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Slashdot
Cheap PPC Linux Machines From IBM
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/20/0152245
ksheff writes "According to this story, IBM is planning on introducing
low-end [0]SMP servers and deskside machines based on the PPC970. The
machines would be able to run Linux and AIX. A 4-way machine is
expected to cost less than $3500! IBM expects a 20x increase in the
number of PPC Linux servers by 2006."
Links
0. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1197450,00.asp
How To Make Dual Booting A (Bigger) Pain
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/20/0148207
[0]the_phenom writes "Thinking of dual-booting your Windoze XP 17"
Toshiba P25 laptop? Think again - this one '[1]uses a DVD with an
already setup version of Windows XP Home and then transfers it to the
notebook's hard drive,' preventing the normal setup procedure and thus,
dual-booting." This reminds me of the unfriendly practice on some PC
builders' parts of including an OS "backup" only on a hard-drive
partition.
Links
0. http://<moc.oohay> <ta> <dren_evad>
1. http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=10552
A Detailed Review Of A 3G Phone And Network
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/20/0035236
An anonymous reader writes "The [0]NEC e606 and 3's recently launched
3G network has been reviewed at [1]Mobileburn. They seem to be happy
with the network, but the phone is buggy and unfinished. One cool thing
is that you can download sample videos to see what 3G is really like."
Links
0. http://mobile.burn.com/review.jsp?Id=353
1. http://mobile.burn.com/
Overture To A Patent War?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/20/0018245
Shackleford writes "CNET has an article discussing [0]Yahoo's proposed
$1.63 billion buyout of commercial search specialist Overture Services
on Monday. Yahoo would acquire 60-plus patents related to technology
and processes for indexing the Web, as well as for pay-per-click and
bidding systems to grant sites higher placement in search results. The
search market is expected to be reap $4 billion in revenue by 2005,
according to researchers. As the industry matures, the competition for
a piece of that large pie could lead companies to bulk up their IP
legal teams, much like in other industries such as online advertising
sales during the dot-com bust. And Overture sued FindWhat.com in
February 2002 after FindWhat filed a summary judgment request in a New
York federal court in an attempt to fend off any potential infringement
charge from Overture. Two months later Overture filed a second lawsuit,
charging Google with patent infringement in its pay-for-performance ad
system. So is this the way the search engine competition will be won?
Through patents and lawsuits?"
Links
0. http://news.com.com/2100-1024_3-1027084.html?tag=fd_lede1_hed
California Microsoft Settlement
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/19/2311231
[0]Lord Prox writes "From news.com.com: A California judge on Friday
gave preliminary approval to a landmark settlement under which
[1]Microsoft will pay $1.1 billion to settle a class-action suit that
claimed it overcharged consumers for Windows. More Townsend and
Townsend and Crew is [2]info from the law firm here. Also note... you
get vouchers in settlement good for buying computer related items, not
just Microsoft products and/or can be traded and converted to cash!"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-1027598.html?tag=fd_top
2. http://www.townsend.com/media/microsoft.html
Sony Switches To Its Own Processor For Handhelds
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/19/216235
Pointing to this [0]Associated Press story carried by the Miami Herald,
[1]Jorkapp writes "Sony has announced that they will be using
Processors manufactured by themselves in their next generation of CLIE
handhelds, which are due to ship this Semptember. This is only the
first step though, as Sony is planning to use its own line of
processors for the next generation of Playstation systems. This new
processor will give users 16 hours of battery life (impressive!) and
the ability to play video at a smooth 30fps." And [2]jake writes with a
link to a story at mobilemag.com which also describes the new handhelds
(the UX50 was [3]mentioned the other day), and says "both the CLIE UX50
and UX40 handhelds will be available through American retailers [4]in
September for about $700 and $600, respectively, but can be pre-ordered
now through Sony's website."
Links
0. http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/6334589.htm
1. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
2. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
3. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/17/182209&tid=100
4. http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/333/C1843/
Prior Art to Pinpoint vs. Amazon, from 1980's?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/19/1841238
[0]Gary Robinson writes "I'm in a fairly unique position with regard to
the [1]Pinpoint vs. Amazon case since I built a system in the
mid-1980's which is commonly regarded as the first active service based
on collaborative filtering. It was a voice-mail-based dating service
called 212-ROMANCE. I still have the 8-inch CP/M source code disks as
insurance against CF-related patent lawsuits. Today I've posted a
[2]discussion of the Pinpoint vs. Amazon case in the context of that
prior art as well other prior art from the 1980's."
