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Slashdot
Giant Mecha News
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/21/0045222
[0]da3dAlus writes "Starting next week, Monday Feb 24th, from 4-5pm est
Cartoon Network's Toonami starts a [1]Giant Robot Week. The lineup
currently includes episodes of Nadesico, Dia-Guard, Robotech, and
Evangelion (yes, NGE is slated for the block, but only on Mon/Tues).
Also in Evangelion news, AnimeNewsNetwork reports Gainax is
[2]finalizing the re-release of the boxed set of NGE. This set includes
re-worked (audio/video enhanced) versions of the original 26 episodes,
the 4 'remake' eps from laser disc, and a bonus disc with creditless
opening/closing video, trailers, and live-action edition of the film.
The final cut of the Evangelion movie-- Death(True)2, Air, and Magokoro
wo Kimi ni--will also be included. The discs will be in a limited
edition art box, and will retail for ~$322 on or about June 25th, with
a reservation deadline of April 14th. After that, the new set will be
released separately without the box."
Links
0. http://dgrau&spsu,edu
1. http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/toonami/promos/giantrobot_022003/indexhtml
2. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/article.php?id=3212
How Configurable Should a Desktop User Interface be?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/21/003225
[0]The Original Yama writes "In the world of user interface design
there are two main schools of thought. The former maintains that the
environment must be flexible and configurable enough to adjust to a
user's needs. The latter takes the opposite perspective, arguing that
many of today's user interfaces have become bloated and overloaded with
features, and consequently have become difficult to maintain and use.
KDE developer [1]Mosfet shows how the KDE Project has managed to
[2]bridge the gap between the 'highly configurable' and 'less is more'
camps."
Links
0. http://www.pclinuxonline.com/
1. http://www.mosfet.org/
2. http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4505
Bookseller Purges Records to Avoid PATRIOT Act
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/20/2341219
Skyshadow writes "Vermont Bookseller [0]Bear Pond Books has announced
that they will [1]purge their sales records at the request of customers
. This would effectively sidestep typically insideous a provision of
the [2]PATRIOT Act which allows government agencies to secretly seize
sales records. The store's co-owner, Michael Katzenberg, put it this
way: 'When the CIA comes and asks what you've read because they're
suspicious of you, we can't tell them because we don't have it...
That's just a basic right, to be able to read what you want without
fear that somebody is looking over your shoulder to see what you're
reading.' Now if only [3]certain [4]other booksellers would show that
same conscience, we might have something here."
Links
0. http://www.bearpondbooks.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp
1.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/02/20/national1453EST0691.DTL
2.
http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Surveillance/Terrorism_militias/20011031_eff_usa_patriot_analysis.html
3. http://www.barnesandnoble.com/
4. http://www.amazon.com/
BIOS' Days Are Numbered
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/20/189208
[0]Ninja Master Gara writes "While [1]this article shows Phoenix
expanding the uses of the bios, [2]ZDNet UK reports [3]Intel is looking
to get rid of it altogether, to be replaced with the Extensible
Firmware Interface (EFI) as announced at the Intel Developer Forum. EFI
promises a considerable amount of flexibility to system control and
startup, legacy support, and programability. And it gets rid of text
mode only start up too."
Links
0. http://anime.oddball.net
1. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/18/2228255&tid=185
2. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/
3. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2130826,00.html
Slashback: Compromise, Bugs, Slag
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/20/0944234
Slashback with more on Bill Gates' comments on bugs in Microsoft's
code, the recent compromising of millions of credit card numbers, more
.uk domain waffling, and more, including a foolproof way to stop anyone
from reading data off of your discarded hard drive's platters.
U of Wyoming Fingerprinting All P2P Traffic
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/20/2257227
mk2mk2 writes "[0]News.com has an [1]article on how they're preparing
to shut down P2P sharing of copyrighted content: 'For months, the
digital equivalent of a postal censor has been sorting through
virtually all file-swapping traffic on the University of Wyoming's
network, quietly noting every trade of an Eminem song or "Friends"
episode.'" It's scary until one realizes that most P2P traffic isn't
encrypted, like back when everyone still used telnet.
Links
0. http://www.news.com/
1. http://news.com.com/2100-1023-985027.html?tag=fd_lede1_hed
Mixing the Unmixable
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/20/1411202
markthebrewer writes "From [0]an article in the [1]New Scientist:
Conventional wisdom every 15 year-old knows says that you can't mix oil
and water without some kind of [2]surfactant. However a team lead by
[3]Richard Pashley from the[4] Australian National University in
Canberra [0]have done it simply by first removing all dissolved gases
from the water. Apart from the obvious potential improvements in salad
dressings, it could have an impact on the manufacture of everything
from drugs to paint - anywhere an [5]emulsion is required. Apparently,
it will also give some insight into the mysterious 'long-range
hydrophobic effect' (or why oil droplets coalesce over surprisingly
long distances)." Keep in mind the usual scientific caveat: this
experiment doesn't seem to have been replicated by other experimenters
yet.
