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Slashdot
Microsoft Switcher Ads: Part 2
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/13/2154217
[0]burgburgburg writes "We all recall Microsoft's last [1]attempt to
emulate the Apple [2]Switch ads. Well, it seems they're at it again.
MacNN reports that Microsoft has sent out emails to those who have
recently registered MS products, [3]looking for candidates for their
'Sensible Solutions' campaign, which will 'highlight computer
professionals that have recently converted from Apple Computer products
to Microsoft based systems.' Do you qualify? You must be 'a US resident
with a minimum of 3 years experience as a computer professional. You
must have used an Apple Computer product and a Microsoft based system
as part of your work'. So when does it just stop being the sincerest
form of flattery and just become utter, pathetic laziness?"
Links
0. http://`moc.liame' `ta' `60neksilps'
1. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/18/1239246&tid=133
2. http://www.apple.com/switch/
3. http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=18372
Red Hat, Oracle to get Gov't Certification for Linux
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/14/0011214
Mark writes "As this [0]news.com article states, '[1]Red Hat and
[2]Oracle plan to announce on Thursday that the companies have teamed
to get Linux evaluated under the Common Criteria, a certification that
could open doors for the broader use of open-source software by
government agencies.' It looks like this will be an important step in
getting Linux to be more widely adopted in governments around the
world."
Links
0. http://news.com.com/2100-1001-984383.html?tag=fd_top
1. http://www.redhat.com/
2. http://www.oracle.com/
SMP-Oriented Video Card Round-up
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/14/003221
Jason Mitchell writes "I just noticed that [0]2CPU.com has posted a
rather large [1]video card round-up. They ran game and application
benchmarks on a dual Athlon MP and Xeon workstation and also did some
unique qualitative testing pertaining to s-video output quality. It's a
good read."
Links
0. http://www.2cpu.com/
1. http://www.2cpu.com/Hardware/video_roundup/
Warcraft 3 Expansion Beta Signups Announced
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/13/2352206
Clomer writes "[0]Blizzard Entertainment has announced the signups for
the beta testing of the upcoming expansion set to [1]Warcraft 3 called
[2]The Frozen Throne. The beta will be online-only over [3]battle.net,
requires the full version of Warcraft 3, and is only open to US
residents. Signups will be at [4]battle.net starting on Friday, 14
February and will last a week."
Links
0. http://www.blizzard.com/
1. http://www.blizzard.com/war3/
2. http://www.blizzard.com/war3x/
3. http://www.battle.net/
4. http://www.battle.net/register/war3xbeta/
Slashback: Regalia, Godseye, Undetection
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/13/0048219
Slashback tonight with a round of updates and clarifications on Yahoo!
v. France, William Gibson's new book(tour), lowish-tech helping to
solve the Columbia mystery, searchable utra-localized information and
more. Read on for the details.
FTP: Better Than HTTP, Or Obsolete?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/13/2132221
An anonymous reader asks "Looking to serve files for downloading
(typically 1MB-6MB), I'm confused about whether I should provide an FTP
server instead of / as well as HTTP. According to a rapid Google
search, the experts say 1) HTTP is slower and less reliable than FTP
and 2) HTTP is amateur and will make you look a wimp. But a) FTP is
full of security holes. and b) FTP is a crumbling legacy protocol and
will make you look a dinosaur. Surely some contradiction... Should I
make the effort to implement FTP or take desperate steps to avoid it?"
Murchison Meteorite Still Contentious
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/13/1725212
An anonymous reader writes "The well-known 1969 meteorite that fell 60
miles north of Melbourne, Australia, remains [0] remarkably contentious
today. The 100 kilogram [1]carbon rock : a) contains pre-biotic
proteins and 12% water; b) harbors 50 amino acids not found on Earth;
c) favors the tell-tale signature of biochemistry based on a dominant
left-handed chirality, compared to random or racemic mixtures found in
test-tube syntheses. While terrestrial contamination (even interior to
the meteor) may discount this so-called 'Murchison meteor', its light
isotopes of carbon and nitrogen suggest the left-handed amino acids not
found elsewhere on Earth have the same ratios as the right-handed ones.
This would not be the case if, say, bacteria was just making the
left-handed ones after impact. Seems quite a controversy from
down-under."
Links
0. http://www.astrobio.net/news/article375.html
1. http://www.meteorlab.com/METEORLAB2001dev/murchy.htm
Yamaha To Withdraw From CD-R/RW Business
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/13/2052251
An anonymous reader writes "What's going on. When I first heard this I
thought it was a bad joke. They make great burners! 'Tokyo, February 5,
2003 Â Yamaha Corp. [0]decided at a board meeting to cease sales of
CD-R/RWs for personal computers and to withdraw completely from the
business by the end of March 2003.'" Does any other company make
burners that [1]can burn an image on the CD?
Links
0. http://www.global.yamaha.com/news/20030205.html
1. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/27/1926252&tid=137
Dragon's Lair 3D Not Worth The Effort
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/13/2036248
[0]Anonymous Coward writes "While not the best source for gaming
information, [1]CNNs Technology section has a review of Ubi Softs
[2]Dragon's Lair 3D. Long story short, according to the writer Marc
Saltzman, the game isn't worth it. In fact, the opening paragraph says,
'The only thing worse than a lousy video game is when it taints a
well-respected, 20-year-old franchise.' One interesting tidbit from the
article, the original Dragon's Lair is one of only three video games on
display at the Smithsonian. The other two games being Pac-Man and
Pong."
Links
0. http://home.earthlink.net/~kspandle
1. http://www.cnn.com/
2. http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/fun.games/02/13/saltzman.dragon/index.html
Buy Broadband From Your Neighbor
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/13/1841246
[0]infractor writes "Wired has [1]an article about a wireless project
delivering free broadband to a rural community. Using Linux based
[2]devices called [3]meshboxes from [4]Locustworld, they've created a
[5]local mesh network. More detail in this [6]article. With Wi-Fi
friendly ISPs talking about [7]micro-ISP deals for wireless sharers
this could be the accelerator UK broadband has been waiting for." Last
year [8]we mentioned the MeshAP-05, a bootable CD which "turns a single
board computer or laptop into a mesh node and access point," since
updated to MeshAP-06. Update: 02/13 19:52 GMT by [9]T: I see from
comments that -08 is actually the current version of MeshAP, with -09
soon. Thanks.
