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Slashdot
UK Councils May Dump Windows For Linux
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/08/031229

    An anonymous reader writes "Local authorities in Newham and Nottingham
    are expected to migrate more than 10,000 desktop computers from Windows
    to GNU/Linux. [0] ZDNet has the story. "If this is seen to work in
    Newham, it has the potential to be a significant project, changing the
    perceptions of other councils," said Tim Dawes, director of local
    government technology consultants Nineveh." 
Links
    0. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t272-s2135726,00.html

Spammers Exploiting Hotmail Vulnerability
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/08/0257203

    [0]chip rosenthal writes "Notice more Hotmail spam in your inbox
    recently? There is a good reason for that. In March, spammers
    discovered a [1]new vulnerability in the Hotmail service that allows
    them to script their spam sending. So far I've seen a 2200% increase in
    Hotmail spam as a result. We're now at three months and counting, and
    the problem only seems to be getting worse." 
Links
    0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
    1. http://www.unicom.com/chrome/a/000262.html

17" Monitor Case Modding -- The "iMike"
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/08/0245203

    greyrax writes "So what does a Canadian cabinet maker who's a closet
    techie do during those long winter months? You modify a 17" monitor
    case to house your computer (think iMac). The [0]blow-by-blow
    descriptions and pictures outline this three-month project. The only
    question that I'm left with is 'What is that antenna for?'" 
Links
    0. http://members.shaw.ca/northvanmike/page1.html

Cheating Fruit (Slot) Machines
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/08/0051239

    [0]ebbdr writes "Ever think that fruit machines cheat you? You would be
    right, at least in the UK. This article provides proof that [1]fruit
    machine outcomes are predetermined and that the players inputs have
    little, if anything to do with it. And it lets you download the
    [2]emulators and machine code required to test the hypothesis for
    yourself...." 
Links
    0. http://barton_ed at hotmail.com
    1. http://www.fairplay-campaign.co.uk/fruit/
    2. http://www.fairplay-campaign.co.uk/fruit/fruit2.htm

Oracle's Hostile Takeover Bid For PeopleSoft
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/07/239221

    [0]rkuris writes "[1]Oracle has launched a [2]5.1 billion dollar cash
    hostle takeover bid against [3]Peoplesoft. PeopleSoft's CEO Craig
    Conway (a [4]former top executive for Oracle) called Oracle's offer
    '[5]atrociously bad behavior from a company with a history of
    atrociously bad behavior.' 'Obviously it is a transparent attempt to
    disrupt the [1.7 billion dollar friendly] acquisition of [6]J.D.
    Edwards by PeopleSoft announced [7]earlier this week.' The week's
    events have reopened old wounds between the companies, which have a
    [8]history of hostility and name calling." 
Links
    0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
    1. http://oracle.com/
    2. http://www.business-standard.com/updates/news.asp?story=4211
    3. http://www.peoplesoft.com/
    4. http://www.peoplesoft.com/corp/en/about/overview/leader_profiles.jsp
    5. http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-1013893.html?tag=lh
    6. http://jdedwards.com/
    7. http://news.com.com/2100-1021-1011938.html?tag=nl
    8. http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/6036048.htm

Maine Completes Largest To-Scale Solar System Model
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/07/2255238

    Neophytus writes "The [0]University of Maine has now almost completed
    its [1]solar system model, to be unveiled officially on the June 14th
    at Westfield. The final planet, Uranus, will be set in place on the
    13th. At forty miles from Pluto to The Sun and built to a scale of
    1:93,000,000, it will be the largest three-dimensional scale model of
    the Solar System in North America." 
Links
    0. http://www.umpi.maine.edu/
    1. http://www.umpi.maine.edu/info/nmms/solar/index.htm

DoCoMo Will Launch Fuel-Cell Mobile Phones By 2005
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/07/2110231