Links
0. http://radio.weblogs.com/0101454/
1. http://news.com.com/2100-1019-1027343.html?part=dht&tag=ntop
2.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0101454/stories/2003/07/19/aDiscussionOfThePinpointVs.html
Red Hat To Drop Boxed Retail Distribution
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/19/1756215
An anonymous reader writes "Red Hat, the leading American distributor
of Linux, is abandoning the retail channel, the company is expected to
announce Monday, says [0]this story in Linux and Main. Non-Red Hat
developers will be given a greater role in deciding what's in upcoming
Red Hat distributions, too."
Links
0. http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=364
RMS Calls On Linux Developers To Replace BitKeeper
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/19/1728240
JakusMinimus writes "The developer of BitKeeper has [0]issued fighting
words to RMS and he has responded on the LKML,. I remember the flap
about this way back when Linus decided on BitKeeper, now it seems many
of the non-free concerns were warranted."
Links
0. http://lkml.org/archive/2003/7/18/260/index.html
dSVG - A New Kind of Programming?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/18/2229256
[0]Gord Bowman writes "For anyone familiar with XML and, specifically,
with [1]SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics), you may be aware that SVG is
increasingly being used for the creation of data-driven Web
applications. But everyone has been doing so by handcoding script
and/or [2]XSLT, without the benefit of an IDE to help. Seeing such a
need for a tool, my company (Corel) set about creating one." and 'lo,
dSVG was born. Gord Bowman is the lead developer of dSVG and would like
you to take a look at the dSVG specs (you can find the link, in the
full article) and offer your comments.
Links
0. http://www.corel.com/smartgraphics
1. http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/Overview.htm8
2. http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/
Freshmeat
acarsdclient 1.00
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129742/
acarsdclient is an X client for the acarsd server. It can
simultaneously connect with up to 8 acarsd servers. You'll see live
ACARS data from all over the world, and for every contact you'll see a
thumbnail (if available on the server). You can see the aircrafts on a
map, and you can create your own map if you want.
AIOCP 1.0.017
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129799/
AIOCP (All In One Control Panel) is a professional platform-independent
all-in-one solution to completely manage a Website through a
user-friendly Web interface. It includes by default all needed modules
for Website management and a long list of extra modules, including a
CMS, WYSIWYG editor, languages, users, menus, languages, forums, news,
newsletter, links, downloads, reviews, awards, chat, polls, calendar,
banners, search engine, e-commerce, e-business, statistics, online
help, system tools, shell, backup, MIME, whois, ping, traceroute, MySQL
database management, transcoding, custom modules, code libraries,
images, and sounds. Each module is perfectly integrated into the system
and has adequate management and control tools.
Ajaqs 0.9.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129832/
Ajaqs is a Web app that organizes FAQs on a per-project basis. It is
designed to be deployed under popular Web and application servers. It
aims to serve two purposes: to provide engineering groups a mechanism
for consolidating and preserving in-house knowledge in connection to
product development and usage, and to provide small companies with a
Web interface for exposing searchable, internationalizable information
related to products and services.
Babeldoc 1.1.3-dev
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129825/
Babeldoc is a framework and set of applications to process documents
for business-to-business and other Internet/integration applications.
It is primarily intended for text documents, especially XML, but
supports a wide range of operations and data types. It has a
sophisticated journaling system that supports replaying and
reprocessing. Babeldoc is pipeline based and supports numerous ways to
combine the pipeline stages in a dynamically reconfigurable fashion. It
has a GUI and a Web-based console for document processing and
monitoring, and comes with tools for the tranformation of flatfile data
to XML, archival, and cryptography. Additionally it is able to scan
various data sources based on sophisticated constraints.
borZoi 0.8 (Java)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129858/
borZoi is an elliptic curve cryptography library for developers who
want a simple means of adding privacy protection to their applications.
