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Slashdot
Playing with Google
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/08/1430241
Chromatic sent over the links to Tara Calishain's [0]Happy Google Hacks
page. It's basically a collection of interesting ways to do searching -
something fun for the weekend. I'm thinking of preparing dinner Sunday
based on the recipe tool.
Links
0. http://www.buzztoolbox.com/google/
Yet Another Perl Conference - Canada
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/08/2313249
[0]minaguib writes "For anyone interested in Perl, [1]Yet Another Perl
Conference is coming to Ottawa, Canada May 15th and 16th.
Pre-Registration is now open and the calendar is not completely
finalized, as they are still accepting presenter entries. This is a
great way to get involved either as a presenter or an attendee."
Links
0. http://www.topfx.com
1. http://www.yapc.ca/
LA Times Examines Silicon Valley
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/08/2127235
[0]Richard Finney writes "The Los Angeles Times has a [1]special
section on Silicon Valley. Most of the stories focus on the 'survivors
struggling through the toughest stretch in tech industry history.'
There's also a story on [2] Five Reasons to Hope - New technologies
that may help Silicon Valley rise again: Biotech, microsensors,
nanotechnology, flexible electronics and data mining. We'll see."
Links
0. http://rfinney.com
1. http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-tm-svintro9mar09.story
2.
http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-tm-svnewthings9mar09.htmlstory
Can Science Journalism Be Entertaining and Responsible?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/08/190232
[0]GRW writes "This past week, I attended a [1]panel discussion
sponsored by the [2]Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics in
Waterloo, Ontario, entitled "Can science journalism be entertaining and
responsible?". This was a discussion regarding the role the media could
and should play in the dissemination of scientific issues to the
general public. Panelists included newspaper, TV and radio journalists.
I thought that this might be a good subject for a Slashdot discussion.
What do you think about science journalism? How can it better
communicate to the general public about science and the scientific
method? Can science journalism do a better job of helping people
distinguish science from pseudoscience?"
Links
0. http://<ac.lsd> <ta> <hslawg>
1. http://perimeterinstitute.ca/activities/public_lectures/
2. http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/
Intuit Sued Over Product Activation
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/08/1848232
An anonymous reader writes "PCWorld is [0]reporting: [Scott] Leviant's
firm of Stanbury & Fishelman has filed a class-action lawsuit against
Intuit in Los Angeles Superior Court on behalf of all U.S. purchasers
of TurboTax software for the 2002 tax year. The suit alleges that
Intuit engaged in unfair and deceptive business practices by failing to
fully disclose the mechanisms and consequences of its
product-activation technology before consumers pay for the software."
Links
0. http://www.idg.net/ic_1196714_9677_1-5042.html
Back to the Trees
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/08/1840252
circletimessquare writes "This story should excite the nerd in anyone.
Build a [0]luxury treehouse! The [1]New York Times reports on an
[2]entire subculture devoted to an idea which sounds funny at first...
but really, why not? Much serious discussion in the article about the
technical considerations involved in treehouse construction. Also
mention of 'treesorts' at the bottom of the article (one being called
'Lothlorien Woods Hide-a-way' lol). I hunted down some links to two of
the big players mentioned in the article, [3]TreeHouse Workshop Inc.
and the [4]World Treehouse Conference. No mention as to whether or not
they support [5]Banyan VINES (sorry, I couldn't resist)."
Links
0. http://www.treehouses.com/treehouse/construction/home.html
1. http://www.nytimes.com/
2. http://nytimes.com/2003/03/07/realestate/luxury/07TREE.html
3. http://www.treehouseworkshop.com/
4. http://www.treehouses.com/treehouse/treesort/conv0.html
5. http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ito_doc/vines.htm
Cell Phones Changing Social Group Communication
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/08/1738254
Mortimer.CA writes "An interesting article on how cell phones are
[0]changing the way people interact and get together in Japan. Some
interesting quotations: 'To not have a keitai (cell phone) is to be
walking blind, disconnected from just-in-time information on where and
when you are in the social networks of time and place.' And the new
social faux pas: 'One college student I spoke to described leaving
one's phone at home or letting the battery die as "the new taboo."' The
article mentions the book Smart Mobs which was [1]mentioned on Slashdot
before. I keep thinking how Marshal McLuhan said that our new
inventions change the way we view the world. This is 'obvious' now, but
was quite a new idea when he thought of it. In the 40s and 50s you
"needed" to get a (land line) phone, then it was cars, email, and now
cell phones. What's next? Is it simply a matter of keeping up with the
Joneses?"