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,57617,00.html
2. http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT5073214560.html
3. http://www.locustworld.com/meshbox.html
4. http://locustworld.com/
5. http://www.kingsbridgelink.co.uk/
6. http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardian_jobs_and_money/story/0,3605,891166,00.html
7. http://lists.consume.net/pipermail/consume-thenet/2003-February/007713.html
8. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/01/2220255&tid=126
9. http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
Freshmeat
AbstractDB 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112841/
AbstractDB is a PHP wrapper class which provides easy and simple class
methods to access the most important database functions. It contains
classes implementing the functionality for native PHP functions
(MySQL), PEAR, PHPLIB, ADOdb, and METABASE. It allows you to switch
between these database abstraction layers by changing only a single
line of code, allowing you to use a unified abstraction layer for
database access.
AddressScrambler 0.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112827/
AddressScrambler is yet another Javascript email address scrambler to
help protect email addresses on Web pages from being harvested. It
comes with a handy helper page the generates the necessary code for
use.
Advanced Banner Rotation Software 3.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112884/
The Advanced Banner Rotation software enables you to display all your
adverts in just one area of your page. It will load all your banner
adverts and rotate them while your visitors view your page. In
addition, search engines will no longer judge your page to be just
another classified ad page. Its main features include unlimited
banners, configurable link and target frame/window for each banner, any
size banners, adjustable transition speed, ability to vary the pause
time between banners, and a range of changeover effects.
Afternoon Stalker 1.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112889/
Afternoon Stalker is a clone of the 1981 Intellivision game Night
Stalker. The player is in a two-dimensional maze. The player is
attacked by robots that shoot at it and that it must shoot down.
Apache Tooling Scripts 0.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112904/
Apache Tooling Scripts is a set of scripts for creating and removing
Apache virtual Web sites. It creates entries in httpd.conf and a new
Web directory with an index.htm file.
Article Manager 1.24
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112817/
Article Manager is a fully featured Web content management system that
makes it easy for non- technical users to easily update and manage
articles, news stories, headlines, and editorials. It includes the
following features: supports multiple users with different access
levels (Administrators, Editors, Trusted Writers, and Writers), uploads
up to 10 images per article, password protected login screen, advanced
setup options to make it easy to customize the program, a powerful
search engine, a customizable database, the ability to customize the
HTML templates, and much more.
AtariSIO 0.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112861/
AtariSIO is a Linux kernel driver module plus a small set of tools that
implement the Atari 8-bit (400/600/800/XL/XE) computer series SIO
protocol. The kernel driver handles the low-level parts and provides a
simple interface for user space applications. This package contains two
tools: atariserver, an Atari disk drive emulator (similar to SIO2PC or
APE for MSDOS), and atarixfer, a tool to transfer disk images to/from a
connected Atari disk drive.
Blackdown Java 2 Standard Edition for Linux 1.4.1-01-FCS
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112917/
The Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE) is a feature-complete development
and deployment platform. Blackdown provides both a SDK (J2SDK, formerly
known as JDK) and a runtime environment (J2RE) for Linux on various
architectures (ix86, Sparc, PPC, S/390, ARM, m68k). Both the J2SDK and
the J2RE contain the Java Plug-In for Netscape 4.x and Mozilla/Netscape
6.x.
Bloskunk 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112873/
Bloskunk is a minimalistic but customizable and expandable Weblog
application for SkunkWeb. It features archiving by day, month, or year,
RSS syndication, and Bloxsom-style entry editing.
BPhpWebmail Frontend 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112775/
BPhpWebmail Frontend is an easy-to-use and easy-to-install Web mail
frontend. It features support for multiple POP and IMAP servers, Inbox,
Outbox, Sent, and Saved folders, and an address book.
C++ Debugging Support library 0.99.28
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112828/
Libcwd is a full-featured, professional, well-documented library to
support C++ developers with debugging their applications. It includes
support for ostream-based debug output, custom debug channels and
devices, powerful memory allocation debugging, run-time
sourcefile:linenumber information, and demangled type names of
variables. Libcwd is thread-safe.
cdargs 1.24
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112897/
cdargs adds a bookmark feature and a simple filebrowser to the builtin
shell command `cd'. This lets you jump to various places throughout the
filesystem with just a few keystrokes. It is intended for heavy shell
users.
ChessY! 0.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112914/
ChessY! is a Java application that allows you to visually review the
game histories that you can email to yourself at the end of a Yahoo!
online chess game.
Comunap 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112864/
Comunap is an early stage Python OpenNapster client.
Cubex Rubik's Cube Solver .398
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112905/
Cubex is a CGI Rubik's Cube solver that produces a highly-detailed
solution for any mixed-up Rubik's Cube in seconds.
CVS-SSH2 Plug-in for Eclipse 0.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112883/
CVS-SSH2 Plug-in for Eclipse is an Eclipse plug-in to allow CVS access
on an encrypted session by SSH2 protocol.
Drall 1.11.1.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112912/
Drall is a script which allows users to access their directories and
files remotely without the need of using insecure FTP and telnet. It
enables the user to treat the remote file system as if it was on their
local hard disk through a normal Web browser. The interface resembles
the well known Norton Commander and Midnight Commander. Single or
dual-panel views makes it easy to see an overview of the file system
and the modular design means you only use the features you need. Drall
is written in Perl for easy customization and expansion.
EasyMailings 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112879/
EasyMailings reads in an ASCII text file of addresses and outputs
mailing labels in Adobe's Portable Document Format. The labels are
sorted according to U.S. Postal Service regulations, that is, by tray
and then package. It prints a header at the start of each tray and
package, which greatly simplifies the mailing party. It can print
bar-coded labels (both address and tray). It has no GUI and requires
somewhat laborious printer calibration.
evilbar 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112918/
evilbar is small ncurses-based bar which is designed to match the style
of evilwm. It sports a right-aligned clock, APM status, and XMMS
control.
FAI 2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112886/
FAI (fully automatic installation) is a non-interactive system to
install a Debian GNU/Linux operating system on a group of PCs or a
Linux cluster. After installation, the systems are fully configured and
ready to run. It is a scalable method for performing unattended
installation and updating. Changes to the configuration files of the
operating system are made by cfengine, shell, and Perl scripts.
ffGuestBook 1.0b7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112927/
ffGuestBook is a PHP guestbook for Web sites. Instead of using SQL
databases, it relies on flat files for storage. It is fully
configurable through templates, and includes support for English and
German. An administration interface for moderating entries is also
provided, along with restrictions for preventing users from entering
silly email addresses or unnecessarily long text
FLP 1.042b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112882/
FLP (Flaimo's Little Package) is a collection of PHP classes for
internationalization. It formats date and time strings, replaces
keywords, converts measurement units between SI and the US Customary
System, and more.
