OSDN NEWSLETTER July 08, 2003 EVERYTHING SERIES
The 'Everything Series' Newsletter is developed to bring Open Source related content to a user with a focus for everything Open Source we have to offer. If you'd like to receive more content relating to Open Source subscribe at http://www.osdn.com/newsletters/ ============================================================== Sponsored by Thinkgeek http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ ============================================================== Slashdot Hardware-Based Commute-Map Gadget http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/08/0037222 coreymetrics writes "Anyone have one of [0]these things? While it's no substitute for an improved mass-transit solution in the Puget Sound area, [1]TrafficGauge's new gadget sure looks like it beats any PDA or cell phone auto traffic map I've used. It uses the same data that powers the Washington State DOT's indispensable [2]website. Now why can't auto makers put this kind of thing in a dash instead of mostly worthless GPS navigation and DVD units?" Links 0. http://www.trafficgauge.com/product.html 1. http://www.trafficgauge.com/ 2. http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/PugetSoundTraffic/ RFID Industry Confidential Memos http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/07/229216 An anonymous reader writes "Cryptome has learned www.autoidcenter.org (RFID flak) has made [0]internal memos available for perusal at their site. Those RFID people sure have some interesting plans for the future. Who needs conspiracy theories, when you can hear it from the horses mouth? Weeeeee! " Links 0. http://cryptome.org/rfid-docs.htm Massachusetts Probing Microsoft Settlement Gripes http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/07/2333243 tassii writes "In [0]this article from Reuters, Massachusetts' DA's office told the judge in the Microsoft Anti-trust trial that it was looking into Microsoft settlement complaints. Among complaints being examined by Massachusetts was whether Microsoft had violated portions of the settlement prohibiting pacts requiring exclusive support of Microsoft software. Massachusetts was also examining whether the company had properly offered communications protocols allowing non-Microsoft software to work well with Windows." An [1]Associated Press article covers the same story; the non-Microsoft software mentioned in both stories is Linux, but it's not clear which company's promotion of Linux is drawing the attention. Links 0. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&ncid=581&e=4&u=/nm/20030707/tc_nm/microsoft_massachusetts_dc 1. http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/030707/microsoft_antitrust_3.html Michigan's Proposed Spam Law Called Toughest In U.S. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/07/2157215 [0]goats_in_boats writes "A new bill ([1]PDF or [2]HTML) was presented to the [3]Governor of Michigan that would require spam sent to residents of the State to be identified as such. Highlights include the requirement that unsolicited email 'Include in the e-mail subject line "ADV:" as the first 4 characters' and that 'a person who violates this act is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more than 1 year or a fine of not more than $10,000.00, or both.' An [4]article in the Detroit Free Press calls the bill 'the most stringent anti-spam law in the nation.'" Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/billenrolled/house/pdf/2003-HNB-4519.pdf 2. http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/billenrolled/house/htm/2003-HNB-4519.htm 3. http://www.michigan.gov/gov 4. http://www.freep.com/money/tech/des3_20030703.htm Teach An Old Athlon New Tricks http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/07/2219216 [0]budn3kkid writes "Seems like [1]Upgradeware have a new [2]gadget out for those overclockers looking to upgrade their age old Athlon mobo (KT133, KT266 etc.) with a spanking new AMD Barton CPU. Also, saw an article [3]at ol' Tom's about it right here as well." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.upgradeware.com/ 2. http://www.upgradeware.com/english/product/xptmc/xptmc.htm 3. http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/20030703/index.html 9th Circuit Court Finds 'Thumbnailing' Fair Use http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/07/2141216 [0]mark_wilkins writes "A photographer named Leslie Kelly had sued Arriba Soft Corporation for infringing his copyrights to photos when they made thumbnails of his pictures and stored them in a public image search engine. Today the federal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals [1]affirmed the district court's ruling that making these thumbnail copies of images for the search engine was 'fair use.' Since the applicability of fair-use defenses to copyright infringement touches on all kinds of common uses of the Internet as well as rulemaking related to the [2]scope of the DMCA, this decision will probably have an effect on the discussion. (Note that this case was decided by a 3-judge panel and thus isn't binding precedent.)" Note that the court also reversed in part the lower court's ruling, specifically saying that the lower court should not have ruled on "whether the display of the larger image is a violation of Kelly's exclusive right to publically display his works." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/ca9/newopinions.nsf/8E22982657C96BE188256D5C00518BF5/$file/0055521oop.pdf?openelement 2. http://www.copyright.gov/1201/ Trustworthy Software For The NSA? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/07/2054249 [0]Janus Daniels writes "There's a new story from the New York Times, as reprinted at CNET News, about [1]security concerns for Government agencies buying software from overseas. According to the article, a whistle-blower who helped sell software to the National Security Agency says that much of the development work is subcontracted to China, raising serious national security risks. He also discovered in the sales-support database... the names of more than 30 [identity-classified] employees of the United States National Security Agency...'" Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://news.com.com/2100-1009_3-1023414.html?tag=fd_top SCO Taking Linux Discussion To Japan http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/07/1914248 levin writes "EETimes is carrying a new story about our good friend Darl McBride, CEO of SCO. His [0]latest escapades include a trip to Japan in response to the [1]CE Linux Forum initiative undertaken by several big-name Japanese tech firms such as Sony and Toshiba. He's putting his famous tainted code dog-and-pony show on parade, trying to influence some of the major CELF founders." Links 0. http://www.eetimes.com/sys/news/OEG20030703S0026 1. http://www.celinuxforum.org/PressRelease/pr02.htm Distributed Computing Economics http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/07/183256 [0]machaut writes "In a ClusterComputing.org article, Jim Gray, director of Microsoft's Bay Area Research Lab, provides an [1]interesting economic analysis for building distributed systems. When do you choose a grid over a cluster or a supercomputer? When does it pay off to move a task to the data vs moving the data to the task? He takes current hardware and networking costs into account to answer those questions." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.clustercomputing.org/content/tfcc-5-1-gray.html Freenet Creator Debates RIAA http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/07/1733230 [0]smd4985 writes "Over at CNET News.com, there's a [1]good coverage of a debate between Ian Clarke of [2]Freenet and Matt Oppenheim of the RIAA." In discussing whether it's "legal and moral to create and use Freenet", which is "a radically decentralized network of file-sharing nodes tied together with strong encryption", the RIAA's Oppenheim suggests: "Other than the fact that most infringers do not like to use Freenet because it is too clunky for them to get their quick hit of free music, it is no more of a threat than any of the popular P2P services." Links 0. http://www.susheeldaswani.com 1. http://news.com.com/2010-1027_3-1023325.html?tag=fd_nc_1 2. http://freenet.sourceforge.net/ Freshmeat Arbitrary Command Output Colourer 0.4.