    [0]prostoalex writes "Japan's major telecom provider NTT DoCoMo
    [1]plans to use fuel cells for its 3G phones. 'Users of cellphones with
    a fuel-cell battery would carry a cigarette lighter-type fuel container
    to refuel the battery', says Reuters." 
Links
    0. http://www.moskalyuk.com/deals
    1. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=2881770

A Solution For Making WiFi Cost Effective
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/07/1840257

    [0]rkohutek writes "This whitepaper came out of my employer's desire to
    deploy high speed wireless internet to an underserved, mostly rural
    area. Although very easy to do on the ground level, I found it to not
    be a cake walk when it came to actually making it a viable network case
    -- in a "normally" deployed wireless network it is very easy to spoof
    an IP or MAC address and hop on the network and get free bandwidth.
    This is not acceptable and the acronym WARTA, Wireless Authentication,
    Routing, Traffic control, Accounting was thought up to cover the things
    that we needed to do. Read on for how we managed to make it work using
    Free Software: [1]HTML or [2]PDF." Update: 06/07 20:42 GMT by [3]T: He
    sends along word of [4]this mirror as well. 
Links
    0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
    1. http://www.hpi.net/whitepapers/warta/
    2. http://www.hpi.net/whitepapers/warta/warta.pdf
    3. http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
    4. http://129.19.75.194/~jakalowiw/warta

Quantum Cryptography: 100km Barrier Broken
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/07/1720241

    jdfox writes "Toshiba Research Europe have just demonstrated [0]quantum
    crypto over 100km fibre links. Sounds like there's still a fair bit of
    work to be done before it leaves the lab, but it's amazing that they've
    got as far as they have. There's another article about it, though still
    not much technical detail, [1]here on the BBC and [2]here on The
    Register." 
Links
    0. http://optics.org/articles/news/9/6/3/1
    1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1709322.stm
    2. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/31077.html

Greplaw Interviews Phil Zimmermann
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/2038214

    [0]LawGeek writes "The venerable [1]GrepLaw crew has struck again, this
    time with Editor [2]Mikael Pawlo interviewing PGP author and all-around
    encryption expert [3]Phil Zimmermann. Pawlo discussed a number of
    topics with Zimmerman, including the current state of encryption export
    laws, DRM, and activism against erosion of privacy both in the U.S. and
    internationally. The [4]interview is here." 
Links
    0. http://grep.law.harvard.edu
    1. http://grep.law.harvard.edu/
    2. http://www.algonet.se/~mpawlo/
    3. http://www.philzimmermann.com/
    4. http://grep.law.harvard.edu/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/1441247&mode=nested




Freshmeat
Bioinformatics: Sequence and Genome Analysis
http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/865

    I first met this book at a bioinformatics course I attended at NCSU
    last year. I've been reading books on bioinformatics since 1997, and I
    was a little skeptical about this one. I thought it was "just another
    bioinformatics book". I was wrong. It has some really outstanding
    features I'd like to highlight. 

Alexandria Archives 0.1 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125281/

    Alexandria Archives is designed to catalog your files and directories
    on CD, floppy disk, hard drive, Zip Disk, USB memory, etc. and search
    for them later. 

Anthill 0.2.3 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125264/

    Anthill is a bug tracking database system written in PHP. It provides
    the standard bug tracking features such as: user logins, summary
    reports, submitting bugs, querying bugs, various severity and status
    levels. It also provides some unique features, such as a template
    system, and multi-lingual support. 

Autopoweroff 1.2.0 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125286/

    Autopoweroff is a script that shuts down a computer at a specific time,
    but only if some conditions are met. It works well on home
    router/firewalls where the machine can be switched off every night and
    powered back up in the morning. It can be configured to only shut down
    the server after any computers which depend on the server for Internet
    access have been shut down. 

bbfinger 0.0.1 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125275/

    bbfinger displays the current users in a tiny X11-decorated window. It
    supports commandline options to set/unset transparency, foreground
    color, border size, display, and position. It can also be configured
    through a configuration file. 