Links
0. http://www.ojr.org/japan/wireless/1043770650.php
1. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/01/1514206&tid=96
Australian Overturns 15 Years of Nano-Science Doctrine
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/08/1631221
[0]Roland Piquepaille writes "Dr John Sader, from the University of
Melbourne, discovered a design flaw in a key component of the Atomic
Force Microscope (AFM). He 'used established mechanical principles to
prove that the popular V-shaped cantilever inadvertently degrades the
performance of the instrument, and delivers none of its intended
benefits.' This finding may reshape the industry by proposing a single
new standard and because the AFM 'has been the instrument of choice for
three dimensional measurements at the atomic scale, since its invention
in 1986.' Check [1]this column for more details and an AFM diagram or
read the original [2]University of Melbourne's article. You also can
visit the '[3]How AFM works' page."
Links
0. http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/
1. http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2003/03/08.html
2. http://uninews.unimelb.edu.au/0006_1_1.php?article=414
3. http://stm2.nrl.navy.mil/how-afm/how-afm.html
Significant Interactivity Boost in Linux Kernel
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/08/162218
An anonymous reader writes "The Linux kernel team is [0]at it again.
Linux creator Linus Torvalds recently proposed a patch to offer
interactive processes a boost, greatly benefiting the X desktop, as
well as music and movie players. O(1) scheduler author [1]Ingo Molnar
merged Linus' patch into his own interactivity efforts, the end result
nothing short of amazing... The upcoming 2.6 kernel is looking to be a
desktop user's dream come true."
Links
0. http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=603
1. http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=517
Grand Theft Auto Released For Free
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/08/1331203
[0]Snover writes "It's already incredibly difficult to actually get to
the site due to its extreme popularity, and can only get worse after
the inevitable slashdotting, but [1]Rockstar Games has [2]updated their
original hit, Grand Theft Auto, to run on 'modern' computers and
released it for free to the public. It'd be nice if more gaming
companies did this! Unfortunately, it (of course) is Windows-only and
utilises the propietary DirectX API, but hey, [2]free game for anyone
that's paid the Microsoft tax! (The download speed, once you actually
manage to connect to the site, is quite excellent -- it's maxing out my
2Mbps connection.)" Ah, what a classic game.
Links
0. http://zetafleet.com
1. http://www.rockstargames.com/
2. http://www.rockstargames.com/classics/
Freshmeat
Fine-tuning MPlayer
http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/747
MPlayer is a movie player. It's written mainly for Linux, but it works
on most Unices and even on other architectures like OSX, QNX, and
(somehow) even Windows. Although it's a desktop/end-user application,
it is not as user-friendly as it should be. Some time ago, I even told
newbies (coming from Windows) to try xine instead of using the
commandline MPlayer.
avidemux 0.9rc2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115583/
Avidemux is a graphical tool to edit AVI. It allows you to multiplex
and demultiplex audio to/from video. It is able to cut video, import
BMP, MJPEG, and MPEG video, and encode them. You can also process video
with included filters. It requires divx4linux and GTK/GDK.
bogofilter 0.11.1.2 (Current)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115558/
Bogofilter is a Bayesian spam filter. In its normal mode of operation,
it takes an email message or other text on standard input, does a
statistical check against lists of "good" and "bad"
words, and returns a status code indicating whether or not the message
is spam. Bogofilter is designed with fast algorithms (including
Berkeley DB system), coded directly in C, and tuned for speed, so it
can be used for production by sites that process a lot of mail.
DBMonster 0.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115598/
DBMonster is a tool which helps database application developers with
tuning the structure of the database, tuning the usage of indexes, and
testing the application performance under heavy database load.
DBMonster generates as much random data as you wish and puts it into an
SQL database. It provides a very pluggable interface and is trivial to
use.
devaki-nextobjects 0.3-RC1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115570/
Nextobjects is an integrated development tool for Entreprise
Applications. It use Turbine Torque for code generation, and is based
on the Merise method.
Dungeon Crawl 4.0.0beta25 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115559/
Dungeon Crawl is a fun game in the grand tradition of Rogue, Hack, and
Moria. Your objective is to travel deep into a subterranean cave
complex and retrieve the Orb of Zot, which is guarded by many horrible
and hideous creatures.
