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Slashdot
Linux In Space: Red Hat Rides The Rocket
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/31/1249220
[0]neiljt writes "[1]BBC News have a [2]piece on NASA experiments to
use IP for space missions. The article is a little low-tech, but more
details available [3]from NASA (OMNI). Is this the first Red Hat in
space?" It's worth pointing out as well that [4]Debian made the ride
nearly six years ago. Still, great news.
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/
2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2709875.stm
3. http://ipinspace.gsfc.nasa.gov/
4. http://www.debian.org/News/1997/shuttle1
Improvements in Teleportation
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/31/0741219
[0]assaultriflesforfree writes "Here's a [1]little update on quantum
entanglement and teleportation from The New York Times (free
registration, yay): 'Employing a facet of quantum mechanics that Albert
Einstein called "spooky action at a distance," scientists have taken
particles of light, destroyed them and then resurrected copies more
than a mile away.' I am a little skeptical about the Heisenberg
Uncertainty Principle statements, though. Is this really a form of Star
Trek's Heisenberg Compensator?"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/30/science/30TELE.html
Linux Gains Support for NUMA
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/31/0420248
soosterh writes "CNet has an [0] article about a NUMA patch from IBM.
It says that the improvement adds some support in Linux for nonuniform
memory access, or NUMA, a design for higher-end servers with many
processors. Linus Torvalds, the original creator of the operating
system and still its top authority, accepted the update this month into
version 2.5, the current test version of the software."
Links
0. http://news.com.com/2100-1001-982651.html?tag=fd_top
IEEE Standards Board Passes 802.16a
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/31/0412218
papason writes "Welcome the [0]birth of the IEEE's first wireless MAN
standard for broadband wireless access in bands ranging from 2GHz to
11GHz. Yes, the same group that brought you 802.11b has brought you a
real broadband wireless access standard. See [1]wirelessman.org for
more details."
Links
0. http://ieee802.org/16/arc/802-16list2/msg00794.html
1. http://wirelessman.org/
Apple and Linux Beneficial to Each Other?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/30/191200
viewstyle writes "There is an interesting [0]commentary on eWEEK
discussing the 'synergies' between Apple and Linux after visiting
LinuxWorld. It makes a good point that advancement of Linux is good for
Mac OS X and vice versa, because of the ease of porting across the
platforms (soon to get easier with the X11 on Mac OS X)." Next thing
you know, most of the Slashdot editors and programmers will be using
Macs ...
Links
0. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,851874,00.asp
OpenBSD Gets Even More Secure
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/31/0033236
[0]Telent writes "As seen in [1]this post by Theo de Raadt, OpenBSD is
getting even more secure, working on smashing script kiddies running
buffer overflow exploits dead. Tightening PROT_* according to the POSIX
standards and creating a non-executable stack on most architectures are
just two of the recent enhancements, most of which are in -current
now."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=b1aq2h%242q9g%241%40FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw&output=gplain
Father of Video Games turning 60
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/30/2229227
[0]Bill Kendrick writes "[1]Nolan Bushnell, founder of [2]Atari and the
"father of video games" will be turning 60 next week, on February 5th.
Along with Atari, which Bushnell began in 1972 (and left before the end
of the decade), he also founded over 20 other companies, including
Chuck E. Cheese Pizza Time Theater restaurants. He holds many patents
relating to both video games and other industries. For more on The
Bringer of [3]Pong, check out some interviews from the [4]San Jose
Mercury, [5]Metroactive and over at [6]Good Deal Games, as well as his
[7]Wikipedia entry. Happy birthday, Nolan!"
Links
0. http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/bill/
1. http://www.uwink.com/docs/nolan.shtml
2. http://www.atari-history.com/
3. http://209.122.187.156:8080/arcade/andycapppong.html
4. http://www.thetech.org/revolutionaries/bushnell/i_a.html
5. http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/09.16.99/cover/bushnell2-9937.html
6. http://www.gooddealgames.com/interviews/int_bushnell.html
7. http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolan_Bushnell
Slashback: Spamnation, Long-Distance, Libel
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/30/2049219
Slashback with updates and amplifications on Apple's stance on DRM,
EasyInternetCafe's court battle over CD burning, a copyright law being
drafted after Lessig's own heart, the lawyer vs. eBay saga, and VoIP
calling with Linux. Read on below for the details.