Boot Scriptor 2.0.6b (CD Shell)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125271/

    Boot Scriptor is a program that allows a high degree of interactivity
    when booting from a CD or DVD drive. It provides a set of commands that
    enable users to boot a system in a number of ways, as well as provide
    interactive menus to choose boot options from. It provides similar
    functionality to Diskem1x, as well as new original features and
    interfaces to programs such as Isolinux/Memdisk and Ranish Partition
    Manager. All features can be commanded through a console interface or
    by constructing simple script files. 

CjOverkill 1.0.2 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125291/

    CjOverkill is a traffic trading script developed to track traffic
    trades between sites. These kind of scripts are mainly used for adult
    sites like TGPs, links lists, toplists or similar. It includes
    productivity, raw and unique hits traffic tracking also as several
    cheat protections like extreme low or extreme high productivity,
    minimum hits per day and maximum proxy percent per day. It also
    includes several integrity and security tests and a traffic filter in
    order to minimize hacking attempts. 

Cornice 0.3 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125282/

    Cornice is a cross-platform image viewer written in Python, wxPython,
    and PIL. 

Dark Commander 0.0.3 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125285/

    Dark Commander is a Norton Commander clone that supports browse, copy,
    delete, rename, chmod, and viewing operations. It features a built-in
    image viewer that is capable of showing many popular image formats, and
    a small file editor. The view can be customized and files sorted in
    various ways. 

dopewars 1.5.9 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125290/

    dopewars is a UNIX rewrite of the MS-DOS program of the same name,
    which in turn was inspired by John E. Dell's "Drug Wars"
    game. You have one month to buy and sell drugs on the streets of New
    York, the aim being first to pay off your debt to the loan shark and
    then to make a fortune. And if you have to shoot a few cops in the
    process, well... The game includes TCP networking allowing you to meet
    (and shoot) other human drug dealers. Computer drug dealers are
    currently in development. 

FLASH Code 2.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125128/

    The FLASH code is a modular, adaptive, parallel simulation code capable
    of handling general compressible flow problems in astrophysical
    environments. It has been designed to allow users to configure initial
    and boundary conditions, change algorithms, and add new physical
    effects with minimal effort. It uses the PARAMESH library to manage a
    block-structured adaptive grid, placing resolution elements only where
    they are needed most. It uses the Message-Passing Interface (MPI)
    library to achieve portability and scalability on a variety of
    different message-passing parallel computers. 

Gengen 0.4.4 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125304/

    Gengen (GENerator GENerator) is a tool that, starting from a
    parameterized text (template), generates a text generator that can
    substitute parameters with values. 

Genmake 2003_06_07 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125278/

    Genmake creates Makefiles for C/C++ projects from a simple project
    description. The project description file can contain any number of
    projects and dependencies between them. The description is organized
    into workspace, projectspace and filespace and supports any number of
    build modes (debug, release, etc.). 

GPdf 0.102 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125273/

    GPdf is a PDF viewer for GNOME, based on Xpdf. 

GraphicsMagick 1.0.2 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125299/

    GraphicsMagick is a robust collection of tools and libraries which
    support reading, writing, and manipulating an image in over 88 major
    formats including popular formats like TIFF, JPEG, JPEG-2000,PNG, PDF,
    PhotoCD, SVG, and GIF. A high-quality 2D renderer is included, which
    provides a subset of SVG capabilities. C, C++, Perl, Java, PHP, Python,
    ColdFusion, and Ruby are supported. Originally based on ImageMagick,
    GraphicsMagick focuses on performance, minimizing bugs, and providing
    stable APIs and ABIs. It runs on all modern variants of Unix, Windows,
    VMS, and MacOS 9. 