Ensemblist rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115567/
Ensemblist is a 3D puzzle game in which you have to model a given shape
with geometric primitives that you must assemble with boolean
operations (using constructive solid geometry).
FIAIF is an Intelligent Firewall 1.12.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115589/
FIAIF is an Intelligent Firewall. It provides a highly customizable
script for setting up an iptables-based firewall. Configuration is done
through one configuration file for each network to which the firewall
is connected. FIAIF supports masquerading, port forwarding, traffic
shaping, and more.
Fireflies Screensaver 2.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115599/
Fireflies is an OpenGL screensaver for Linux (using xscreensaver) and
Windows. It also works as a standalone program, which allows you to
move and rotate the camera. Swarms of bugs fly around the screen
leaving colorful translucent trails that get blown around by the wind.
gperiodic 2.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115560/
gperiodic is a program for browsing the periodic table and looking up
data for different elements. It also features a non-graphical
interface.
HTTrack Website Copier 3.23
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115564/
HTTrack is an easy-to-use offline browser utility. It allows you to
download a Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building
recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from
the server to your computer. HTTrack arranges the original site's
relative link-structure. Simply open a page of the mirrored Web site in
your browser, and you can browse the site from link to link, as if you
were viewing it online. HTTrack can also update an existing mirrored
site, and resume interrupted downloads.
IceWM 1.2.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115602/
IceWM is a window manager designed for speed, usability, and
consistency. It is able to emulate the looks of Motif, OS/2, and
Windows, and allows you to have a customizable look using pixmaps.
Ikaros Simulation Framework 0.7.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115566/
Ikaros is a framework for writing and running component-based
simulators. It is presently used for simulations of brain areas and
learning models, but is general enough to be easily used for any
discrete-time simulations. A simulation consists of modules written in
C or C++ that are connected in the simulator, with connections
specified in an XML file. At this time it is a console-based
application, but there are socket-based hooks for adding a GUI. The
package contains a number of modules and complete documentation for
working with the framework.
Kodo JDO 2.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115578/
Kodo JDO allows you to write database calls using Java statements
instead of SQL statements, by supporting the Java Data Objects standard
for transparent persistence. It is the most complete implementation of
the JDO specification for relational data stores, and comes with tools
for producing a schema from an object model, producing class files from
an existing schema, and a performance pack (distributed caching and
statement batching) that improves performance by 15 - 30 times. It
supports most relational databases, application servers, and IDEs, and
reduces the total coding effort by 20-40%.
LBreakout 2.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115594/
LBreakout is a breakout game with nice effects, graphics, and sounds.
It's got a menu to configure a lot of things and a high score chart. It
can be played either by mouse or keyboard. New levels can also be
created, and most other aspects of the game can be customized.
LinPacker 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115573/
Linpacker is a tool to optimize the placement of rectangles in a band
of semi-infinite size (2D bin packing problem) with a genetic
algorithm. It can be useful for cutting stocks in trucks and factories.
LJChk 0.0.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115587/
LJChk is a script for working with livejournal servers via the XMLRPC
over HTTP protocol. Functions include continous checking for friends'
updates, monitoring changes in a friends list, posting both in your own
journal and in community journals, with the ability to use all the
options available through the livejournal Web interface, and
auto-posting quote lists with references to other users' posts.
makeself 2.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115552/
makeself is a small shell script that generates a self-extractable
compressed TAR archive from a directory. The resulting file appears as
a shell script, and can be launched as is. The archive will then
uncompress itself to a temporary directory and an arbitrary command
will be executed (for example, an installation script). This is pretty
similar to archives generated with WinZip Self-Extractor in the Windows
world.
Metadot Portal Server 4.0b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115562/
Metadot Portal Server is point-and-click Web site building software. It
features content management, collaboration, and a dashboard like My
Yahoo!'s.
microZique 0.05
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115607/
microZique is yet another MP3/Ogg jukebox that was started as an effort
to provide a very convenient interface for playing albums. It can be
run on a dedicated jukebox machine or a simple computer, and is
controlled via a nice Web interface.
Mindless 0.9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115557/
Mindless is an SDL-based puzzle game similar to the classic boardgame
Mastermind. The goal of the game is to crack a secret code selected by
your opponent before he has cracked yours. You can play human vs.
human, human vs. computer, or computer vs. computer.