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128479/ acoc is a regular-expression based colour formatter for programs that display output on the command-line. It works as a wrapper around the target program, executing it and capturing the stdout stream. Optionally, stderr can be redirected to stdout, so that it, too, can be manipulated. acoc then applies matching rules to patterns in the output and applies colours to those matches. ARIA Business Management 0.98 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128549/ ARIA is business class management (ERP) software. It lets you manage inventory levels, maintain payroll, and process orders. It is written primarily in PHP and incorporates the ADODB database abstraction layer. ATutor 1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128531/ ATutor is an Open Source Web-based Learning Content Management System (LCMS) designed with accessibility and adaptability in mind. Administrators can install or update ATutor in minutes. Educators can quickly assemble Web-based instructional content. Students learn in an adaptive learning environment. Bandwidth alarm 1.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128563/ bwalarm lets you know by SMS or email if the bandwidth usage on your Unix machine goes above "normal". It's configured very simply, and can monitor either an iptables chain or interface counter, packets, or bytes. It runs as a daemon process and is intended to be obvious and reliable enough to warn you of expensive bandwidth bills before they arrive. BBStatus 2.0RC15 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128439/ BBStatus is an IP accounting package, and an SNMP and IP monitoring tool for Linux. It collects, summarizes, and displays the values from its database. It can be used for IP accounting (using iptables, you can design various kinds of accounting filters), SNMP monitoring (collects data making SNMP requests), IP monitoring (using ping, it stores and summarizes values like min, avg, max reply time, and packet loss), and client traffic filtering (using various types of filters). It also provides user based access so that every user can log in and check the traffic from/through his/her IP addresses. It requires PostgreSQL, Apache with mod_auth_pgsql, Perl(Net::SNMP), and RRDTool. Bibkeeper 0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128579/ Bibkeeper is a Java graphical interface for working with BibTeX (.bib) databases. The intention is to provide a user-friendly tool for accessing and editing your bibliographical databases. bigloo 2.6a http://freshmeat.net/releases/128495/ Bigloo is an implementation of the Scheme programming language. It relies on an optimizing compiler from Scheme to C. Bigloo enables connections between Scheme code and C code. It proposes many extensions to Scheme such as a regular parser compiler, an lalr parser compiler, pattern matching, an object layer, etc. Biglook 0.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128492/ Biglook is a graphical toolkit for the Bigloo Scheme system. Even if the current Biglook implementation relies on the Tk library, Biglook proposes a high programming level by mapping low level Tk widgets to Bigloo classes. In that, Biglook programs resemble STk programs. Biglook enables graphical user interface for Bigloo programs. It is implemented by the means of a Bigloo library. Programs making use of Biglook widgets are compiled into native code on the major Unix versions. Bubble Shooter 2 2.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128508/ Bubble Shooter 2 is a game mini-pack which includes Strategic, Arcade, Sniper, and Marathon games. The goal of these games is to pop all the colored bubbles that fill the board. It's a bit like Bust-a-Move or Bubblet, but with rather different and varying gameplay. It is highly addictive. There is an online contest for the best players. Versions for PalmOS 5 (hi-res) and for older devices are both available. Callflow 20030707 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128562/ Callflow is a collection of awk and shell scripts that will take a capture file that can be read by Ethereal and produce a callflow sequence diagram. The scripts have been primarily tested with SIP call flows, but should work for other network traffic as well. Cavepilot 0.3.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128541/ Cavepilot is another cave-flying game like the old classics, Turbo Raketti and Gravity Force You fly a small rocket in a 2D cave and try to shoot down your opponent. It currently supports one or two local players. Chemtool 1.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128538/ Chemtool is a GTK+-based 2D chemical structure editor for X11. Drawings can be exported in XFig format for further annotation, or as Postscript files (using xfig's companion program transfig). A set of sample molecular structure drawings is included in the archive. CVSGnome 0.4.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128513/ CVSGnome is a build environment for the GNOME project which allows a systems administrator to install GNOME from either released source Tarballs or from bleeding edge CVS depending on what is wanted. This script also works as a general building wrapper around other sources. When started, it shows an interactive self-explanatory menu. Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse 1.1.42 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128575/ Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse (DCC) is a system of clients and servers that collect and count checksums related to mail messages. The counts can be used by SMTP servers and mail user agents to detect and reject bulk mail. DCC servers can exchange common checksums. The checksums include values that are "fuzzy", or constant across common variations in bulk messages. doc2xml 0.0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128482/ doc2xml converts Microsoft Word files to XML, which can in turn be converted to something more useful. Dolibarr 0.2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128556/ Dolibarr is a small and simple Web interface with ERP and CRM capabilities. It is designed for small companies and freelancers, and can be used to deal with the bills and documentation required for company management. edit-on JavaBean SDK 1.0.47 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128519/ The edit-on JavaBean SDK is a customizable, feature-rich JavaBean that allows developers to add WYSIWYG editing functionality to their AWT- or Swing-based applications. It features an intuitive word processor-like user interface that enables XHTML content authoring with XML markup, and has a royalty free run-time license. edit-on Pro 3.1.200 (3.x) http://freshmeat.net/releases/128518/ edit-on Pro is a cross-platform, in-browser, WYSIWYG editor Java applet which enables XHTML content authoring with XML markup. The editor is compact, powerful and requires no special libraries or client plugins. It includes CSS support, table editing, a spelling checker, multi-language support, and features an API that allows full customisation and seamless integration into Web-based applications. It perfectly complements content management systems, e-learning, knowledge management systems, and CRM. A free trial version is available for download and includes complete developer samples and a comprehensive integration manual. eNetwizard Matrix Server 0.0.1 (Core) http://freshmeat.net/releases/128477/ eNetwizard Matrix Server is a content management system with a rich set of features that rival the expensive proprietary counterparts. It can satisfy the content management and application serving requirements of the individual to the largest of enterprises. Best of all, it can manage and render an unlimited number of domains from a single running copy of the distribution. eNetwizard Matrix Server is platform-independent, robust, scalable, highly customizable, and fully supported. It includes complex user security measures, complete worldwide language capabilities, comprehensive logging abilities, thorough session management functions, and an array of Web applications and management wizards. Ephox EditLive! for Java 2.0.2.361 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128559/ EditLive! for Java is a cross-platform, browser-based Web content authoring tool. It enables business users to edit HTML, XHTML, and XML content via an easy-to-use WYSIWYG interface. It includes advanced table editing, CSS support, spell checker, and integrated image and hyperlink browsing via WebDAV. It is designed for use with Web content management, knowledge management and e-learning applications. fingerdvd 0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128478/ fingerdvd is a Python module and commandline tool which can fingerprint a DVD and use the fingerprint to submit or retrieve disc information. FireStorm 1.0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128488/ FireStorm is a powerful development tool that reduces the amount of coding required for a typical business application by automatically generating the persistence tier. It reverse-engineers existing data sources and generates a Java persistence framework that is independent of any specific persistence technology, and then offers the choice of generating implementation logic based on JDBC or EJB. The generated source code conforms to the widely accepted Data Access