Links
0. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993408
1. http://www.newscientist.com/
2. http://www.everything2.org/index.pl?node_id=1085340
3. http://rsc.anu.edu.au/RSC/ChemResearch/Chemists/pashley.html
4. http://www.anu.edu.au/
5. http://www.everything2.org/index.pl?node_id=231151
Understanding Moore's Law
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/20/1744250
[0]S. Blocher writes "[1]Ars Technica has a great article up,
'[2]Understanding MooreÂs Law', that I think most geeks should read.
The misrepresentation of MooreÂs Law in the media has always been a
real pet peeve of mine, and this article does a great job of looking at
the flipside of the 'bigger and faster' thesis to show how the Law
isnÂt really just about doubling computer power."
Links
0. http://www.dieterblocher.ch.vu/
1. http://arstechnica.com/
2. http://arstechnica.com/paedia/m/moore/moore-1.html
Swiss Researchers Find A Hole In SSL
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/20/1956229
in4mation writes "The folks at [0]LASEC have found a [1]flaw in the SSL
protocol. Quoting Professor Serge Vaudenay from a [2]BBC article the
security problem is in 'the SSL protocol itself and not in how we use
it or how we implement it.' Apparently the flow only affects webmail
and not banking or credit card payments and took less than an hour (160
attempts) to crack." Update: 02/20 20:52 GMT by [3]T: Kurt Seifried
writes to say that this is almost exactly wrong: "The flaw is in
IMPLEMENTATION, NOT THE PROTOCOL. Due to the way error checks are
handled an attacker can find out which error condition occurred by
measuring the response. The solution is trivial, a path that forces
OpenSSL to do the second check even if the first one fails, thus
denying the remote attacker any information as to which exact error
condition occurred." He includes a link to the [4]security advisory at
openssl.org. Update: 02/20 21:49 GMT by [3]T: Read on below for some
more information from SSL 3.0 designer Paul Kocher.
Links
0. http://lasecwww.epfl.ch/
1. http://lasecwww.epfl.ch/memo_ssl.shtml
2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2785145.stm
3. http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
4. http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20030219.txt
FCC Abandons Linesharing, Kills DSL Competition
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/20/1848232
raygundan writes "According to Reuters, the [0]FCC today decided to
greatly curtail the laws that force incumbent phone companies to share
their lines with their competition at cost. This does not bode well for
companies like [1]Covad Communications who provide DSL using phone
lines to bridge their data networks over the "last mile" to customers.
The new rules do force line sharing as long as companies are willing to
offer voice service, but this essentially states that if you are not
already a phone company, you cannot offer DSL. The existing rules will
be phased out over three years. There is still some hope, however, that
a federal court might strike down the FCC ruling. Oddly, the news
agencies seem to be reporting this as a [2]minor change to the rules,
rather than an end to all non-ILEC competition in DSL." The [3]FCC's
front page has links (luckily PDFs as well as Microsoft Word files)
about the decision, including statements from each of the
commissioners.
Links
0. http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/030220/telecoms_fcc_broadband_1.html
1. http://www.covad.com/
2.
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/yhoo/story.asp?source=blq/yhoo&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo&guid=%7BEBBF1F73-DE42-46BA-ACA7-05ECF9AF87F6%7D
3. http://www.fcc.gov
Freshmeat
AIM Sniff 0.8Beta (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113770/
AIM Sniff is a utility for monitoring and archiving AOL Instant
Messenger messages across a network. It can be used to monitor for
cases of harassment or warez trading. It has the ability to do a live
dump (actively sniff the network) or read a PCAP file and parse the
file for IM messages. You also have the option of dumping the
information to a MySQL database or STDOUT. AIM Sniff will also monitor
for an AIM login and then perform an SMB lookup on the originating
computer in order to match NT Domain names with AIM login names
(handles). A very basic Web frontend is included.
Alinghi 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113655/
Alinghi is a theme which is a tribute to the great performance of the
Swiss sailing team Alinghi.
Ampoliros 3.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113717/
Ampoliros is an advanced and easy to use distributed PHP Web
applications platform, featuring a powerful XML-RPC and SOAP interface.
It is suitable as an Internet/Intranet development and deployment
system. It has a very strong modular architecture and allows very fast
deployment of Web solutions.
Aqua Data Studio 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113718/
Aqua Data Studio is an SQL editor and developer tool that allows
database structures to be browsed. and SQL scripts to be easily
created, edited, and executed. It provides an integrated database
environment with a single consistent interface to all major relational
databases, allowing DBAs and developers to tackle multiple tasks
simultaneously. The sophisticated Query Analyzer features RDBMS-
specific syntax highlighting and auto- completion, detailed client
statistical information, and multi-grid results. Table structure and
dependencies in the database schema can be viewed, and queries can be
saved in many formats, including HTML and XML.