Mock Objects for C++ 1.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115582/
mockpp is a platform independent generic unit testing framework for
C++. Its goal is to facilitate developing unit tests in the spirit of
Mock Objects and EasyMock. Mockpp does not have its own testing
framework; CppUnit is recommended.
Motiontrack 0.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115609/
Motiontrack is a set of tools that detect motion between two PNG or JPG
images.
nut 7.17
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115548/
nut is nutrition software to record what you eat and analyze your meals
for nutrient composition. The database included is the USDA Nutrient
Database for Standard Reference, Release 15, which contains 6,220
foods. This database contains values for vitamins, minerals, fats,
calories, protein, carbohydrates, fiber, etc., and includes the
essential polyunsaturated fats, Omega-3 and Omega-6. Nutrient levels
are expressed as a percentage of the Daily Value, the familiar standard
of food labeling in the United States, but also can be fully
customized. Recipes can be added. The program is completely menu-driven
and there are no commands to learn.
PassGuard Figaro's Password Manager plugin 0.01alpha
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115549/
The PassGuard suite is a set of software that manages passwords
encrypted in a file. Users just have to remember one password, and
different encrypted file formats are supported via plugins. The
PassGuard FPM plugin is a plugin that manages Figaro's Password Manager
files encrypted with the Blowfish algorithm.
patchutils 0.2.22 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115606/
Patchutils contains a collection of tools for manipulating patch files:
interdiff, combinediff, flipdiff, filterdiff, fixcvsdiff, rediff,
lsdiff, grepdiff, splitdiff, recountdiff, and unwrapdiff. You can use
interdiff to create an incremental patch between two patches that are
against a common source tree, combinediff for creating a cumulative
diff from two incremental patches, and flipdiff to transpose two
incremental patches. Filterdiff is for extracting or excluding patches
from a patch set based on modified files matching shell wildcards.
Lsdiff lists modified files in a patch. Rediff, recountdiff, and
unwrapdiff correct hand-edited (or otherwise broken) patches.
PG-SMSTerm 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115571/
PG-SMSTerm is a basic TCP/IP server implementation in PHP for sending
SMS thru a machine which is configured with SMSTerm.
pharao portal system 0.60.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115553/
pharao is a complete Internet/intranet portal system with many
features.
PhotoPnMTools 1.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115601/
PhotoPnMTools is a simple toolkit for processing photographic images
using improved algorithms. It is based on Poskanzer's PPM toolkit. It
contains resizing, sharpening, and contrast / saturation / color
balance filters. It can be used for cropping, color editing, and making
Web albums.
prokyon3 0.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115575/
prokyon3 is a multithreaded MP3/Ogg Vorbis manager and tag editor. It
was written in C++ using the Qt3 widget set and the MySQL database.
prokyon3 can access MP3 files on harddisk, CDROM, SMB, and NFS. MP3
files can be played using XMMS, and can even be played when the files
are on CD as prokyon3 identifies CDs by content. The files view is
customizable and favorite artists are supported. prokyon3 also offers
an editor for ID3 tags and has been designed to support tagging for
multiple files en masse.
reciteword 0.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115572/
reciteword is education software developed using GTK 2 to help people
study English and recite English words. It has a very beautiful
interface to make reciting words an interesing thing. It can change
skins, and comes with many sound events, including over 400 books for
you to choose. It also includes a dictionary, which can also run
separately.
Remote Arpwatch 0.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115588/
Remote Arpwatch collects ARP tables from remote devices usin g SNMP and
checks them for changes. It is very useful for det ecting problems and
malicious users in networks with routers th at don't support static ARP
tables.
SingIt Lyric Displayer 0.1.25 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115574/
The SingIt Lyric Displayer is an XMMS plugin which displays formatted
lyrics, including id3v2xx lyrics. It consists of the displayer and an
integrated editor which allows one to easily insert time stamps, edit
the text, and export & strip HTML.
SNMP::Info 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115405/
SNMP::Info gives an object oriented interface to information obtained
through SNMP. This module is geared towards network devices. Speciality
sub-classes exist for a number of network devices and MIBs.
SpiralSynthModular 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115568/
SpiralSynth Modular (or SSM) is an object orientated modular softsynth
/ sequencer / sampler. Audio or control data can be freely passed
between the plugins, and is all treated the same. Data can also be fed
back on itself for chaotic effects. LADSPA plugins are supported, and
you can use them in the same way as any of the native plugins. Not
having MIDI won't restrict what you can do. It currently uses the
standard OSS/Free sound input/output (/dev/dsp), and should work on
ALSA too. You can also render WAV files directly to disk.