Objects (DAO) design pattern and has no dependencies on any proprietary runtime libraries. flexbackup 1.2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128578/ flexbackup is a configurable and easy to use Perl-based backup tool, that can backup local files as well as remote machines (using ssh). It allows the backup itself to be made with afio, cpio, tar, dump, star, or pax. It can work with tape drives, or can easily archive to on-disk files. FreeMarker 2.3pre6 (Lazarus) http://freshmeat.net/releases/128546/ FreeMarker is a template engine that was originally designed so that servlet-based applications could keep graphical design separate from application logic. The templates provide an easy and highly flexible way to generate any kind of text output (HTML, RTF, PostScript, TeX, source code, etc.) from a variety of data sources such as Java objects, Jython objects, XML object models, and more. FScript 0.6 (J2ME) http://freshmeat.net/releases/128530/ FScript is an extremely simple scripting language. Its intended use is as an embedded language in other Java programs. It is very simple to embed; it can be as simple as sub-classing one class to add your own functionality. However, it is not a complete programming language, as it has no library of standard functions (such as IO and string processing). FScript supplies base functionality (such as flow control, variable handling, and basic math operations) that can extended by the host application. The only requirement is a Java 2 runtime environment. fwlogview 0.3.5 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/128580/ fwlogview is a graphical, realtime, colorized logviewer for netfilter and other logs written in Java. It displays the logentries which are related to the firewall action. You can hide unimportant columns or change the order in which columns are shown. galculator 1.1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128542/ galculator is a GTK 2 based scientific calculator supporting algebraic mode as well as RPN. Features include arithmetic operations plus precedence handling, full keypad support, trigonometric functions, power, square root, natural and common logarithm, constants (e, PI), and inverse and hyperbolic functions. It supports different number bases (decimal, hexadecimal, octal, and binary) and angle bases (radiant, degree, and grad). Gerwin 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128544/ Gerwin is a tool that aid you in creating data models and then (perhaps) implementing them in a relational database. You can draw your data model via an entity-relation diagram, generate the tables from it (another graphical diagram), and then generate the SQL that creates such relational tables. Several SQL dialects are supported (for most popular free software database systems) and it is very easy to patch the sources to support more. Getleft 1.1.1 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/128569/ Given a URL, Getleft will try to download all links. As it goes, it modifies the original HTML pages so that the absolute links get changed to relative links, and links to active pages get changed to the resulting pages. It supports thirteen different languages. ggcov 0.1.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128534/ Ggcov is a GTK+ GUI for exploring test coverage data produced by C programs compiled with gcc -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage. It's basically a GUI replacement for the gcov program that comes with gcc. gmorgan 0.01 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128523/ gmorgan is a fully programmable General MIDI rhythm station. It features chord recognition for playing in real-time. GNU TeXmacs 1.0.1.17 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128510/ 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. Graphico 1.20 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128487/ Graphico is a 3D graphics API for Java and/or C++, based on OpenGL. Grisbi 0.4.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128504/ Grisbi is personal accounting software for that can manage multiple accounts, multiple currencies, and multiple users. It manages third parties, expenditures and receipts categories, and also budgetary lines, financial years, and other information. It is adapted for personal use as well as for associations. High Level Assembly Language 1.52 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128500/ The High Level Assembly Language (HLA) was designed to allow advanced assembly language programmers to write more readable and powerful assembly language code. It makes it possible to write code by leveraging knowledge of high level languages like C, C++, Pascal, and Delphi. HLA compiles into 80x86 assembly language, which is assembled by MASM, TASM, or Gas. Horgand 1.02 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128517/ Horgand is a graphical FM real time organ with auto-accompaniment. It is jack capable, with DSP effects to emulate and store organ sounds. IlohaMail 0.8.8 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/128540/ IlohaMail is a lightweight, multilingual Webmail client that is easy to use and install. It runs on a stock build of PHP, and does not require databases (although database support is available) or the IMAP library (it is powered by a custom IMAP/POP3 library). It supports all essential functionality, including a full contacts list and a user customizable interface. Other features include support for multiple domains (virtual hosts), built-in spam prevention, and activity logging. invoicebot 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128526/ invoicebot is a custom time tracking, quotation, and invoicing system for consulting firms. It is used in house for all of thoughtbot's invoicing. It is written in Perl and MySQL. Jacquard 1.8.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128527/ Jacquard is a Web-database integration toolkit, written as a Java Servlet package. It is designed to make it extremely easy to build two- and three-tier client-server applications which will be completely portable to any hardware platform and operating system which supports a Java 1.2-compliant JVM or a JDBC 2.0-compliant database management system, or any Web server or Web Application Server which supports the JSDK 2.0 API. Jameleon 1_0-docs-HttpUnit-RC2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128525/ Jameleon is an automated testing tool that separates applications into features and allows those features to be tied together independently, creating test-cases. These test-cases can then be data-driven and executed against different environments. The goal is to create an automated testing tool that can be used for the enterprise. A UI that ties a series of features to a test-case, generating both the test script and the test-case documentation is in the works. jEdit 4.2pre3 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/128473/ jEdit is an Open Source text editor written in Java. It has many useful features, such as syntax highlighting, bracket matching, regular expression searching, multiple file search and replace, folding, and keyboard macros. jEdit also includes a powerful plugin architecture that allows more than 80 plugins to be downloaded and installed from within the editor. JProfiler 2.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128503/ JProfiler is a fully dynamic profiler based on the Java virtual machine profiling interface (JVMPI). It is targeted at J2EE and J2SE applications, and features CPU profiling, memory profiling, thread profiling, and VM telemetry information. JRat 0.5.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128557/ JRat is a Java runtime analysis toolkit that enables developers to better understand the runtime behavior of their Java programs. This includes but is not limited to performance profiling. kcd 7.0.0 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/128536/ kcd is a directory change utility similar to NCD. It helps you navigate the directory tree. You can also supply part of the desired directory name in the command line and let kcd find it for you. Least 1.0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128476/ Least is a tool for fitting generic data to a user-specified function using the least squares method. It supports multidimensional and multiparametric fitting, linear or non-linear functions in the parameters, and error in the independent variable(s). libdaemon 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128455/ libdaemon is a lightweight C library that eases the process of writing UNIX daemons. It contains a daemonizing fork() wrapper, a powerful syslog() wrapper, PID file management, and signal serialization. LibTomMath 0.11 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128493/ LibTomMath provides highly optimized and portable routines for a vast majority of integer-based number theoretic applications (including public key cryptography). Libxml 2.5.