FLTK 1.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112925/
FLTK (pronounced "fulltick") is a cross-platform C++ GUI
toolkit for UNIX/Linux (X11), Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X. It
provides modern GUI functionality without the bloat, and supports 3D
graphics via OpenGL and its built-in GLUT emulation. FLTK is designed
to be small and modular enough to be statically linked, and also works
fine as a shared library. It also includes an excellent UI builder
called FLUID that can be used to create applications in minutes.
FreeGuide TV Guide 0.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112829/
FreeGuide TV Guide is a TV guide program which grabs listings from the
Internet and allows you to view them and construct a personalised guide
to print out. It uses the XMLTV tools to grab listings, and requires
Java 1.4 or above.
glitch killer 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112870/
glitch killer solves the problem of protected CD rips sometimes having
scratchy noises by analysing the recorded .wav file and removing all
"clicks".
GNU TeXmacs 1.0.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112844/
GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific text editor, which was inspired by
both TeX and GNU Emacs. The editor allows you to write structured
documents via a "wysiwyg" and user friendly interface. The
program implements high quality typesetting algorithms and TeX fonts.
It is also possible to use TeXmacs as an interface to computer algebra
systems. Finally, TeXmacs supports the Guile/Scheme extension language,
which makes it possible to adapt the user interface to specific needs,
and even to extend the editor.
GtkTerm 0.98.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112881/
GtkTerm is a serial port terminal written in GTK+ . It is a clone of
the famous Hyperterminal. The port can be set up, and the control
signal can be toggled. It also supports file transfers and an
hexadecimal view of the data.
gURLChecker 0.1-0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112806/
gURLChecker is a C/GNOME 2 tool that can check links on a single Web
page or on a whole Web site in order to determine the validity of each
page.
hdup 1.6.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112868/
hdup is used to back up a filesystem. Features include encryption of
the archive (via mcrypt), compression of the archive (bzip/gzip/none),
the ability to transfer the archive to a remote host (via scp/rsync),
and no obscure archive format (it is a normal compressed tar file).
IcePref2 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112850/
IcePref2 is an updated, overhauled, improved, and perfected version of
the original IcePref (which was abandoned by the original author). This
new version includes many new features and bugfixes, and is a
sub-project of the IceWM Control Panel project. It is optimized for
IceWM 1.2.2 and better.
IceWM Control Panel 0.1beta-2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112851/
IceWM Control Panel is the first full-featured, GTK-based control panel
for IceWM. It features such tools as Ice Sound Manager (for managing
IceWM sound events), IcePref2, a wallpaper manager, and many other
tools bundled into a familiar Windows-like Control Panel interface.
id3lib.py 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112903/
id3lib.py is a Python module which allows you to read and write ID3
tags for a given MP3 file. It is derived from Ben Gertzfield's ID3.py,
but allows a bit more flexibility in its tag editing features.
Intercom 0.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112920/
Intercom is a flexible voice communication utility for Unix systems. It
supports the standard audio compression codecs such as GSM, G.711, and
G.72x as well as audio encryption. Intercom was designed mostly for
high-speed InterNet connections which are able to provide high quality
audio. However, it also works on lower bandwidth connections such as
dialup if so configured.
Jaffer 0.05
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112887/
Jaffer is a Java implementation of an Appletalk File Server over TCP.
Jaffer is only concerned with the latest AFP specifications and
supporting OS X and OS 9 clients. It is mainly focused on a tight,
clean, fast codebase that is very portable and embeddable.
Java Serialization to XML 1.0.7.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112843/
Java Serialization to XML (JSX) allows you to write and read any Java
object graph as XML data with one line of code. You can verify your
data and manipulate it with standard XML tools like DOM, JDOM, and
XSLT. JSX automatically creates a file format/wire protocol for all
Java objects, so that it is always up to date as the code evolves. When
you need backward compatibility, JSX provides the evolution techniques
of Java Object Serialization, and you can also modify the XML directly.
Unlike databinders, such as JAXB and Castor, no explicit mapping is
required, and JSX works for all objects.
jaxml 3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112880/
jaxml is a Python module designed to ease the creation of human
readable XML documents. It is designed to be small, easy-to-use, and
powerful.
jmame 0.6.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112832/
jmame is a Java-based frontend to XMAME. It uses the Swing toolkit and
uses XML to store all settings.
JPluck 0.9 beta 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112847/
JPluck allows users to convert Web sites to Plucker documents. It
creates Plucker documents ready to be installed and read.
Krename 2.5.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112895/
Krename is a very powerful batch file renamer for KDE3 which can rename
a list of files based on a set of expressions. It can copy/move the
files to another directory or simply rename the input files. Krename
supports many conversion operations, including conversion of a filename
to lowercase or to uppercase, conversion of the first letter of every
word to uppercase, adding numbers to filenames, finding and replacing
parts of the filename, and many more. It can also change access and
modification dates, permissions, and file ownership.
LinPHA 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112890/
LinPHA is an easy to use, multilingual, flexible photo/image
archive/album/gallery written in PHP. It uses a MySQL database to store
information about your pictures. It comes with a HTML-based installer,
so you don't need experience in setting up SQL databases. Thumbnails
are created as needed and stored in the SQL DB.
LooperDB 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112878/
LooperDB is a secure, multithreaded alert database used primarily for
network/security management. It is indended to be used as a central MoM
(manager-of-managers) platform to collect, consolidate, and correlate
event messages. When coupled with looper, LooperDB can provide the
framework for a sophisticated alert management infrastructure.
MaybeUpload 1-0-6-pre3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112855/
MaybeUpload is a Java language package intended to make it much easier
to write Servlets which handle RFC1867 file upload.
Meta-CVS 1.0.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112900/
Meta-CVS is version control system created around CVS. It retains most
of the features of CVS while adding support for first class directory
structure versioning, storage of symbolic links, and versioning of
execute permissions and user-defined properties. Meta-CVS greatly
simplifies branching and merging by keeping track of what is merged
where. It records file types and automatically assigns a CVS keyword
expansion mode to newly added files whose suffixes match previously
recorded types. Meta-CVS also has an importing feature that
automatically figures out renames and moves, making it possible to
easily keep up with patches from multiple sources in spite of directory
structure changes.
