OSDN NEWSLETTER July 15, 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 Linux Comes To Afghanistan http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/15/0154245 [0]gaurab writes "For the first time, 11 people were trained in Linux in Kabul. This training was supported by UNDP as a broader program to build capacity in use of computer technologies. The press release and some info is available at [1]UNDP Afghanistan Website. It was reported on [2]NewsForge today, and was picked up by the [3]Washington Post few days ago. Some [4]discussion also happend on the South Asia Mailing List." Links 0. http://gaurab at lahai dot com 1. http://www.undp.org.af/archive/2003/7-july03-linux-training.htm 2. http://newsvac.newsforge.com/newsvac/03/07/14/1350210.shtml?tid=4 3. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37850-2003Jul10.html 4. http://www.apnic.net/mailing-lists/s-asia-it/archive/2003/07/msg00024.html Philip K. Dick Speaks (Sorta) http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/15/0053234 [0]futileboy writes "Erik Davis put together this posthumous [1]interview of Philip K. Dick from some tapes he found (he explains how it came together in his introduction to the interview). It comes off pretty clean." Links 0. http://www.ryanlane.com 1. http://frontwheeldrive.com/philip_k_dick.html Star Wars Galaxies Auctions Afoot http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/15/0016224 [0]Fusty writes "[1]Game Girl Advance is running a story about [2]the first wave of Star Wars Galaxies auctions on Ebay. Items, credits and characters are already selling for over $250, not even a month after launch. Will Sony/Verant shut down SWG auctions, like they did the EverQuest Auctions?" Links 0. http://www.links.net/ 1. http://www.gamegirladvance.com/ 2. http://www.gamegirladvance.com/archives/2003/07/14/galaxies_auctions_it_has_already_begun.html UCB Researchers Critique DRM, Compulsory Licensing http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/14/2312227 An anonymous reader writes " In [0]this paper, Berkeley researchers critique a host of cockamamie DRM schemes, and they also question the [1]compulsory licensing approach recently being promoted by the EFF. They get into some of the practical details about compulsory licensing that no one else seems to be talking about like technical feasibility, incentives to cheat, monitoring for compliance, efficiency of collection and distribution of funds, privacy, fair use, feasibility of legal enforcement... Anyway, it's worth a read and is a useful contribution to the debate, whatever side you're on. " Links 0. http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~rachna/papers/EvaluatingDRM.pdf 1. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/30/1652250&tid=141 Funding Open Source? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/13/2040241 One of the beautiful things about Open Source is that the barriers to entry are next to non-existent, and the adage "have compiler, will travel" embodies this fact well enough. However, as projects grow in size, they will soon face financial stumbling blocks, not to mention a need for increased visibility. How does one best market an Open Source project? What can Joe (or Joni) Coder do to increase their project's financial stability? Have the financially minded people of the Free Software community thought out the possibility of an Open Investment firm? Read on for Slashdot readers who are asking these exact questions! The Near-Term Future Of Open Source Desktops http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/14/2151256 [0]securitas writes "eWEEK has two related articles on the growth of open source software. The first article is about the [1]growth of desktop Linux, featuring Lotus and the [2]Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF) founder [3]Mitch Kapor, who says (among other things) that call centers will be where the next wave of growth for desktop Linux happens and that 10 percent of global desktops will be Linux in a few years. He bases his statements on a report by Eazel and GNOME Foundation co-founder Bart Decrem entitled [4]'Desktop Linux Technology and Market Overview' (PDF) mentioned [5]last week. The second story is about [6]open source software growth in the government sector where government agencies like the U.S. Census Bureau have embraced OS software for projects like the [7]State and County QuickFacts site. Based on Perl, Apache, MySQL and Linux, the site gets 200,000 page views a day." Links 0. http://geartest.com 1. http://www.eweek.com/print_article/0,3668,a=44522,00.asp 2. http://www.osafoundation.org/ 3. http://blogs.osafoundation.org/mitch/ 4. http://www.osafoundation.org/desktop-linux-overview.pdf 5. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/10/1630225&tid=163 6. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1190120,00.asp 7. http://quickfacts.census.gov/ Low Power FM Report Rejects Interference Concerns http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/14/1657225 [0]akb writes "Back in 2000, Slashdot covered [1]the Low Power Radio setback by Congress, detailing a law which gutted an [2]FCC initiative that would have created thousands of Low Power FM radio stations (LPFMs). Congress overruled the FCC, ostensibly because of interference concerns, and cut the number of stations from thousands to a few hundred, with hardly any in urban areas. A concession was made to allow a study of the interference caused by LPFMs, and that report has [3]been released. The verdict: 'Based on the measurements and analysis reported herein, existing third-adjacent channel distance restrictions should be waived to allow LPFM operation at locations that meet all other FCC requirements, [with the exception of several minor technical requirements]'. There's [4]more coverage at [5]DIYmedia.net" Links 0. http://demandmedia.net/ 1. //slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/19/1613236&tid=99 2. http://www.fcc.gov/ 3. http://svartifoss2.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/websql/prod/ecfs/comsrch_v2.hts?ws_mode=retrieve_list&id_proceeding=99-25&date_submission=06/30/2003 4. http://www.diymedia.net/archive/0703.htm#071103 5. http://www.diymedia.net/ Filesharing Traffic Drops After RIAA Threats http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/14/2046241 [0]bryan writes "According to CNN, facing the threat of lawsuits from a music industry trade group, [1]fewer people are using online filesharing applications to swap songs. Internet audience measurement service Nielsen Net Ratings said traffic on Kazaa, the leading filesharing platform, fell 15 percent in the week ended July 6 from the previous week. It was during that prior week, on June 25, that the Recording Industry Association of America said it would track down the heaviest users of "peer-to-peer" services like Kazaa and sue them for damages of up to $150,000 per copyright violation." This follows earlier reports, from the filesharing companies themselves, that [2]traffic was actually increasing. Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/07/14/filesharing.drop.reut/index.html 2. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/06/153229&tid=188 Ximian Evolution's New Clothes http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/14/1857228 Lispy writes "Looks like everyone's favorite graphical email client, [0]Ximian Evolution, will get a new interface with the upcoming release. I found a [1]posting on the Evolution hackers bulletin board which leads to some mocked-up screenshots (here: [2]calendar, [3]tasks, [4]mail, [5]contacts and one of the [6]shrunken navbar). Although this is mostly eyecandy, this could be the right time to make yourself heard. What do you think about a maturing Evolution that goes its own way and leaves the Outlook-like interface behind?" Links 0. http://www.ximian.org/products/evolution/ 1. http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution-hackers/2003-July/000636.html 2. http://primates.ximian.com/~anna/evo2/evo2_calendar.png 3. http://primates.ximian.com/~anna/evo2/evo2_tasks.png 4. http://primates.ximian.com/~anna/evo2/evo2_mail.png 5. http://primates.ximian.com/~anna/evo2/evo2_contacts.png 6. http://primates.ximian.com/~anna/evo2/evo2_navbar_shrunk.png Funding for TIA All But Dead http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/14/1836247 Shackleford writes "Wired has an article saying that the Terrorism Information Awareness program, which would troll Americans' personal records to find terrorists before they strike, may soon face the same fate Congress meted out to John Ashcroft in his attempt to create a corps of volunteer domestic spies: [0]death by legislation. The Senate's $368 billion version of the 2004 defense appropriations bill, released from committee to the full Senate on Wednesday, contains a provision that would deny all funds to, and thus would effectively kill, the Terrorism Information Awareness program, formerly known as Total Information Awareness. TIA's projected budget for 2004 is $169 million." Links 0. http://wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,59606,00.html Freshmeat alogg 1.3.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129248/ alogg is a library which makes it easier to use Ogg/Vorbis streams with Allegro. It offers facilities to decode, stream, and encode Ogg/Vorbis streams, and integrates those facilities with Allegro's datafile and sample loading routines. alogg comes with a sample player, streamer, and encoder based on Allegro's sound routines. avidemux 2.0.10 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129234/ Avidemux is a graphical tool to edit video. It can open AVI, MPEG, Nuppelvideo and BMPs. Most common codecs are supported (M-JPEG, MPEG, DivX, Xvid, huffyuv, WMA, etc.) thanks to libavcodec. Video can be edited, cut, appended, filtered (resize/crop/denoise), and re-encoded to either AVI (DivX/Xvid) or MPEG 1/2. BBStatus 2.0RC16 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129178/ 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. BioCoRE 3.7.14 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129269/ BioCoRE is a collaborative work environment for biomedical research, research management, and training. It offers scientists (working together or alone) a seamless interface to a broad range of local and remote technologies such as discipline-specific and general tools, data, and visualization solutions. It features powerful yet easy-to-use tools, among them co-authoring papers and other documents, running applications on supercomputers, sharing molecular visualization over the Internet, notifying project team members of recent project changes by email, chatting, keeping a lab book, and other practical features. BlueBox for BlackBox 0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129241/ BlueBox for BlackBox is a clean blue theme with wallpapers of various sizes and a startup sound. cacti 0.8.2a (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129202/ Cacti is a complete frontend to RRDTool. It stores all of the necessary information to create graphs and populate them with data in a MySQL database. The frontend is completely PHP driven. Along with being able to maintain graphs, data sources, and round robin archives in a database, Cacti also handles the data gathering. There is SNMP support for those used to creating traffic graphs with MRTG. CAMPSITE 2.1.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129311/ CAMPSITE is a Unicode-based, mulitlingual Web content management system designed for medium-to-large-size news publications. Issues, copy flow, back archives, and subscription management are implemented. At the core of CAMPSITE is CAMPFIRE, a Java Editor supporting Unicode, which allows contributors and editors to publish content and control layout online in their native alphabets. Formatting can be altered in a way similar to that of editors such as Wordpad; no HTML knowledge is necessary for formatting text. CD-Me 1.11 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129264/ CD-Me is an X application for creating ISO images, burning CDs, creating jewel case inserts, and editing ID3 tags from MP3 files that you have already ripped or downloaded. The program also integrates a very simple MP3 player and volume control, uses M3U playlists as the standard file format, and contains toolbar icons for loading your playlist into XMMS or starting GRip. CjOverkill 2.0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129210/ 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. CodeWorker 2.17 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129246/ CodeWorker is a scripting language for producing reusable, tailor-made, evolveable, and reliable IT systems with a high level of automation. An extended BNF syntax allows defining new domain-specific languages or parsing existing formats (HTML pages for example). A template-based syntax like PHP and JSP allows writing the patterns for generating code. The code generation knows how to preserve protected areas with hand-typed code and offers code expansion, source-to-source translation, and program transformation. These tasks are executed in a straightforward process, with no binding to an external programming language and with no translation of requirements specification in a constraining format. Contract 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129304/ Contract facilitates the handling of documents that are processible by both humans and machines. Contracts in e-commerce are one possible application, but the programs in this package are not limited to any particular use. The package is desinged with security and resource economy in mind, because of possible embedded applications in handheld devices, smart cards, and other attractive targets for e-commerce. Corewars 0.9.13 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129205/ Corewars is a game which simulates a virtual machine with a number of programs, where each program tries to crash the others. The program that lasts the longest time wins. A number of sample programs are provided and new programs can be written by the player; Corewars supports both Redcode and its own language. Coyote Linux 2.2.2 (GUI Disk Creator) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129239/ Coyote Linux is a single floppy distribution for setting up network utility services such as Internet connection sharing, firewalling, or wireless access points. The goal of the Coyote project is to make it as quick and easy as possible to set up a Linux floppy, and to require a minimal amount of Linux knowledge to do so. Database of Managed Objects 1.900 Alpha http://freshmeat.net/releases/129312/ DMO is generic object management, documentation, and inventory software. It enforces defining an abstract hierarchical structure for the data stored, making object management very intuitive. All the data in a company can be stored in a structured manner, from hard disks, computers, and printers to routers, UPSes, and alarm systems. Powerful querying and PDF report generation, plugin support, a high level of customization, and very clean code make DMO a very powerful tool. DbVisualizer 3.3.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129213/ DbVisualizer is a cross-platform database visualization and management tool which entirely relies on the JDBC, Java Database Connectivity APIs. DbVisualizer enables simultaneous connections to many different databases through JDBC drivers. Just point and click to browse the structure of the database, characteristics of tables, etc. Arbitrary SQL statements can be executed and saved between sessions. DbVisualizer supports a variety of databases including Oracle, Sybase, DB2, MySQL, Informix, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Cloudscape, McKoi, SAP DB, and InstantDB. diradm 1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129297/ diradm is a simple bash script for managing POSIX users and groups stored in a LDAP directory, offering the same features as the traditional passwd file utilities useradd/usermod/userdel and groupadd/groupmod/groupdel. It uses the ldapsearch, ldapadd, ldapmodify, and ldapdelete utilities from the OpenLDAP project to perform the needed queries against the LDAP database. Dodge Viper 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129225/ Dodge Viper is a theme featuring the author's favorite car. dxr3Player 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129204/ dxr3Player is a lightweight command line DVD player for Linux and the DXR3 (aka Hollywood+) MPEG-2 decoder boards. It supports all major DVD features, including menus, navigation, fast forward and backward playback, subtitles, and camera angle changes. The player is very conservative on memory usage and tries very hard (and mostly succeeds) to keep video and audio in sync. Enemies of Carlotta 1.0.2 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129245/ Enemies of Carlotta is a simple mailing list manager. It tries to mimic the ezmlm software somewhat, but is written completely from scratch in Python. It has a less restrictive license than ezmlm and qmail, and is smaller and simpler than GNU Mailman. Enigmail 0.76.