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August 12, 2003 EVERYTHING SERIES
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Slashdot
A Real Living With Virtual Goods
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/12/0156203
RussHart writes "The BBC is [0]reporting on a [1] Julian Dibbell who
has quit his day job to sell items from Ultima Online in the real
world, hopefully making a living on which to support his wife &
daughter."
Links
0. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3135247.stm
1. http://www.juliandibbell.com/
Microsoft Nailed by Software Patent
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/11/2340225
An anonymous reader writes "It was just [0]announced that Microsoft
lost the case where it was accused of violating Eolas' patent on
embedded applications in the Internet Explorer browser. They have been
fined $521 million in damages."
Links
0. http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/030811/tech_microsoft_patent_2.html
Interview with SLASH'EM Developers
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/12/0234215
[0]MilenCent writes "The O'Reilly Network posted an [1]interview with
super-deluxe [2]Nethack variant [3]SLASH'EM's Warren Cheung and J. Ali
Harlowe last month talking about the impending beta release of
v0.0.7E2. (Don't you just love incredibly provisional version numbers?
In development for years and not even a 0.1 yet!) There's [4]another
recent O'Reilly article on the game too."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://linux.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/3892
2. http://www.nethack.org/
3. http://slashem.sourceforge.net/
4. http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2003/06/12/slashem.html
Roomba Competitor Slightly Lacking
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/11/2332235
[0]tivojafa writes "Following hot on the heels of the [1]Roomba vacuum
cleaner, TV Products (USA) Inc have released the "[2]RoboSweep" - "The
intelligent sweeper that sweeps while you rest!". Roomba by [3]iRobot
is an engineering masterpiece with 15 sensors and 5 motors to navigate
and clean the floors. It has been [4]stripped apart and there are
rumors of a replacement processor so it can be used as a general
purpose robot platform. Now the RoboSweep "intelligent" sweeper has
redefined intelligence (or lack of it) - the internals have got to be
[5]seen to be believed." Very funny.
Links
0. http://www.roombacommunity.com
1. http://www.roombavac.com/
2. http://shop.infomercial.tv/home_and_garden/misc/robosweep/
3. http://www.irobot.com/home/default.asp
4. http://www.roombacommunity.com/internals.html
5. http://www.roombacommunity.com/robosweep/robosweep.html
GPL in Court - Good or Bad?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/11/2137210
Irvu asks: "[0]The Register has a lengthy opinion piece today about
IBM's lawsuit, and the GPL. Barring a settlement this case will see the
first test of the GPL in a court of law. Previously the GPL has
functioned as a social contract with the implicit (albeit untested)
force of law behind it. Any ruling now could radically alter the
free-software/open-source landscape for good or ill. Andrew Orlowski
dwells on these possible ills in his piece. What does Slashdot think?
Is this test a good or bad thing? Do you have faith in the justice
system (or IBM's Lawyers) to draw the right conclusions? And, how do
you see any outcome affecting you?"
Links
0. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/32272.html
GnuCash - A Call For Help
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/11/200212
sedition writes "GnuCash developer Benoit Gregoire has written the
[0]State of the GnuCash Project. It is a call for help to the Open
Source community regarding the open-source accounting software for
Linux, Mac OSX, and more. [1]GnuCash is one of the largest (287,853
lines of code), but least publicized Open Source projects. Now it needs
developer support, as its future is uncertain."
Links
0. http://gnucash.org/en/state_of_the_gnucash_project.phtml
1. http://www.gnucash.org/
Webcams Watching The Classrooms?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/11/1737216
embarcadero writes "Webcams will be [0]tuned to watch over 500
classrooms in the Biloxi, Mississippi school district this year,
according to a story in USA Today. The goal is to make classrooms
safer, but there's a lot of speculation about how the recorded info
could be used for or against teachers in disputes or teaching reviews.
I can just see Mrs. Waters pointing towards the camera, 'If I don't
catch you cheating on this spelling test, that camera will! Don't even
think about it.'"
Links
0. http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20030811/5396054s.htm
SCO: Fortune 500 Company Buys License, IBM Retort
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/11/2040201
An anonymous reader writes "SCO announced today that an [0]undisclosed
Fortune 500 company purchased Linux licenses for each of their servers
running in their business. SCO: 'This Fortune 500 company recognizes
the importance of paying for SCO's intellectual property that is found
in Linux and can now run Linux in their environment under a legitimate
license from SCO. We anticipate this being the first of many licensees
that will properly compensate SCO for our intellectual property.'"
kanly writes "The [1]full text of IBM's countersuit against SCO is now
online at LWN." [2]M: Our own Roblimo has a [3]pretty good take on it.
Keep in mind that SCO could sell a blanket license for $1, for the
publicity value.
Links
0.
http://investor.news.com/Engine?Account=cnet&PageName=NEWSREAD&ID=543900&Ticker=SCOX
1. http://lwn.net/Articles/43592/
2. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
3. http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/11/1922213&tid=17
RPC DCOM Worm On The Loose
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/11/2048249
[0]GPez writes "The first of I'm sure many RPC DCOM worms affecting
Windows [1]is on its way, according to the Internet Storm Center.
[2]Patch those systems!" According to the site, "The worm uses [3]the
RPC DCOM vulnerability [affects Win2k through Server 2003] to
propagate. Once it finds a vulnerable system, it will spawn a shell on
port 4444 and use it to download the actual worm via tftp."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?date=2003-08-11
2.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-026.asp
3. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/16/2218216&tid=172
Linux Gaining Ground In India
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/11/1912218
GillBates0 writes "Yahoo/Reuters is reporting that [0]Linux seems to be
gaining over Microsoft in India. According to [1]Red Hat, about 10
percent of India's personal computers will be sold with Linux rather
than Microsoft operating systems by March, 2004, up from nothing in
January. Linux already drives India's [2]National Stock Exchange, and
the [3]Government of India has been [4]promoting open source lately."