Meteor-II 1.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112865/
Meteor-II supports the Meteor-II framegrabber family based on the Video
Interface ASIC (VIA) by Matrox. It supports the Video 4 Linux 2 API,
and requires a 2.4 Linux kernel.
MiddleMan 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112898/
Middleman is a fast HTTP/HTTPS proxy server with features designed to
remove unwanted content and increase privacy. It features an XML-like
configuration file and an intuitive Web interface. It can be used to
filter HTTP headers, block certain files or mime types, block cookies
to and from certain sites, redirect requests, forward requests through
another proxy using NTLM or Basic authentication, block inappropiate
content using a keyword scoring system, and manipulate the contents of
files using either its builtin rewrite feature or an external program
or script. It fully implements the HTTP/1.1 protocol, including
persistent connections and gzip encoding.
Moneydance 3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112877/
Moneydance is an easy-to-use financial organizer built for the
Internet. You can use it to organize your finances so that you can get
on with the important things in life. The familiar interface makes
managing your money easy, while the advanced features give you the
ability to visually track your spending. Graphs and reports provide
financial feedback, while features such as budgeting, online banking,
and transaction reminders help you keep an eye on your money.
Net::Server::Mail 0.06
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112908/
Net::Server::Mail is a versatile and extensible implementation of the
SMTP protocol and its different evolutions like ESMTP and LMTP. The
event-driven, object-oriented API makes it easy to incorporate the SMTP
protocol to your programs.
NetProtect Firewall Router 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112906/
The Netprotect Firewall is a spin-off from the IPCOP GPL Firewall, with
many extensions built-in. One big goal is to have a product that is
usable in corporate environments.
Network Utilities Module for Webmin 1.060.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112923/
The Network Utilities Module for Webmin features tools like ping,
traceroute, nslookup, nmap, whois, dig and an IP subnet calculator.
Newspost 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112885/
Newspost is a full-featured USEnet binary autoposter. It is meant as an
all-in-one posting solution. In addition to posting files, it can post
text prefixes, and generate and post .SFV files and .PAR volumes.
NFGWebChat 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112854/
NFGWebChat is a single channel chat Web application designed
scalability and accessibility in mind.
ng-utils 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112840/
ng-utils is a collection of small tools to access netgroup contents.
OSSP lmtp2nntp 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112853/
OSSP lmtp2nntp is an LMTP service for use in conjunction with an MTA
(like Sendmail), providing a reliable, real-time mail to news gateway.
Input messages get their headers slightly reformatted to match Usenet
news article format, and the article is posted or feeded into a remote
NNTP service (like INN). Delivery must take place immediately or the
transaction fails. OSSP lmtp2nntp relies on the queuing capabilities of
the MTA in order to provide a fully reliable service. For this the
program returns proper delivery status notification which indicates
successful completed action, persistent transient failure, or permanent
failure.
Pathan 1.2 rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112894/
Pathan is an XPath processing library. It is written in C++ and uses
the Xerces-C DOM XML Parser by the Apache Foundation. It fully supports
the W3C XPath 1 specification.
PhpBaseClasses 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112862/
PHPBaseClasses is a multi-tier and fully object-oriented set of base
classes written for and in PHP. Currently the storage tier is SQL only,
but supports multiple databases, including any ODBC database, MsSQL
(SyBase), MySQL, and PostgreSQL. It includes classes for drawing
graphs, creating forums (news, bulletin boards), items, sales, links,
users, and authentication. It includes API-documentation in XML and a
UML Dia scheme.
phpWebFileManager 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112814/
phpWebFileManager is file management tool, written in PHP. It is
designed for inclusion in large projects, and it can also act as a
PostNuke module. Its main features are multi-language support, secure
directory browsing, directory creation and removal, file creation,
uploading, renaming, deleting, and viewing. There is also a powerful
configuration file that allows you to allow/deny appropriate file
management actions.
POP-Before-SMTP Relay Authorization Daemon 0.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112807/
popbsmtpd watches syslog for successful POP and IMAP logins, and writes
IP address entries to a database to permit SMTP mail relaying for a
configurable duration. No changes to any other software are required,
and it can process logins where the IP address and the authentication
success are recorded on separate log entries (i.e., when using
stunnel). It has a user-configurable scheme for recognizing and
extracting values from log entries, making it possible to use with many
POP and IMAP daemons without requiring any programming changes. These
configurations can be tested using sample log data.
PostGIS 0.7.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112831/
PostGIS adds support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL
object-relational database. In effect, PostGIS "spatially
enables" the PostgreSQL server, allowing it to be used as a
backend spatial database for geographic information systems (GIS), much
like ESRI's SDE or Oracle's Spatial extension.
Project WiSH 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112919/
Project WiSH creates a server tool and a client interface to provide
remote control of a Linux X10 server running the X10-wish drivers. The
server runs on the same machine as the X10-wish drivers and the client
can be run on any machine with the Java runtime envrionment 1.3 (or
higher).
psycopg 1.0.15 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112922/
psycopg is a PostgreSQL database adapter for the Python programming
language. Its main advantages are that it supports the full Python
DBAPI 2.0 and it is thread safe at level 2. It was designed for heavily
multi-threaded applications that create and destroy lots of cursors and
make a conspicuous number of concurrent INSERTs or UPDATEs. The psycopg
distribution includes ZPsycopgDA, a Zope Database Adapter.
pushmail 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112915/
pushmail aims to be the opposite of fetchmail. It can be used to push
email messages to an SMTP server without the need of configuring the
local MTA.
pwdutils 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112891/
pwdutils is a collection of utilities to manage the passwd and shadow
user information. The difference to the shadow suite is that these
utilities can also modify the information stored in NIS, NIS+, or LDAP.
PAM is used for user authentication and changing the pasword. It
contains passwd, chfn, chsh, and a daemon for changing the password on
a remote machine over a secure SSL connection. The daemon also uses PAM
so that it can change passwords independent of where they are stored.
PySQLite 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112930/
The goal of the PySQLite project is to develop a Python extension for
SQLite that conforms to the Python Database API Specification 2.0.
SQLite is a powerful embedded relational database management system in
a compact C library. It offers support for a large subset of SQL92,
multiple tables, indices, transactions and triggers.