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129298/ Enigmail is a "plugin" for the mail client of Mozilla and Netscape 7.x which allows users to access the authentication and encryption features provided by the popular GnuPG software. Enigmail can encrypt/sign mail when sending, and can decrypt/authenticate received mail. It can also import/export public keys. Enigmail supports both the inline PGP format and the PGP/MIME format, which can be used to encrypt attachments. Enigmail is cross-platform, although binaries are supplied only for a limited number of platforms. Enigmail uses inter-process communication to execute GPG to carry out encryption/authentication. Eros BBS Engine 2003-07-13-1044-jam (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129154/ Eros is a modular, object-oriented BBS engine intended to be used as a library that builds upon proven open source software technology and W3 standards to implement and manage templates, permissions, membership, database access, etc. It is currently in heavy development, and new snapshots are released often. evkeyd 0.1pre6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129200/ Evkeyd listens for media key input events and then takes the correct action by modifying screen brightness, changing the volume, muting the volume, or ejecting the CD-ROM. While designed to be used on Apple notebooks, it uses the Linux input event layer and works with most USB keyboards with extra keys, including Apple Pro Keyboards. Exchanger XML Editor Beta 2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129260/ The Exchanger XML Editor is a Java-based XML editor that offers a broad spectrum of functionality to help XML authors, business analysts, and software developers. It features schema-based editing, tag prompting, validation against a DTD, XML schema, RelaxNG, tree view and outliner for tag free editing, XPath and regular expression searches, schema conversion, XSLT and XSLFO transformations, comprehensive project management, an SVG viewer and conversion, easy SOAP invocations, and more. Feedbackd 0.3.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129289/ Feedbackd is a client/server system that provides dynamic feedback of server load in a Linux Virtual Server (LVS)-based cluster. Monitor plugins are used to measure the health of each server, allowing a flexible way to report load back to the load balancer. It also facilitates the addition and removal of servers from the cluster. g-cara-tk 0.7.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129235/ g-cara-tk is an easy-to-use caramail client written in C with GTK+. Gambas 0.62 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129274/ Gambas is a graphical development environment based on a Basic interpreter, like Visual Basic. It uses the Qt toolkit, but is able to use any other toolkit that a module is written for. GNU Automake 1.7.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129222/ Automake is a tool for automatically generating Makefiles compliant with the GNU Coding Standards. It was inspired by the 4.4BSD make and include files, but aims to be portable and to conform to the GNU standards for Makefile variables and targets. Automake is a Perl script. The input files are called Makefile.am. The output files are called Makefile.in; They are intended for use with Autoconf. Automake requires certain things to be done in your configure.in. This package also includes the "aclocal" program. aclocal is a program to generate an 'aclocal.m4' based on the contents of 'configure.in'. It is useful as an extensible, maintainable mechanism for augmenting autoconf. GNU Solfege 1.9.11 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129266/ Solfege is an ear training program for GNOME 2, but can also run with only the GTK+ libs. It even runs in Windows. gtranscode 0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129271/ gtranscode is a GUI frontend for transcode, a powerful processing tool which can read most video and audio formats and convert between them. hotconnect 0.1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129290/ hotconnect is a client/daemon to authenticate with the gateway to the Hotwire Internet service provided by Primus Telecommunications India Limited and its cable partners. HTTP-WebTest 2.03 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129299/ HTTP-WebTest is a Perl module which runs tests on remote URLs or local Web files containing Perl/JSP/HTML/JavaScript/etc., and generates a detailed test report. This module can be used "as-is" or its functionality can be extended using plugins. Plugins can define test types and provide additional report capabilities. This module comes with a set of default plugins, but can be easily extended with third-party plugins. iCAR 0.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129227/ iCAR is the [iC]hat [A]uto-[R]eply. It adds an extremely simple "away message" feature to iChat, something that's been lacking in an otherwise excellent chat client. iCOM 0.2 (alpha) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129226/ iCOM is a component architecture based on the idea of blending COM with the advanced features of CORBA. It has modern standards-based language mappings, and runs on multiple platforms. Infotrope ACAP Server 0.0.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129310/ The Infotrope ACAP Server is an implementation of RFC2244, complete with asynchronous notification of changes, stored search results, ACLs, and data inheritance, etc. It supports TLS and SASL encryption as well as almost the entire base standard, plus a few optional extensions. ACAP allows applications to store configuration data in a way that's standards based, fully interoperable, and easily managed by users, administrators, and technical support teams alike. Infotrope's key features include the ability to randomly crash the server without data loss, and backing up of data (even while it's being written) without losing integrity. IRC Services 5.0.21 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129216/ Services for IRC Networks (or just Services for short) provides for definitive nickname and channel ownership, automatic channel mode setting, memo (short message) storage and retrieval, and greater IRC operator control over the network. isalogan 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129207/ isalogan analyzes logs generated by the Microsoft ISA Web Proxy service and generates five types of HTML reports. It is launched from the command line and takes the name of the log files as an argument. J-Lan Communicator 1.0 build 20030713 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129212/ J-Lan Communicator is a small application that facilitates communication between different hosts on the same local area network. It does not require a central server and uses very little bandwidth by taking advantage of a lightweight protocol and UDP packets. Jameleon 1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129254/ 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. JFreeChart 0.9.9 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129220/ JFreeChart is a chart library for