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Slashdot
Success Despite College Rejection
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/31/2028257
selan writes "Are those who are rejected by prestigious schools
destined to lead mediocre lives? Or are great people more likely to
succeed if they were rejected by top universities? An inspirational
[0]column in the [1]Washington Post discusses the "Spielberg Effect", a
theory that it really doesn't matter where you went to school."
Links
0. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58951-2002Dec31.html
1. http://washingtonpost.com/
Microsoft Forced To Translate Office Into Nynorsk
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/31/2256213
An anonymous reader writes "[0]Beeb reports, "The main organisation
working for the Nynorsk language got most of Norway's high schools to
threaten to boycott all Microsoft software if they didn't come up with
a New Norwegian version of Office." Which brings up questions for Open
Source developers: What's involved in translating programs? Is there a
process that can be followed to make the inevitable easier? Is there a
group providing guidelines for this already? -- Do you work in program
translation? Step up and do tell."
Links
0. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2615363.stm
Listen to Webpages While Driving
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/31/2045257
[0]dimitril writes "Tired of sitting in your car for hours and
practically doing nothing but listening to the radio or the same CD for
the fifth time? You could use those hours by reading your websites with
[1]this little project. You will love those traffic jams!"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://users.pandora.be/dimitri.larmuseau/webtalker/index.html
E ~ mc^2
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/31/2030246
[0]DrBlake writes "New York Times has an [1]article about a study of
Einsteins theory of relativity that I found very interesting. Not only
might the speed of light be relative under certain circumstances, the
famous equation E=mc2 might not be entirely correct."
Links
0. mailto:j...carlin@@@attbi...com
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/31/science/physical/31LIGH.html
The 20th Anniversary of the Internet
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/14/2044252
[0]Ross Finlayson writes "In [1]a message posted to the IETF general
mailing list, Bob Braden reminds us that, on January 1st, 2003, 20
years will have passed since "the most logical date of origin of the
Internet [...] when the ARPANET officially switched from the NCP
protocol to TCP/IP". And the rest is history..."
Links
0. http://www.live.com/
1. http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/ietf/Current/msg18554.html
New Year's Eve Wrap-Up of Wrap-Ups
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/31/1833244
spydink writes "The Radio Netherlands website [0]http://www.rnw.nl has
a good [1]hour-by-hour listing of potential local time live webcasts
from around the world. May be helpful for those who want to raise a
glass to the New Year every hour on the hour." (And there's some good
news about that, too.) Read on for a few more end-of-year items, which
you'll no doubt be seeing more of besides.
Links
0. http://www.rnw.nl/
1. http://www.rnw.nl/realradio/features/html/newyear021227a.html
Tai Chi Robots
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/31/2056255
dknight writes "It seems that [0]Chinese scientists are currently
developing a robot which is capable of doing tai chi. The robot is
being developed by the Beijing University of Science and Engineering,
and is touted to be a great breakthrough in worker safety, as these
robots could be used to perform dangerous work. They are supposedly
able to sense changes in the slope of the earth around them (hills,
etc.) and balance themselves out."
Links
0.
http://www.smh.com.au/cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2002/12/30/1041196584677.html
Going Through the Garbage
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/31/1938231
[0]frankejames writes "This is a very funny piece on how Portland
politicians said it was okay for police to seize a citizen's garbage
without a search warrant. But when some reporters swiped their garbage
(and reported the contents!) they screamed foul play! Read
[1]Portland's top brass said it was OK to swipe your garbage--so we
grabbed theirs."
Links
0. mailto:franke@nerdheav e n .com
1. http://www.wweek.com/flatfiles/News3485.lasso
"Decasia": The Beauty of Film Decay
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/31/1756229
[0]tregoweth writes "The New York Times has [1]a story about
'[2]Decasia,' a film created entirely from deteriorating nitrate film
footage. Ya can't beat analog for interesting disintegration."