BASH Debugger 0.36
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113764/
BASH Debugger provides a patched BASH that enables better debugging
support as well as improved error reporting. It also contains the most
comprehensive source code debugger for BASH that has been written. It
can be used as a springboard for other experimental features (such as
adding hashtables), since development is maintained openly and
developers are encouraged to participate.
Bloof 0.1 beta 2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113738/
Bloof calculates software evolution metrics against a version control
like CVS in order to retrieve information about the evolution of the
source code and the development process. Bloof is implemented in Java
and comes with integrated database and Swing GUI.
Bosco 1.0rc2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113762/
Bosco is a rewrite of the popular Bugzilla defect tracking software in
PHP. It is database-independent, and aims to be easy to maintain and
modify. It also has an API to allow external applications to work with
its data.
btn4ws.pl 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113730/
btn4ws.pl (Buttons for Website) is a Gimp-perl plugin that creates a
set of buttons for a Web site. It takes the button labels from a text
file, and can easily generate buttons for JavaScript rollover effects.
You can add bevel and lighting to the buttons and also keep the .xcf
files to work with them after creation. It can also generate example
HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code.
buildpkg 0.0.2r28-rc3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113722/
Buildpkg is a package build system. It gives you the opportunity to
create package system (rpm, dpkg, etc.) independent descriptions (.def)
which can be used to create binary packages on every system. It can be
also used to track installations and create packages of the installed
files. If you want more safety, you can use the 'jail' feature. In this
mode a chroot-ed environment will be created from the (configurable)
list of programs and the installation will be done here. Besides Linux,
Solaris/SunOS, and FreeBSD packages are also supported.
CGI::Application::Generator 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113734/
CGI::Application::Generator provides a means by which a
CGI::Application-based module can be created from code, as opposed to
being written by hand. This module is intended to create the shell of
an application module, based on the specification you provide. It will
not output a completely functional application without additional
coding. It will, however, create the structural parts of your
application common to all CGI::Application-based modules. This module
is intended to ease the creation of new CGI::Application modules and to
encourage standardization of CGI::Application coding styles.
Chiq_Chaq 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113744/
Chiq_Chaq is a friendly wiki clone for non-technical users and easy
localization. It uses configurable locale and page templates
("skins") that you can edit to localize (even Hebrew). It
works out-of-the-box, including default content (help, etc.).
CubicSpace 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113639/
CubicSpace features the black cube (the BlackBox logo) in the
background, along with an intricate pattern and a light beige
refreshing color palette.
Current 1.4.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113783/
Current is a server implementation for Red Hat's up2date tools. It's
designed for small to medium departments to be able to set up and run
their own up2date server, feeding new applications and security patches
to workstations/servers.
Darius Tools 1.1 (Text)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113776/
Darius Tools is a collection of miscellaneous scripts which are useful
for a variety of purposes. They are all designed to be faster and
easier to use than the command line that would normally be required to
accomplish the same task. For example, there are scripts for mass
conversion of WAV files to Ogg files and Ogg files to WAV files, for
converting LaTeX to PostScript and viewing the output in ggv, for
creating image thumbnails, for converting from the Euro to another
currency, for automated updating via FTP and for removing backups
recursively. The Darius Tools are split among several packages
according to different categories.
Easysoft ODBC-Oracle Driver 1.1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113720/
The Easysoft ODBC-Oracle Driver provides ODBC 3.5 access to Oracle
databases for ODBC compatible applications running on Windows, Linux,
and major Unix platforms. It supports Oracle 8.1.6 or higher and Oracle
9. Data can be hosted locally or on any remote server accessible with
the Oracle Net8 protocol.
Echo Web Application Framework 1.0 Beta4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113732/
Echo is a framework for developing object-oriented, event-driven Web
applications in Java. Echo removes the developer from having to think
in terms of "page-based" applications and enables him/her to
develop applications using the conventional object-oriented and
event-driven paradigm for user interface development. Knowledge of
HTML, HTTP, and JavaScript is not required. Tutorials, white papers,
and full API documentation are available.
EmPy 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113729/
EmPy is a system for embedding Python expressions and statements in
template text. It processes source files using expansions, which are
special signals that are set off by a special prefix (by default the @
sign). It can expand arbitrary Python expressions and statements, as
well as a variety of special forms. The remaining data is sent
unaffected to the output, allowing Python to be used as a markup
language. It also supports "hook" callbacks, recording and
playback via diversions, and dynamic, chainable filters. The system is
highly configurable via command line options and embedded commands.