Java that supports a wide range of charts including pie charts (2D and 3D), bar charts (horizontal and vertical, regular or stacked line charts with optional 3D-effects, XY plots, scatter plots, time series charts, high/low/open/close charts, candlestick plots, Gantt charts, Pareto charts, combination charts, and more. It is suitable for use in applications, applets, servlets, and JSP. JGraph 2.2 (For Java 1.4) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129261/ JGraph is a robust and complete graph component that is better than many of its commercial competitors. With the JGraph zoomable component, you can display objects and relations (networks) in any Swing UI. It can also be used on the server-side to read an GXL graph, apply a custom layout algorithm, and return the result as an SVG image. JGraph 2.2 (For Java 1.3) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129211/ JGraph is a robust and complete graph component that is better than many of its commercial competitors. With the JGraph zoomable component, you can display objects and relations (networks) in any Swing UI. It can also be used on the server-side to read an GXL graph, apply a custom layout algorithm, and return the result as an SVG image. Just4Log R0_2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129306/ Just4Log is a library to dynamically enhance the performance of Apache commons logging inside a Java application (dynamically because the sourcecode in Java is not modified but rather the optimization occurs on the compiled bytecode files). It offers various ways to optimize your bytecode. An Ant task offers integration in Ant scripts. Kernel Mode Linux 2.6.0-test1_001 (For Linux 2.6) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129262/ Kernel Mode Linux is a technology which enables the execution of user programs in a kernel mode. In Kernel Mode Linux, user programs can access kernel address space directly. Unlike kernel modules, user programs are executed as ordinary processes (except for their privilege level), so scheduling and paging are performed as usual. Although it seems dangerous, the safety of the kernel can be ensured through such methods as static type checking, software fault isolation, and so forth. KSendFax 3.0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129237/ KSendFax is an interface to fax packages like HylaFax, E-Fax, and mgetty+sendfax for sending facsimiles. It incorporates a built-in phonebook, but can also use the standard KDE addressbook. It features scanning of new faxes, editing/creating textual faxes directly, previewing the fax to send, user defined fax coverpages, and a filter system that lets you use more or less any file format for the documents you want fax. Everything is configurable through a convenient configuration dialog. It is, however, not intended to configure your whole fax suite, but only to provide a GUI interface for an already configured fax server package. KXParse 2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129252/ KXParse is a PHP-based, lightweight, easy-to-use XML parser. It does not require installation because it's just an include file that's loaded on the fly. It features an API that simplifies the process of reading files. libConfuse 2.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129295/ libConfuse is a configuration file parser library written in C. It's goal is to be easy to use and quick to integrate into existing code. It supports sections and (lists of) values (strings, integers, floats, booleans, or other sections), as well as some other features (such as single/double-quoted strings, environment variable expansion, functions, and nested include statements). It makes it very easy to add configuration file capability to a program using a simple API. LILO 22.5.7-beta3 (Beta) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129193/ LILO is a Boot loader for Linux/x86 and other PC operating systems. It is responsible for loading your Linux kernel from either a floppy or a hard drive and passing control to it. It is capable of booting beyond cylinder 1024 of a hard disk if the BIOS supports EDD packet call extensions to the int 0x13 interface. LILO can also be used to boot many other operating systems, including DOS, Windows (all versions), OS/2, and the BSD variants. The LILO distribution includes full source, documentation and support files. Linux 2.6.0-test1 (2.5) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129206/ Linux is a clone of the Unix kernel, written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance. It has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix kernel, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory management, and TCP/IP networking. Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator 5.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129191/ 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. LoadBar 1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129218/ LoadBar is a simple CPU load graph, shown as a thin line on the left side of the desktop. Lorentz 0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129223/ Lorentz is a curve fitting program aimed for the fitting of spectroscopic data. The fitting function is specified as a user-extendable list of symbols representing various peak shapes, backgrounds, etc. Loudmouth 0.11 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129215/ Loudmouth is a lightweight Jabber client library written in C/Glib. MailDooHicky 1.9.52 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129313/ mdh (MailDooHicky) is a GTK2-based toolbar that can display the time, email message count, and various system (CPU, network, etc.) utilization. It also features five user definable buttons, a run window, and scratch pad. minido 0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129244/ minido is a simple, generic, multi-user, database-free todo list manager and tracking system written in GTK2. Its interface is generated from a simple data description file in XML. Minimalist 2.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129276/ Minimalist is a mailing lists manager, written in Perl. It is small, fast, and easy to setup and maintain. Support is included for optional authentication subscribe/unsubscribe requests, global or per list administrators, message archiving, activity logging, lists permissions, and a subscribers thresold per list. Minimalist can be configured on per-list basis as well as globally. Modular Access Control System 0.7-alpha http://freshmeat.net/releases/129221/ Modular Access Control System (MACS) is a system for global authentication, authorization, user/group/resource management, and application services. mod_security 1.5.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129293/ Mod_security is an intrusion detection and prevention module for the Apache Web server. Its purpose is to protect vulnerable applications by detecting and (optionally) rejecting attacks. In addition to request filtering, it also can create Web application audit logs. Requests are filtered using regular expressions. Mod_security can analyse POST payloads, unlike other similar projects. mousikos 0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129240/ mousikos is a portable audio/music player manager for GNOME. It will support on-the-fly bit-rate peeling (Ogg to Ogg), re-encoding of MP3s and Oggs, and is based on playlists. It is designed to be able to support various types of portable music players. Music daemon 0.0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129201/ Music daemon is a music playing server that supports multiple formats through plugins and multiple playlists. It has a simple protocol for control and communication for frontends. My Signup Sheet 2.