Links
0. http://tregoweth.com/
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/22/magazine/22DECAY.html
2. http://www.decasia.com/
802.11g Hardware Arrives
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/31/1943224
DBordello writes "There's been quite a scramble as networking companies
the world over [0]rush to be the first to bring their 802.11g wireless
gear to market. Linksys missed their [1]early December launch date, and
a company named Buffalo Technology has risen to [2]steal their thunder.
The company today issued a [3]press release announcing their AirStation
G54 broadband router access point and wireless CardBus adapter, the
first 802.11g draft standard hardware to hit the market. More
information can be found at the [4]company's website." Update: 12/31
21:35 GMT by [5]M: The story submitter apparently found this blurb on
[6]broadbandreports.com. Hey people, give credit where it's due.
Update: 12/31 22:50 GMT by [7]T: Karen Sohl of Linksys writes to say
that despite the slip in dates, "Linksys is shipping our line of
Wireless-G products. We have been shipping since last week. Honestly
not large volume by any means-- but by the end of this week we'll have
shipped over 10,000 units to distribution -- Ingram Micro and Tech
Data." That's where even large retailers (think Amazon) buy their
stock.
Links
0. http://www.cmpnetasia.com/ViewArt.cfm?Artid=18220&Catid=5&subcat=48
1. http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20021121S0007
2.
http://www.e-insite.net/eb-mag/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA268135&spacedesc=news
3. http://www.unstrung.com/document.asp?doc_id=26276&site=unstrung
4. http://www.buffalotech.com/wireless/products/wbr-g54/index.php
5. mailto:michael@@slashdot.org
6. http://www.broadbandreports.com/shownews/24808
7. http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
Freshmeat
Automated Password Agent 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108020/
Automated Password Agent is an Expect/Tcl program for changing the
passwords of various services. It includes a Web interface.
bash programmable completion 20021231
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108027/
Since v2.04, bash has allowed you to intelligently program and extend
its standard completion behavior to achieve complex command lines with
just a few keystrokes. Imagine typing ssh [Tab] and being able to
complete on hosts from your ~/.ssh/known_hosts files. Or typing man 3
str [Tab] and getting a list of all string handling functions in the
UNIX manual. mount system: [Tab] would complete on all exported
file-systems from the host called system, while make [Tab] would
complete on all targets in Makefile. This project was conceived to
produce programmable completion routines for the most common Linux/UNIX
commands, reducing the amount of typing sysadmins and programmers need
to do on a daily basis.
Bonobo UI Library 2.0.3.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107923/
The Bonobo UI Library provides UI code for Bonobo, the Object
Activation Framework for GNOME 2. Bonobo has a similar purpose to
gnorba, the GNOME 1.x CORBA activation library, and will replace it for
GNOME 2.0. It allows you to do much more powerful activation queries
than gnorba. Each server is described by an XML file that defines its
attributes. When querying or activating, you can specify complex
requirements using the OAF query language.
Cherokee 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108002/
Cherokee is a tiny, ultrafast, lightweight Web server. It is
implemented entirely in C, and has no dependencies beyond a standard C
library. It provides only the most basic HTTP functionality, but is
extremely fast and small.
Cow Outputs Waves 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108024/
Cow is something like a waveform editor in that it generates a wave
file from one or more graphs for amplitude and frequency. A graphical
user interface simplifies this process.
cvsknit 0.9.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107992/
CvsKnit allows knitting up a CVS Repository from existing source
packages with their original release dates. If you have non-CVS-managed
packages and want to start revision management with CVS, this maybe
useful.
Dark Order 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108011/
Dark Order is a deep black and red theme.
Deep Blue 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108008/
Deep Blue is a theme built around an ocean background.
Diet Monger Ass Kicker 2002-12-31
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107980/
Diet Monger Ass Kicker is a program for designing diets to your own
specifications. It allows nutrients and foods to be sorted and filtered
into categories such as the food groups, raw only, no salt, or not
dried. Calculations are made according to specified minimums and
maximums, and using data from the USDA database of 6000 foods and 101
nutrients.