FXRuby 1.0.20
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113758/
FXRuby is a Ruby extension module that provides an interface to the FOX
GUI toolkit.
generic Whois 20020320
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113740/
gwhois is a generic whois client (and server) which strives to know the
right server to query for each and every top level domain and IP
address. You can ask gwhois about a domainor IP address, and it will
automatically forward your query to the appropriate server. gwhois even
queries whois servers which can only be reached by a Web form, and
outputs the results as text. gwhois can be used as a client or can be
installed as a relaying server, so you can use your normal whois client
to ask gwhois.
getmail 3.0.4 (Current)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113747/
getmail is intended as a simple replacement for fetchmail. It retrieves
email (either all messages, or only unread messages) from one or more
POP3 servers for one or more email accounts, and reliably delivers into
qmail-style Maildirs or through external MDAs (command deliveries)
specified on a per-account basis. getmail also has excellent support
for domain (multidrop) mailboxes, including support for Demon's SPDS
(*ENV) extension to the POP3 protocol for retrieving message envelopes.
gnomeBoyAdvance 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113765/
gnomeBoyAdvance is a GNOME 2 frontend for the Visual Boy Advance
emulator.
GNU TeXmacs 1.0.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113719/
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.
Gphoto2html 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113736/
Gphoto2html is a simple GTK-based application which generates a set of
Web pages, complete with thumbnails, from a set of digital or scanned
photos.
GQL 0.5.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113737/
GQL is a C++ library for generic SQL database access, modeled after
JDBC (Java Database Connectivity).
gtkpod 0.42
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113742/
gtkpod is a platform-independent GUI for Apple's iPod, using GTK2. It
supports playlists (simply drag your songs), ID3 tag editing, multiple
character sets for ID3 tags, duplicate song detection, offline
modification of the database with later synchronization, comfortable
sorting options for easier browsing of your songs, and more.
html2hdml 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113741/
html2hdml is a HTML to HDML converter written in C.
KickPIM 0.4.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113782/
KickPIM is an applet for KDE's Kicker panel which displays your
KAddressbook entries in a popup menu. You can view and edit address
data and send email messages very easily. It will also remind you about
birthdays.
LANforge FIRE & ICE 3.6.1-beta2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113714/
The LANforge is a unified multi-protocol network traffic generation and
WAN simulation application. It allows testing and verification labs to
simulate real world customer traffic. The WAN simulator allows the
injection of latency and other network oddities like dropped,
duplicated, and re-ordered packets. The LANforge provides a scriptable
command line interface with Perl libraries as well as a graphical user
interface.
libwebserver 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113749/
libwebserver is a library for adding Web-based remote interfaces to
your programs. It is independent of other Web servers, easy to use, and
supports HTTPS with OpenSSL.
Magma 1.2.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113763/
Magma is a bash script designed to make CD burning at the console
easier. It supports burning normal data CDs, audio CDs, blanking
CD-RWs, multisession, and more.
MAILMILL 20030220.1219
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113724/
MAILMILL is a lightweight mail-receiving component built in Java. It
listens on the SMTP port for incoming messages, and once they arrive it
looks in its XML-based ruleset for corresponding filters to apply. It
is intended for Java developers who need mailserver functionality and
want to build their own Java classes for processing incoming mail.
Standard filters include forwarding, SMS, SMTP/HTTP conversion (e.g.,
send a google request by mail) and more.
MailStripper Pro 0.94
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113789/
MailStripper Pro is a mail scanner that aims to remove spam and viruses
from incoming mail using the F-Prot anti-virus. It is written in Tcl
and was designed to be MTA-independent.
MaybeUpload 1.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113728/
MaybeUpload is a Java language package intended to make it much easier
to write Servlets which handle RFC1867 file upload.
Mioga 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113750/
Mioga is a groupware application suitable for intranet use. All the
functionality of Mioga can be reached through any HTML browser. The
interface is designed with HTML templates which allow the look and feel
and the ergonomics of Mioga to be fully and easily customizable. It is
written in Perl and uses a PostgreSQL database. It uses DAV for file
management, providing you with a complete DAV workspace with Mioga user
access controls (ACLs). Mioga includes the followig applications: file
manager, organizer, todo tasks, shared folders (with version control),
forms, intranet search, and administration tool.
mlmmj 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113757/
mlmmj (Mailing Listmanager MMJ) is a mail- server independent
reimplementation of the ezmlm mailing list manager.
Moosic 1.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113784/
Moosic is a music player that focuses on easy playlist management. It
consists of a server process that maintains a queue of music files to
play and a client program which sends commands to the server. The
server continually runs through its playlist, popping items off the top
of the list and playing each with an external program. The client is a
simple command-line utility which allows you to perform powerful
operations upon the server's queue, including the addition of whole
directory trees, automatic shuffling, and item removal according to
regular expressions. The server comes configured to play MP3, Ogg,
MIDI, MOD, and WAV files.