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129272/ My Signup Sheet is a simple Web-based application that allows visitors to sign up for events. It is intended to be used for teachers and organizations wishing to allow users to sign up for events with limited seats avaible. The admin may specify the events, number of seats available, and information required from each user. mysqltcl 2.30 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129283/ mysqltcl is the Tcl interface to mysql realtional database. It is the next version of mysqltcl1.53 (new contributor) with many new futures: Tcl8.0-Object support, Unicode support, configure support, no connection limitation, nested queries, handling of binary files (containing null values), and many extra commands: seek on result block, escaping of string, last inserted id, introspection of connection and query state, and query metadata (schema). nmproxy 1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129228/ nmproxy is a transparent H.323 proxy. It is intended to be used for the forwarding of NetMeeting sessions on a router or firewall system. OpenGUI 4.2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129168/ OpenGUI (formerly FastGL) is a high-level multi-platform, thread-safe C/C++ graphics and windowing library built upon a fast, low-level x86 ASM graphics kernel. It provides 2D drawing primitives and an event- driven windowing API for easy application development, and it supports the BMP, JPG, TGA, PNG, and PCX image file formats and TTF fonts. You can write apps in the old Borland BGI style or in a windowed style like QT. OpenGUI supports the keyboard and mouse as event sources, the Linux framebuffer, SVGAlib, and XFree86/DGA2 (HW accelerated) as drawing backends, Mesa3D under Linux, and 8, 15, 16, and 32-bpp color modes. osCommerce 2.2-MS2 (Milestones) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129219/ osCommerce is an open source e-commerce solution under on going development by the open source community. Its feature packed out-of-the- box installation allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort and with no costs involved. osCommerce combines open source solutions to provide a free and open development platform, which includes the powerful PHP web scripting language, the stable Apache web server, and the fast MySQL database server. photos 4.0b2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129214/ 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. PHP [EMAIL PROTECTED] web monitor 0.1.0b5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129247/ The PHP [EMAIL PROTECTED] web monitor is a very simple PHP script to monitor a single [EMAIL PROTECTED] program running on a workstation or server via the local Web server. It displays general information of the user, the current work unit and the processing statistics. It also displays a skymap to show the source of the current data. pixelcons 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128998/ pixelcons is a set of 64x64 pixel icons. They're meant for (small) window managers, not for desktop environments. procps 3.1.11 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129249/ procps is a package of utilities which includes ps, vmstat, top, w, skill, snice, pgrep, pkill, free, sysctl, pmap, uptime, and kill. These utilities report what is running, who is logged in, how long the system has been running, and what is using up memory. They can be used to kill processes and change run-time kernel configuration values. psycopg 1.1.6 (StablePlus) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129209/ psycopg is a PostgreSQL database adapter for the Python programming language. Its main advantages are that it supports the full Python DBAPI 2.0 and it is thread safe at level 2. It was designed for heavily multi-threaded applications that create and destroy lots of cursors and make a conspicuous number of concurrent INSERTs or UPDATEs. The psycopg distribution includes ZPsycopgDA, a Zope Database Adapter. pwdutils 2.3.90 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129217/ pwdutils is a collection of utilities to manage the passwd and shadow user information. The difference to the shadow suite is that these utilities can also modify the information stored in NIS, NIS+, or LDAP. PAM is used for user authentication and changing the pasword. It contains passwd, chage, chfn, chsh, and a daemon for changing the password on a remote machine over a secure SSL connection. The daemon also uses PAM so that it can change passwords independent of where they are stored. pydance 0.7.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129288/ pydance is a dancing game written in Python, formerly named pyDDR. The idea is simple. There's a floor mat with arrows, and the game scrolls arrows up the screen to the beat while playing a song. When the arrows reach the top of the screen (not sooner and not later), the player hits the corresponding arrow on the pad, and given that it's hit on time with the beat, points are scored. Based on how well the dance is put together, s/he is graded at the end of the song. Both keyboard and mat play are supported. Python RPM utilities 0.7.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129280/ The Python RPM utilities allow you to merge multiple directories containing various versions of RPMs in to one directory that has symlinks to the most up to date version of each package, install packages based on name and have all of the dependencies installed automatically, or update all of the RPMs on a system. Qryptix 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129233/ Qryptix consists of a PAM object and utilities for session- and key-management for encrypted home directories using the International Kernel (CryptoAPI) patches for Linux. It simplifies login/logout, mounting/unmounting, and key generation and changing. QtRadio 0.8.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129300/ QtRadio (formerly KDERadio) lets you listen to the radio, add stations, etc. Ragel State Machine Compiler 1.5.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129255/ Ragel compiles finite state machines from regular languages into runnable C code. It allows you to embed actions at any point in your regular language and to control the non-determinism in the resulting machines. It understands concatenation, union (the "or" operator), kleene star, subtraction, and intersection, as well as some helpers like "!", "?" and "+". Ragel's finite state machines are closed under all of its operators. This property allows for arbitrary regular lanuages to be described. It can be used to create a parser for any language that is regular. Redundancy Information Protection System 0.11 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129259/ RIPS can protect data in a manner where minor corruptions can be balanced out by adding some redundancy to it. Ringtone Tools 2.13 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129232/ Ringtone Tools is a set of tools for creating ringtones and logos on mobile phones. rpCalc 0.4.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129231/ rpCalc is a simple RPN (Reverse Polish Notation) calculator for X. It works much like an HP calculator, and all of the commands can be entered using the keyboard or a mouse. rpCalc is based on the PyQt library. Samizdat 0.0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129224/ Samizdat is a generic RDF-based engine for building collaboration and open publishing Web sites. It will let everyone publish, view, comment, edit, and aggregate text and multimedia resources, vote on ratings and classifications, filter resources by flexible sets of criteria, and cooperate and coordinate on all kinds of activities. It intends to promote values of freedom, openness, equality, and cooperation. SandWeb 1.0RC3 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129018/ SandWeb is a Web-based Sandbox Management Client. Since we currently only support CVS, it could also be described as a Web-based CVS client. It can be used to check out modules from a VCS such as CVS, manage files, edit, commit, and much more. Sauron 0.7.0 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129256/ Sauron is a free DNS/DHCP management system with Web and command line interfaces. It is able to manage multiple DNS/DHCP servers. Complete dhcpd and named configurations are generated from a central SQL database. Scribus 1.0 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129302/ Scribus is a DTP program for Linux. Its goal is to provide an easy-to-use tool for simple Desktop Publishing. It tries be as professional as possible. SendYmail 0.5.