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128522/ Libxml is the XML C library developed for the Gnome project. The library code is portable (to Linux, Unix, Windows, embedded systems, etc.) and modular; most of the extensions can be compiled out. Libxml implements a number of existing standards related to markup languages, including the XML standard, Namespaces in XML, XML Base, Relax NG, RFC 2396, XPath, XPointer, HTML4, XInclude, SGML Catalogs, and XML Catalogs. In most cases, libxml tries to implement the specifications in a relatively strict way. To some extent, it provides support for the following specifications, but doesn't claim to implement them: DOM, FTP client, HTTP client, SAX, and DocBook SGML. Support for W3C XML Schemas is in progress. It includes xmllint, a command line XML validator. libxml++ 0.24 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128547/ libxml++ is a C++ interface for working with XML files, using libxml (gnome-xml) to parse and write the actual XML files. It has a simple but complete API. Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator 1.0 (Guide) http://freshmeat.net/releases/128520/ Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator allows beginning-to-advanced network administrators to control bandwidth. It is designed to be completely turn-key in its default configuration. You just plug it into your network trunk, and it self configures and immediately starts slowing "bandwidth hogs". It also comes with finer controls that are easy to use, and can be configured to target specific applications such as Kazaa, IMAP, and POP. Traffic can be limited by host IP, subnet, and content blocking. Linux Virtual Server 1.1.7 (IPVS for kernel 2.5) http://freshmeat.net/releases/128481/ The Linux Virtual Server Project is an Open Source project to cluster many real servers together into a highly available, high-performance virtual server. The LVS handles connections from clients and passes them on the the real servers (so-called Layer 4 switching) and can virtualize almost any TCP or UDP service, like HTTP, HTTPS, NNTP, FTP, DNS, ssh, POP3, IMAP4, SMTP, etc. It is fully transparent to the client accessing the virtual service. LoadBar 1.0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128512/ LoadBar is a simple CPU load graph, shown as a thin line on the left side of the desktop. MacXM 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128565/ MacXM is a control program for the XM PCR satellite receiver, an XM radio powered and controlled by a USB connection. MainBrain School 1.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128553/ MainBrain School is a Web-based information portal for schools which allows parents to log in to view their students' assignments, grades, attendance, class Web sites, school calendars, and updates; it can also alert parents of potential problems before they become real issues. It helps schools use the Internet to improve parent-teacher communication. MicroBlogger 1.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128558/ MicroBlogger is a fast, flexible, secure, reliable, and bloat-free weblog engine written entirely in Bash script. It is designed to have absolutely no dependencies on any outside programs--no PHP, no SQL, no CGI, no CSS, no JavaScript, no Perl, no XML, no DHTML, nothing. MicroBlogger is completely self-contained and self-regulating, and is ready for you to use straight out of the box. MicroBlogger has become a favorite of those who don't want the bloat and confusion normally associated with other weblog engines. Its advantages include speed, an easy to use menu subsystem, and an incredibly small footprint. A fully working MicroBlogger site, complete with backend, can occupy as little as 10KB of storage space. MidHosting FTPd 1.0.1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128489/ mhftpd was created in order to provide FTP access to a hosting server. It is based on vftpd, which is itself an extension of the Linux port of the OpenBSD ftpd. mhftpd is a fast, secure, and reliable FTP server. It supports virtual users, quotas, and other standard FTP features. mhftpd may work as a stand-alone daemon, as well as inetd-wrapped service. Music Player Daemon 0.8.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128516/ Music Player Daemon (MPD) is a server that allows remote access for playing music (MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and Flac) and managing playlists. The design focus is on integrating a computer into a stereo system that provides control for music playback over a local network. Currently, it includes a Web interface, phpMp. The goals are to be easy to install/use, to have minimal resource requirements, stability, and flexibility. mvc 0.8.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128486/ MVC is a text mode v4l video capture program that features motion detection. It is very small and easy to use, and could be used to monitor and record the people that enter your room. myJCQ 0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128571/ myJCQ (my Java ICQ Client) is a simple ICQ client written in Java. At the moment, only basic messaging is supported. N-View 2.8a (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/128564/ N-View is a network monitor for small and medium-sized networks. It features automatic scanning of subnets for host addresses, monitoring of ICMP responses from all hosts, signalling of timeouts and delays in the GUI and by mail, a portscanner, an SNMP client (MIB browser and trap receiver), a graphical display of network traffic for network interfaces, connectivity to hosts by telnet, HTTP browser, or an arbitrary external program (such as ssh), printing of network diagrams, automatic generation of HTML pages, and more. Octave 2.1.49 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/128499/ Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides a convenient command line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and for performing other numerical experiments. It may also be used as a batch-oriented language. org.benow.media 0.01 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128483/ org.benow.media is the BeNOW Streaming Media Framework. It is a set of Java interfaces and classes used in the development of streaming media applications. The media interfaces define InputElements, ManipulatorElements, and OutputElements which read, manipulate, and output multimedia data. These elements can be linked together, forming a media graph that does a specific thing. Implementations of these elements include file readers, a javalayer based MP3 decoder, and a javasound writer. Its goal is to be a Java-based engine capable of reliably delivering a complex icecast-compatible audio stream. The framework is architecturally similar to gstreamer and JMF. org.benow.meta 0.01 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128484/ org.benow.meta (the BeNOW Meta Object Framework) is a set of Java interfaces and classes used to describe things. There are meta objects for Albums, Tracks, Artists, Photographs, Movies, Actors, Forums, Comments, Projects, Bugs, etc. These objects provide a standardized interface to common things, in an attempt to straighten out some of the chaos associated with data management. These objects may be stored and retrieved via the org.benow.repository framework and may be used for communication and presentation of the associated information. Having the information located within objects (instead of simple name->value pairs) allows for navigation of links, strict formatting, transparent security, and data validation. org.benow.repository 0.01 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128480/ org.benow.repository (The BeNOW Object Repository Framework) is a set of Java interfaces and implementations of an object store. The primary interfaces define adding, removing, updating, and querying of objects in an ObjectRepository. An implementation that uses a modified version of Castor JDO to persist objects to a relational database is included, along with a repository-based implementation of the org.benow.security objects, an RMI publishing security administrator, and an implementation of a serialization-based ObjectRepository. org.benow.security 0.01 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128475/ org.benow.security (The BeNOW Security Framework) is a set of Java classes that present a simple user/role/permission-based security layer. It consists mostly of interfaces, which could be implemented in various ways, such as with database backends for user storage. org.benow.util 0.01 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128474/ org.benow.util (The BeNOW Utilities) are a set of Java classes that are useful within larger projects. It includes a