Ease of use and a minimum risk of security problems due to incorrect
use are its strong points.
bScribbles 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129843/
B-Scribbles strives to improve any PHP Web page. The transparent
integration is painless to configure and install. Once in place, any
visitor will be able to 'scribble' (post) to a board using a simple,
non-obtrusive interface. It is designed to be extremely fast &
scalable.
CacheMate 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129847/
CacheMate is a database for tracking GPS cache hunts. You can store
information about caches or benchmarks, decode hints, and transfer data
between CacheMate and the MemoPad application. Registered users can
also import EasyGPS LOC and GPX files, available from Geocaching.com.
CBQ.Init GUI 0.05b rc2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129813/
CBQ.Init GUI is a frontend to the CBQ.INIT script. It allows users to
easily limit their bandwidth at the IP/port level.
Commandline Histogramming 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129833/
Commandline Histogramming provides commandline utilities to create
histograms and calculate the moments of a distribution. They are
easy-to-use and functional.
cpptools 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129820/
Cpptools is a set of C/C++ development tools. This package contains a
C++ scanning class coded both in C++ and Python. CppFSMDoc.py is the
Finite State Machine diagrammer which uses @FSM comment tags inside
sourcefiles. CppClassHierarchy.py parses C/C++ sourcefiles and
generates a graphical dependency tree using Graphviz, and
CppColorize.py scans sourcefiles and generates a highlighted HTML
version.
CWirc 0.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129838/
CWirc is a plugin for the X-Chat IRC client to transmit raw Morse code
over the internet using IRC servers as reflectors. The transmitted
Morse code can be received in near real-time by other X-Chat clients
with the CWirc plugin. CWirc tries to emulate a standard amateur radio
rig: it sends and receives Morse over virtual channels, and it can
listen to multiple senders transmitting on the same channel. Morse code
is keyed locally using a straight or iambic key connected to a serial
port, or using the mouse buttons, and the sound is played through the
soundcard.
dnspython 1.1.0b1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129802/
dnspython is a DNS toolkit for Python. It supports almost all of the
record types. It can be used for queries, zone transfers, and dynamic
updates. It supports TSIG authenticated messages and EDNS0. dnspython
provides both high and low level access to DNS. The high level classes
perform queries for data of a given name, type, and class, and return
an answer set. The low level classes allow direct manipulation of DNS
zones, messages, names, and records.
dSVG markup test suite 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129849/
dSVG is an XML markup language, implemented with a script (so as to
work in any SVG viewer), which describes UI controls and behaviours to
facilitate the creation of SVG-based Web applications.
EarlyBlue 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129808/
EarlyBlue reflects the early days of Mozilla (M4 to M8) and tries to
restore the blue-styled look of like those early milestones in current
builds without cutting any functionality.
epd2svg 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129842/
epd2svg is a program to convert from the EPD vector graphics format to
SVG.
File Service Protocol 2.8.1 beta 9 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129829/
FSP is a UDP-based protocol for transferring files. It has many
benefits over FTP, mainly for running anonymous archives. It is usable
on lines with high packet loss ratio (70% WiFi), can go behind
firewalls and unoticed by port scans (because of UDP), does not
overload networks when hosting ISOs or movies, share files on modem
lines without eating all of the bandwidth, and keeps lamers away from
your site (they don't know how to get to it). This project is active
continuation of the FSP code base (abandoned for the last 5 years).
GCompris 3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129857/
GCompris is a complete educational suite for children 2 to 10 years
old. It includes more than 40 activities. It offers activities
dedicated to little kids like learning the mouse and keybord. It
teaches letters, numbers, words, basic algebra training, reading time
on an analog clock, vector drawing, and much more.
Greenwich 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129826/
Greenwich is a graphical whois client for GNOME. It is written in Perl
and makes use of the GNOME bindings for Perl.
High Level Assembly Language 1.53
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129856/
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.
Issue Handler 0.9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129837/
The Issue Handler is a simple product for managing (structuring,
editing, prioritizing, categorizing) issues. It is primarily used to
manage information.
jack 2.99.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129853/
Jack is a console based cd-ripper. It supports cdparanoia and cdda2wav
(amongst others) for extraction and various MP3 and OGG/Vorbis
encoders; you can even rip from a cdrdao-generated CD image. Emphasis
is on failure-safeness and ease of use. Jack can encode multiple tracks
at once, good on SMP systems. It can resume its work if interrupted and
keeps an eye on available HD space. Freedb query is also supported, any
time you like, even after encoding. Jack can try to query freedb for
MP3s of which you do not know the CD anymore, provided you have a
complete rip and know the track sequence.