Dolphin SCI drivers 1.29
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108029/
SCI is a high-speed point-to-point networking technology, using SCI
adaptors. The Dolphin SCI drivers in this package will work under
Linux, VxWorks, Solaris, Lynx, and Windows NT/2000. They are aimed at
Dolphin's SCI adaptor cards. The latency of the driver itself is around
1.4us. It's intended for use in clusters that need the extra
performance. Note that the drivers are GPL, and the bundled libraries
are LGPL.
Dragon Breath p_27_12_2002
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108007/
Dragon Breath is the name of a generic development and application
framework that is heavily based on PostgreSQL and PHP. It contains
different layers which wrap business logic, data, and any graphical
interface. It opens up and eases development in the field of graphical
user interfaces and data management. The interface layer is built upon
XSLT rendering, which allows the rendering of displays for different
interfaces like Web browsers, PDAs, mobile phones, and others. The
database layer depends on PostgreSQL's features and allows a common
exchange of data with any kind of data structure. It even contains
built in sanity checks for data integrity.
FireHOL R5 v1.59
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108023/
FireHOL is an iptables stateful firewall configuration tool that allows
you to configure your firewall the same way you think of it (e.g.
client samba accept, server DNS accept). Its goal is to be completely
abstracted so that you can configure any kind of firewall, but also
easy to use, audit, and understand. It supports Linux hosts and routers
with any number of network interfaces, it knows a large number of
services, and you can configure it to support any additional service
you like. It can turn any service into a server, a client, or a router
and easily handles complex positive and negative expressions.
GCompris 2.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108019/
GCompris is a complete educational suite for children 3 to 10 years
old. It is activity-based, and currently includes more than 30
activities. It offers activities dedicated to little kids which teach
them how to use a mouse and keybord. It teaches letters, numbers, and
words, basic algebra training, reading time on an analog clock, and
much more.
GENDIST 1.4.8 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107989/
GENDIST (the Linux Distribution Generator) allows you to easily create
your own special distribution. It creates a makefile-based build system
for your distribution, and helps you to automate the following three
tasks: maintaining your root filesystem, maintaining your "CD
filesystem" (in case you create a bootable CD), and packaging
everything on media.
getID3() 1.5.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108036/
getID3() is a PHP script that extracts useful information from MP3s and
other multimedia file formats. It extracts information like the play
time, bitrate, and resolution from the following file formats: MP3, Ogg
Vorbis, WAV, AVI, MPEG-1 video, Windows Media (ASF, WMA, WMV),
RealAudio & RealVideo, Monkey's Audio, FLAC, VQF, MPEGplus /
Musepack / SV7, AAC, Quicktime, NSV, MIDI, ZIP, BMP, PNG, GIF, and
JPEG. It parses information from ID3v1, ID3v2, Ogg Vorbis, Lyrics3 v1
& v2, RIFF (AVI, WAV, CDA), APE, ReplayGain, PNG, and GIF tags, and
can write ID3v1, ID3v2, and OggVorbis tags.
GNOME Mime Data 2.0.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107921/
GNOME Mime Data is a module which contains the base MIME and
Application database for GNOME. It is meant to be accessed through the
MIME functions in GnomeVFS.
grafist 1.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108003/
Grafist is a bandwidth utilization viewer. It gets the bandwidth
utilization information for network interfaces from the /proc/net/dev
file in 15-second periods, and stores it in four data files (daily,
weekly, monthly, and yearly). When a request is sent to index.php, it
executes four programs to create graphics (using the GD library) and a
summary for each file. Grafist provides localization support for 24
languages.
grepmail 4.91
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108037/
grepmail searches a normal or compressed mailbox (gzip, bzip2, or tzip)
for a given regular expression and returns those emails that match the
query. It also supports searches constrained by date and size.
grsecurity 1.9.8 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108026/
grsecurity is a complete security system for Linux 2.4 that implements
a detection/prevention/containment strategy. It prevents most forms of
address space modification, confines programs with least privilege via
its process-based MAC system, hardens syscalls, and provides many of
the OpenBSD randomness features. It was written for performance,
ease-of-use, and security. The MAC system has an intelligent
learning-mode, and all of grsecurity supports a feature that logs the
IP of the attacker that causes an alert or audit.