command line application facilitator, a configuration API, a notification API, and many other small handy utilities. org.benow.web 0.01 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128471/ org.benow.web (the BeNOW Web Application Framework) is a set of Java classes that facilitate the development and deployment of complex Web applications. It uses XML/XSL, enhanced Castor JDO Object persistence (via MySQL, Oracle, etc), object caching, LOG4J logging and Web administration, real-time XSL editing, and user/role/permission security. Full documentation and examples are included. photos 4.0b1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128555/ photos is a Web-based photo database for storing metadata about digital photos so you can find them again later. It supports adding photos one at a time, or as a group by directory. It is intended to be run locally but can be run on a remote Web server if you've got the space and the bandwidth. PHPCoder 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128586/ PHPCoder is a Web-based frontend to the Turck MMCache encoding functions, which are similar to the Zend Encoder product. PHPCoder enables you to encode your PHP scripts and applications into non-reversible byte-code, thus preventing users of your programs from viewing or alterting the source code while having full functionality. Another excellent use for PHPCoder is to encode your applications PHP configuration files, that way someone viewing your source code does not see your databae login and password information. It also allows you to set restrictions on the encoded scripts, you can lock a script to a particular server IP address, server host name, visitor IP, or even place a time limit on the script so it will expire after a configurable amount of time. You specify Text, HTML, or PHP code that should be prepended and appended to each file before it is encoded, allowing you to easily and securely implement your own licensing scheme. Plone CMS 1.0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128554/ Plone CMS is a content management system that is simple to set up, maintain and modify. It is designed to be a proper content management system that can replace Interwoven Teamsite or Opentext's Livelink. Postfix 2.0.13-20030706 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/128485/ 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. PRepS 1.9.5 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/128574/ PRepS is a problem reporting and tracking system similar to Gnats, only simpler to use. Currently, PRepS is best used with smaller projects or projects where all developers have access to the same network. For more "remote" projects, Gnats may be a better choice. PyKota Print Quota System 1.13 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128528/ PyKota is a centralized and extensible print quota system for the Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) and LPRng. It features per-printer user and group quotas, automated email warning to users and quota administrator, commandline tools which mimic the disk quota utilities, PostgreSQL and OpenLDAP backends, and much more. PyObjC 1.0b1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128496/ PyObjC is a bridge between Python and Objective-C that allows full featured Cocoa applications to be written in pure Python. It can also be used with other Objective-C class libraries, as well as C and C++ source. The installer package includes a number of Project Builder templates and Python syntax coloring files. It supports full introspection of Objective-C classes and direct invocation of Objective-C APIs from the interactive interpreter. PyPE 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128570/ PyPE (Python Programmers Editor) was written in order to offer a lightweight but powerful editor for those of you who think emacs is too much and idle is too little. Syntax highlighting is included out of the box, as is multiple open documents via tabs. Being written in Python and wxPython allows PyPE to be used on basically every platform available. RabbIT 2.0.27 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128568/ RabbIt is the mutating, caching webproxy which is used to speed up surfing over slow links like modems. It does this by removing advertising and background images and scaling down images to low quality JPEGs. RabbIT is written in Java and should be able to run on any platform. It does depend upon an image converter if imagescaleing is on. The recommended image converter is "convert" from the ImageMagick package. remstats 1.0.13a http://freshmeat.net/releases/128561/ Remstats is a system of Perl scripts to collect performance data, store them using RRDtool, monitor the data for anomalies, generate alerts, and display the data in graphical form. RPG1 0.0.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128582/ RPG1 is a text-mode console role playing game written in Perl. It features ASCII graphics provided by the ANSI::Color module, an inventory, a magic system, food depletion, killing, getting killed, a library system, and themes. It also features a top-down view orientation. rssh 2.1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128584/ 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. Seminole Webserver 2.33 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/128537/ Seminole Webserver is a portable Web server designed to be used in embedded systems, where memory space is at a premium. It is written in C++, and has a mechanism to direct requests to application-specific code, complete with the decoding of "CGI" parameters. It also includes a "filesystem" that can package up Web content (and optionally compress it) and store it in a ROM or other "flat" device. It comes with a simple example to make it a standalone Webserver under POSIX platforms for evaluation and testing. socklog 1.1.1 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/128501/ socklog cooperates with the runit package to create a small and secure replacement for syslogd. socklog supports system logging through Unix domain sockets (/dev/log) and UDP sockets (0.0.0.0:514) with the help of runit's runsvdir, runsv, and svlogd. socklog provides a different network logging concept, and also does log event notification. svlogd has built in log file rotation based on file size, so there is no need for any cron jobs to rotate the logs. socklog is small, secure, and reliable. Space Hulk 1.4.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128498/ Space Hulk is a 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', and 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. SpamReview 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128470/ SpamReview is a generic spam quarantine management system works with any anti-spam application that can forward spam to a quarantine address. Support Information Tracker 1.0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128514/ Support Information Tracker is a knowledge base for organizations. Features include multiple document versions, group permissions, document submission reviews, and many more. sysstat 4.1.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128566/ The sysstat package contains the sar, mpstat, and iostat commands for Linux. The sar command collects and reports system activity information. This information can also be saved in a system activity file for future inspection. The iostat command reports CPU statistics and I/O statistics for tty devices and disks. The statistics reported by sar concern I/O transfer rates, paging activity, process-related activites, interrupts, network activity, memory and swap space utilization, CPU utilization, kernel activities, and TTY statistics, among others. Both UP and SMP machines are fully supported. tasks 1.6.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128545/ tasks is built on PHP and MySQL. It features a dynamic hierarchical view of your tasks, scheduling due dates and associating URLs with tasks, an iCalendar of your tasks (scheduled tasks can go into the calendar as events or task list). and a mobile version for easy access with a PDA. Teapot 1.0.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128490/ Teapot (Table Editor And Planner) is a 3D spreadsheet that can easily be extended by new functions in C. It includes English, Dutch, and German message catalogs. The BWidget Toolkit 1.2.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128497/ The BWidget Toolkit is a high-level widget set for Tcl/Tk that uses native Tcl/Tk 8.x namespaces. They feature a professional look and feel and don't require a compiled extension library. The XSLT C library for GNOME 1.0.31 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128524/ Libxslt is a C library for GNOME which allows developers to work with XSLT. It is based on libxml for XML parsing, tree manipulation, and XPath support. It is written in plain C, making as few assumptions as possible, and sticking closely to ANSI C/POSIX for easy embedding. It should work on Linux, Unix, and Windows. Though not designed primarily with performances in mind, libxslt seems to be a relatively fast processor. It also include full support for the EXSLT set of extension functions as well as some common extensions present in other XSLT engines. ttylinux 3.