. The recommended image converter is "convert" from the
    ImageMagick package. 

Retro Native Forth Release 6 (Build 8a) (RETRO6)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124863/

    Retro is a clean, usable Forth-based operating system. It attempts to
    be a simpler and easier-to-use alternative to more complex operating
    systems. 

RPL/2 4.00pre6k (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124895/

    RPL/2 (Reverse Polish Lisp/2) is a langage derived from the RPL made by
    Hewlett-Packard for its HP-28S. It has some extensions (preprocessor,
    compilated libraries, new functions), a TeX output, and can draw
    graphics. 

SAOL 0.98 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124838/

    The Structured Audio Orchestra Language is a powerful, flexible
    language for describing music synthesis, and integrating synthetic
    sound with "natural" (recorded) sound in an MPEG-4 bitstream.
    It is not only a method of synthesis, but a streaming format
    appropriate for WWW-based (or any other channel) transmission of audio
    data. The 'saolc' package contains a program for encoding score and
    orchestras into the streaming format, and facility for decoding this
    format (so it can be used as a WWW helper app). 

SCMxx 0.6.3.8 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124918/

    SCMxx is a console program that allows you to exchange certain types of
    data with mobile phones made by Siemens. Some of the data types that
    can be exchanged are logos, ring tones, vCalendars, vCards, phonebook
    entries, and SMS messages. It works with the following phones: S25,
    C35i, M35i, S35i, ME45, S45, SL45, M50, and probably some others, too.
    It basically uses the AT command set published by Siemens (with some
    other additional resources). 

Serveez 0.1.5 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124915/

    Serveez is a server framework which provides routines and help for
    implementing IP-based servers (TCP, UDP, and ICMP). It is also possible
    to use named pipes for all connection-oriented protocols. The package
    includes a number of servers that work already: an HTTP server, an IRC
    server, a Gnutella spider, and some others. One of the highlights is
    that you can run all protocols on the same port. The application itself
    is single-threaded, but it uses helper processes for concurrent name
    resolution and ident lookups. 

shsql 1.22 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124893/

    shsql is a a reasonably full-featured, efficient SQL database for
    Unix/Linux that can be downloaded and installed by a non-privileged
    user in 5 minutes. It can be embedded directly into applications
    requiring no persistent server process, has a small code size and
    memory footprint, uses plain ASCII whitespace-delimited data files
    which can be modified in a text editor, and is easy to administer. It
    can be used for rapid prototyping situations, demos, exploratory work,
    one-developer projects, etc. where full-blown packages like MySQL or
    Oracle aren't already available or are unacceptable. 

SII 1.0 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124604/

    SII is a theme inspired by the Axios theme for E16. 

Simple Python Blogger 0.7.2 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124846/

    Simple Python Blogger is a small Python script to handle entries,
    users, sessions, and comments of a blog. the files are very simple to
    edit, change, and set up. Entries are stored in XML. The script also
    generates an RSS feed of the recent subjects and their authors. 

SPIP 1.6 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124870/

    SPIP is an open-source, free publication system on the Internet, mainly
    targetted at individuals, informal groups, and non-profit
    organizations. It allows contributive writing and managing of Web sites
    having a magazine-like structure (i.e., articles and short stories
    contained in nested sections), while not needing any HTML skills
    (except for defining the layout templates). 

The HT Editor 0.7.2 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124901/

    HT is a file editor/viewer/analyzer for executables. The goal is to
    combine the low-level functionality of a debugger and the usability of
    IDEs. 

The SlotSig library 0.1 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124874/

    The SlotSig library tries to provide a solution to the common problem
    of sending messages between various C++ classes (this has nothing to do
    with Corba or KDE's DCOP). Similar solutions to this problem can also
    be found in Qt or libsigc++, but this library tries to be both simpler
    to use and smaller. It also provides better type-checking at
    compile-time to avoid finding errors at runtime, when it's usually too
    late. 