Jack Audio Connection Kit 0.74
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129852/
JACK is a low-latency audio server. It can connect a number of
different applications to an audio device, as well as allowing them to
share audio between themselves. Its clients can run in their own
processes (i.e., as normal applications), or can they can run within
the JACK server (as a "plugin"). JACK is different from other
audio server efforts in that it has been designed from the ground up to
be suitable for professional audio work. This means that it focuses on
two key areas: synchronous execution of all clients, and low latency
operation.
Krusader 1.21-beta1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129831/
Krusader is an "old-school" file manager. Its twin-panel look
follows in the footsteps of the great file managers of old such as
GNU's Midnight Commander© and the Norton Commander© for DOS.
Krusader features an intuitive GUI, complete drag n' drop capability,
transparent handling of archives, mimetype support, and more.
LCARStrek 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129810/
LCARStrek is a Star Trek skin, using the LCARS interface from the
Federation Star Ships (heavily used in The Next Generation and Voyager
series). It has rounded borders and hover (mouse-over) effects, be
aware that it may look and feel quite unusual or strange, but keep in
mind that this is an interface design which was not originally designed
for the 21st but the 24th century.
libmspack 20030718
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129850/
libmspack is a library for compression and decompression of the
Microsoft CAB, CHM, HLP, LIT, SZDD, and KWAJ file formats.
LibTomMath 0.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129855/
LibTomMath provides highly optimized and portable routines for a vast
majority of integer-based number theoretic applications (including
public key cryptography).
LineControl Server 2.1.17
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129807/
LineControl allows you to remotely control the Internet connection of a
Linux masquerading server using multiple clients. It takes care with
the number of clients using the connection and decides upon this number
whether the connection should be up or down. The clients show the time
the connection is up and throughput statistics. Different connection
types are supported, such as analog modems, ISDN, or even cable modems
and ADSL devices.
Linux 2.4.22-pre7 (2.4-testing)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129803/
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.
List of Mailing Lists Manager 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129731/
List of Mailing Lists Manager (LMLM) enables you to generate a site
with detailed information about mailing lists of various kinds,
including subscription, unsubscription, posting, archive, guidelines,
description, and owner information. It supports Ezmlm, Listserv,
Mailman, Majordomo, and Yahoo! Groups; other types can be added
manually.
lm_sensors 2.8.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129841/
lm_sensors provides essential drivers for monitoring the temperatures,
voltages, and fans of Linux systems containing devices such as the LM78
and LM75. It contains drivers for sensor chips and I2C and SMBus
masters. It also contains text-based tools for sensor reporting, and a
library for sensors access called 'libsensors'. It also contains tools
for sensor hardware identification and I2C bus probing.
Mibble 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129818/
Mibble is an SNMP (Simple Network Managment Protocol) MIB (Manageable
Information Base) parser library for Java. The library can be used to
read SNMP MIB files as well as simple ASN.1 files. The library also
contains classes for simple handling of the information contained in
the MIB file, such as OID:s and types.
Mimir 2.0-alpha-3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129827/
Mimir is an overkill, threaded, antiflood plugin for X-Chat 2.0.x.
Mimir 2.0-alpha2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129815/
Mimir is an overkill, threaded, antiflood plugin for X-Chat 2.0.x.
Native SVG from Mozilla Beta 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129846/
SVG is similar in scope to Macromedia's proprietary Flash technology:
among other things it offers anti-aliased rendering, pattern and
gradient fills, sophisticated filter-effects, clipping to arbitrary
paths, text, and animations. What distinguishes SVG from Flash is that
it is a W3 recommendation (i.e., a standard for all intents and
purposes) and that it is XML-based as opposed to a closed binary
format. It is explicitly designed to work with other W3C standards such
as CSS, DOM, and SMIL. The Mozilla SVG implementation is a native SVG
implementation; it can handle documents that contain SVG, MathML,
XHTML, XUL, etc. all mixed together in the same 'compound' document.
neo2squirrel.pl 1.002
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129812/
neo2squirrel is a Perl script to convert Neomail addressbook and
preferences to SquirrelMail. This is a "run once" script, to
help you convert many users on your server from Neomail to
SquirrelMail.