Movie Mate 0.9.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113745/
Movie Mate is a personal movie database for the Web. It allows you to
store information on the movies that you own, as well as tracking who's
borrowed them. It has support for different user permissions,
borrowing/returning movies, and reservations. It also has automatic
entry using the International Movie DataBase, overdue notifications,
and CSS themes.
ms2my 0.1-alpha
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113743/
ms2my is helps with MSSQL to MySQL converting/replicating (both csv
& dump) under Unix. It is possible to use it with crontab for
regular data fetching. Keeping a MySQL-based data warehouse refreshed
could also be one of the possibilities of using this script.
NotFTP 1.3.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113781/
NotFTP is a fully-featured and easy-to-use Web-based HTTP-FTP gateway
written in PHP. It supports all common FTP functions and allows the
administrator to set a maximum transfer size and a daily transfer quota
for users. It is particularly well-suited for making FTP accessible to
users behind an HTTP-only proxy.
NSCL Data Acquisition System 7.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113733/
The NSCL Data Acquisition system is a general purpose nuclear physics
data acquisition system for small to medium scale nuclear physics
experiments. It can be combined with NSCL SpecTcl to form a powerful
online/offline data handling system. It is in use at several university
labs and, of course, the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory
at Michigan State University.
O-Kiraku Nikki 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113767/
'O-Kiraku Nikki' is Japanese for 'A Nice Calendar'. It is a simple PHP
program that displays a calendar on a Web site, with the ability to add
as many annotations as desired to any day, and have these annotations
displayed on a Web page. It can be used as a diary, a Weblog, or a
scheduler, etc. It comes with full multilanguage (Unicode) support, and
includes by default English, Japanese, Spanish, German, Italian, Dutch,
and Swedish translations. It has been designed with both security and
simplicity in mind.
OperaHotlist2HTML 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113785/
OperaHotlist2HTML is a script that converts Opera Hotlist files into
HTML 4.01-compliant Web pages.
PHP Ticket 0.71
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113727/
PHP Ticket is a ticketing system for keeping an advanced
"todo" list of tasks. It features user authentication, MySQL
database support, a search function, and easy
installation/configuration.
PlexCrypt 3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113768/
PlexCrypt is a GUI that allows a set of files or folders to compress
using the Zip format. In addition, it encrypts and decrypts a set of
files or a set of folders using AES, Blowfish, CAST, DES, ElGamal,
IDEA, IES, RC4, RC6, RSA, Rijndael, Serpent Skipjack, Twofish, etc. It
allows users to create digital signatures and digest and verify them.
It also allows users to create and manage digital certificates for
encryption and signatures.
Postfix 2.0.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113780/
Postfix is an attempt to provide an alternative to the widely-used
Sendmail program. Postfix attempts to be fast, easy to administer, and
hopefully secure, while at the same time being sendmail compatible
enough to not upset your users.
PP3 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113726/
PP3 creates celestial charts. It generates resolution-independent maps
of very high graphical quality. They can be used, for example, as
illustrations in books or on Web pages. It is possible to change many
parameters, and arbitrary text can be placed on the maps. The output
formats are EPS or PDF.
Presenting XML 0.8.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113735/
Presenting XML is an extendible component-based framework for XML/XSLT
applications that aims to achieve a complete separation of content and
presentation. It supports various kinds of content including XML files,
dynamic content, and flat files, and can perform XSLT transformations
in a SAX pipeline. It also supports filtering a stream of XML content
in a pipeline without requiring the construction of a tree
representation of the document, serialization to PDF using the Apache
fop processor, user defined serializers and instructions, and different
kinds of media with different flavors of markup (such as HTML and WML).
PXES Linux Thin Client 0.5.1-30
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113786/
PXES is a micro Linux distribution for thin clients that converts any
suitable machine into a versatile thin client within minutes. It can
access XDM servers presenting a graphical login screen, Microsoft
Terminal Servers, Citrix ICA, and VNC servers. A graphical
configuration tool allows parameters such as the server to be set.
Local devices can be accessed, including sound, printers, and disks. It
boots on a variety of hardware, and does not require NFS. It can be
used over low bandwidth WAN and VPN connections.
SableVM 1.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113715/
The goal of SableVM is to build a portable, yet efficient Java virtual
machine in C.
Sacred 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113748/
SACRED is an enhanced version of the ROM 2.4b6 codebase. The
enhancements include new player skills, spells, classes, and races.
Also included are arenas, OLC, Mud Compression Protocol, a Clan system,
new flags, questing, color, automatic auctions, enhanced immortal
utilities, spellchecking, hints, and many more features.
SawTeeth cvs20030220
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113751/
SawTeeth provides an alternative to the GNOME panel for use with window
managers supporting extended window manager hints (a.k.a. GNOME hints).