Hollywood Says No to Filtering DVD Player
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/30/229250
[0]haplo21112 writes "There is [1]a posting over at [2]ZDNet about how
Hollywood continues to trample on the American consumer's free use
rights. They want to prevent the sale of a special DVD player which can
be used to edit out offensive material from a DVD in realtime. While I
don't agree with censorship in general, I do believe its everyone's
right to do what they wish with their own media."
Links
0. mailto:haplo@epith[ ]com ['na.' in gap]
1. http://msn.zdnet.com/zdfeeds/msncobrand/reviews/0,13828,2909517,00.html
2. http://www.zdnet.com/
IBM Calls Linux "Logical Successor" To AIX
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/30/209247
pknoll writes "Though it probably won't happen soon, IBM is talking
about [0]Linux eventually replacing AIX. The article at Globe
Technology states there are IBM folks working on 'chips for 2007'
systems, and the viewpoint projected is described as 'multidecade,' but
it's an interesting view into the future of IBM and Linux."
Links
0.
http://rtnews.globetechnology.com/servlet/ArticleNews/tech/RTGAM/20030129/gtiblin/Technology/techBN/
Freshmeat
aimbot 1.00
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111200/
aimbot is a bot that runs on the AOL Instant Messenger network and acts
as a customer service representative would, talking back to 'customers'
who contact it.
Anthill Build Manager 1.5.44
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111239/
Anthill is a tool that ensures a controlled build process and promotes
the sharing of knowledge within an organization. Anthill performs a
checkout from the source repository of the latest version of a project
before every build and tags the repository with a unique build number
after every build. It supports many reposistory adapters including: CVS
(Concurrent Versions System), Visual Source Safe, Perforce, PVCS,
StarTeam, MKSIntegrity, and FileSystem. Anthill also automatically
updates a project intranet site with artifacts from the latest build.
Anthill is an extension to the Apache-Ant project and is compatible
with version 1.3, 1.4, and 1.5 of Ant.
Astaro Security Linux 3.391 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111219/
Astaro Security Linux is a firewall solution. It does stateful packet
inspection filtering, content filtering, user authentication, virus
scanning, VPN with IPSec (PKI for X.509 certificates) and PPTP, and
much more. With its Web-based management tool, WebAdmin, and the
ability to pull updates via the Internet, it is pretty easy to manage.
It is based on a special hardened Linux 2.4 distribution where most
daemons are running in change-roots and are protected by kernel
capabilities.
Blue Linux 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/110780/
Blue Linux is a free operating system for computers in the educational
field. It is based on the Linux core system, and comes with many
packages that are used in the educational field. All these packages are
bundled up in an easy installation program.
Borges Documents Management System 0.7.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111224/
Borges is an open-source project aimed at XML-aware documentation
projects which care about internationalisation, reusable contents,
teamwork, etc. The system currently support the DocBook DTD.
BSM Pseudonymizer 0.1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111227/
BSM Pseudonymizer pseudonymizes records from Solaris BSM audit trail
files. Personal data such as user IDs, pathnames, timestamps, etc. is
replaced with pseudonyms so that the generated output doesn't reveal
private information about the system's users, but still preserves a
maximum of integrity and consistency.
CanIt 1.9 (Pro)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111231/
CanIt is a server-based spam-control system built around SpamAssassin,
MIMEDefang, Apache, and PostgreSQL. It features sophisticated
spam-handling techniques which minimize the amount of spam you receive
while guaranteeing that you'll never lose a valid email. CanIt achieves
extraordinarily accurate discrimination through human intervention, and
includes mechanisms to minimize the amount of human intervention
required.
CanIt 1.9 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111230/
CanIt is a server-based spam-control system built around SpamAssassin,
MIMEDefang, Apache, and PostgreSQL. It features sophisticated
spam-handling techniques which minimize the amount of spam you receive
while guaranteeing that you'll never lose a valid email. CanIt achieves
extraordinarily accurate discrimination through human intervention, and
includes mechanisms to minimize the amount of human intervention
required.
cgdb 0.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111254/
cgdb is a lightweight, but fully functional curses frontend to gdb. The
goal of cgdb is to be lightweight and responsive, not encumbered with
unnecessary features. The interface retains the familiar GDB text-based
interface with 100% of the original functionality. The interfaces also
provide additional features, such as a source code window, shortcut
keys, visual setting of breakpoints, regex searching capabilities, and
more.