Qmail-Scanner 1.16
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112852/
Qmail-Scanner, (also known as scan4virus) is an addon that enables a
Qmail Email server to scan all gatewayed Email for certain
characteristics. It is typically used for its anti-virus protection
functions, in which case it is used in conjunction with commercial
virus scanners. but also enables a site to react to Email (at a
server/site level) that contains specific strings in particular
headers, or particular attachment filenames or types (e.g. *.VBS
attachments). It also can be used as an archiving tool for auditing or
backup purposes. Qmail-Scanner is integrated into the mail server at a
lower level than some other Unix-based virus scanners, resulting in
better performance. It is capable of scanning not only locally
sent/received Email, but also Email that crosses the server in a relay
capacity. It also has SpamAssassin support.
qMsg 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112838/
qMsg is a simple alternative to xmessage using Qt3. It's possible to
set the buttons, icon, and title of the message box. The message text
can be specified on the command line, from the standard input or from a
file.
RapidSVN 0.1.2 Alpha 2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112849/
RapidSVN is a platform independent GUI client for the Subversion
revision system written in C++ using the wxWindows framework.
Raptor RDF Parser Toolkit 0.9.8 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112856/
Raptor is the RDF Parser Toolkit for Redland, a C library for the
RDF/XML and N-Triples RDF formats. It can use expat or libxml2 as
available, and supports the latest RDF updates, such as datatyping and
collections.
rblcheck.pl 0.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112845/
rblcheck.pl is Perl version of rblcheck, a simple tool for performing
lookups in DNS-based IP address databases (such as the MAPS RBL),
useful for filtering email and especially for anti-spam activists. When
checking multiple RBLs, it is faster than rblcheck.
rdesktop 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112858/
rdesktop is an open source RDP client for Microsoft Windows NT Terminal
Server, Windows 2000 Terminal Services, Windows XP Remote Desk­top,
and possibly other Terminal Services products. rdesktop currently runs
on Linux and other UNIX based platforms with the X Window System.
Redland RDF library 0.9.12 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112860/
Redland is a library providing high-level APIs for RDF (Resource
Description Framework), allowing it to be stored, parsed, queried, and
manipulated. Redland has an object-based, modular design and comes with
detailed reference documentation and examples. APIs are provided in C,
Perl, Python, Java, and Tcl.
ReMedial 0.2.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112834/
Remedial aims to be an easy-to-use player for Windows media files under
Linux. It is a front-end to the excellent avifile library, and provides
a look and feel similar to that of Realplayer.
ReplayTV 5000 Series Client 1.18
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112863/
This cross-platform Python program allows users to download the
"Replay Guide" and MPEG files of recorded TV shows from a
5000-series ReplayTV unit on the local network. It automatically finds
replay units using Universal Plug and Play (UPnP). When it finds a
Replay unit, it lists it in the "ReplayTVs" column. Selecting
a replay unit from the list allows users to see basic info about the
unit (such as serial number), fetch the guide, display information on a
specific show, and download the MPEG files for recorded shows. It will
also save the guide data for a Replay unit to a file.
Report Manager 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112846/
Report Manager is both a print scheme designer (report) and a
high-level printing (reporting) engine. The functionality is similar to
some other comercial tools like Crystal Reports.
Resolver User Layer Interface 0.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112835/
RULI stands for Resolver User Layer Interface. It's a library built on
top of an asynchronous DNS stub resolver. RULI provides an easy-to-use
interface for querying DNS SRV resource records. The main goal is to
promote deployment of SRV-cognizant programs. RULI aims to
automatically perform all the SRV logic described by RFC 2782, and to
comply with related specifications. As a side-effect, RULI also
provides a general-purpose, event-driven, asynchronous, stub DNS
resolver.
Roadsend PHP SiteManager 2.4.0-pre3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112872/
SiteManager is an Open Source Web Application Toolkit for PHP
Developers that includes a framework for code modules and layout
templates, database connectivity, SmartForms, sessions, and some other
tools. All parts of the system are integrated through object-oriented
libraries which allow for easy expandability and maintenance.
SIGHT 2.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112875/
SIGHT is a code generator set to create a user-defined system of Web
robots, realising arbitrary workflow. It generates Web robots that can
be based on Stalker algorithm, HTML structure, etc. This task is
frequent in bioinformatics.
SimpleCart 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112836/
This is an extremely simple and straightforward Perl- based shopping
cart system for a Web site. It does not require any sort of SQL
database, but rather, makes use of plain-text comma-delimited CSV
files. It features a full-featured shopping basket with item
descriptions, quantities, options, prices, and subtotal. It has the
ability to add sales tax for orders originating in a specific state.
The checkout process allows the user to input both a billing and
shipping address, and pay for the order via credit card or electronic
check. The credit cart payment page even supports the credit card
verification value, or CVV number. It is very easy to configure and
integrate with a Web site, and comes complete with comprehensive
HTML-based documentation.
SKYRiX Web Groupware 4.1pl7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112876/
SKYRiX Web Groupware is a set of Web-based applications for contact,
appointment, project, and content management. It is comparable to
Exchange and SharePoint portal servers. SKYRiX servers run on almost
any Linux system, can synchronize with Palm PDAs and is completly
scriptable using XML-RPC.
SlackPkg 0.92
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112899/
Slackpkg is an automated package-management tool for Slackware Linux.
It can do tasks such as automatic downloading and installing or
upgrading, browse the MANIFEST.gz (Slackware package-contents guide),
and more. Dependencies are not automatically handled. It is not a
replacement for pkgtool, but a valuable add-on.
SNMP Trap Translator 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112902/
SNMPTT is an SNMP trap handler written in Perl for use with the
NET-SNMP/UCD-SNMP snmptrapd program. Received traps are translated into
friendly messages using variable substitution. Output can be to STDOUT,
text log file, syslog, MySQL (Linux/Windows), or a Windows ODBC
database. User defined programs can also be executed.
snort-ng 1.6.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112842/
Snort-ng is a Perl script that summarizes Snort logs making an easy
view of what attacks are being seen through a network. It can generate
charts in HTML and includes a GUI. It works with all versions of Snort
and can analyse logs in two formats: syslog alerts and text alerts.