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128472/ ttylinux is a minimalistic Linux distribution that can fit in 4 MB of disk space. It contains software needed to log into an ISP by modem or ISDN, surf the Web, and provide Web content to the world. The minimum hardware requirement is a 386SX with 10 MB of RAM for a ramdisk setup or 5 MB of RAM for a hard disk setup. txt2man 1.4.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128509/ Txt2man converts flat ASCII text into the man page format. This allows man pages to be authored without knowledge of nroff macros. It is a shell script that uses GNU awk, and it should run on any Unix-like system. vcp 1.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128529/ vcp copies files and directories using a curses or text-only interface. Its options and output are similar to cp. It provides visual information about the files copied and left to copy, the amount of data written and to be written, the amount of data being written every second, and two status bars representing the number of files copied and to copy. When output is sent to the console, a status bar, size copied, and speed are shown. WaveSurfer 1.5.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128494/ WaveSurfer is a sound visualization/manipulation tool for novice and advanced users, with a simple and intuitive user interface. It can be adapted to different tasks, such as speech research and education, speech/sound analysis, and sound annotation/transcription. You can also make more advanced/specialized applications by extending it with custom plugins or embed WaveSurfer components in other applications. Its flexible interface handles many different file formats, and it runs on many flavors of Windows and Unix. It also supports encoding and Unicode with unlimited file size, and more. webrowse 1.5.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128577/ Webrowse, inbrowse, and "go" are tools that facilitate interfaces between a Web browser (Netscape, Mozilla, or Mosaic) and other components of a Unix desktop, such as the command line, the X11 cut buffer, editors, email readers, etc. Browse any source of text, HTML, files, URLs, pieces of URLs, simple search and lookup specifications, etc., including automatic markup of implicit URLs and paths in the text. WeeWM 0.0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128581/ WeeWM (Wee Enhanced Environment) is a fast and light window manager for XFree86. Everything can be done with a keyboard. It is customizable, and has dock management, smart window placement, virtual desktops, and more. WeWiMo 0.0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128585/ WeWiMo (Web WiFi Monitor) is a script for monitoring computers connected to access point running Linux and hostap WiFi card driver (ZCom XI-626). white_dune 0.25beta39 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/128533/ white_dune is a graphical VRML97 editor. VRML97 (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) is the ISO standard for displaying 3D data over the Web via browser plugins. It has support for animation, realtime interaction and multimedia (image, movie, sound). White_dune can read VRML97 files, display and let the user change the scenegraph/fields, and load and store x3d (the next generation VRML XML format) files if configured to work with the nist.gov x3d translators. It also has support for stereoscopic view via "quadbuffer"-capable stereo visuals, and support for 3D input devices like a joystick, spaceball, or magnetic tracker. WordNet-Similarity 0.05 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128226/ WordNet-Similarity is a collection of Perl modules for the WordNet system. They are designed as object classes with methods that take two word senses as input and return the semantic relatedness of these word senses. Xeuphoric 0.14.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128552/ Xeuphoric is a port of Euphoric, Fabrice Francès' Oric emulator, to the X window system. It emulates the Oric-1, the Oric Atmos, and the Telestrat. yaccc 0.1b http://freshmeat.net/releases/128560/ yaccc (yet another cyan chat client) is a commandline client written in Python for the CyanChat protocol. CyanChat is the chat service owned and maintained by Cyan Worlds (creators of Myst and Riven). Yet Another Rio Receiver Server 1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128567/ YARRS is (yet another) Unix-based server for the SONIC|blue Rio Receiver. It uses dhcpd, nfsd, ssdp, and HTTP servers to provide MP3 content. Written in Perl, it should work on any Unix platform, and is fully documented. Youhp3 3.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128539/ Youhp3 (Youpee's One Unlimited HTML PreProcessor) is an HTML preprocessor that allows you to embed code of any script language, as well as calling any external program to generate text files. It is specifically designed to work with HTML/XML documents, and provide traditional features, such as define, include, macro, conditional tests, and loop. Newsforge Reports Centrino Laptops Becoming Popular Among Linux Geeks http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/07/126229 - by Werner Heuser - Three months after Intel has released their new technology, laptops based on the Centrino(TM) features are already very popular in the Linux community. For almost all Centrino based laptops from different manufacturers there are installation reports available at TuxMobil. Saving an old laptop with Knoppix http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/06/212212 by Peter Johansson An old laptop of mine fubared its Linux partition beyond (easy) repair so I decided a clean install was the way to go. When I went to install a recent Debian system I had trouble with PCMCIA under the 2.2 kernel, and XFree gave me a blank screen under 2.4. Knoppix, however, made everything work automagically (with the exception of sound). Happy 4th of July! http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/30/2328239 July 4th is Independence Day here in the United States of America, so NewsForge is taking a three-day weekend except for a few NewsVac items we'll post between now and Monday. See you then! Newsforge Newsvac Open source user group announces 2003 awards http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/08/0226208 Anonymous Reader writes "The Australian Unix and Open Systems User Group (AUUG) is calling on the open source community to nominate outstanding Australians who have contributed to the open source cause for its second annual awards. The Open Source Awards (OSA) 2003, which were launched last year alongside AUUG's annual technical conference in Melbourne, are designed to encourage and recognise work undertaken by Australians towards the open ... Massachusetts Probing Microsoft Settlement Gripes http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/07/2117224 Anonymous Reader writes "Massachusetts, the state appealing Microsoft's landmark antitrust settlement, has told a federal judge it is probing potential breaches of the pact. [I]n a filing posted on the court's Web site on Monday, that it was looking at whether the world's largest software maker had retaliated against a computer maker for promoting Linux, an alternative to Microsoft's Windows operating system." Basic Hardening Linux http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/07/207252 An Anonymous Reader writes "Linux is capable of high-end security; however, the out-of-the-box configurations must be altered to meet the security needs of most businesses with an Internet presence. This chapter shows you the steps for securing a Linux system called hardening the server using both manual methods and open source security solutions." Sources say IBM to drop Windows-based storage http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/07/1722219 IBM plans to discontinue its line of Windows-based network-attached storage (NAS) devices in order to focus on higher-end products, including an upcoming file server that will run Linux, sources said this week. Linux and Open Source is Better for Business than MS Windows http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/07/1750251 Anonymous Reader writes "A Linux user and businessman tests both Windows and Linux and concludes that Linux and Open Source is better for business than Microsoft Windows. Read the editorial at OSNews.com." Big, Fault-Tolerant Servers Meet Linux