It allows you to create application icons for both launching and
switching applications and swallowing applications, including Window
Maker applets.
Space Hulk 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113721/
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 2.50
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113772/
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.
TCP Re-engineering Tool 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113739/
TCP Re-engineering Tool monitors and analyzes data transmitted between
a client and a server via a TCP connection. It focuses on the data
stream (software layer), not on the lower level transmission protocol
(as packet sniffers do).
Terrain 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113676/
Terrain is a client/server system to visualize terrain from a first
person view. The whole project is written using J2EE and Java 3D. The
system is designed to visualize different first person graphics,
altough so far only a server that could visualize terrains is
implemented. The terrain model is stored in multiple resolutions
depending on the distance of the viewer. This produces fast,
high-quality images from all distances. Very large terrain models are
also supported that could even exceed main memory.
Traffik tool Troll 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113774/
The Traffik Tool Troll is a traffic monitoring and managing skript.
Traffic statistics are generated by port, hour, day, month, and year.
You can define a special period for your needs. The script is written
in Perl and uses iptables and MySQL to get and store the traffic.
Tutka 0.10.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113771/
Tutka is a tracker style MIDI sequencer for Linux (and other systems;
only Linux is supported at this time though). It is similar to programs
like SoundTracker, ProTracker and FastTracker except that it does not
support samples and is meant for MIDI use only.
TuxCall 0.5-pre (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113761/
TuxCall is a call waiting detector that hangs up the modem connection
when a voice call arrives. It reads sound from modem's speaker (must be
connected to audio line input) and kills pppd, allowing you to answer
the phone.
TuxPal USB Drivers 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113788/
TuxPal provides drivers and utilities to run the Playmates Toys
DotPal(TM) devices under Linux 2.4.X.
Wakkabox 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113753/
Wakkabox is an amusing block shuffling puzzle game written in C using
SDL.
WAPbuddy 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113756/
WAPbuddy is a very simple PHP script which helps people build extremely
simple WAP sites to upload ringtones and whatnot to their cellphones.
It includes an Apache .htaccess file to handle MIME type definitions
for cellphones.
wdm 1.22.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113778/
Wdm is a modification of the X11 xdm package for graphically handling
authentication and system login. Most of xdm has been preserved with
the login interface based on a WINGs implementation using Tom
Rothamel's "external greet" interface.
WebGlimpse 2.6.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113769/
WebGlimpse is a scalable, feature-rich search engine for indexing your
website, or any collection of remote sites you choose. It supports
multiple languages including Spanish, German, French, and Hebrew, and
can also index PDF, Word, and Excel files using available filters. It
has a Web administration interface that manages multiple archives.
WebJob 1.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113754/
WebJob downloads a program over HTTP/HTTPS and executes it in one
unified operation. The output, if any, may be directed to stdout/stderr
or a Web resource. WebJob may be useful in incident response and
intrusion analysis as it provides a mechanism to run known good
diagnostic programs on a potentially compromised system. It can also
support various host-based monitoring solutions.
wtch 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113752/
wtch periodically runs a shell command COMMAND and watches its output.
When it changes it runs shell command ACTION. More precisely, it runs
ACTION when a specified event occurs. The event can be a change of
COMMAND's output, a change matching a certain pattern, or its negation,
output equal to some previous output, etc. The output pattern defining
an event is set by the --pattern option. By default, it simply detects
any COMMAND output change.
XPaint 2.6.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113755/
XPaint is an image editor which supports most standard paint program
options. It includes advanced features like image processing
algorithms, simultaneous editing of multiple images, and support for a
wide variety of image formats.
Newsforge Reports
Open Source security manual and training for ethical hacking
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/20/1635246
- by Tina Gasperson -The Open Source Security Testing Methodology
Manual (OSSTMM) has become an international open standard, according to
its creator, Pete Herzog. It is used by large organizations like the
U.S. Treasury Department, Home Depot, Verisign, and IBM, although
Herzog says that he has a hard time getting entities that use the
manual to talk much about it.
Free and Open Source Software developers: Please take this survey
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/20/0021212
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Its official name is The Free/Libre/Open
Source Software Survey for 2003, and it's being conducted by a research
group at Stanford University. Note that this is a survey for
developers, not users. It asks questions like, "When did you first
start participating in open source/free software development?" This is
a serious study, funded by the National Science Foundation, and your
participation is important no matter ...
Linux in residential gateways makes fiscal sense, says Arcturus
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/19/0156217
- by Tina Gasperson - Arcturus is an "embedded solutions" company that
relies heavily on Linux in its products. Now the company is working
with Samsung to provide what is basically the customizable insides of a
residential gateway - sort of a fancy home router that's suitable for
small businesses, too.