Space Hulk 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112848/
Space Hulk is a great board game which takes place in the world of
Warhammer 40000. It is a two player turn-based game where one player
plays the 'Marine', the other player plays the alien called
'Genestealer'. This video game is a complete conversion of the board
game with the 2nd edition rules. It features playing over the network,
either in real time or asynchronously via email.
SpamAssassin 2.44
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112901/
SpamAssassin is a mail filter that uses a wide range of heuristic tests
on mail headers and body text to identify spam. Once identified, the
mail can then be optionally tagged as spam for later filtering. It
provides a command line tool to perform filtering, a client-server
system to filter large volumes of mail, and Mail::SpamAssassin, a set
of Perl modules that implement a Mail::Audit plugin -- allowing
SpamAssassin to be used in a Mail::Audit filter, a spam-protection
proxy POP/IMAP server, or almost anywhere.
structural get_opts 20030128-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112805/
Structural get_opts is intended to be an easy-to-use yet reasonably
extensible argument-parsing library. Arguments are initially defined,
and may then be parsed into C structures for later use. A number of
argument types are supported, including strings, integers, toggles, and
lists.
Syslinux 2.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112874/
SYSLINUX is a boot loader for the Linux operating system which operates
off of MS-DOS floppies. It is intended to simplify first-time
installation of Linux, rescue disks, and other uses for boot floppies.
A SYSLINUX floppy can be manipulated using standard MS-DOS (or any
other OS that can access an MS-DOS filesystem) tools once it has been
created, and requires only a ~ 9K DOS program or ~ 18K Linux program to
create it in the first place. It also includes PXELINUX, a program to
boot off a network server using a boot PROM compatible with the Intel
PXE (Pre-Execution Environment) specification, ISOLINUX, a program to
boot off ISO 9660 CD-ROMs in native mode, and MEMDISK, a tool to boot
legacy operating systems (e.g. DOS) using a Linux boot loader
regardless of medium.
Tiki 1.5 RC2 (Release candidates)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112888/
Tiki is software written in PHP4 to develop portals, community sites,
and applications. It includes a Wiki, Weblogs, a CMS system, banners,
file galleries, image galleries, a dynamic content system, comments,
and a lot of other features. A permission system and admin panel allows
any configuration for the application. Tiki can be customized to your
needs using templates (Smarty) and CSS files for themes. Multiple
languages are supported. There is complete documentation for users and
developers.
toolame 02j
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112857/
Toolame is an optimized MPEG-1/2 Layer II audio encoder based upon the
ISO demonstration source code that borrows heavily from the LAME
project, as well as introducing new optimizations and additional
features such as VBR.
Tulip 1.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112926/
Tulip is a software system dedicated to the visualization of huge
graphs. It manages graphs with up to 500,000 elements (node and edges)
on a personal computer (PIII 600, 256MB RAM). Its SuperGraph technology
architecture provides the following features: 3D visualizations, 3D
modifications, plugin support, support for clusters and navigation,
automatic graph drawing, automatic clustering of graphs, automatic
selection of elements, and automatic coloring of elements according to
a metric.
Turck MMCache 2.3.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112859/
Turck MMCache is a opcode cache for PHP. It increases performance of
PHP scripts by caching them in a compiled state, so that the overhead
of compiling is almost completely eliminated. It also uses some
optimizations for speeding up PHP scripts' execution. It typically
reduces server load and increases the speed of PHP code by 1-10 times.
It is tested with PHP 4.1-4.3, and Apache 1.3 and 2.0 under Linux and
Windows.
Vstr string library 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112826/
Vstr is a safe and fast string library for C. It is designed for
network communication. Its design uses chunks of ptr+length data, so
adding, substituting, and deleting data are all fast operations. This
model also allows it to do automatic referencing for mmap() areas of
memory. Shortcut APIs are included to mmap() a file into a Vstr string,
and read()/write() data to/from a Vstr string. Another big feature of
the library is a POSIX and ISO 9899:1999 compliant printf() like
function, which can also be extended with user supplied formatters that
are gcc warning compatible. The total API is over 140 functions, but
laid out in a easy to remember manner, including data parsing
functions, a non-destructive split() function, and conversion functions
(among others).
Wollabot 0.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112916/
Wollabot is a modular service bot for IRC channels. It's written
entirely in PHP, making it crossplatform and easy to customize. It's
not supposed to be guarding channels and does not contain such
functionality, thus increasing performance for the tasks it is supposed
to do. It comes bundled with a couple of modules (e.g., a PHP function
prototype lookup and a Google lookup tool).
Working Overloaded Linux Kernel 4.0s-pre10 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112871/
The Working Overloaded Linux Kernel (WOLK) project provides stable and
development kernels for either server or testing purposes. These
kernels provide a server kernel and also a service for developers and
end users who can't be up-to-date with the latest kernels/patches but
want to test new kernel features. Patches may be added upon request.
xvnkb 0.2.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112804/
xvnkb is a Vietnamese keyboard input program for X Windows. It provides
a useful way of editing Vietnamese in X Windows environments with
popular input methods and charsets. It runs as a small X application in
the background without any interference with others, and works well
with most X applications. Supported Vietnamese input methods include
VNI, TELEX, and VIQR. Supported Vietnamese charsets include TCVN3,
VISCII, VPS, VNI, VIQR, and Unicode (UTF-8).
Newsforge Reports
Open Source in Mexico - Part Two
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/12/0146222
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - While attending CONSOL 2003, I quickly
realized that the Open Source movement in Mexico is just barely
starting to discover business -- or perhaps it's the other way around.
In many ways, the idea of Open Source is much more political in Mexico
than in the U.S., and there is a uniquely Mexican holdback to Open
Source adoption that is, sadly, a reflection of some of the worst
aspects of Mexican corporate and ...
Call for parallel and distributed processing conference papers:
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/12/141246
- By Barbara French, Tekrati - With the 2003 International Conference
on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications
February 17 call-for-papers deadline approaching, Rajat P. Garg, Ph.D.
with Sun Microsystems, encourages the open source community to file
submissions and offers some suggested topics. You are invited to submit
a draft paper of about 5 pages and/or a proposal to organize a
technical session/workshop. All ...
Microsoft to Open Source: You guys are hypocrites!
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/11/2118256
- by Tony Stanco -Leave it to the kooks in the community to make
Microsoft look sympathetic. I heard from Microsoft yesterday on the
chatter over their appearing at our Open Source in Government
conference and they quickly proposed that they be uninvited. Not so
fast.