Gtk-Perl Flash Cards 0.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107871/
GtK-Perl Flash Cards reads questions and answers from a text file
called flash.dat and helps students prepare for exams. The odd lines
contain the questions and the even lines contain the answers. Difficult
questions start with a D, and easy question start with an E. A sample
database file is included in the tgz file.
ImageMagick 5.5.3-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108031/
ImageMagick (TM) is a package for the automated and interative
manipulation of images. It supports the display and interactive
manipulation of images when used with the X Window System. Although the
software is copyrighted by ImageMagick Studio, it is available for free
and can be redistributed without fee. ImageMagick may be used as a
component of both open source and proprietary applications. ImageMagick
compiles and runs under Unix, Linux, Windows '95 and later, Apple
MacOS, and Compaq VMS. Binary packages are available for most operating
systems. Application programming interfaces (APIs) are provided to
support development of image processing applications in the C, C++, and
Perl languages.
Ion 20021229 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108030/
Ion, based on PWM, is a keyboard-friendly window manager with a very
text-editorish interface and no overlapping windows.
KSambaPlugin 0.4b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108034/
KSambaKonqiPlugin is a complete SAMBA configuration plugin for KDE 3.
It consists of a KControl Center Module for configuring nearly every
option on a SAMBA server and a Konqueror properties dialog plugin for
quick sharing of single directories.
Kydpdict 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108025/
Kydpdict is a graphical frontend to Collins' English/German-Polish and
Polish-English/German dictionaries.
Lepton's Crack 20021231 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108005/
Lepton's Crack is a generic password cracker. It is easily-customizable
with a simple plugin system and allows system administrators to review
the quality of the passwords being used on their systems. It can
perform a dictionary-based (wordlist) attack as well as a brute force
(incremental) password scan. It supports standard MD4 hash, standard
MD5 hash, NT MD4/Unicode, and Lotus Domino HTTP password (R4) formats.
Logtalk 2.14.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108015/
Logtalk is an open source object-oriented extension to the Prolog
programming language. Integrating logic programming with
object-oriented and event-driven programming, it is compatible with
most Prolog compilers.
muCommander 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108014/
muCommander is a cross-platform file manager. It features a Norton
Commander-style interface and runs on any OS supporting the Java 2
Platform, Standard Edition.
Nate Kohari's regular expression pipe 1.32
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108017/
RE is a simple utility designed to aid in the management of files.
Given a directory name, a regular expression, and a regular shell
command, it will parse the filenames in the specified directory,
matching them against the regular expression, and then execute the
command once for each matched file using the filename as a parameter.
It was originally designed to mass-rename MP3 files based on part of
the original filenames.
pfstats 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107996/
pfstats is a simple external script to MRTG, which generates statistics
taken from the pfctl(8) logfile. The statistics represent the number of
blocked incoming connections.
PgMarket 2.3.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108035/
PgMarket is an e-commerce solution built with PHP4 and
PostgreSQL/MySQL. It features internationalization support, image and
thumbnail handling, per-user and product discounts, delivery price
calculation, order status management, elementary and advanced search,
sorting of products and categories, comfortable category browsers, easy
online and offline population of the catalog, importing of data from
text files, and other useful features. Many features can be disabled
through configuration parameters. A demo site is included.
PHPMySite 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108032/
PHPMySite is a simple content management system for Web sites written
in PHP and with all content (text and images) stored in MySQL. The
system generates valid XHTML and CSS2, and allows content to be
maintained from a Web browser (no FTP/telnet access is required).
portell 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108004/
portell is a program that allows FreeBSD users to view the description
as givin in its pkg-descr file for a specific port. If you want to know
what the program "Foo" is, then you can type "portell
foo" and portell will find its pkg-descr file and dump it on your
display.
PostScript Utilities p17
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108033/
PSUtils is a collection of useful utilities for manipulating PostScript
documents. Programs included are psnup (for placing out several logical
pages on a single sheet of paper), psselect (for selecting pages from a
document), pstops (for general imposition), psbook (for signature
generation for booklet printing), and psresize (for adjusting page
sizes).