CVSToys 1.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111245/
CVSToys is a collection of companion tools for the Concurrent Versions
System, better known as CVS. It currently contains FreshCVS, which
performs actions in response to a commit. Actions include notification
by various methods, updating a working copy, and rsync'ing to backup.
Another key feature of FreshCVS notifications is that you receive one
per commit, not one for each directory of the commit as
loginfo-triggered scripts are prone to do. FreshCVS is extensible with
Python, and notifications may be published by a Perspective Broker
network service, allowing 3rd party clients to listen in.
DbtuTools 0.99.020
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111223/
The DbtuTools project is a framework for working with the Unix/Wintel
versions of IBM's DB2 UDB database family.
Fink 0.5.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111229/
The Fink project wants to bring the full world of Unix Open Source
software to Darwin and Mac OS X. It modifies Unix software so that it
compiles and runs on Mac OS X and makes it available for download as a
coherent distribution. Fink uses Debian tools like dpkg and apt-get to
provide powerful binary package management. You can choose whether you
want to download precompiled binary packages or build everything from
source.
GtkGLExt 0.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111235/
GtkGLExt is an OpenGL extension to GTK 2.0 or later. It has low-level
OpenGL related objects with GLX like interface, and high-level
gtk_widget API add-ons which extends any GTK+ widget to an
OpenGL-capable widget.
gtkglextmm 0.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111236/
gtkglextmm is C++ wrapper for GtkGLExt, an OpenGL extension to GTK.
Hibernate 1.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111207/
Hibernate is a powerful, high performance object/relational persistence
and query service for Java. It lets you develop persistent objects
following common Java idiom, including composition, association,
inheritance, polymorphism, and the Java collections framework. To allow
a rapid build procedure, Hibernate rejects the use of code generation
or bytecode processing. Instead, runtime reflection is used and SQL
generation occurs at system startup time. It supports Oracle, DB2,
MySQL, PostgreSQL, Sybase, Interbase, Microsoft SQL Server, Mckoi SQL,
Progress, SAP DB, and HypersonicSQL.
Impact 0.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111246/
Impact is a finite element program based on an explicit time stepping
algorithm. It can be used to simulate dynamic events such as car
crashes or other large deformation events. It is written in Java and is
kept very simple, to make it intuitive to use and easy to change and
extend. It is very flexible and can handle several different input and
output formats.
JasperReports 0.4.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111205/
JasperReports is a report-generating Java library. XML report templates
are used to generate ready to print documents using data from
customizable data sources, including JDBC. The output can be delivered
to the screen, printer, or stored in PDF, HTML, or XML format.
JavaBDD 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111221/
JavaBDD is a Java library for manipulating BDDs (binary decision
diagrams). Binary decision diagrams are widely used in model checking,
formal verification, optimizing circuit diagrams, and other areas.
Katie snapshot-17
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111243/
Katie is a revision control system, somewhat like a cross between CVS
and NFS, that was inspired by Rational ClearCase. The three most
interesting features of Katie are that the repository is mounted as a
filesystem (rather than being copied to a local workspace), that all
versions of all files (even deleted ones) are accessible through this
filesystem (so there is, for example, no need for a Katie-specific diff
command like CVS has), and that directories are versioned (just like
files are). Basic operations (creation of elements, checkout, checkin,
dynamic views, config specs, and branches) work, but there is much work
still to go before it will be generally useful.
KPreg 1.2.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111222/
KPreg is a helper application for completing Web forms and other
programs. It provides an interface for entering commonly required data,
such as name, email, address, etc. With a simple click of the mouse,
any item in the text list is copied to the clipboard, and can then be
easily pasted in any form or application. KPreg can dock in the panel
for easy access (in KDE).
Licq 1.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111234/
Licq includes all the basic features of ICQ, like sending/receiving
messages, chat, file transfer, contact list with pixmaps and user
status, basic/extended user info, adding/editing users from within the
GUI, user history, user groups, and new user registration. All commands
and information are available through a simple and convenient tab
dialog. Licq also has a completely configurable user interface with
Skin and Icon pack support. It is written in C++ and comes with a GUI
plugin using the Qt widget set. Other plugins are also available.