Newsforge Newsvac
Oracle to Submit Oracle9i Database on Linux for Independent Security Evaluation
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/14/0243232
Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL), the world's largest enterprise software
company, today announced its intention to submit Oracle9i Database
Release 2 on the Linux operating system for a Common Criteria (ISO
15408) evaluation at Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 4, the highest
level generally achieved by commercial software vendors
German bank switches to Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/14/0237208
Deutscher Investment Trust has chosen to run Intel-based servers with
SuSE's version of Linux on its computers that analyze funds and
portfolios, SuSE said Thursday. The German bank's programs previously
ran on a Hewlett-Packard Unix server, but the company switched to Intel
and Linux because it was less expensive than moving from the existing
HP-UX 10i Unix version to 11i, the bank said.
TimeSys rolls out updated embedded Linux SDK
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/14/0233249
Anonymous Reader writes "TimeSys Corporation today announced the
release of TimeSys Linux 4.0, and additionally has broken the
price/performance barrier for commercial embedded Linux development
packages by introducing a full-function embedded Linux SDK for just
$79.95."
PYCON 2003: 1st annual Python developers' conference
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/14/0232210
Python Software Foundation writes, No, it's not a snake or the name of
a British comedy group. Python is one of the most useful, compelling
and intelligently designed programming platforms to have emerged into
the computer industry mainstream in recent years. It is rapidly gaining
wide acceptance and being deployed in major IT shops around the world.
Testing Lotus iNotes on Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/14/0227218
Anonymous Reader writes "Last month IBM announced the availability of
iNotes on Linux, which lets you easily access your Notes mail,
calendar, contacts, To Do list, and notebook directly from your Linux
brrowser. This iNotes Demo shows you how it looks, feels, and works.
You get an iNotes email ID for 7 days to test iNotes on Linux, but you
can get longer access if you want."
Development Progress Motivates Little Blue Box Group
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/14/0226243
Chicago IL, February 12th, 2003 Today, the makers of the revolutionary
Little Blue Box (the LBB), network email appliance announced an
expanded reseller opportunity for traditional VAR resellers and OEMs of
business class servers.
IBM Taps Trolltech For Linux-Based Mobile Devices
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/13/202253
Norwegian software maker's suite will serve as an alternative to
competing technology from Palm and Microsoft.
Mitnick banned from security group
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/13/1337213
On January 23rd he received a congratulatory e-mail, welcoming him into
the association, and giving him a password to the members-only section
of the ISSA site. It didn't last long. Mitnick's password was quickly
revoked, and a few days later he received a letter in certified mail
from the ISSA's headquarters informing him that news of his acceptance
was greatly exaggerated.
Intel Launches Cell Phone Chip
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/13/1335227
'Wireless Internet on a chip' handset processors promise lighter,
smarter phones with long battery life.
FBI warns 'patriot hackers'
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/13/1335207
Real patriots don't hack. Uncle Sam says only he can do that. The FBI's
National Infrastructure Protection Center warned Wednesday that growing
tensions between the United States and Iraq could lead to an increase
in global computer hacking activities on both sides.
Thinkgeek
Electronics: Mustek Gsm@rt Mini 3
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/cameras/5c9e/
Tshirts: I Didn't Get the Memo
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/frustrations/5cba/
Tshirts: Esc
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/5cc0/
Tshirts: Network Security Staff
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/coder/5cb5/
Interests: O'Reilly Coaster Set
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/oreilly/other/5c2c/
Cube Goodies: Meetings
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/posters/despair/5cd9/
Gadgets: Radiation Detection Watch
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/5cef/
Cube Goodies: Indifference
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/posters/despair/5cdb/
Cube Goodies: Motivation
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/posters/despair/5cd7/
Computing: iGesture Pad
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5cca/
Electronics: SOCOM Navy Seals for PS2
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/ps2/ps2soft/5ceb/
Electronics: PowerPad Pro XBOX Controller
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/xbox/xboxhard/5bec/
Electronics: SI-5 Gen2 Speakers
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/audio/5c86/
Electronics: Panzer Dragoon ORTA for Xbox
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/xbox/xboxsoft/5ce8/
Computing: PowerPad Extended Life Notebook Batteries
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5cec/
Computing: Glow Wire PC Lights
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5b85/
Gadgets: ER1 Personal Robot System
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5ce0/
Gadgets: Securikey Authentication System
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/security/5cd6/
Electronics: Infoglobe Caller ID Display
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/phones/5c83/
Computing: Dual RW DVD/CD Internal Drive
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/5c94/
Sourceforge
Revival/2k 1.0.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=252151
Revival/2k has released a new version of the Extended Web-Interface.
v1.0.1 is now available. Revival/2k is a modular network interface
system that allows multiple web applications (forums, mail, login,
etc), internet servers (NNTP, POP3, etc) and a Telegard/Renegade styled
telnet server all using the same DBs, and shareing information. The
initial release of the WIGUEST module has also been made. v0.1.0 is
also available, and requires the The extended web-interface v1.0.1 or
later to operate. WIGUEST is a guestbook system for Revival/2k. V1.0.1
adds support for GuestBook type modules. If you're seeing this outside
of the Revival/2k project, you can visit Revival2k at
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/revival2k
DVArchive V2.0 available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=252110
DVArchive allows you to turn your PC into a "Virtual ReplayTV" that can
download shows and serve them back up to your ReplayTVs as well as
automated schedules and the like. DVArchive V2.0 is a major update with
lots of bug fixes, lots of new features and a drastically rewritten
infrastructure/plumbing. DVArchive V2.0 is now available You can read
more about DVArchive at it's home page http://dvarchive.sourceforge.net
DVArchive V2.0 makes some serious changes in your DVArchive.xml and
Local.guide files. Please read the CHANGELOG.txt before running it and
if you are upgrading, be sure to backup your Local.guide and
DVArchive.xml files first. If this will be your first use of DVArchive,
please review the README.txt before running it. -- Gerrys Plea :-) ***
PLEASE READ THE CHANGELOG.txt and README.txt *** Most questions folks
have asked are answered in the CHANGELOG.txt or the README.txt or
TROUBLESHOOTING.txt. Please check them over before you report a problem
- it's good for you (quick resolution) and the community in general
(saves resources for the new issues). Thanks in advance! -- A brief
summary of new features: * Support for Replay 4xxx and 5xxx units *
New, efficiant/clean/single window interface - Combined single window
DVR Explorer - Context sensitive menus (regular and popup) - Full Drag
and Drop support * Ability to store show files using the shows title
(vs numbers) in your local guide * New XML based guides (no more guide
corruption) * Fixes to eliminate lockups * Ability to remotely turn
ReplayTV off (to free up time and speed up downloads) * Ability to edit
ALL information about a show (including date/time, ratings, etc) *
Periodic renegotiation of time offset (so that DVA keeps working even
if your computers clock drifts over time - useful when DVA is left
running all the time) There is really a lot more - the item about a new
User interface is deceptive as this has literally dozens of
changes/enhancements contained in it.