GTetrinet 0.7.2 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125292/

    GTetrinet is a clone of the popular Windows game Tetrinet. It is
    written for Gtk/GNOME, and is designed to be fully compatible with the
    original Tetrinet, as well as being identical in gameplay. 

ical for Red Hat 1 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125298/

    ical for Red Hat is an effort to provide the ical program in RPM format
    for users of current versions of Red Hat Linux. 

inlook 0.4.1 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125301/

    inlook is an addressbook for sendmail with many features. You can add
    users to an addressbook, and then send an email to a user by just
    typing the name of the user (inlook will look up the email address
    automatically). inlook is perhaps most useful for mail administrators
    using sendmail. 

JTicTacToe 0.1.0 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125303/

    JTicTacToe is a version of the popular boardgame "Tic Tac
    Toe", with the difference that you can have a gamefield of
    arbitrary size and you need 5 X's or O's in a row to win. You need to
    play against another human being; JTicTacToe is meant to be played via
    the Internet. 

libmplite 0.2 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125277/

    libmplite is a library which provides a minimal C++ interface around
    the mpfr library for multi-precision floating point arithmetic. 

LogiCreate Application Framework 2.9 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125287/

    LogiCreate is a PHP-based application framework that handles database
    abstraction, user profiles, arbitrary user groups, granular
    permissions, and more. The system features installable modules, loosely
    modelled after Java servlets. LogiCreate includes many sample modules
    aimed at community-oriented sites (news, forums, broadcast emailer, and
    so on) which can be used 'out of the box' or customized to fit your
    needs. 

Meta-Aqua 1.0 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125263/

    Meta-Aqua is based on the Sawfish theme "Aquaified" by Justin
    Hahn, using the same artwork. 

MysticIRCd 1.1.0 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125294/

    MysticIRCd is a powerful IRCd with several essential features. It is
    based on UltimateIRCd 2.8.x, and adds several more features, such as an
    extended help system with the HelpOp Notifications and an IRC based
    help system. It also features BadWord Censors. 

Natural Docs 0.91 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125300/

    Natural Docs is an extensible, multi-language, source code
    documentation generator written in Perl. Its syntax is transparent so
    the source comments read just as easily as the generated documentation.
    It also focuses on automation and high-quality HTML output. 

OpenGFS 0.2.1 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125284/

    OpenGFS is an enterprise-class clustered filesystem for organizations
    requiring low-cost shared data storage and management. It is a
    continuation of the GPLed version of the Global File System as
    originally started by Sistina, which switched to a non-free license. 

pekwm 0.1.3 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125265/

    Pekwm is a window manager based on aewm++, but it no longer resembles
    it. It is highly configurable, rather fast, and aimed towards being
    usable while remaining pretty enough to look at. Features include
    client window grouping into one window frame, automatic window size,
    location, grouping and title rewriting properties, keychains, Xinerama
    support, pixmap theming, and dynamic menus. 

PHPRecipeBook 2.10 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125266/

    PHPRecipeBook is a Web-based cookbook with the ability to create
    shopping lists from recipes selected. The lists can be saved and later
    reloaded and edited. The shopping list also attempts to combine similar
    items so that duplication does not occur. 

RechnungsZentrale V2 1.1 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125289/

    RechnungsZentrale V2 is a multiuser, Web-based billing application. It
    facilitates the creation of bills and the management of customers. It
    is written in PHP and uses MySQL. There are only currently only
    language files for English and German. 

RSS Mix Tape 1.2.0 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125268/

    RSS Mix Tape reads items from specified RSS feeds and displays them in
    a list. Selected posts can be categorized and commented on, and an RSS
    feed is generated for each category. It also supports LiveJournal input
    whether or not you are a paid user. 

rssh 2.0.3 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125283/

    rssh is a small shell that provides the ability for system
    administrators to give specific users access to a given system via scp
    or sftp only. 