The Tamber Project 1.2.8 (Pogo)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124884/

    The Tamber project is a free, componentised n-tier website engine that
    uses open languages such as XML and JavaScript. In a nutshell, content
    is stored in separate XML files, in databases, or other data objects;
    business functions are carried out by JavaScript and ASP; and
    presentation is controlled by an XSL transformation, which allows for
    delivery over multiple channels such as HTML, WAP and email. Currently
    Tamber contains modules that support; automatic locale detection,
    search engine tracking and optimisation, e-commerce catalogues;
    shopping carts and order management, secure sign in, data access and
    conversion services, advanced session management, content managemt
    tools and forums. 

Thy 0.6.175 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124871/

    Thy is a lightweight httpd designed to be clean and fast, yet powerful
    enough to serve many hits a day. 

Time Passes 0.2 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124830/

    Time Passes is a theme with mist lying among green trees. The
    background is by netghost (Adam Sanderson). 

TinyButStrong 1.80 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124851/

    TinyButStrong is a template class for PHP that allows you to generate
    HTML pages using MySQL, ODBC, SQL Server, or ADODB databases. It is
    possible to design templates using any visual HTML editor (like
    Dreamweaver or FrontPage). It features simple block management, useful
    display formats, conditional displaying for blocks and locators, a
    cache system, and the ability to include other HTML pages and execute
    associated scripts. 

tuneroid 0.9.3 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124886/

    tuneroid is a tuner for variety of musical instruments for KDE 3. It is
    designed to tune musical instruments on a PC using a microphone or
    directly connecting the instrument to the PC's sound card. 

viPlugin 0.0.5 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124847/

    viPlugin is an Eclipse plugin that adds vi functionality to the editors
    that are provided with Eclipse (JDT, CDT, ...). 

Virtual Universe / Virtual Worlds 0.26 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124891/

    VU/VW is a 3D cyberspace which offers more possibilities than just
    chat: it is a combination of the Web, chat, and instant messaging
    within a realistic, three-dimensional cyberspace. Here people can meet,
    interact with each other, and build houses and whole worlds. The
    Virtual Universe is a virtual reality environment which runs on top of
    the Internet. 

Visopsys 0.2 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124904/

    Visopsys is a new operating system for PC compatible computers. It has
    been in development since late 1997. The kernel is small and fast,
    operates exclusively in 32-bit mode, and features real preemptive
    multi-tasking and virtual memory. The package includes a small suite of
    UNIX- and DOS-like commands, with which most users will be familiar,
    although Visopsys is not - and does not try to be - a clone of any
    existing OS. The binary distribution features an easy-to-use Java
    installation program, which works on Linux, Windows, and Solaris. You
    can install and demo the distribution on a floppy disk. 

Wings 3D 0.98.10a 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124849/

    Wings 3D is a polygon mesh modeller with a user interface that is easy
    to use for both beginners and advanced users. 

XML Security Library 1.0.2 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124882/

    XML Security Library is a C library based on LibXML2. It provides an
    implementation for major XML security standards: XML Digital Signature
    and XML Encryption. 

XPlot 0.5 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124888/

    XPlot is a Mathematics function plotting program based on OpenGL. It
    can be used to plot functions in 2 and 3 dimension. It will accommodate
    many of the needs of high school students for graphic data
    representation. 

zonemanip 0.1.1 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124876/

    zonemanip is a command line tool for manipulating records in a gmysql
    backend for PowerDNS. It supports delegating ownership of specific
    zones to specific shell users by maintaining a minimal amount of
    metadata. Currently, most record types except AAAA and PTR records are
    supported. 

zpop3d 0.8.9 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124854/

    zpop3d is an RFC 1939-compliant POP3 server. It features virtual
    domains support, POP before SMTP, and secure mailbox updates. It runs
    through tcpserver, xinetd, or the like. 




Slashcode
Handling logging issues
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/22/0533218

    I'm using cronolog for my apache logs, and I really, really like it.
    I'd like to be able to use it on the slash logs as well, which become
    large and cumbersome over time with many sites running on a server. How
    do you all handle your logs? What do you use for log rotation? How long
    do you keep logs? Is anyone using cronolog, or something like it with
    slash? 