http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/07/1650202 NEC Solutions America Inc. and Stratus Technologies Inc. are looking to Linux as a way to expand the reach of their respective fault-tolerant servers. Netli, Linux Take Web to Warp Speeds http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/07/1623216 In physics, distance in space often translates into longer durations of time. The farther you go, the longer it will take you to get there. Unless you change the way you're going. SAP, Sharp Go in a Linux, Java Mobile Direction http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/07/165216 Enterprise software company SAP AG and Japanese electronics giant Sharp have teamed up in order to build applications that deliver real-time data across corporate networks to smaller mobile devices. Pogo Linux, MySQL Team on Open-source Appliance http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/07/1538212 Two small companies aimed to spread the gospel of open-source technologies Monday as Pogo Linux said it agreed to build an appliance powered by MySQL AB's open-source database. SuSE Linux In Space With CC CompuNet in 2.4 Million Euro Engagement http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/07/158200 SuSE Linux announced a new 2.4 million euro engagement with the German Aerospace Center (DLR) on a high-performance storage system for Columbus, the European space lab project. 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Package 2.1.0 is now available for download. This release is for the new EVMS design, which is based on user-space volume discovery and communication with existing kernel drivers, such as MD/Software-RAID and Device-Mapper. Downloads at the project page: http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/evms/ Please see the INSTALL file in the 2.1.0 package for information about installing and getting started with the new EVMS. Since this new design is based on user-space discovery, there will no longer be boot-time volume activation. Please see the INSTALL file for information about how to activate your volumes using the EVMS user-interfaces and utilities. The INSTALL file also contains instructions for how users may easily "upgrade" an existing 2.4 kernel with Device-Mapper and EVMS 2.0.1 patches. Please see the README file in the 2.1.0 package for more detailed notes concerning this release and it's new features. EVMS 2.1.0 is supported on 2.4.21, 2.4.20, 2.4.19, and 2.5.73 kernels. If you have any questions, find any bugs, or simply want to report success stories, please send email to the EVMS mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) or visit the EVMS IRC channel (irc.freenode.net, #evms). Please see the notes and changelog at: http://www.sf.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=168707 NDoc version 1.2 beta released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=289572 A beta of the latest version of NDoc, the .NET Code Documentation Generator, has been released. The new features include: - new HTML Help 2 documenter (beta version), - new HTML Linear documenter (alpha version), - the MSDN documenter can now generate CHM or Online documentation, - option to link to the .NET Framework SDK v1.0, v1.1 or MSDN Online - support for Visual Studio 2003 and the .NET Framework 1.1, - plus many improvements and bug fixes... The NDoc v1.2 beta source code is available for download at: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=36057&release_id= 168934 Columba 0.11.0 (unstable) released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=289631 A new unstable version of Columba is now available. Columba is an email client written in Java, featuring a user-friendly graphical interface with wizards and internalionalization support. Its a powerful email management tool with features to enhance your productivity and communication. So, take control of your email before it takes control of you! This version contains numerous new features we want you to testdrive. http://columba.sourceforge.net/downloads_unstable.php For more information visit: http://columba.sourceforge.net/news.php Python 2.3b2 http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=288768 Python 2.3b2 has been released (29-Jun-2003). We encourage you to test your applications with this release, as we plan on a final Python 2.3 release by early August. SOURCEFORGE.NET UPDATE - 2003-06-20 EDITION http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=289543 0. Intro. 1. Improved Search. 2. Project of the month: Megamek. 3. Updated Project Registration System. 4. New RSS Feeds. 5. Stats and Top Projects. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear SourceForge.net, One of our biggest challenges in managing SourceForge.net has been handling our growth. With approximately 70 new Open Source Projects and 700 new registered users being added to the site each day, it can be quite a trick trying to stay ahead of the curve. This month I want to mention two improvements that are noteworthy. The first is project search. You can read about it below, but essentially the average time for searching for projects (using the left navbar) been reduced from 30 seconds to 1 second. The second is the beginning of the process of weeding out "dead" projects. These are projects that haven't had any real activity in the past 6 months and have never released any files. This is a big change for us. When SourceForge.net was started over 3 1/2 years ago, the vision was that it would be the permanent record of Open Source Software - Nothing would be deleted. We held on to the mission so strongly that we never developed internal tools to delete projects. Now with over 63,000+ projects and 70 new ones being added daily, we do realize that not -every- project has taken root. The real crusty/vacant ones (haven't released files and have zero activity) will be put in a queue for removal. This process will be done very carefully; we will give the registered admins of the project ample warning and the ability to 'opt-out' of the removal. The upside for the SourceForge.net community is that soon things will be a bit cleaner around here. Search results will list less dead projects and the software map will be easier to traverse. We still have some growing pains, but I hope you enjoy these latest improvements. I want to thank you for supporting SourceForge.net and the Open Source community. As always if you have some feedback or issues related to the site, please feel free to email me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Patrick McGovern Director, SF.NET [EMAIL PROTECTED] Improved Project Search --------------------------------------------- As SourceForge.net continues to have significant growth in the size of its user base, count of hosted projects, and daily activity, a significant amount of work is done by the SourceForge.net team to ensure suitable site performance and to work to resolve existing performance problems. The SourceForge.net team is happy to announce that the "Software/group search" facility is now operating in a more proper and functional manner. Searches are now performed in real time and last only seconds. Search users should no longer encounter the dreaded "search server is overloaded" messages previously offered during peak traffic hours. The SourceForge.net team expects to further expand the search facility in the near future, and to increase the frequency of search updates (currently twice-weekly) to better meet the needs of our hosted projects. Your patience has been appreciated; we hope you enjoy your search results... http://sourceforge.net/search/ Project of the Month: MegaMek --------------------------------------------- The SourceForge.net team loves games. Our favorites are online, net-based games that offer the ability to battle friends and foes from all over from world. SourceForge.net's June 2003 project of the month, MegaMek, is a Java based networkable game for 2 or more players. It's a strategic game that features brains over fast reflexes. The Software, licensed under the GPL, has enjoyed a position in the top 25 SF.net most active projects since it's founding in February 2002. With new features being added daily, MegaMek is a project to keep an eye on. http://sourceforge.net/potm/potm-2003-06.php Updated Project Registration System --------------------------------------------- SourceForge.net provides hosting for Open Source software development projects. Each day, SourceForge.net evaluates more than 100 new projects for hosting. Historically, there have been a number of pitfalls in this process. In particular, ensuring that each new project registration contains enough information to be properly considered by the SourceForge.net team without the added delay of asking the submitter for more information. Delays due to lack of information previously impacted roughly 15% of our new project registrations, causing