Steel Bank Common Lisp 0.7.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115563/
Steel Bank Common Lisp is a development environment for Common Lisp,
with support for almost all of the ANSI standard: garbage collection,
lexical closures, powerful macros, strong dynamic typing, incremental
compilation, and the Common Lisp object system (multimethods and all).
It also includes some extensions, such as an interface to call out to
C. These are all available through an integrated native compiler, plus
the usual Lispy integrated interpreter and high level debugging
support.
storebackup 1.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115551/
storebackup is a backup utility that stores files on other disks. It
includes several optimizations that reduce the disk space needed and
improve performance, and unifies the advantages of traditional full and
incremental backups. It includes tools for analyzing backup data and
restoring. Once archived, files are accessible by mounting filesystems
(locally, or via Samba or NFS). It is easy to install and configure.
swaret 1.1.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115581/
swaret lets you keep your Slackware system up to date. It functions
similarly to apt-get, the Debian package manager.
teTeX 2.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115590/
TeTex is by far, the best TeX distribution available for Linux,
includes latest versions of web2c, pdfTeX, e-TeX, Omega, xdvi, ps2pk,
makeinfo, texinfo, texconfig and lots of fonts and macros. It's easy to
install and easy to customize.
TextMaker beta rev 377
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115556/
TextMaker is a word processor that launches quickly, needs little
memory, does not require complicated setup, and has the full feature
set of a modern high-end word processor. It reads and writes Microsoft
Word 6/95/97/2000/XP files.
tkjmdict 0.93
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115586/
Tkjmdict is a free multilingual dictionary program written in Tcl/Tk
which utilises the Japanese multilingual JMdict dictionary. JMdict
consists of more than 90000 Japanese entries translated to English with
varying degree of support for German, French, and Russian.
TomPong 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115576/
TomPong is a very simple implementation of the classic Pong game, using
Python and Pygame. It features realistic physics for motion using
vectors, not-so-realistic but very fun spin dynamics, and scoring.
TSE3 0.2.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115597/
TSE3 (Trax Sequencer Engine v3) is a powerful open source sequencer
engine written in C++. It is a sequencer engine because it provides the
actual driving force elements of a sequencer but provides no form of
user interface.
Wapmail 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115584/
Wapmail is a free, working wapmail client written in PHP.
WWW Forum 0.9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115608/
WWW Forum is an extremely fast and reliable Web forum that is fully
configurable and packed with features. It boasts an elegant user
interface and powerful administrative tools.
X10-wish GUI 1.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115604/
This Java Client demonstrates the simplicity of creating a remote
control client/server capability for an X10 automated home controlled
by a Linux server with the X10-wish drivers installed. The socket
server runs on the same machine as the X10-wish drivers and the Java
client can be run on any machine with the Java runtime envrionment 1.3
(or higher) installed.
xbiso 0.5.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115595/
xbiso is an Xbox xdvdfs ISO extraction utility.
XiangQi Engine 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115605/
XiangQi Engine is a software Chinese chess opponent. It provides
interfaces for connecting to chess servers, GUI clients, and a simple
command line tool with or without board printing.
xine xine-lib 1-beta8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115591/
xine is a free multimedia player. It plays back CDs, DVDs, and VCDs. It
also decodes multimedia files like AVI, MOV, WMV, and MP3 from local
disk drives, and displays multimedia streamed over the Internet. It
interprets many of the most common multimedia formats available--and
some of the most uncommon formats, too. All those features come in a
reusable library (xine-lib) which can easily be embedded in your
applications.
yaws 1.01 (Main)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115392/
Yaws is a high performance, light-weight, threaded HTTP 1.1 Web server
targeted for the generation of dynamic content. It is written in
Erlang, and the server side dynamic content is generated by Erlang code
embedded in the HTML code.
ZorbIPtraffic 0.06
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115611/
ZorbIPtraffic shows the IP traffic on a network interface in real time.
It can display traffic statistics for each IP on your internal network,
and it summarizes the total traffic for each IP per year, per month,
and per day. All information is stored in a MySQL database, which makes
it easy to search the traffic measurements for a specific day.
ZorbIPtraffic only works if you use iptables.
Zorbstats 0.19
http://freshmeat.net/releases/115610/
ZorbStats is a simple Web statistics generator using PHP and MySQL. It
is simple to install an features visitor logs, browser stats, OS stats,
and number of visits. It also allows you to search all logs.