ScsiaddGui 0.1 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125302/

    Scsiaddgui provides a graphical user interface for the Scsiadd utility,
    which allows you to add or remove SCSI devices without having to
    reboot. 

shn2make 2.4 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125280/

    shn2make works with sets of shn audio files and the make program to
    automate the process of burning CD-Rs and encoding mp3 and ogg files.
    shn2make looks for the .nfo or .txt file, and attempts to interpret the
    song names, CD listing, and other things according to the most common
    .nfo file formats, it checks MD5 checksums, and, if everything makes
    sense, outputs the text of a Makefile. The output Makefile fully
    automates the processing of the set of shn files. 

sinus 1.0.0 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125270/

    sinus is a program that generates interesting sine waves, plays them
    and writes them to MS RIFF (.wav) files. It generates waves based on a
    series of input frequencies which can be either static or a start and
    end frequency. It is capable of creating waves of any sampling rate
    which can be 8/16/32 bits and either Mono or Stereo. Each channel can
    be controlled separately and the size of the waves is limited only by
    swap space. 

tgzdrop 0.5 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125269/

    tgzdrop is an AppleScript droplet for Mac OS X that accepts files or
    folders via drag and drop, and produces a .tgz compressed archive in
    the same directory as the original, just as if you had run "tar
    -zcf blah.tgz blah" from the command line. 

Trusted Opensource Records for Care & Health 1.3.0 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125262/

    Trusted Opensource Records for Care & Health (TORCH) is an
    electronic health record application. It features a Web-based user
    interface and can scale from a laptop used by a single physician all
    the way up to geographically separated multi-site clinics. 

Veejay 0.3.3rc9 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125293/

    Veejay is a video tracker/editing tool for Linux, which is similar in
    concept to FastTracker and ProTracker but for video. You can make video
    samples and line them up on a pattern. You can set looptype, playback
    speed and do a number of effects or transitions on them while playing
    back from multiple video sources in realtime. The project emphasizes
    direct (user) interaction. It is possible to navigate through video
    samples, define various types of looping, increase and decrease
    playback speed, and navigate through the effect chain to apply a chain
    of effects using the keyboard while the interface keeps track of what
    you are doing. 

vimdrop 0.7 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125295/

    vimdrop is an Applescript droplet that allows you to open up and edit
    files in your favorite editor by dragging them to the vimdrop icon. The
    dropped file will be opened in a new Terminal window with the text
    editor defined in the $EDITOR environment variable. A binary compiled
    under 10.2.6 and the Project Builder files are included in the
    distribution. 

Vrcon 0.9.5 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125297/

    Vrcon is a Curses-based rcon utility that allows admins to quickly
    administer Half-Life based game servers. It lets them view players, ban
    players, change maps, flag WONIDs, and more. 

WebShop 0.8.1 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125296/

    WebShop provides a framework for an Internet shop using EJB 2. It
    includes the beans necessary to operate an e-commerce enterprise, as
    well as a sample servlet implementation of a shop. 

xmcd2make 0.6 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/125279/

    xmcd2make is a set of Perl scripts which support users of the gramofile
    recording, track splitting, and signal processing package. It consists
    of 3 userland tools: findtracks.pl (a command line interface to
    gramofile track detection), signalproc.pl (a command line interface to
    gramofile track splitting and signal processing), and xmcd2make.pl (a
    script that takes an xmcd file of song names and track timing files and
    creates a makefile). When the makefile is run, it splits the tracks,
    performs gramofile signal processing, and encodes the resulting tracks
    to Ogg Vorbis format with the correct song names and good tags. 




Newsforge Reports
"Free Piracy" vs. Free/Open Source Software
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/2217248

    - by Flávio Codeço Coelho Every once in a while, articles get
    published talking about Microsoft's double standards on software
    piracy, particularly in developing countries. This is a well known
    fact, and generally get two types of interpretations: One is that
    Microsoft is a liar when it says illegal sharing of software "hurts
    everyone" while it seems to use this very idea as its main strategy for
    market dominance in poor countries. The ... 