Newsforge Newsvac
Possible data write corruption problem on Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/21/0540225
Andy Tai writes "According to this report on sr5tech.com, current
GNU/Linux file systems (such as ext3 and reiserfs) suffer from possible
data corruption on IDE drives with write-back caching turned on. Even
though these file systems are journaled, the IDE controller may fool
the OS into thinking an I/O operation has been completed even though
the data are still in the drive buffer waiting to be written to disk.
The problem becomes more severe ...
Multiple vulnerabilities in KDE
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/21/009225
It is recommended that all KDE users upgrade their packages. Please
note that after the new packages instalation, you must restart KDE in
order to run the new version.
Future fuzzier for Mac, Linux as MS buys Connectix
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/20/216248
Linux fell off the roadmap yesterday when Microsoft announced it had
bought Connectix's virtual machine technology, and in characteristic
style pitched it as meaning that existing Windows users would now be
able to upgrade faster to new versions by running old windows virtually
on new Windows. Products differently-purposed from Connectix's Virtual
PC for Windows would therefore seem to us to stand in some considerable
peril, particularly as ...
FSF Announces Associate Membership Meeting
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/20/2040241
FSF is hosting its first annual Associate Membership Meeting on
Saturday, March 15th, in Boston, Massachusetts, from 10:00am to 4:30pm.
In order to attend the meeting, one has to be a registered Associate
Member of FSF. You can sign up at member.fsf.org. The Annual Meeting
will be an opportunity for the Associate Members and the Board and
Staff to meet each other and for members to learn more about the work
and philosophy of the Foundation.
Mandrake Linux 9.1 is getting closer
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/20/1955218
djoka03 writes "The first Release Candidate of Mandrake Linux 9.1 is
now available for download and testing. RC1 offers many new goodies
such as automatic network configuration (zeroconf), NTFS resizing, a
new Mandrake theme, and lots more. The release notes are available
here: http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/91beta.php3";
Summit: DMCA Blocks Tech Progress
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/20/1953203
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act is threatening innovation in
Silicon Valley, and it's time for businesses and consumers to mobilize
to change the law.
Gnome previews free Linux fonts
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/20/1920259
Bitstream's beta version of the freely available fonts -- the result
of a recent agreement with the GNOME Foundation, are now available for
a preview. The final version is due in March 2003 and will have a
generous copyright that allow derivative works.
EnGarde Secure Linux Advisories: MySQL, MySQL-client, MySQL-shared, openssl,
openssl-misc
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/20/1916234
This update fixes a double free() bug in the MySQL daemon that could
allow an attacker, with a specially crafted MySQL client, to crash the
server. The attacker also requires a valid user account.
Linux marches on Whitehall
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/20/195203
The UK government is seriously considering the use of open source
software in a major Whitehall IT project for the first time.
CirTran Receives Major Follow-On Order from Linux NetworX
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/20/1848258
CirTran Corp., a full-service contract electronics manufacturer of
printed circuit board assemblies, cables and harnesses, today announced
that it has received a major follow-on order from Linux NetworX. The
latest order is valued at approximately $160,000 and follows an initial
order from Linux NetworX for cable assemblies earlier this year.
Thinkgeek
Electronics: Mustek MDC-3500 Digital Camera
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/cameras/5ca0/
Computing: iGesture Keyboard
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5ccd/
Computing: Roll-Up Keyboard
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5a7f/
Gadgets: InkLink Handwriting System
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5d08/
Cube Goodies: Hubzilla - 4 Port Firewire Hub
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/5b55/
Caffeine: Warp Mints - Green T - Lemon/Lime
http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/candy/5cd0/
Electronics: Gruvstick MP3 Player
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/mp3/5cac/
Gadgets: Portable Lie Detector
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5ce6/
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/
Sourceforge
Streamsicle 2.0Beta released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=254092
Streamsicle is a streaming MP3 server that is controlled via web
interface. The 1.x versions were enjoyed by tens of thousands. Ladies
and gentlemen, brace yourselves because this version promises to
delight hundreds of thousands with its sleek new interface, ability to
minimize to the systray in Windows, new queue functions, enhanced
stability for very large MP3 collections, and more. It is the dawn of a
new era! Streamsicle 2.0! Streamsicle 2.0! Streamsicle 2.0! (beta)
mp3splt 1.3 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=254056
mp3splt is a command-line utility wich splits mp3 files (without
decoding), selecting begin/end time; if file is an album, you can get
splitpoints automatically from internet or a local cue/cddb file. It
splits also Mp3Wrap and AlbumWrap archives. This release contains
clean-ups and corrections. With this release, files larger than 2 GB in
size are supported.