Newsforge Reports
The U.S. as a second-class Linux citizen
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/1343204
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Here's a quote from an article at The
Economic Times of India: "Some PC manufactures such as HP sell PCs
without software giving the option to chose an operating system to
customers from the home segment. Others like Compaq are choosing to
load Linux, the free operating system on to their computers." Why
aren't U.S. citizens given this same choice?
SCO follows David Hannums 'sucker' theory in lawsuit against IBM
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/1728239
- by Tina Gasperson - Apparently taking to heart the adage, "ThereÂs a
sucker born every minute", SCO yesterday filed a lawsuit against
customer IBM, stating that big blue violated Unix licensing agreements
by allegedly using and encouraging other companies to use the source
code for AIX in Open Source projects. My god, McBride. Are you really
that desperate for funds? It sure sounds like it, according to what you
said in your teleconference ...
Linux Advisory Watch - March 7th, 2003
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/1124250
- by: Benjamin D. Thomas - This week, advisories were released
for sendmail, php, slocate, mhc, eterm, tcpdump, snort, OpenSSL, tg3,
squirrelmail, and im. The distributors include Conectiva, Debian,
FreeBSD, Gentoo, Mandrake, NetBSD, Red Hat, Slackware, SuSE, and Yellow
Dog.
Newsforge Newsvac
Xbox Linux team issues antitrust plea
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/08/1350257
The programmers who got Linux to run on Microsoft's gaming console now
want the EC's antitrust body to head off a legal response
$1 billion lawsuit against IBM could taint Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/08/1347205
SAN JOSE Â SCO Group's $1 billion lawsuit against IBM for allegedly
giving away trade secrets in its open-source Linux programs is a
potential boon to Microsoft and other proprietary software companies.
Axceleon Launches Academic High-Performance Grid Computing
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/08/1342226
Axceleon, leaders in computational grid software, announced today that
it is offering special pricing to the academic community.
Why SCO Needs to Go
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/08/1340236
uninet writes "It's clear to any long term observer of the community
that this means exactly one thing: SCO has not been able to succeed in
the Linux and dying UNIX businesses and is now seeking an alternative
way to bring in profits. Its no secret that the company hasn't been
doing well for some time, in fact, Open for Business and others
questioned SuSE and Conectiva's alliance with SCO and TurboLinux (which
was recently bought up by a ...
(Updated) SCO-Caldera Sues IBM in Intellectual Pro
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/08/1334239
MozillaQuest Magazine takes a look at the legal nitty-gritty and
reports: "The legal action appears to be about claims involving
the UNIX and Linux operating systems . . . Interestingly, none of these
counts are for UNIX source code copyright infringement. The impression
we formed upon skimming over the 136 paragraph Complaint is that
SCO-Caldera is all bent out of shape because SCO is losing UNIX
business..."
SCO: IBM Suit Not About Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/207259
The legal action the SCO Group brought against IBM on Thursday has
nothing to do with Linux or the open-source community, Darl McBride,
CEO and president of the SCO Group, stressed in a media conference on
Friday morning.
Red Hat: An Appraisal and Outlook
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/1717229
Ever since the market bubble burst, Red Hat has been struggling to
regain its initial glow of excitement. Although it claims prestigious
accounts (Amazon, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Cisco and others),
enterprise IT loyalty to a specific Linux distribution and distributor
is less locked in than with proprietary systems.
A tale of two licenses: Part 1 (MS EULA)
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/1714246
rjmatm writes "What restrictions are you accepting when you click
through that license agreement?"
Microsoft issues first-ever dividend
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/178249
A.Guru prasadh writes "SEATTLE: Microsoft is issuing its first dividend
on Friday, shelling out more than $850 million to shareholders, from
the smallest investor right up to co-founder Bill Gates."
Mitchell Baker of mozilla.org on Browser Innovation, Gecko, and the Mozilla project
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/171251
Anonymous Reader writes "Mitchell Baker, mozilla.org's Chief Lizard
Wrangler, has written an article about browser innovation and the
future of the World Wide Web. Lots of stuff about cross-platform
technologies and open Web standards, with some interesting comments
about Apple's new Safari browser."
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Sourceforge
bogofilter-0.11.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=257794
The bogofilter package implements a fast Bayesian spam filter along the
lines suggested by Paul Graham in his article "A Plan For Spam" . It is
written in C. Supported platforms: Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and OS X.