Project Manager X 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107983/
PMX is a simple project management tool for OS X. It allows you to
track, group, and manage project items and resource allocation. It
displays the project in a nice Gantt Chart that can be printed.
PyDBDesigner 0.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107990/
PyDBDesigner is a relational database modeling tool that is planned to
be able to design both logical and physical models similarly to Erwin
and PowerDesigner, etc.
Rexx/Wrapper 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107993/
Rexx/Wrapper enables Rexx programs to be wrapped within a native
executable program. The source is optionally encrypted and compressed,
but can be recovered if the key that was used to wrap the original
program is known. Rexx/Wrapper is not a Rexx compiler.
Ringtone Tools 2.08
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108010/
Ringtone Tools is a set of tools for creating ringtones and logos on
mobile phones.
SCMxx 0.6.3.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108009/
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, and probably some others, too. It
basically uses the AT command set published by Siemens (with some other
additional resources).
slides.sh 1.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108028/
slides.sh is a shell script for generating simple HTML presentations
from text. The software is intended to be able to fit on a single boot
floppy. The source file is a text file with a simple format for easy
data capture. It can be used on any system with a shell and Unix tools.
You can use it to make an automatic slideshow.
sTaLMP3Box 0.9.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108000/
sTaLMP3Box is a complete control program for a stand-alone MP3 player
jukebox computer running under Linux, which uses a HD44780-compatible
LCD display connected to the parallel port instead of a monitor. Its
main function is playing MP3s and/or Ogg Vorbis files. It features a
playlist with full edition functions, has a integrated file manager to
manage your songs, shows ID3 info and Ogg Vorbis info, disc statistics,
mounts CD-ROMs, resuming, it has almost everything you need for
building your own jukebox. On its Web site there are complete building
instructions for the hardware part of the project and installation
instructions for the software part.
TopologiLinux 2.0 Release Candidate 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107994/
TopologiLinux is an easy to install Linux distribution that is designed
to be run from any Windows computer without requiring repartitioning.
It mounts itself using a loop-back device and can be run from a DOS,
Windows 9x, or Windows 2000/XP system with an NTFS or FAT partition. It
is based on the upcoming Slackware 9 and contains some extra and some
improved packages.
typespeed 0.4.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107997/
Typespeed is a tool to test your typing speed, and get your fingers'
CPS. This is a clone of 'ztspeed', but without some of the estimating
functions.
WorDoG 0.5 alpha5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108018/
WorDoG (World Domination Game) is basically a derivate from Risk, the
popular board game. The project aims to provide this strategical
multiplayer game on a HTML-only basis. All necessary calculations are
done serverside by PHP, and data is stored in a database (it can use
ADOdb).
Worm Warner 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107991/
WormWarner is a Perl script that is used to warn hosts that are
probably infected by a worm. It decides wether a host is infected by
analyzing the data from the Apache log files. It currently recognizes
CodeRed, Nimda, the Linux.Slapper.Worm, and the FreeBSD.Scalper.worm.
Warning is done by trying to contact the SMTP server on the infected
host and sending an email to the postmaster.
XStow 0.4.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/107995/
XStow is a replacement for GNU Stow written in C++. It supports all
features of Stow with some extensions. XStow and GNU Stow are programs
for managing the installation of software packages. It keeps each
package in its own directory while making it appear that all packages
are installed in the same place. Unlike GNU Stow, XStow does not depend
on Perl, and can be compiled statically for such uses as rescue disks.
XStow is fully compatible with GNU Stow, meaning that you can switch
from one to the other at will.
Yerase TNEF Stream Reader 1.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/108006/
ytnef is a program to decode TNEF streams. Unlike other similar
programs, it can also decode meeting requests and create VCal entries
for easy import. It also has a Perl script that can be used in procmail
recipes to automatically reformat incoming mail appropriately.
Newsforge Reports
Happy New Year
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/31/0250204
NewsForge/Linux.com staff is taking a short break Dec 31 and Jan 1.