NetGrave 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129834/
NetGrave allows NetHack users to share their bones files and high
scores over the Internet. The uploads must be GPG-signed, and the
server will only accept a file if it is signed by a key it has in its
keyring. There is a Web interface that can be used to check/update the
stats or download/upload the bones manually. One of its goals is to
provide an alternative to hearse, another Nethack bones files server.
The client and the server are included.
OfysUtils 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129814/
OfysUtils is a collection of tools to monitor and manage a Sicon Ofys
UPS connected to the computer through a serial cable.
PHP [EMAIL PROTECTED] web monitor 0.1.0b6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129805/
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.
polyxmass 0.5.1 (polyxmassdata)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129793/
polyxmass is a mass spectrometry framework where users are able to
define brand new polymer chemistries (with the polyxdef module), and
use these definitions in order to make simple mass calculations (with
the polyxcalc module) or perform complex simulations of polymer
chemistry with related mass data computations (with the polyxedit
module). The framework allows full customization of every aspect of the
polymer chemistry being defined, and of the way the polymer sequences
are graphically displayed. This program was formerly called
"polyXmass".
pppusage 0.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129844/
pppusage summarizes PPP transfer volumes, number of connections, and
(on BSD systems) online time. The data is collected by reading the
syslog files which contain the ppp[d] messages. A database file is used
to store the relevant data. Certain time ranges (that is: a year,
month, or day) may be specified on the commandline.
QuickDownloader 4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129804/
QuickDownloader is a download manager that accelerates downloads by
between 200 and 300%. It provides a resume capability for resuming
broken downloads. It supports both HTTP and FTP downloads.
rss2html 0.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129801/
rss2html will take RSS RDF files that any number of weblogs and other
dynamic pages output and will turn them into HTML files. It is best
suited for RSS versions pre-1.0.
SERanks 1-3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129836/
SERanks is a Java application that obtains the rankings of search
expressions from search engines. It allows you to specify the search
engines that are of relevance to you, offers lots of options for
configuring the output and for governing the ranking process, and
allows you to export the results to spreadsheet applications.
ShoutCastProxy 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129816/
ShoutCastProxy is a system for saving bandwidth when multiple users in
different rooms are listening to the same ShoutCast audio stream.
ShoutCastProxy runs on a central server, and connects to whatever
ShoutCast server that a client requests. If multiple clients request
the same stream, the stream will be downloaded from the original source
only once, but will still be sent to all the clients. Multiple proxies
can be chained together.
Software Suspend 1.0.3 (2.4 Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129797/
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.
SolarStats 1.0RC
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129848/
SolarStats is an advanced IRC statistics (StatServ) program for IRC
networks. It offers features not available in other StatServ packages
such as SQL output, SSL linking, multi-lingual support, and much more.
It currently only functions with UnrealIRCd networks, but support for
other IRCd software is planned.
The Nice programming language 0.9.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129779/
Nice is a new object-oriented programming language based on Java. It
incorporates features from functional programming, and puts into
practice state-of-the-art results from academic research. Among the
advanced features: parametric types, anonymous functions,
multi-methods, tuples, optional parameters to methods, design by
contract, detection of many errors during compilation (in particular,
concerning casts and null references). This results in more
expressivity, modularity, and type safety.
Tiki 1.7 RC2 (Release candidates)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129824/
Tiki is a powerful content management system that features articles,
forums, newsletters, blogs, a file/image gallery, a Wiki, drawing, a
tracker, a directory, poll/surveys and quizzes, a FAQ, chat, a banner,
Webmail, a calendar, and ACLs, etc.
TuxSaver 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129806/
TuxSaver is a 3D OpenGL screensaver for KDE. It shows Tux on an iceberg
on the South Pole. It is possible to develop your own stories and 3D
objects and add them to TuxSaver.
VDRadmin 0.93
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129622/
VDRadmin is a program to administer VDR (video digital recorder) via
HTTP. A small HTTP server is included.
webcalng 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129822/
webcalng is a Web-based calendaring application for your Intranet or
Internet site. You can use webcalng to publish calendars of events,
manage group scheduling for your company, or just keep track of
important dates in your personal life.