Linux 2.4.21-pre4 (2.4-testing)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111203/
Linux is a clone of the Unix kernel, written from scratch by Linus
Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the
Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance. It
has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix
kernel, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries,
demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory
management, and TCP/IP networking.
Linux X10 Universal Device Driver 1.5.1e (Linux-2.4.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111240/
This project provides a /dev interface to an X10 network through Linux
kernel modules. It is intended to provide a standard interface and
syntax to shell script utilities (such as cat and echo), Perl scripts,
C programs, or Java programs so that everything from a quick hack to a
more advanced program can manipulate the X10 devices in an automated
home regardless of the transceiver used. Its simplest use is with shell
scripts (examples of which are provided in the package). Currently the
project supports the 4 main X10 transceivers (PowerLinc Serial,
PowerLinc USB, CM11A, and Firecracker/CM17A).
Lopo's Talker OS Star 1.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111211/
Lotos is a telnet-based chat server (talker) written in C for
communicating with users in real time. It supports plugin modules, ANSI
colors, rank accessing to more commands, authentication (finger, auth,
ident) and more.
Manauton 0.0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111212/
Manauton is a manual and autonomous sound recorder. In autonomous mode
it can start and stop recording based on sound characteristics. When in
manual mode, recording can be paused and un-paused manually. Using a
series of buffers, the effect of negative latency can be accomplished,
this effect cancels out the effect of the human latency associated with
hearing a sound and interpreting it.
mnoGoSearch 3.2.8 (3.2.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111217/
mnoGoSearch (formerly known as UdmSearch) is a full-featured Web search
engine which you can use to build search engines over HTTP, HTTPS, FTP,
and NTTP servers, local files, and database big text fields. It
supports Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, miniSQL, Solid, Virtuoso,
InterBase, SAPDB, iODBC, EasySoft ODBC, and unixODBC database backends.
mnoGoSearch is also known to work with MS SQL, SyBase, and Oracle
through ODBC. It has text/html and text/plain built-in support, and
external parsers support for other document types. An automatic
language/charset guesser for more 70 language/charset combinations is
included, along with basic authorization support, and you may index
password-protected intranet HTTP servers with proxy authorization
support.
mod_auth_pgsql 2.0.0 (Apache 2.0.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111206/
mod_auth_pgsql is an Apache (1.3/2.0) module that allows user
authentication (and can log authentication requests) against
information stored in a PostgreSQL database.
Mod_Survey 3.0.14d (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111255/
Mod_survey is an Apache mod_perl module which allows users to create
their own Web questionnaires using an XML-based tag notation. It
supports exporting of data into several file formats, including SPSS
syntax, semi-colon delimited fields, and SQL script. It also provides
limited support for descriptive statistics of the submitted data, and
stylesheet customizations of layout.
newfile 1.0.1.b.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111208/
newfile generates "starting-out" files using a full featured
template preprocessor. It can also generate trees of files, for
example, a FreeBSD port or a project using automake and autoconf. A
user can add their own template files and directories to those supplied
with the package. It includes templates for making "empty"
files for Ruby, make, shell, C, C++, C & C++ headers, and more.
OSSP ex 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111226/
OSSP ex is a small ISO-C++ style exception handling library for use in
the ISO-C language. It allows you to use the paradigm of throwing and
catching exceptions in order to reduce the amount of error handling
code without making your program less robust. This is achieved by
directly transferring exceptional return codes (and the program control
flow) from the location where the exception is raised (throw point) to
the location where it is handled (catch point), usually from a deeply
nested sub-routine to a parent routine. All intermediate routines no
longer have to make sure that the exceptional return codes from
sub-routines are correctly passed back to the parent.
Q-Midi 1.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111233/
Q-Midi is a MIDI interface module which allows you to write MIDI
applications in the Q programming language. It runs on top of Grame's
MidiShare package. Most basic MidiShare functionality is available,
including timing functions for realtime programming and MIDI file
access. A sample MIDI player application is included (which requires
Tcl/Tk).
Simple Expenses Manager 0.9.1 (Developement)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111241/
Simple Expenses Manager is a Perl CGI for entering simple day-to-day
expenses. It is not a full-featured accounting package, but it is
useful for no-brainer expense tracking. It supports user-defined
categories, sorting, and calculating totals and averages according to a
time period and/or category. It also features multi-user login, with
CGI-based administration.