RSS to Story?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/21/1727241

    Hi, I'm looking for a way to grab remote RDF and post them as stories.
    portald seems only to handle blocks. I'm aware of the elixus.org, and
    the RSS2Story plugin in their patch of slashcode, but I can't get the
    plugin installed, and it seems to be left unfinished. So is there any
    other way to do this? 

launch of slash site "stupidsecurity.com"
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/18/2133212

    Announcing the opening of StupidSecurity.com. The site is meant to be a
    chronicle of idiotic and deceptive "security" measures. From the "three
    questions" that the airlines finally stopped asking to the closing of
    Meigs Airport in Chicago supposedly for security reasons, we want YOUR
    gripes about security measures that are just plain dumb! I'd welcome
    submissions (the stupider the better!), comments, complaints, and
    praise! 

MySQL 4.1+
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/1639224

    I want to start using MySQL 4.1 to take advantage of the new Spatial
    extensions in MySQL to further enhance my plugin. I saw the recent
    story referring to using MySQL 4, but no direct mention of experience
    with versions 4+. Any tips or recommendations? Should I make the
    upgrade only on my development box, or is using 4+ okay. Any experience
    with 4.1, which is alpha? 

Section-specific Quick Links
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/1540217

    I'm in the process of setting up a intranet Slash 2 site for a company.
    With the aid of the Crow Book I've got everything installed and with
    the L'n'F that they want, and we are in the process of adding some
    initial content and getting the blocks running the way they want.
    However, we're having problems getting section-specific quick links
    blocks to work. Example: I have a section called legal, and a block
    called legal_qlinks which has different links to index_qlinks.
    index_qlinks shows up on the homepage as I expect, but nothing is
    displayed in the right "frame" if I click no the section title under an
    article. What am I doing wrong? The Crow Book (page 127) suggests that
    this should work. 

Need help building Slash templates
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/13/1634251

    I have comps for a site I want built in Slash. While I have worked with
    Movable Type, building Slash templates is a whole different beast. I
    need someone to help me convert my comps into a functioning Slash site.
    If you have these skills, please drop me a line with your rates and
    scheduling availability. You can see what the site will look like here.
    --Markos 

Preventing duplicates from being posted
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/10/2021250

    I'm getting sick of seeing duplicate posts all the time on Slashdot. I
    have a feature-request/enhancement that I would like to request for
    slashcode. It would be nice if before a moderator submits a story to
    check all of the URLS in that post and match it with the previous
    weeks/months stories for the same URL. If there is a match, throw up a
    warning saying that this story is a possible duplicate. This will help
    the moderator out too, since they wouldn't have to read every story on
    slashdot in the past two weeks. What do you think? Is this doable?
    --Min Idzelis 

Vorlonspace Is Back
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/08/0415234

    Announced back in October last year, Vorlonspace was launched as a
    Babylon 5 discussions site. In late January, the site went down and was
    taken off the YASS list. It is now back up and the premise has changed
    from Babylon 5 to a general sci-fi discussion site which has generated
    more interest. 

Adding ispell after slash is installed
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/08/0414234

    Hi, I read the (archived) thread at:
    http://ask.slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/03/22/1 724238&mode=thread
    and I have "Running Weblogs with Slash", so I know that "... Slash 2.2
    has added an ispell compatibility mode. If the ispell program exists
    and points to an ispell binary, the Edit Story page will include a list
    of potentially misspelled words.)" (thanks blagger), but I don't know
    how exactly what to add, and into what directory,. I installed freebsd
    5.0, then built and installed the slashcode port, and now I've
    installed ispell. I then tried adding symlinks to ispell into various
    directories, including /usr/local/slash/bin, and restarting my browser
    and the freebsd box. Nothing obvious changes. Can someone tell me
    exactly which file to put where to enable spell-checking? I'm running
    slash-2.2.6 on Freebsd 5.0. Thanks... P.S. Sorry if I misspelled
    anything, but... 

Shouldn't Slash Be Represented at OSCOM 3?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/02/171253

    I found out that OSCOM 3, The Open Source Content Management
    Conference, is taking place in Cambridge, MA, from May 28-30. I was
    surprised to see that Slash does not appear to be represented in any
    way. I posted a story to CTDATA suggesting that our community try to
    represent itself in some fashion. If anyone wants to discuss how we can
    influence the organizers of this conference to include a Slash
    presentation, please email me at dave_aiello at ctdata.com. 




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