WeWiMo 0.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129817/
WeWiMo (Web WiFi Monitor) is a script for monitoring computers
connected to access point running Linux and hostap WiFi card driver
(ZCom XI-626).
When 1.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129828/
When is an extremely simple personal calendar program, aimed at the
Unix geek who wants something minimalistic. It can keep track of things
you need to do on particular dates. It's a very short and simple
program, so you can easily tinker with it yourself. It doesn't depend
on any libraries, so it's easy to install. You should be able to
install it on any system where Perl is available, even if you don't
have privileges for installing libraries. Its file format is a simple
text file, which you can edit in your favorite editor.
wmfuzzy 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129800/
wmfuzzy is a Window Maker dockapp clock that gives the time a textual
approximation (instead of "21:17", the time is displayed as
"Quarter Past Nine").
Newsforge Reports
Cluster filesystems for Linux?
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/19/1444241
Francesco M. Taurino writes: Do you know good cluster filesystems for
Linux? Is available for Linux a filesystem with cache coherency across
all the nodes in a cluster, efficient locking mechanism or with a
distributed lock manager, with good scalability features and SAN (fibre
channel) compatible?
The IP wars
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/15/1911226
- by John O'Sullivan - The first shot in the intellectual property wars
was fired by no less than William H. Gates III on February 3, 1976. In
a famous letter decrying the theft of his programs, Mr. Gates set out
the philosophy that IP was essentially the same as traditional
property, and that the same rights and laws should apply.
Linux Advisory Watch - July 18, 2003
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/18/0327232
- by Benjamin D. Thomas - This week, advisories were released for pam,
gnupg, mpg123, ucd-snmp, phpgroupware, traceroute-nanog, nfs-utils,
falconseye, php4, unzip, radius, gtksee, kernel, mozilla, xpdf, apache,
and ypserv. The distributors include Conectiva, Debian, Gentoo,
Immunix, Mandrake, Red Hat, Slackware, SuSE, Trustix, and Turbo Linux.
Newsforge Newsvac
SCO readies new Linux licensing program
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/20/0343230
Anonymous Reader writes "Per the article at Infoworld.com site: The SCO
Group is preparing a new Linux licensing program that it claims will
allow users of the open-source operating system to run Linux without
fear of litigation. The program will be announced "within the next
month or so," according to SCO spokesman Blake Stowell, but on Monday
the company will announce what he calls a "precursor" to this program
in a press conference with SCO ...
Evolving the Wireless Robot
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/19/1449217
Anonymous Reader writes "This article is one of the first to discuss
wireless robotics from an integrated approach. It explains the ins and
outs of wireless robots: their components, their shortcomings, and how
they can interact in a competitive or cooperative team within
professional environments. Learn how smarter robots can relieve us of
the most tedious -- and dangerous -- tasks."
Red Hat to drop boxed retail distribution
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/19/1446235
Anonymous Reader writes "Red Hat Software is expected to announce
Monday that it is abaonding boxed retail sales and reorganizing its
development to give project maintainers more control over what is
included in Red Hat's distribution."
Do you prefer different Operating Systems on your desktop and server?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/19/1454249
I intended to blog about the $800 TDV Vision Tablet PC reported by The
Register and wonder outloud how it might be as a cheap Linux slate
device. But, then it occured to me. Unless two fell from the sky free
of charge, I would keep Windows XP on the box because most of my
favorite office/home tools (vs. developer tools) run on the Windows XP
side of my world. I just happen to have a preference for JASC PaintShop
Pro, Microsoft PowerPoint, ...
Intel turns 35: Now what?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/19/1452213
For many in the computer industry, the title of Intel Chairman Andy
GroveâÂÂs 1996 book Only the Paranoid Survive came to symbolize the
relentlessly competitive attitude that helped make Intel a dynastic
success. Over three decades, IntelâÂÂs fanatical focus on design and
manufacturing excellence, and its big bets on blockbuster products have
enabled it to dominate the microprocessor business and become a Silicon
Valley legend.
Microsoft Ranks Linux Second On Risk List
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/18/1940203
Microsoft is taking the Linux threat seriously. So seriously, in fact,
that open source software comes in at the number two spot on the
company's top five list of risks.