these registrations to take more than our ideal two business days to be processed fully. The project registration system on SourceForge.net has recently been completely rewritten, integrating fixes for all previously-reported issues (in the past couple of years) and generally making the process more seamless for the submitter. Based on information collected during the early stages of the project registration process, the project registration system automatically advises you as to what should be included in your project description, and helps to bring potential pitfalls to your attention before the registration request is submitted. Users of our past project registration pages will note a larger amount of integrated documentation, the ability to easily return to earlier stages in the process without losing entered data, and the capability to review the information you have provided (and make necessary changes) before submitting it to the SourceForge.net team for consideration. We hope these changes will help make the process of registering a project on SourceForge.net easier to understand, and help us to further improve the turnaround time on hosting requests. New RSS Feeds. --------------------------------------------- This is information from the last sitewide email, but we think it's worth repeating. A convenient way to keep up-to-date with the SourceForge.net site, project news, activity information, and new projects is now available. SourceForge.net provides a number of RSS feeds that may be accessed using an RSS reader or aggregator (some content management systems also allow you include data from an RSS feed on your website, much as Slashdot and Freshmeat do in the right sidebar of their layout). Using these RSS feeds, you can keep up-to-date with the latest project news and file releases, Site Status updates and SourceForge.net statistics (such as top projects). Project-specific RSS feeds may now be accessed using the "View list of RSS feeds available for this project" link on the Summary page for each project. Information about the full set of the available SourceForge.net RSS feeds (14 feeds, in all), including information on the software needed to view RSS feed data and a complete list of the options available for each RSS feed, may be found at: https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=15483&group_id=1 Stats and Top Projects. --------------------------------------------- Number of Projects: 63,569 Number of Registered Users: 642,495 Daily Stats for June 11th, 2003 SF.NET : 1,762,941 pages served SF.NET project web space : 4,037,233 pages served Total Pages: 5,800,174 CVS updates: 15,017 Open Source Files downloaded in 24 period: 310,666 Outgoing Mailing list emails: 124712 Top 25 Projects: 1. GAIM http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/ Gaim is a GTK2-based instant messenger application. It supports multiple protocols via modules, including AIM, ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN, Jabber, IRC, Napster, Gadu-Gadu and Zephyr. It has many common features found in other clients, as well as many unique feature. 2. phpMyAdmin http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/ phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the WWW. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields. 3. JBoss.org http://sourceforge.net/projects/jboss/ The JBoss/Server is the leading Open Source, standards-compliant, J2EE based application server implemented in 100% Pure Java 4. AWStats http://sourceforge.net/projects/awstats/ Advanced Web Statistics (AWStats) is a free powerful and featureful web server logfile analyzer that shows you all your Web (but also FTP or Mail) statistics including visits, unique visitors, pages, hits, hours, search engines, keywords, robots, etc. 5. Dev-C++ http://sourceforge.net/projects/dev-cpp/ Dev-C++ is an full-featured Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Win32. It uses GCC, Mingw or Cygwin as compiler and libraries set. 6. guliverkli http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/ Home of VobSub, Media Player Classic (MPC) and other misc utils. 7. BZFlag http://sourceforge.net/projects/bzflag/ OpenSource OpenGL Multiplayer Multiplatform battlezone capture the flag. 8. Tiki CMS/Groupware http://sourceforge.net/projects/tikiwiki/ Tiki is a powerful CMS/Groupware. Features: article, forum, newsletter, blog, file/image gallery, wiki, drawing, tracker, directory, poll/survey & quiz, FAQ, chat, banner, webmail, calendar, category, ACL, etc in Single Sign-on or LDAP.(PHP/MySQL/Smarty) 9. ScummVM http://sourceforge.net/projects/scummvm/ ScummVM is a cross-platform interpreter for SCUMM-based games, used by LucasArts in games like: Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island, Day Of The Tentacle, The Dig, etc. It also includes a non-SCUMM interpreter for Simon The Sorcerer 1/2. 10. Freecraft http://sourceforge.net/projects/freecraft/ This is a free cross-platform real-time strategy game engine. It is possible to play over LAN, internet or against the computer and to build C&C, W*rCr*ft, St*rCr*ft or AOE like RTS games with it. Currently only a W*rCr*ft 2 compatible theme is available. 11. XboxMediaPlayer http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbplayer/ The XboxMediaPlayer for the Xbox allows you to use a modded Xbox to play/view DivX, XVID, MPEG-1/2, MP3, JPG & other supported video/audio/picture formats via your TV so it can used as a multimedia jukebox. It also supports streaming media over a network. 12. wxWindows http://sourceforge.net/projects/wxwindows/ wxWindows is a free C++ framework that facilitates cross platform software development, including GUIs, threads, sockets, database, file system access, etc. 13. POPFile http://sourceforge.net/projects/popfile/ POPFile is an email classification tool with a Naive Bayes classifier, a POP3 proxy and a web interface. It runs on most platforms and with most email clients. 14. moregroupware http://sourceforge.net/projects/moregroupware/ Web-based groupware written in PHP4. Including modules like webmail, notes, todo, contacts, project management, calendar and others. 15. Compiere ERP + CRM Business Solution http://sourceforge.net/projects/compiere/ Smart ERP+CRM solution for Small-Medium Enterprises in the global marketplace covering all areas from customer management, supply chain and accounting. For $2-200M revenue companies looking for "brick and click" first tier functionality. 16. TUTOS http://sourceforge.net/projects/tutos/ TUTOS is the ultimate team organization software, a webbased groupware or ERP/CRM system to manage events/ calendars, addresses, teams, projects, tasks, bugs, mailboxes, documents and your time spent with these things. 17. filezilla http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/ FileZilla is a fast FTP client for Windows with a lot of features. FileZilla Server is a reliable FTP server. 18. Armagetron http://sourceforge.net/projects/armagetron/ Armagetron is a simple action game modeled after the lightcycle sequence of the movie Tron. The main focus lies on the multiplayer mode, which has already made Armagetron a popular warmup game on LAN parties. 19. ffdshow http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow/ ffdshow is DirectShow decoding filter for decompressing DIVX and XVID movies using libavcodec or xvid with rich set of video postprocessing filters. ffdshow can also be used as a separate postprocessing filter for other decoders. 20. TV-Browser http://sourceforge.net/projects/tvbrowser/ TV-Browser is a java-based TV guide which is easily extensible using plugins. It is designed to look like a paper based tv guide. 21. Mobicq http://sourceforge.net/projects/mobicq/ Mobicq is a native ICQ client for mobile devices, such as celluar phones. It is written using Java 2 Micro Edition (MIDP 1.0) and uses ICQ protocol version 8. 22. Alvaro's Messenger http://sourceforge.net/projects/amsn/ Alvaro\'s Messenger is a MSN messenger clone for linux/unix/windows/mac. It features multilanguage support, file transfers, new graphical interface, emoticons, multiple profiles support, dock icon, sound events, email notification, url processing... 23. MAMEoX http://sourceforge.net/projects/mameox/ MAMEoX is a port of the popular MAME (Multi Arcade Machine Emulator) system to the XBOX. The main goals of the project are to provide a well documented port with a consistent coding style. 24. WebCalendar http://sourceforge.net/projects/webcalendar/ WebCalendar is a PHP application used to maintain a calendar for a single user or an intranet group of users. 25. TortoiseCVS http://sourceforge.net/projects/tortoisecvs/ TortoiseCVS is an extension for Microsoft Windows Explorer that makes using CVS fun and easy. Features include: colored icons, tight integration with SSH, and context-menu interactivity. 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