We'll do a few NewsVac updates these two days, but our next original
article will appear on Jan 2, 2003. See you then!
The most popular Linux article ever?
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/29/1856249
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - You've seen a headline or two recently on
NewsForge that said something like "Microsoft fights off Windows rival
Linux." I say "headline or two" because we goofed up and and linked to
this story at least twice, under different headlines. It was an easy
mistake to make because this AP story has run in more newspapers and on
more news Web sites than any other story I have ever seen with the word
"Linux" in it.
Linux Advisory Watch - December 27th 2002
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/27/123255
By: Benjamin D. Thomas Linux Advisory Watch is a comprehensive
newsletter that outlines the security vulnerabilities that have been
announced throughout the week. It includes pointers to updated packages
and descriptions of each vulnerability. This week, advisories were
released for bind, perl, canna, klisa, cyrus-imapd, wget, kde, and
fetchmail. The distributors include Caldera, Debian, Gentoo, and
SuSE.
Newsforge Newsvac
Bootable Business Card nears 2.0 release
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/01/0622229
Had this been an actual Linux emergency, you could really use the
LNX-BBC rescue disk right now. Here's how to test the new release and
make sure this mini-distribution has what it needs to rescue your
system in the future.
MozillaZine Review of the Year 2002
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/01/0620251
Anonymous Reader writes "From MozillaZine: 'With the release of Mozilla
1.0, the start of the Phoenix and Chimera projects and the launch of
Gecko-based browsers from AOL, 2002 has been an exciting year for the
Mozilla project. Join us as we take a look back at the past twelve
months.'"
The State of GNU/Linux in 2002: It was Good.
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/01/0618214
Timothy R. Butler writes "This year has proven most interesting for
GNU/Linux. While there was not any amazing surprises, there were
numerous events that are noteworthy for review. The upshot to all of
this is that most of what happened was good overall for the Free
Software community."
India: HP Bundles AMD-Linux For Presario
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/01/0616236
NZheretic writes "Kolkata: Welcome to New YearÂs Diwali sale Â
Hewlett-Packard is slashing the price of its Compaq Presario home PC
using a combination of AMD processors and Linux operating system (OS),
thus also striking another blow at the dominance of Wintel in the
Indian market. For PC users, the savings are huge: a branded MNC PC for
Rs 30,990 (USD $645) , against the current Presario price of Rs 39,990
(USD $833) based on Wintel or ...
The 2002 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/31/2124236
linuxquestions writes "The 2002 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice
Awards are now underway. The polls will be open for two months and
topics include Distribution of the Year, Office Suite of the Year and
much more. This is your chance to be heard."
DesktopLinux.com poll to close tomorrow
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/31/1038233
Anonymous Reader writes "In the final month of the Desktop Linux
distribution 'quick poll', Debian is leading the pack with 24% and
Mandrake is in second place with 20.8% of the votes. Total number of
votes cast is 9725."
Desktop Linux Application Tips
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/31/1037234
Anonymous Reader writes "Walt Pennington authors this practical guide
for using Desktop Linux applications. Pennington covers some essential
areas for users getting started downloading Linux, creating .pdf files,
disabling pop-up ads, and tips for secure online transactions in this
article . . ."
McNealy: Sun won't go down on his company
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/30/168220
SAN FRANCISCO Â While critics and rivals snipe that his company, Sun
Microsystems, is sinking, Scott McNealy maintains his Captain
Courageous demeanor.
Annual scorecard
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/30/160253
The year is drawing to a close, so now is a good time to evaluate my
predictions for 2002.
Case Study: Open source packs free IP telephony
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/30/160212
Open source IP telephony software packages are helping users move away
from the traditional world of proprietary office phone systems, PBXs
with closed operating systems and expensive specialty components.