Linux Advisory Watch - June 6th, 2003
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/1157205

    - by Benjamin D. Thomas This week, advisories were released for
    maelstrom, apache, tomcat, kernel, wget, file, lprng, cups,
    ghostscript, kon2, gnupg, squirrelmail, xinetd,lprng, lv, and httpd.
    The distributors include Gentoo, Immunix, Mandrake, OpenPKG, Red Hat,
    Turbolinux, and Yellow Dog. This week there were several new
    advisories. Red Hat and others released several patches to their 2.4
    kernel. For those of you using PPC architecture and ... 

Darl McBride doesn't understand Linux
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/02/2246228

    - By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - That's really the heart of the SCO
    problem: Neither Darl McBride nor, apparently, a majority of SCO's
    Board of Directors, understands Linux, the GPL, Open Source or Free
    Software or anything related to them. Their thinking seems to be
    strictly old-line industrial, based on a marketing philosophy that
    assumes a sale gained by a competitor is one you have lost. 




Newsforge Newsvac
              Sun leads Linux + UNIX server market in revenue and market share
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/160221

    Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) today announced that the company
    regained its position as the worldwide leader in Linux+UNIX server
    revenue and unit shipments in the first quarter of CY2003, according to
    the 1Q03 Worldwide Server Database by Gartner Dataquest released today. 

   Red Hat Linux TTY Layer Kernel Panic Denial Of Service Vulnerability
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/1622204

     A vulnerability has been reported in the TTY layer that may result in
    a kernel panic. The precise technical details of this vulnerability are
    currently unknown. This BID will be updated as further information is
    available. 

Ellison: Linux will wipe Microsoft out of data center
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/1614235

    At a gathering here Tuesday of current and potential Oracle Corp. ISV
    (independent software vendor) partners, Oracle Chairman and Chief
    Executive Officer Larry Ellison extolled the virtues of Linux and
    predicted that the open-source operating system will soon decimate
    Microsoft Corp. in the battle for the data center market. 

The underground OS is maturing. Does it measure up?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/1619206

     Businesses are asking tougher questions as they consider deploying
    Linux to handle more critical tasks. A shortage of enterprise apps
    still hurts. 

   Ballmer memo sends Linux stocks soaring
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/1552241

     Shares of Red Hat Inc., the world's biggest distributor of the free
    Linux operating system, and VA Software Corp. rose yesterday a day
    after Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said Linux is a
    "significant challenge" to his company. 

UK councils dump Windows for Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/1444237

     Local authorities in Newham and Nottingham are expected to migrate
    more than 10,000 desktop computers from Windows to Linux. 

SCO slashes Asian operation
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/1544201

    US software firm SCO has slashed its operations in Taiwan due to weak
    demand for its products, according to reports. 

IBM eyes smaller businesses with database
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/1532213

     IBM Corp. on Thursday announced general availability of DB2 UDB
    (Universal Database) Express, a database intended for smaller-size
    businesses and departments. 

Intel: Linux 32-chip server rivals Windows
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/1521233

    Intel has found that a 32-processor Itanium server running Linux is
    rivaling Windows and Unix servers in database performance, a major
    accomplishment for the comparatively young operating system. 

EU scrutinizes Microsoft's Media Player
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/152210

    European Commission investigators are seeking more evidence on whether
    Microsoft Corp. uses its Windows Media Player software to discriminate
    against rivals, putting in jeopardy the commission's deadline of next
    month for ruling on the 4-year-old antitrust case. 




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Cube Goodies: Luminglass
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Computing: ThermalTake HardCano 10
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OpenEJB 0.9.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=282705