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129309/ SendYmail allows you to send email through Yahoo! Mail, using your favorite mail client. It works as a gateway between the Yahoo! Mail Web interface and your email program, and can be used in conjunction with FetchYahoo or YoSucker to emulate a POP3/SMTP-like interface. Sesame 0.9.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128948/ Sesame is an Open Source RDF Schema-based repository and querying facility. It is a scalable, modular architecture for persistent storage and querying of RDF and RDF Schema. It supports two query languages (RQL and RDQL), and can use main memory or PostgreSQL, MySQL and Oracle 9i databases for storage. Simple Power SQLite class 0.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129305/ SPSQLite class is a class in PHP for easy SQLite operation. With it you can create databases, connect to an SQLite database, send a query, or make simple transactions. Socat 1.3.2.1 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129296/ Socat is a relay for bidirectional data transfer between two independent data channels. Each of these data channels may be a file, pipe, device (terminal or modem, etc.), socket (Unix, IP4, IP6 - raw, UDP, TCP), a client for SOCKS4, proxy CONNECT, or SSL, etc. It provides forking, logging, and dumping, different modes for interprocess communication, and many more options. It can be used, for example, as a TCP relay (one-shot or daemon), as a daemon-based socksifier, as a shell interface to Unix sockets, as an IP6 relay, for redirecting TCP-oriented programs to a serial line, or to establish a relatively secure environment (su and chroot) for running client or server shell scripts with network connections. Software Suspend 1.0-pre4 (2.4 Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129196/ swsusp enables you to suspend your machine without having to use APM or BIOS support. It creates an image which is saved in your active swaps. At the next system bootup, the kernel detects the saved image, restores the memory from it and then it continues to run as before you've suspended. Storix System Backup Administrator 4.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129270/ Storix Backup Administrator (SBA) provides both an intuitive graphical user interface and command line options for performing backups of a standalone system, or managing backups of all Linux and AIX systems on a network. In addition to backing up data onto a network server, tape, or disk device, it can reinstall a complete system from scratch, clone or migrate systems, manage volumes and RAID devices, and restore data in any configuration you choose. It features easily accessible documentation. streamtuner 0.10.0 (World Cup) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129192/ streamtuner is a stream directory browser. Through the use of a plugin system, it offers an intuitive GTK+ 2.0 interface to Internet radio directories such as SHOUTcast and Live365. SuperVESA FrameBuffer Driver 0.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129265/ SuperVESAfb is a framebuffer driver for VESA 2.0-compliant graphic cards. It allows you to change the resolution and color depth on-the-fly. System Configurator 2.0.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129307/ System Configurator is a configuration API for Linux. It will setup hardware, networking, and bootstrapping in a unified way. It is primarily designed to be the configuration engine for System Installation Suite, though is modular enough to be used in other environments. tadpole 0.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129284/ Tadpole is a small GUI for editing/executing SQL queries against the SQLite database. It was named after Toad, a similar but far superior tool for Oracle. The Tamber Project 1.2.11 (Pogo) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129267/ The Tamber project is a free, componentised n-tier website engine that uses open languages such as XML and JavaScript. In a nutshell, content is stored in separate XML files, in databases, or other data objects; business functions are carried out by JavaScript and ASP; and presentation is controlled by an XSL transformation, which allows for delivery over multiple channels such as HTML, WAP and email. Currently Tamber contains modules that support; automatic locale detection, search engine tracking and optimisation, e-commerce catalogues; shopping carts and order management, secure sign in, data access and conversion services, advanced session management, content managemt tools and forums. TimCam 1.00 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129268/ TimCam is a simple graphical Webcam program. Its main objective is to capture pictures at intervals and intelligently upload them to a specified FTP site. tinyproxy 1.6.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129281/ tinyproxy is a lightweight HTTP proxy designed to do the job with a minimum of system resource use. It's ideal for small networks in which a larger HTTP proxy such as Squid might be overkill or a security risk. This simplicity also makes tinyproxy an ideal candidate for customization; it takes very little time to read and understand the tinyproxy source, and you can start adding your own desired features in short order. top 3.5beta12.6 (Delta) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129257/ Top is a CPU usage display program. It provides a rolling display of the processes with the highest CPU usage on a Unix system, and also displays other information about the overall health of the system, including load averages and memory utilization. Turbo Vision 2.0.2 RC1 (Beta) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129294/ Turbo Vision is a C++ library that provides a very nice user interface for console applications. This UNIX port is based on Borland's version 2.0 with fixes. It was made to create RHIDE, a nice IDE for gcc and other GNU compilers. The library supports /dev/vcsa devices for fast access to local consoles, and it uses ncurses to run from telnet and xterm. This port, in contrast to the Sigala's port, doesn't have "100% compatibility with the original library" as goal. Instead, many modifications were made for the sake of security (especially buffer overflows). This port is also available for the original platform (DOS). uClinux 2.5.75-uc0 (2.5.x) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129203/ uClinux is a set of patches for Linux that supports MMUless processors. It brings a full featured operating system onto platforms that would otherwise run less advanced, simpler operating systems. uClinux gives the programmer a Linux API with remarkably few concessions to the lack of MMU (Memory Management Unit), and in terms of code size and efficiency it has an advantage over standard Linux. UPMS 4.1.1-2003 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129285/ UPMS (Universal Package Managment System) is based on the BSD ports system, and can be used on any FSH 2.0 Linux-compatible distribution. UPMS has two level of dependencies checking: required and suggested. It also has an option to optimize everything that you build and install with it for your architecture. wh-switchscripts 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129236/ wh-switchscripts is a set of Perl scripts to manage the security features of 3com Superstack 3300 switches with SNMP. Its features allow one to enable/disable switchports, show switch configuration, show switchport state and stored MACs, set switchports to MAC autolearning, set the maximum number of MACs on each port, and to reset and delete the MACs on a port. WikiChump 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129287/ WikiChump listens in an IRC channel like a traditional chump bot, but rather than creating separate HTML and RSS pages, it adds the information to a wiki in realtime. WMNUT 0.58 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129258/ WMNUT is a dockapp program to monitor UPS statistics through the NUT (Network UPS Tools) framework on Linux and other systems. XDrawChem 1.7.3 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129278/ XDrawChem is a program for drawing chemical structures. Features include fixed length and fixed angle drawing, a ring tool to automatically draw rings, automatic alignment of structures in reactions, and structure diagram generation. It can access structures in the NCI database by name, CAS number, or formula. It can predict 1H NMR, 13C NMR, simple IR spectra, and estimated pKa. XDrawChem can work with its native file format, ChemDraw files, and any format supported by OpenBabel (MDL Molfile, CML, etc.). Xephyrus File Upload Tag Library 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129199/ The File Upload Tag Library provides an easy way to process files uploaded from a Web form from within JSP pages. It is a tag library wrapper around the Jakarta Commons FileUpload utility. Xeuphoric 0.15.