Linux to Overtake Unix, Leapfrog Windows, Analyst Says
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/18/1935234
Linux will soon overtake Unix as the operating system of choice for
several major enterprise segments, including high-performance
computing, carrier-grade and mission-critical systems, and database
hosting. That's according to a paper published in June by research firm
Aberdeen Group Inc.
ATX form-factor StrongARM SBC gains 30% speed, supports Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/18/1842235
Simtec Electronics has announced a thirty percent speed increase for
its ATX motherboard form-factor, StrongARM-based single-board computer
(SBC). The SBC is intended to be used as a development platform for
prototyping applications such as set-top boxes, routers, CD
duplicators, MP3 juke boxes, and NAS appliances, and server devices,
and is supplied together with a full Debian GNU/Linux operating system,
the company said.
101 Reasons Not To Get A Tablet PC
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/18/1825237
Lora writes "Here is a list of reasons we've heard people say why they
don't want to buy a Tablet PC. We came up with a list of 101. (Not
listed in any particular order.) There are probably more. Maybe you've
got a few?"
Mozilla.org forms new non-profit foundation
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/18/1810245
Mozilla.org, the venerable keeper of the open-source Web browser
flame, last week gave itself a "legal identity" with the creation of
the Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit corporation the group hopes will
better coordinate its efforts to expand its end-user community.
Thinkgeek
Computing: Logitech Cordless MX Keyboard & Mouse
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/61af/
PC Mods: Lian-Li Side Panel Aquarium Kit
http://www.thinkgeek.com/pcmods/cases/6151/
Computing: USB Sharing Hub
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5f2a/
Cube Goodies: LED Binary Clock
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/lights/59e0/
Gadgets: Ambient Orb Device
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5da2/
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: Ph34r t3h Cute Ones Poster
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/megatokyo/coolthings/6193/
Interests: Broken Miho Poster
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/megatokyo/coolthings/6188/
Caffeine: Shock Triple Mocha
http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/drinks/6122/
Caffeine: Brute Force Energy Drink
http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/drinks/6184/
Caffeine: Chargers Caffeinated Espresso Beans
http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/candy/5f75/
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/
Computing: ICE-Cube Barebones Mini-PC
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/handhelds/5fd7/
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/
Sourceforge
Tkfp Windows 14 July 2003
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=293277
Tk_familypractice is a clinical Medical Records system, written mostly
in Tcl/Tk. Some C, C++, PYTHON, PERL. For Family Physicians,
Pediatricians, Internists or Primary Care. Used in a 4 doctor group for
5 years. Network enabled. Tk GUI and web browser based interfaces.
HCFA1500 claim form. Another new Windows version. Using the file
notebook_start2.tcl, you can run all the windows now inside a tabbed
notebook. The look and feel is now exactly the same as the Linux
version.
pmd-jbuilder-1.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=293271
PMD is a Java source code analyzer. It finds unused variables, empty
catch blocks, unnecessary object creation, and so forth. This release
supports PMD 1.1.
QmailAdmin 1.0.24 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=293583
QmailAdmin is a web interface for managing email addresses in virtual
domains created by Vpopmail. This release includes more cleanup as we
get closer to a stable release. Functional changes: works with non-idx
version of ezmlm again, updated Japanese translation.
wlandscape 1.0 build 0461 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=293588
wlandscape 1.0 build 0461 is out with quite a few important bugs fixed
and a lot of improvements added. Build 0461 introduces many new
features. We have added the support of MapBlast again and integrated an
offline browsing tool. From the developers point of view it is believed
to be fairly stable. Wlandscape is a tool for collecting and
visualizing access point data of public wireless networks in order to
share it with anyone. The collected data is shown in really good maps
and of course all for free. Wlandscape is free because it is released
under the GNU General Public License.
phpWebSite 0.9.3 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=293742
Developed by the Web Technology Group at Appalachian State University,
phpWebSite provides a complete web site content management system. All
client output is XHTML 1.0 and meets the W3C's Web Accessibility
Initiative requirements. phpWebSite version 0.9.3 addresses stability
problems from 0.9.2. There have also been many updates to resolve
usability issues. Included with this release is a docbook user manual
for end-users and a skeleton module for developers. Enjoy! The
phpWebSite Development Team
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