    The 0.9.2 release is one that the whole team is quite proud of. OpenEJB
    0.9.0 marked are first release with special Tomcat embedded support.
    Thanks to all the user feedback that support has just gotten better and
    better. The 0.9.2 release contains a neat surprise for OpenEJB/Tomcat
    users -- TOOLS! The new integration features a webapp with a setup
    verifier, JNDI browser, EJB viewer, Class browser, and even an Object
    invoker! You can browse the OpenEJB namespace and know right away
    exactly where the ejb is and what it is called. When you find one you
    like, just click it and it will open up into the EJB viewer. While
    there you can check out it's home, remote and bean classes in the class
    browser. The Object invoker allows you to actually create and invoke
    your EJBs without writing a single line of code. OpenEJB 0.9.2 also
    contains a new openejb.base variable to complement the openejb.home
    variable. The openejb.base variable allows you to have several
    configurations of OpenEJB all running against the same OpenEJB install.
    This makes using OpenEJB in IDEs like Eclipse or NetBeans even easier.
    Move the openejb_loader-0.9.2.jar into your project's lib directory,
    set the openejb.base, and you'll be debugging your EJB apps
    front-to-back without the need for remote debugging support or special
    editor plug-ins. Thanks to all the OpenEJB users for all the great
    ideas! You speak, we listen.
    http://openejb.sourceforge.net/download.html 

LTI-Lib Version Beta 1.9.3 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=282700

    LTI-Lib is an object oriented computer vision library written in C++
    for Windows/MS-VC++ and Linux/gcc. It provides lots of functionality to
    solve mathematical problems, many image processing algorithms, some
    classification tools and much more. This release provides new functors
    and features, many bug fixes and more documentation. Download --------
    You can get this and previous releases from:
    https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=45767 Homepage
    -------- For more information please visit our homepage:
    http://ltilib.sourceforge.net ChangeLog --------- For more details
    about the changes in this release please visit the ChangeLog page at:
    https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=163728
    Acknowledgments --------------- Thanks to all developers at the Chair
    of Computer Science: Suat Akyol, Pablo Alvarado, Daniel Beier, Axel
    Berner, Ulrich Canzler, Peter Doerfler, Thomas Erger, Holger
    Fillbrandt, Peter Gerber, Claudia, Goenner, Xin Gu, Michael Haehnel,
    Christian Harte, Bastian Ibach, Torsten Kaemper, Thomas Krueger,
    Frederik Lange, Henning Luepschen, Peter Mathes, Alexandros Matsikis,
    Bernd Mussman, Jens Paustenbach, Norman Pfeil, Jens Rietzschel, Daniel
    Ruijters, Thomas Rusert, Stefan Syberichs, Guy Wafo Moudhe, Ruediger
    Weiler, Jochen Wickel , Benni Winkler, Xinghan Yu, Marius Wolf, Joerg
    Zieren 

Gallery v1.3.4 Release Candidate 2 available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=282686

    Gallery v1.3.4 Release Candidate 2 - This is the second (and, we fully
    expect, final) *release candidate* for Gallery v.1.3.4. Changes from
    RC1 essentially amount to small fixes for errors discovered since the
    first release candidate in the backup_albums.php script and the new
    "custom fields" code. Gallery is slick, intuitive web based photo
    gallery with authenticated users and privileged albums. Easy to
    install, configure and use. Photo management includes automatic
    thumbnails, resizing, rotation, etc. User privileges make this great
    for communities. Download it:
    http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7130 Read more about this
    release candidate: http://gallery.sf.net/article.php?sid=75 

phpwsBB 0.1.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=282990

    phpwsBB is a native bulletin board module for the phpWebSite content
    management system, version 0.9.2 or later. Today we release version
    0.1.0 of phpwsBB. Features include anonymous posting, message editing
    and deletion for registered users, thread locking and message forking
    for admins, and ... well that's probably it. Be sure you have the
    latest version of phpWebSite installed: http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu
    and then download phpwsbb from: http://phpwsbb.sourceforge.net. 

Aleph One 2003-05-30 Mac OS X Carbon and Windows releases
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=282073

    Aleph One plays Marathon 2, Marathon Infinity, and third-party content
    on a wide array of platforms with numerous enhancements. The new Mac OS
    X Carbon and Windows SDL 2003-05-30 releases add significantly improved
    Internet play, Lua scripting, Speex compression for realtime network
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