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129243/ 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. XORM Beta 5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129314/ XORM is an extensible object-relational mapping layer for Java applications. It provides interface-based persistence to RDBMSs using the Java Data Objects (JDO) API while allowing developers to focus on the object model, not the physical layer. Xrefactory 1.6.2 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129291/ Xrefactory is a refactoring browser for Emacs, XEmacs, and jEdit which provides multiple project support, a source browser, intellisense code completion, refactorings for safe symbol renaming, parameter manipulations, function/method extraction, field encapsulation, and the ability to move fields, methods, classes, etc. It is based on full pre-processing, parsing, and static analysis of sources. It works for the C and Java languages, and contains a stand-alone cross referencer, and a generator for HTML documentation. Yet Another Autoresponder 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129238/ Yet Another Autoresponder (yaa) is a mail auto-responder with data retrieval plugin support. Curently available plugins include an SQL pluging which works with all databases supported by Perl DBI. It works with the Postfix virtual delivery daemon, and autoresponder messages can be in any charset. It doesn't respond to mailing list posts and posts that could cause autoresponder deadlock. Newsforge Reports OGo: No go so far http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/14/1513220 - by Russell Pavlicek - The OpenGroupware.org (OGo) project last week announced the release of its software under GPL and LGPL licenses. This new project claims to be the software that can replace Microsoft Exchange servers with a totally Open Source solution. As I looked at the press release, I saw quotes like "The release of OGo means the OpenOffice.org suite is ready for the enterprise complete with full-featured and mature groupware ... Open Asia: GNU/Linux gaining visibility across the continent http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/10/2133217 - by Frederick Noronha - Occupying some 30% of the Earth's land, with a population of 3.7 thousand million, Asia includes 47 countries and assorted island dependencies. This is a region where resources are scarce and infrastructure weak, yet GNU/Linux is achieving some interesting gains in Asia that are not widely being reported. The Caribbean learns about Free and Open Software - Part Two (of Two) http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/10/2356241 - By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - This article is long overdue because I've been both overworked and sick since I wrote Part One. But here it is at last: A discussion of why Free/Open Source Software is the most appropriate IT technology base for developing countries. Newsforge Newsvac LIC shifts to Linux system http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/14/212235 THE Life Insurance Corporation has shifted to a Linux operating system on the heels of pinpricks experienced with a Unix system, according to LIC officials. PCI for the masses http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/14/2036200 With the availability of the Iyonix, PCI is usable on RISC OS systems. It's therefore worth discussing the implications of this, and what it enables us to do. Kernel 2.6.0-test1 released! http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/14/2031214 Derek Kraan writes "The test kernel for the 2.6 series is here! Click to download." Call to end Linux legal wars http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/14/1753241 Computer Associates chairman and chief executive Sanjay Kumar has called for an end to the Linux legal wars that are being pressed by The SCO Group. Sybase Strengthens Linux Ties http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/14/1659247 Integration stalwart Sybase deepened its ties to the open source Linux operating system Monday, opening the doors to a new Linux Competency Center in New York City and expanding its alliance with Red Hat. php|architect publishes July issues, announces print edition http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/14/1652228 Marco Tabini writes "php|architect, the magazine dedicated exclusively to the world of PHP, has announced the availability of ther July issue, which includes all new articles on topics ranging from socket programming to writing code for PHP5, in addition to a comprehensive interview with MySQL's Zak Greant on the licensing changes recently introduced by the database software developer and their effect on the PHP Community. In addition, the ... Here's how Linux gets to the desktop http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/14/1647201 Dan Farber: As the operating system improves and gets a broader base of applications, expect to see it on an increasing number of desktops. Xaraya .9.0.5 Released http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/14/1645250 John Cox writes "Xaraya is an Open Source extensible content management system. The system allows on-the-fly extensions to the content and user areas which allow greater control and versatility. Coupled with a XML style template engine with complete templating of output gives Xaraya unmatched versatility. Computer know-how reaches new level in Afghanistan http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/14/1350210 Atia Jeewa writes "The first class of 11 Afghan civil servants trained in Linux operating systems returned to work this week after completing a 10-day certification course supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)." Interview with Chris McKillop of QNX Software Syst http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/14/1344246 Anonymous Reader writes "OSNews features an interview wtih Chris McKillop, software engineer of QNX Software Systems. Chris, the most outspoken and 'visible' QNX employee in the QNX community, is discussing about performance differences between RT and monolithic kernels, the difficulties of pitching a new OS to the world, the Linux and Microsoft threat to QNX in the embedded space, QNX's Momentics desktop operating system and more." Thinkgeek Cube Goodies: Desktop Retro Wind-ups http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/6028/ Cube Goodies: The Red Swingline Stapler http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/61b7/ Cube Goodies: Futurama Tin Signs http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/60e2/ Gadgets: FM Radio Pen http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/60bf/ Gadgets: USB Memory Pen http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/60a3/ Interests: Broken Miho Poster http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/megatokyo/coolthings/6188/ Interests: Ph34r t3h Cute Ones Poster http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/megatokyo/coolthings/6193/ Caffeine: Chargers Caffeinated Espresso Beans http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/candy/5f75/ Caffeine: Shock Triple Mocha http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/drinks/6122/ Caffeine: Brute Force Energy Drink http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/drinks/6184/ Computing: ICE-Cube Barebones Mini-PC http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/handhelds/5fd7/ PC Mods: ThermalTake SubZero CPU Coolers http://www.thinkgeek.com/pcmods/cooling/603e/ Computing: Archos AV120 w/ DVR Attachment http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/handhelds/5fe2/ Cube Goodies: geek. bumper sticker http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/stickers/5f96/ Interests: Megatokyo Bumper Sticker 3-pack http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/megatokyo/coolthings/5fc2/ Cube Goodies: There's no place like 127.0.0.1 bumper sticker http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/stickers/5fa6/ Cube Goodies: hacker. bumper sticker http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/stickers/5f9e/ Cube Goodies: Killer coding ninja monkeys Bumper Sticker http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/stickers/5faa/ Cube Goodies: I Brake For LAN Parties Bumper Sticker http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/stickers/5fbe/ Gadgets: USB Memory Watch http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/5eec/ Sourceforge Free Pascal Compiler 1.0.10 released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=292116 Version 1.0.10 of FPC has been released and uploaded to SourceForge. This will be the last 1.0.x version; we will now concentrate on the 1.1 branch, which will end in 1.2 or 2.0. The Free Pascal Compiler is a 32-bit Pascal Compiler for AmigaOS, DOS, Linux, *BSD, OS/2 and Win32; semantically compatible with Borland Pascal 7 with additional features such as operator overloading. The compiler itself is written in Pascal. giFT 0.11.1 released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=292637 After approximately two years of internal development, giFT has finally been released to the public! This release features OpenFT and Gnutella plugins as part of the standard distribution distribution. Be sure to read the QUICKSTART file available in the tarball for information on how to begin using giFT. giFT is a project designed to completely abstract low-level filesharing protocol communication while allowing seamless support for multiple networks. Currently available plugins include: OpenFT, Gnutella, and FastTrack (third party). ...and you thought it'd never happen? Ha! Tiki 1.7 -Eta Carinae- RC1 released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=292645 Tiki 1.7 includes a lot of new features, including multi-server capability, workflow engine (galaxia), WYSIWYG editor, WML&PDA extensions (HawHaw), an events and groups calendar, many new plugins, several feature enhancements, and more. 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) Leo 3.12 beta 2 released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=292666 Leo is: 1) a programmers, outlining editor and a flexible browser, 2) a literate programming tool, 3) a data organizer and project manager. 4) fully scriptable using Python, 5) Portable. Leo.py will run on any platform with Python and Tk/tcl. This version fixes many bugs and adds a few new features. There are no known serious bugs in this version of Leo. N.B. See the documentation 3.12 beta 1 for many more changes added since 3.11 final. leo.py 3.12 beta 2 is now available at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/leo/ The hightlights of 3.12 beta 2: * Window sizes are now in pixels rather than grid units. As a result, existing outlines (.leo files) will need to be resized when opening them for the first time. Don't panic! * Improvements: - Added spell-checking plugin. - Undo now restores the insert point or the selection range after most commands. - Added apply button to Font panel. - Improved the reporting of characters that do not exist in the present encoding. * Fixed a major bug involving undo. * Fixed more than a dozen minor bugs, some several months old. Highlights of 3.12 beta 1: * Plugged a huge memory leak. * Added Icon & Status areas to Leo window for use by plugins. * Added new plugins: - add_directives.py allows plugins to define new directives. - color_markup.py supports wiki-styled markup. - nav_buttons.py creates browser-style navigation plugins in the icon area. - plugins_menu.py creates a Plugins menu items for all loaded plugins. - scripts_menu.py creates a Scripts menu for all scripts in scripts folder. - trace_gc traces all changes to memory at idle time. * Other enhancements: - Redesigned the Find panel. Non-functional options are dimmed. - Added @wrap and @nowrap directives. - Added Write Dirty @file Nodes command. - Added several new "stub hooks". - Hyperlinks are now enabled by default. - Leo now loads plugins in alphabetical order. - Leo now remembers the size and location of Leo windows. - Fixed numerous minor bugs. Quote of the month: ------------------- "Thanks for such a great mind-opening program!" -- Eduardo Dominguez What is Leo? ------------ - A programmer's editor, an outlining editor and a flexible browser. - A literate programming tool, compatible with noweb and CWEB. - A data organizer and project manager. Leo provides multiple views of projects within a single outline. - Fully scriptable using Python. Leo saves its files in XML format. - Portable. leo.py is 100% pure Python. - Open Software, distributed under the Python License. leo.py requires Python 2.1 or above and tcl/tk 8.3 or above. leo.py works on Linux, Windows and MacOs X Jaguar. Links: ------ Leo: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html Home: http://sourceforge.net/projects/leo/ Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3458 CVS: http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=3458 Wiki: http://leo.hd1.org/ Edward K. Ream osCommerce 2.2 Milestone 2 http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=292698 We proudly present the immediate availability of the second milestone release of osCommerce 2.2, which is on demonstration at the LinuxTag 2003 event in Karlsruhe, Germany. The Milestone 2 release contains numerous updates to strengthen the security on both client and server side of operations. osCommerce, formerly titled The Exchange Project, is a feature packed out-of-the-box online shop ecommerce solution for both PHP3 and PHP4 web servers. Maintenance is made easy with a friendly GUI thats given to the Administration Tool. The "Security and Privacy Proposal" was realized to strengthen security on the client side, whos main purpose is to protect the clients session ID. This includes a 'force cookie usage' feature which prevents the session ID from appearing on the url, a feature to prevent search engine spiders from generating session IDs which were stored as part of their index, and client IP address, browser (user agent), and secure session ID (for SSL servers) verification. The "Strip and Parse Proposal" and security audit updates were realized to strengthen the security on the server side, which includes parsing all user input for storage and display purposes, and having removed most PHP notice messages when error reporting has been set to 'E_ALL'. Numerous layout changes have also been made throughout the Catalog to improve the user interface and experience for the customer, and the Installation and Update module has been updated with a new theme layout for a more simplified procedure for store administrators. Shared SSL servers are now properly supported, with the possibility to fine tune session and cookie related parameters for both normal HTTP server and secure HTTPS servers. We'd like to thank the community for the continuing support, with each Milestone release more exciting than the last release, we look forward to bringing you the remaining Milestone releases that will lead to a finalized and rock solid 2.2 release. A complete feature guide for osCommerce 2.2 will be presented when osCommerce 2.2 is finalized and released to the public. 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