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Gadgets: Forever Flashlight
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5a9f/
Tshirts: Geek Invaders
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/gaming/5c34/
Interests: Linux French
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/oreilly/tshirts/5bc4/
Interests: O'Reilly 2003 Calendar
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/oreilly/other/5c55/
Interests: Perl Gerl
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/oreilly/tshirts/5bcb/
Interests: I dig Mac OS X
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/oreilly/tshirts/5bcf/
Interests: Ninj4 Hooded Sweatshirt
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Interests: Megatokyo Blanket
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Cube Goodies: Smart Mass Thinking Putty
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Electronics: Archos Jukebox Studio 20/ Radio FM 20 MP3 Players
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/mp3/5784/
Computing: Auravision EluminX Illuminated Keyboard
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5c3f/
Electronics: Universal System Selector
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/video/5c1b/
Other Apparel: Power Golf Shirt
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Computing: Auravision EluminX Illuminated Keyboard
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5c3f/
Other Apparel: The ThinkGeek Monkey Hoodie
http://www.thinkgeek.com/apparel/hoodies/5b88/
Gadgets: Forever Flashlight
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5a9f/
Electronics: Hitman 2 for PS2
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Computing: Sylvania SF170 17" LCD
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Electronics: Splinter Cell for Xbox
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/xbox/xboxsoft/5c69/
Cube Goodies: Tiny R/C Digi Q Cars
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Sourceforge
PhpWiki developer release 1.3.4
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=239495
PhpWiki is a WikiWikiWeb clone in PHP. A WikiWikiWeb is a site where
anyone can edit the pages through an HTML form. All pages are stored in
a DBMS and hyperlinking is dynamic. It's for collaboration,
conversation and documentation all at once. Featuring many new plugins,
bug fixes, and lines of code.
nntp//rss v0.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=239506
nntp//rss is a Java-based bridge between RSS feeds and NNTP clients,
enabling you to read your favorite RSS syndicated content within your
existing NNTP-based newsreader. This first public release supports
web-based administration, RSS versions 0.91 through to 2.0, and has
been tested with popular NNTP newsreaders. nntp//rss is a Java
application that can either be run locally on an end-user's machine, or
on a group server. Administration is through an easy-to-use web-based
interface, facilitating group/channel management, status monitoring,
and channel configuration import/export. nntp//rss is *feed friendly* -
utilizing the Last-Modified and ETag features of the HTTP protocol
ensures that the bandwidth of content providers web servers isn't
inconsiderately used during polling. Download nntp//rss v0.1 from:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=68044&release_id=
130632 nntp//rss Home Page http://www.methodize.org/nntprss nntp//rss
SourceForge Project Page http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/nntprss
Panorama 0.18 now available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=239491
Panorama is a framework for 3D graphics production. This will include
modeling, rendering, animating, post-processing, etc. Animation is not
currently supported, but will be added soon. It is officially part of
the GNU project. Panorama 0.18 is now available for download.
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7862 Before I
get a lot of questions, I'll state here why I jumped some numbers in
the versions. The ultimate goal of this project is to eventually end up
stable, with version 1.0. As such, I believe that there was enough
added and fixed as to further the number more than 1 notch. There is
another version being developed in CVS (0.19), which is another large
leap, but I don't want to end up with numbers which are prematurely
high. As a potential roadmap, here's how I see the versions stacking
up: 0.25 -- Time added, so that objects, textures, lights, etc. can
vary over time. 0.50 -- Plugin system rewritten and functional for both
*nix and Win32 (possibly other OSs), most objects verified. 0.75 --
Multiple SDLs (scene description languages), with at least one
compatible to POV (http://www.povray.org). 0.90 -- Partially
functioning GUIs for X (GTK--), Win32, and possibly other windowing
systems. These will have full modeling capabilities. 1.00 -- Stable.
Objects verfied to work, GUIs perform nicely, animation working
correctly. These numbers are not fixed, and the order of completed
features may be rearranged. It is, indeed, a very lofty goal. At the
rate things have been progressing for the past 2 years, it will
probably take me another 8 years for panorama to become stable, unless
I can find some help. Questions or comments are welcomed.