TightVNC 1.2.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111249/
TightVNC is a VNC distribution with many new features, improvements,
and bugfixes over VNC. It is optimized for faster operation on slow
network links such as modem connections, provides more configuration
options in the server, features automatic SSH tunneling in the Unix
vncviewer, and more. The modified servers and viewers are fully
compatible with the original VNC software.
VideoDB 2003-01-30
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111220/
VideoDB is a database to manage your personal video collection. It's
mainly designed for videofiles but you can also put your DVDs and VHS
tapes in it. It features fetching movie data/covers from the Internet
Movie Database (IMDb), local caching of coverimages, an option to mark
movies as seen, a search by genre or title/subtitle/plot/cast data, a
filter for TV episodes, a random movie function and a simple borrow
manager. It is a personal database, so no user
management/authentication scheme is implemented. Everybody may
add/edit/delete movies.
WireFusion 1.01 (MP3 add-on)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111218/
WireFusion allows interactive, plug-in free, and very compact Java
presentations and product simulations to be created for the Web.
Development involves visually connecting preprogrammed objects or by
coding in Java. Several add-ons are available, including a real-time 3D
engine where textures can be replaced with interactive 2D
presentations, an MPEG video player, a slide show viewer, and an MP3
player.
WireFusion 1.01 (Video add-on)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111216/
WireFusion allows interactive, plug-in free, and very compact Java
presentations and product simulations to be created for the Web.
Development involves visually connecting preprogrammed objects or by
coding in Java. Several add-ons are available, including a real-time 3D
engine where textures can be replaced with interactive 2D
presentations, an MPEG video player, a slide show viewer, and an MP3
player.
WireFusion 1.1 (Slide show add-on)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111215/
WireFusion allows interactive, plug-in free, and very compact Java
presentations and product simulations to be created for the Web.
Development involves visually connecting preprogrammed objects or by
coding in Java. Several add-ons are available, including a real-time 3D
engine where textures can be replaced with interactive 2D
presentations, an MPEG video player, a slide show viewer, and an MP3
player.
xine xine-ui 0.9.18
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111253/
xine is a free multimedia player. It plays back CDs, DVDs, and VCDs. It
also decodes multimedia files like AVI, MOV, WMV, and MP3 from local
disk drives, and displays multimedia streamed over the Internet. It
interprets many of the most common multimedia formats available--and
some of the most uncommon formats, too. All those features come in a
reusable library (xine-lib) which can easily be embedded in your
applications.
Zorp 2.0rc3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111213/
Zorp is a proxy firewall suite. Its core framework allows the
administrator to finetune proxy decisions (with its built-in script
language), and fully analyze complex protocols (including SSH with
several forwarded TCP connections, or SSL with an embedded POP3
protocol). FTP, HTTP, finger, whois, and SSL protocols are fully
supported with an application-level gateway. Zorp aims for compliance
with the Common Cirteria/Application-level Firewall Protection Profile
for Medium Robustness Enviroment.
ZynAddSubFX 1.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/111214/
ZynAddSubFX is a powerful real-time, multi- timbral software
synthesizer for Linux. It has microtonal capabilities, and the
instruments it creates sound like those from professional keyboards. It
includes effects like reverb, echo, chorus, and phaser.
Newsforge Reports
Linux Advisory Watch - January 31st 2003
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/31/0927219
- 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 kdeutils, noffle, dhcp3, tomcat3, courier, mysql,
fetchmail, vim, webalizer, postgresql, and cvs. The distributors
include Debian, Guardian Digital's EnGarde ...
I'll tell you where you can put those patents (to good use)
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/1956211
- by Tina Gasperson - In these tough economic times, it pays to keep a
finger in the air in case wind of a great new money-making idea comes
along. Thanks, SBC! No more missed mortgage payments for me!
Making a Living Saving the Government Money
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/28/1829254
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Peter Gallagher is president of devIS
(AKA Development Infostructure), a Virginia-based company that designs,
develops, hosts, and operates large-scale custom Internet applications
for government agencies and private consultants. He says devIS saves
its clients a minimum of $100,000 per contract by using Open Source
Software. Gallagher also claims none of the Web sites or Web
applications devIS has produced have ...