Version 0.11.1 is available, including a number of enhancements and
bugfixes. See the NEWS-0.11 file for details.
drjava-20030304-2327 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=257786
DrJava is an integrated Java development environment that supports
interactive evaluation of expressions. This development release of
DrJava provides a significant number of bug fixes, in preparation for
an upcoming beta release. The changes include improvements to saved
Interactions histories, improved undo support, key binding fixes, and
various user interface bug fixes. Please test this release by following
the "more download options" link on our home page.
Tcl/Tk 8.4.2 release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=257762
The Tcl Core Team is pleased to announce the 8.4.2 releases of the Tcl
scripting language and the Tk toolkit. This is the second patch release
of Tcl/Tk 8.4. See http://www.tcl.tk/ for details.
Axualize 1.1.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=257007
After successful beta testing, version 1.1.0 is now official. 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 1.1.0 release adds support for Ruby,
JavaScript and BeanShell scripting, as well as other enhancements.
1.1.0 Added: - Built in "Ruby" scripting support through BSF and JRuby
- Built in "JavaScript" scripting support through BSF and Rhino - Built
in "BeanShell" scripting support both through BSF and as the natively
supported scripting environment. - MrRoboto class which aids in
creating Axualize documents which implement simple java.awt.Robot
actions. The MrRoboto class implements KeyListener, and MouseListener
and is simply registered as such for each component which will be
recorded. - new BSF schema so to aid creating documents which utilize
both standard and BSF namespaces. changed: - ProcessHandler has been
refactored to behave more like HttpHandler.
IlohaMail 0.7.10 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=257047
IlohaMail 0.7.10 has been released. This version includes security
fixes (also released in 0.7.9-2), three new languages (Korean, Standard
Portuguese, Catalan), APOP support, improved handling of RFC822
attachments as well as minor fixes to the IMAP and SMTP libraries. This
is the most recent update to the stable branch. IlohaMail is a PHP
based lightweight full featured multilingual webmail program with IMAP
and POP3 support.
gchch-1.9.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=257203
This is a full port of the game to Gnome 2.0, along with numerous bug
fixes and enhancements. It's a prelease before the actualy 2.0.0
release. Gnome Chinese Checkers is an networked implementation of the
Chinese Checkers board game, supporting upto 6 players. The game
includes added goodies like an integrated chat window, player rotation,
etc. This has been updated for Gnome 2.0.
libmng 1.0.5 (final) released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=256928
This is the long-awaited major update of the MNG library. The MNG
specification is now covered to near 100% and as an added bonus this
release includes the new 'dynamic MNG' feature, that allows for easy
roll-over (hover/click; w or w/o mask) effects with a minimum of fuss.
libmng is the reference library for reading, displaying, writing and
examining Multiple-Image Network Graphics. MNG is the animation
extension to the popular PNG image-format.
pureIRCd release 2.7.1304
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=257000
pureIRCd is a Win32 IRCd written in Visual Basic, that operates Fast
and efficiently in networks as well as standalone. This release
features better Server to Server linking, some statistics additions and
Server - Server autoconnecting. Autoconnecting is new to pureIRCd and
may have some glitches, so dont trust on it, it's alpha, really. You
dont have to upgrade to this version of pureIRCd if you mostly use it
standalone as most changes only affect server links. To download the
new version, please go here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=71720&release_id=
143841
Qixite 0.0.8 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=256961
Qixite allows easy template based generation of web sites. It organizes
the web site into a tree of nodes representing Pages, Text Sections,
Images, and Links. It provides quick and easy way to publish your
thoughts and information on Internet. The program generates links,
style sheets and other things, the only thing user has to warry about
is information. Changes in 0.0.8: - Possibility to use external editor
(eg. Mozilla) for editing articles in WYSIWYG mode was added - French,
Spanish and Lithuanian translations were updated - Several non-critical
bugs were fixed To download, please go here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=40222&release_id=
83910
Burn To The Brim v2.5 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=256875
Burn To The Brim is a utility for grouping files and folders together
in the most efficient way to fill up an entire CD, DVD or other medium.
Burn to the Brim version 2.5 now allows the user to directly create ISO
9660 files of the filled CD's, using mkisofs by Joerg Schilling. These
files can then be burned by an arbritary burn-program that supports the
ISO 9660 format. You can find the new version at
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=49999
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