SableVM 1.0.6 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=254096
SableVM is a portable bytecode interpreter. Its goals are to be
reasonably small, fast, and efficient, as well as providing a
well-designed and robust platform for conducting research. This version
adds support for PowerPC. You can download the sources from:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5523&release_id=
141425
wishweb Version 1.1.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=253931
WishWEB is a Java client to provide remote access to the X10 home
control. The client can run as a standalone application or as a WEB
client. The package includes a socket server for the X10 server, the
Java source code, the precompiled Java archive, and the necessary .html
pages to load the client. The wish project provides X10 device drivers
for Linux, creating a /dev device for each X10 unit in the house. This
allows command line, script, and program access to the X10 network.This
driver currently supports the PowerLinc Serial, PowerLinc USB, CM11A,
and Firecracker/CM17A.
Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) 1.0 stable release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=254100
FUSE lets you write your very own filesystem, as an ordinary program.
It has a simple yet comprehensive interface, and provides an easy way
to create a virtual filesystem for just about any application. Example
applications include: automatic CD changer fs, remote filesystems for
handhelds, filesystem view for databases, etc. FUSE currently works on
all 2.4.x kernels (up to 2.4.20 and possibly later). Installation is
simple, no kernel patching or recompilation is needed. Documentation
for the interface and example programs are provided in the package. You
can download the latest version from:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/avf
ap-utils 1.3.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=253662
Access Point Utilites for Unix is a set of utilites to configure and
monitor Wireless Access Points under Unix using SNMP protocol. Utilites
knownly compiles and run under Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD,
MacOS-X, AIX, QNX. Changes in this release: The connect option for many
APs can be stored in the options file. Fixes to build on OpenBSD were
made, along with documentation updates, many small bugfixes, and code
improvements.
TurboPower Visual PlanIt 1.03 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=253856
TurboPower Visual PlanIt 1.03 is now available for download. Visual
PlanIt is a set of synchronized, data-aware components for adding time,
task, & contact management capabilities to applications written in
Borland Delphi & C++Builder. Get that Outlook look & feel without the
hassle. This release includes source code, packages, the latest PDF
manual, and help files. TurboPower Visual PlanIt project page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tpvplanit
Axualize 1.0.13 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=253866
Axualize is a language for building application from objects using an
XML dialect. Axualize is schema driven and infinitely extendable.
Axualize is currently implemented in Java but the Axualize schema does
not dictate a specific platform. The 1.0.13 release of Axualize
includes minor changes. 1.0.13 Changes: - changed ArrayHandler to allow
for primitive arrays. - changed "dynamic-thing" to include a console.
Omni-0.7.3 is released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=253881
Omni provides support for many printers with a pluggable framework
(easy to add devices). Device data is defined with XML with many
different hook points for code support. Omni also supports many new
printing standards. This release includes better integration with CUPS,
bugfixes, and support for additional printer models. - Provided better
CUPS integration. - More XMLDevice fixes. - Unified jop properties
specification on the command line. Now, all programs specify job
properties as -sproperties="..." on the command line. - Moved foo2omni
& foomaticDB in Foomatic/bin to Foomatic/share - Moved /opt/Omni/data
to /opt/Omni/share - Initial debian package building support (thanks to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]) - Added the following new devices: IBM
5577-H02 IBM 5584-G02 IBM 5584-H02 IBM 5584-K02 IBM 5584-K14 IBM
5585-H01 IBM 5586-H02 IBM 5587-H01_G01 Enh IBM 5587-K02 IBM 5587-L02
IBM 5588-H02 IBM 5589-H01 IBM 5589-K20 IBM 5589-L36
cygnome-libs upgraded (GNOME 1.4 for Cygwin)
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=253147
Cygnome-libs is a convenience package contains nearly all the core
libraries of Cygwin GNOME 1.4, so that you can download all the Cygwin
GNOME core libraries at a single click. Within this release: gnome-libs
1.4.2, oaf 0.6.10, ORBit 0.5.17 and gdk-pixbuf 0.22. This is release 5,
including: audiofile-0.2.3 esound-0.2.24 GConf-1.0.9 gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0*
glib-1.2.10 gnome-libs-1.4.2* gtk+-1.2.10 imlib-1.9.13 libglade-0.17
libxml-1.8.17 oaf-0.6.10* ORBit-0.5.17* gnome-print-0.35
gnome-vfs-1.0.5* libgtop-1.0.12 libghttp-1.0.9 gnome-mime-data-1.0.4
gtk-engine-0.11* Changes in this release: * Upgrade gnome-libs to 1.4.2
* Upgrade oaf to 0.6.10 * Upgrade ORBit to 0.5.17 * Upgrade gdk-pixbuf
to 0.22. It is built with --disable-modules options. * gnome-vfs
cygfile.dll updated, built with Steven O'Brian's new patch *
_Xsetlocale version of libgtk, libgnomeui are removed. See README for
detail info, installation and upgradeing instrutions
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