Newsforge Newsvac
Microsoft bows to EU privacy concerns
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/31/0929237
Microsoft agrees to change to its Passport identity system used for
Hotmail and other online services to ensure it complies with EU privacy
laws.
Linux on the Shuttle
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/30/2223232
Anonymous Reader writes "Here's a story about researchers are using Red
Hat 6.1 to run a server within NASA's Columbia shuttle, now in flight.
The setup is for testing mobile IP."
Linux desktop, in a browser near you
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/30/2223208
An anonymous coward writes "Just up at The Sydney Morning Herald"
Sony Offers a Peek at Upcoming PDAs
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/30/2019237
New mid-level Clie handheld will feature built-in Bluetooth
connectivity and an updated clamshell design.
XML and Perl
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/30/2018200
Slashdot: davorg writes "One of Perl's great strengths is in processing
text files. That is, after all, why it became so popular for generating
dynamic web pages."
NetBSD 1.6.1 release process has begun
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/30/2017208
Jan Schaumann writes "The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce that
NetBSD 1.6.1 has been branched and the release engineering process has
begun."
Why Open Source??
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/30/2015245
Andrew Hodel writes "In the past few years, a slew of open source
software has been developed for business and personal use. Some of the
most common open source projects like Linux and Apache have stunned
everyone with there success, while still remaining free of charge."
Microsoft: A Nation Unto Itself?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/30/2015216
Anonymous Reader writes "Will MS take the next obvious step and become
a sovereign nation?"
Fujitsu sets high-end Linux plans
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/30/2014212
Anonymous Reader writes "Fujitsu, a company better known in Asia and
Europe than the USA for its enterprise servers, is beginning the
migration to Linux to provide its customers with a better value for
their $$$."
Beware the Penguin's Bite
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/30/2013255
Anonymous Reader writes "Someone over at ZD thinks that Microsoft was
right about something after all - Linux does pose a competitive threat
to MS."
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Sourceforge
Native win32 port of the qt library started
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=248232
In December 2002 a native win32 port of the qt library has been
started. The port is completly based on the gpl'ed qt/x11 sources in
the kde-cygwin cvs. See http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/qt2-win32 for
further details, screenshots and other project relating things. Ralf
Habacker Project Leader KDE-CYGWIN
bogofilter-0.10.1.4 - a bugfix/beta release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=248266
The 0.10.1.4 release includes bugfixes for MIME and HTML processing,
code clean-ups, and additional spam scoring algorithms. The bogofilter
package implements a fast Bayesian spam filter along the lines
suggested by Paul Graham in his article "A Plan For Spam". bogofilter
is written in C and is supported on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and Mac OS
X.
spamprobe-0.8b released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=248262
This release fixes a problem with crashes in the regex routines on
RedHat 8 systems. SpamProbe is a fast, intelligent, automatic spam
detector using Paul Graham-style Bayesian analysis of word counts in
spam and non-spam emails. Filtering adapts to personal tastes
automatically. No manual rule creation required.
openMosix 2.4.20-2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=247894
openMosix is a Linux kernel extension for single-system image
clustering. Taking n PC boxes, openMosix gives users and applications
the illusion of one single computer with n CPUs. openMosix is perfectly
scalable and adaptive. This release fixes a bug, which affected
SMP-kernels and caused the machine to hang when unmounting filesystems
at reboot. RPMs are compiled with gcc-3.2 under RedHat 8.0. Also: This
release features a new RPM: openmosix-kernel-source, which holds the
kernel tree with the openMosix-patch applied, installed under /usr/src.
Users compiling their own modules have requested this for a while.
(You've got it :) Martin Downloads available from
http://www.openMosix.org
Sodipodi 0.29 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=247687
Sodipodi 0.29 is the first version based on Gtk+ 2.0 widget set and
including limited support for Windows32 environment. The list of
required libraries is much shorter than it was before, most notably
both libgnome and libgnomeprint are not needed (although the latter can
be used if present). It also support Xft font database in addition to
gnome-print and privately specified fonts. Being platform port, it
(almost) does not add new user-visible functionality.