FreeGuide TV Guide 0.5.2-1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=252113
This include channel sets and movie highlighting as well as a fixed NA
grabber. (The files uploaded when this release was named 0.5.2
contained some minor Windows bugs which have now been fixed.) FreeGuide
is a TV guide. Download TV listings from the Internet, view them
offline, create a personalised TV guide and choose favourites. It uses
the XMLTV tools to grab listings for the UK, USA, Canada, Norway,
Sweden, Germany and New Zealand.
ntfsprogs 1.7.1 (stable) released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=252138
This release includes urgent bug fixes! Upgrade from 1.7.0 and
1.7.0beta is essential. See the ChangeLog for details. (Note ntfsprogs
was formerly linux-ntfs.) The goals of this project are: create a new
Linux kernel driver for the NTFS file system (v1.2 and later 3.0), user
space utilities (e.g. format, ntfs check, etc.) and a library to avoid
code duplication and provide access to NTFS to other GPLed programs.
Tiki 1.5 -Regulus- RC2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=252439
This is a new release candidate before the 1.5 release. Lot of bugs and
problems found in the RC1 version have been fixed in this new release.
Tiki is a CMS system based on a Wiki, it has all the features a regular
Wiki application has and a lot more. Tiki uses PHP and templates via
Smarty.
SCons 0.11 is now available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=251609
SCons alpha release 0.11 is now available for download. SCons is a
software construction tool (build tool, or substitute for Make)
implemented in Python, based on the winning design in the Software
Carpentry build tool competition (in turn based on the Cons build
tool). IMPORTANT: Release 0.11 contains the following interface
changes: - The default suffix for static object files when using gcc
has been changed to ".os" to allow shared and static object files to
exist side-by-side in the same directory. - When no command-line
targets are specified, the default behavior is now to build all derived
files in or below the current directory (like Make). This can be
disabled by explicitly specifying "Default(None)" in an SConscript
file. - Setting the BUILDERS construction variable now clears previous
Builder attributes from the construction Environment. - An "env"
argument has been added to the strfunction() method of Python function
Actions. See the release notes for more information about these
changes. This release adds the following features: - A new CacheDir()
function and related command-line options --cache-disable,
--cache-force and --cache-show support the ability to share derived
files between builds. - Support for the IRIX platform and SGI MIPSPro
tool chain. - Support for the PharLap ETS tool chain. - Support for
compiling with Microsoft VC++ when running Cygwin Python. - New
AddPreAction() and AddPostAction() functions. - Python function Actions
can now include the contents of construction variables in their
signatures. - A new strfunction() method has been added for external
command Actions. - The SConscript() function now takes optional
"build_dir" and "duplicate" keyword arguments that make it easier to
set up a build directory. - The same Win32 object files can now be
linked into either shared or static libraries. The following fixes have
been added: - Fixed many (not all) situations when interrupts (CTRL-C)
wouldn't actually stop a build. - Libraries in the LIBS construction
variable can now explicitly include a library prefix and suffix. - The
Win32 scons.bat script now has DOS-standard CR-LF line endings. - Fixed
how the Environment.Append() method works BUILDERS (and other
dictionaries). - Fixed how a file prefix is added when the target isn't
specified. - Better error messages whene a BuildDir is read-only. - A
platform or tool module can now be directly imported even after it's
been included in a construction Environment. - The output of -c -n is
now correct when a target is a directory. Performance has been improved
as follows: - Added support for caching values when use
--implicit-cache. The following changes have been made to the SCons
packaging: - Added new --standard-lib, --standalone-lib and
--version-lib options to the "setup.py install" command to make it
easier to install the SCons build engine (library) into different
locations. If no explicit library installation location is specified,
the SCons "setup.py" script now looks for an existing SCons build
engine in these three locations and prefers where the build engine was
installed previously. The documentation has been improved: - Eliminated
description of some deprecated keywords. - Updated description of
BuildDir() to try to explain more clearly how to set up a build
directory.
FinkCommander (GUI for Fink package mgr) v. 0.5.0
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=251651
Version 0.5.0 of FinkCommander has been released. It has a number of
significant new features, including a package browser, which provides a
Finder-like interface for viewing the files intalled on your system by
a particular Fink package. FinkCommander is a graphical user interface
for the Fink software packaging system for Mac OS X. It provides an
intuitive front-end to the Fink command-line tools for downloading and
installing Unix software. If you have version 0.4.3 installed, you will
need to move it to the trash before installing this version.
Freevo version 1.3.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=251680
Freevo is a Linux application that turns a PC with a TV capture card
and/or TV-out into a standalone multimedia jukebox/VCR/PVR/HTPC/DVR/set
top box. It uses MPlayer to play and record audio+video. It is
optimized for use with a TV+remote. There is a new stable binary
release (1.3.1) available on SourceForge.net's download page. It
includes a number of important changes from the last stable release
(1.3.0). The binary release now includes all external libraries (e.g.
SDL) and applications (e.g. MPlayer). The current version is useful for
watching/recording TV, AVIs, DVDs, playing MP3/OGG, viewing images.
AOLserver 4.0 beta 2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=250769
The second beta release of AOLserver 4.0 is available. In addition to
bug fixes, this includes enhancements for international and Win32
support. AOLserver is a multithreaded, Tcl-enabled, massively-scalable
and extensible web server tuned for large scale, dynamic web sites.
AOLserver also includes complete database integration and a dynamic
page scripting language.
Tiny COBOL Compiler release 0.60
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=250879
The Tiny COBOL compiler project is developing a COBOL compiler for use
on Linux; it generates GNU x86 assembler code. With this release,
improvements have been made in the following areas: locking for
relative files, better support of print files (write after and before
advancing) and better compatibility with 85 Standard for some indexed
file I/O operations.
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