Medi 0.1.93 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=239378
A new version of Medi, 0.1.93, has been released. This is in fact
(really this time...) the new 0.2.0 version. Configuration tables have
been transferred into configuration local files, to reduce database
rage. By running MediUpdater.jar, included in the package, the new
version of the database will be installed. No data will be lost. Medi
is a Java application useful to manage files in your CDs, floppies,
etc. It can parse MP3 files, cataloguing them by author, genre and
data, and can display (preview) some picture types. It uses a database
(currently supported DBs are MySQL, Firebird and PostgreSQL) to store
the data.
SecureDataManager 1.0.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=239510
Secure Data Manager (SDM) is a full featured Java password manager
application. Store logins and other private information for web sites,
computers, credit cards, etc. This release is a patch to the 1.0
release -- fixes the 'save' disabled menu-item bug. This stable release
contains many new features, including: searching, expiring dates,
random password generator, CSV and XML import/export, Tree and Table
views, printing, and more. Visit http://sdm.sourceforge.net to see
screenshots. Installation is easy. Download, unzip, and run using Java
1.4.1. Comments are welcome. Please remember to monitor releases so you
can be notified of future updates. -From the SecureDataManager Team
RubyCocoa 0.4 was released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=238973
RubyCocoa is a Mac OS X framework that allows Cocoa programming in the
Object-Oriented Scripting Language Ruby. RubyCocoa allows writing a
Cocoa application in Ruby. It allows creating and using a Cocoa object
in a Ruby script. In Cocoa application, mixture of program written by
both Ruby and Objective-C is possible. RubyCocoa 0.4.0 was released!
http://www.imasy.or.jp/~hisa/mac/rubycocoa/
http://rubycocoa.sourceforge.net/ Changes from 0.3.2 ------------------
* Ruby 1.8 supported * revive RubyCocoa.framework * rename the extended
library and move the library The '.pkg' binary package is available for
Mac OS X 10.2. All of framework, library, documents, samples and
ProejctBuilder templates are contained in the package. These items will
be installed into the appropriate place. It is available to start of
RubyCocoa programming or use of RubyCocoa application immediately.
What's RubyCocoa? ----------------- RubyCocoa is a Mac OS X framework
that allows Cocoa programming in the Object-Oriented Scripting Language
Ruby. RubyCocoa allows writing a Cocoa application in Ruby. It allows
creating and using a Cocoa object in a Ruby script. In Cocoa
application, mixture of program written by both Ruby and Objective-C is
possible. Some cases using RubyCocoa: * Exploration of a Cocoa object's
feature with 'irb' interactively * Prototyping of a Cocoa application *
Cocoa application that include good feature of Ruby and Objective-C *
Wrapping Mac OS X native GUI for Ruby script
PHPEclipse 1.0.3 preAlpha released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=238989
PHPEclipse is an open-source PHP IDE. Built as an Eclipse plugin, it
takes advantage of a well-designed, robust and widely used application
framework. Project Page: http://www.sf.net/projects/phpeclipse
Homepage: http://www.phpeclipse.org ChangeLog:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=57621&release_id=
130306
Hatari version 0.25
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=239005
Version 0.25 of the Atari ST emulator Hatari has been released. In this
version the support for big endian systems like PowerPC machines has
been improved, especially the Spectrum 512 pictures are now working
better there. Hatari now also compiles and runs on Mac OS X.
Additionally the blitter chip is now beeing emulated, too, and there is
also support for big VDI screen resolutions. And finally, you can now
save YM and WAV sounds.
Bossogg v0.9.0 release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=238928
Bossogg is a client/server for creating an ogg vorbis player in your
entertainment center. First client is done in SDL with Truetype fonts
so it's easy to read. Uses PostgreSQL for lookups. MP3 and FLAC support
is in and rewritten from scratch. This is the stepping stone to a lot
of new features.
PHP Weather 2.1.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=238931
PHP Weather makes it easy to show the current weather on your webpage.
All you need is a local airport, that makes some special weather
reports called METARs. The reports are updated once or twice an hour.
This release contains five new translations (for a total of 11
translations) and fixes some bugs, including a bug that prevented the
Configuration Builder from working when register_globals were turned
off.
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