AviSynth 2.5.0 Beta Released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=247836
After a long testing and debugging period, we are now ready to present
the AviSynth 2.5.0 beta. A big thanks to everyone here - the testers -
the patient developers - and those spreading the word of AviSynth! We
have some great features under the hood of the new AviSynth that
hopefully will be able to bring non-linear video editing to a new
level! (ok - enough with the rants). The summed up changes: * Native
planar YV12 support. * Multiple audiochannels. Unlimited number of
channels is now supported. * Float samples support. AviSynth is now
capable of processing samples as floats. * Automatic sample conversion.
If some filters doesn't support a specific sample type, they are
converted to the format preserving most quality. * Optimizations. Many
basic features has been optimized, and now performs much better than
previous versions. * Temporalsoften has a significant speed
improvement, scenechange detection and a new improved blend mode. *
Limiter can limit the YUV ranges, to avoid invalid color values and
improve compression. * ColorYUV makes it possible to do very exact
color corrections. ColorYUV has built-in auto-whitebalance and
auto-gain features. * Select separate planes using UToY, VToY and merge
them together again, using YToUV. * Fliphorizontal. implemented. *
SelectRangeEvery is now part of the core functions. * Blur, Sharpen,
Resize optimized. * Fast XviD colorspace conversions. * Updated
installer. * AviSynth icons. * See clip info using the info() command.
See more info in the release notes!
PalmVNC 2.0 final released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=247845
PalmVNC 2.0 is considered stable enough to deserve a "final" label.
Development of version 2.1 is already on track. PalmVNC 2 is the latest
evolution of PalmVNC, the VNC client for the Palm OS platform that
allows remote control of a desktop computer (Windows, Mac, Unix, ...)
over any TCP/IP connection. It supports high resolution on Cli and OS 5
devices.
Double Choco Latte 0.9.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=247867
Double Choco Latte is a project to create a solution for managing some
IT departments including software development and call center activity.
It has a web interface and will also have a stand-alone Java client.
Added ability to reassign in time cards, track reassignments when done
via time cards, and fixed PHP notices when uploading files.
PyXML 0.8.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=247639
Version 0.8.2 of the Python/XML distribution is now available. It
should be considered a beta release. The Python/XML distribution
contains the basic tools required for processing XML data using the
Python programming language, assembled into one easy-to-install
package. The distribution includes parsers and standard interfaces such
as SAX and DOM, along with various other useful modules. PyXML can be
downloaded from the following URLs:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pyxml/PyXML-0.8.2.tar.gz
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pyxml/PyXML-0.8.2.win32-py2.2.exe
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pyxml/PyXML-0.8.2-2.2.Suse81.i386.rp
m Changes in this version, compared to 0.8.1: * Updated to Expat 1.95.6
(almost; one last minute bugfix snuck into the Expat release after
PyXML 0.8.2 was released). * Support more DOM L3 features in minidom:
isWhitespaceInElementContent, schemaType, isId, DOMImplementationSource
* Various bug fixes, including - 609641: minidom nodes not pickleable -
618156: Use character references in XMLGenerator if necessary - 622286:
marshal.wddx: 'recordset' element typo - 624420: Can't create 2nd
Sax2.Reader - 665486: Implement SAX skippedEntity for Expat The
Python/XML distribution contains the basic tools required for
processing XML data using the Python programming language, assembled
into one easy-to-install package. The distribution includes parsers and
standard interfaces such as SAX and DOM, along with various other
useful modules. The package currently contains: * XML parsers: Pyexpat
(Jack Jansen), xmlproc (Lars Marius Garshol), sgmlop (Fredrik Lundh). *
SAX interface (Lars Marius Garshol) * minidom DOM implementation (Paul
Prescod, others) * 4DOM and 4XPath from Fourthought (Uche Ogbuji, Mike
Olson) * Schema implementations: TREX (James Tauber) * Various utility
modules and functions (various people) * Documentation and example
programs (various people) The code is being developed bazaar-style by
contributors from the Python XML Special Interest Group, so please send
comments and questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bug reports may be filed
on SourceForge:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?group_id=6473&atid=106473 For
more information about Python and XML, see:
http://www.python.org/topics/xml/
New Mailing List for Tcl Threads Discussion
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=247015
There's now a new mailing list available for people wanting to talk
about threading issues in Tcl and its extensions (especially the Thread
extension, of course.) It's called Tcl-Threads, and to subscribe you
should visit http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/tcl-threads
and follow the instructions there.
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