Links
0.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&ncid=581&e=2&u=/nm/20030811/tc_nm/tech_india_linux_dc
1. http://www.redhat.com/
2. http://www.nse-india.com/
3. http://goidirectory.nic.in/
4. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/29/1226247&tid=106
Freshmeat
AdaOpenGL 0.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132373/
AdaOpenGL is an Ada-binding to OpenGL that aims at providing the latest
OpenGL features in a collection of Ada packages.
Admin4TheMasses 0.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132350/
Admin4TheMasses aims to provide non-technical users a means of creating
a Web site and administering both the site and server features (i.e.,
email accounts, stats, database). The initial focus is to provide this
functionality for music groups so they will have an easy way to update
their page while still having the ability to use a professional design.
The end result will be a content management system with templates for
design and modules for placing the content within the page coupled with
an admin area where the user can update everything simply and quickly.
This is not another PHPNuke/PostNuke/Slashcode project; the focus is on
personal and art/design/business sites (not community-driven content).
Agent Farms 0.3.0 (2003-08-11)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132327/
Agent Farms is a system for modeling and simulation of complex,
multi-agent based systems. The system can be used for creating models
of multi-agent systems, interactive and distributed simulation,
observation and visualisation of the simulation, and population
modification and migration. On those models one can learn about the
evolution of strategies in the populations of agents.
AIM Sniff 0.1.2 (Web Aim Sniff)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132249/
AIM Sniff is a utility for monitoring and archiving AOL Instant
Messenger messages across a network. It can be used to monitor for
cases of harassment or warez trading. It has the ability to do a live
dump (actively sniff the network) or read a PCAP file and parse the
file for IM messages. You also have the option of dumping the
information to a MySQL database or STDOUT. AIM Sniff will also monitor
for an AIM login and then perform an SMB lookup on the originating
computer in order to match NT Domain names with AIM login names
(handles). A very basic Web frontend is included.
Apache DoS Evasive Maneuvers Module 1.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132349/
The Apache DoS Evasive Maneuvers Module is a module for Apache 1.3 that
provides functionality for detecting and fighting off DoS attacks and
brute force attacks. It does this by adding addresses to a 10-second
'403 List' and rejecting rapidly repeated requests for the same URL
from the same addresses, using an internal hash table, on a per-child
basis. This module can be configured to talk to ipchains, ipfilter, or
any other tool designed to push the attack out to the network layer,
and provides email notification in the event of an attack.
Atomic Tanks 0.9.9a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132362/
Atanks is a multi-platform scorched earth clone similar to Worms.
Annihilate the other tanks to earn money, then spend it on bigger and
better shields and weapons to wipe out the opposition. It features a
wide array of weapons, destructible landscape, weather, parachutes,
teleports and a wide range of other features.
Azure 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132339/
Azure is a Web log client that allows you to create and edit Web log
posts on your phone, PDA, or personal computer. It uses J2ME CLDC/MIDP
1.0. It can be used with any system that supports Moveable Type's XML-
RPC API.
bash programmable completion 20030811 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132357/
Since v2.04, bash has allowed you to intelligently program and extend
its standard completion behavior to achieve complex command lines with
just a few keystrokes. Imagine typing ssh [Tab] and being able to
complete on hosts from your ~/.ssh/known_hosts files. Or typing man 3
str [Tab] and getting a list of all string handling functions in the
UNIX manual. mount system: [Tab] would complete on all exported
file-systems from the host called system, while make [Tab] would
complete on all targets in Makefile. This project was conceived to
produce programmable completion routines for the most common Linux/UNIX
commands, reducing the amount of typing sysadmins and programmers need
to do on a daily basis.
Big Sister 0.98beta5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132259/
Big Sister is an SNMP-aware monitoring program consisting of a
Web-based server and a monitoring agent. It runs under various Unixes
and Windows.
Cigol alpha-2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132355/
Cigol is a scripting language designed to solve deductive logic
problems. It is designed to be run from the command line or embedded
inside an application. There is also a (limited) Cigol applet. Cigol
has applications to AI, graph theory, automata, and database
manipulation.
Cinelerra 1.1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132333/
Cinelerra is a complete audio and video production environment for
Linux. It replaces Broadcast 2000.
ClairVoyanT SysAdmin 0.1.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132302/
CVTSA is a tool that allows a user to run arbitrary commands remotely
on a Linux system by sending email to the system. It maintains security
by requiring a password to be present in all email messages that
provide commands. There is a command wrapper file where the user can
set denied commands. It also uses a few other security techniques which
are outlined in the documentation. CVTSA can use a local fetcher to
download email, or it can create a connection to a remote mail server
to download email by itself. There is also an option that allows a
pseudo-random password to be created.
Console Portscanner 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132286/
Cpscan is a simple portscanner.
Damn Small Linux 0.4.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132255/
Damn Small Linux is a business-card size (50MB) Linux distribution.
Despite its minuscule size it strives to have a functional and easy to
use desktop.
DevWiki 0.9.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132280/
DevWiki is Java servlet-based implementation of a Wiki web, which is a
Web site that is editable by its users via a browser interface. It
supports dynamic linking of content, back links, tables, off-site
links, lists, CVS, and much more. It is highly customizable due to a
generic Translator architecture.
distcc 2.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132254/
distcc is a parallel build system that distributes compilation of
C/C++/ObjC code across machines on a network. It can be set up in just
a few minutes and makes builds up to ten times faster. It does not
require machines to share a filesystem or have the same libraries or
header files, and installation does not need superuser privileges.
dnspython 1.1.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132250/
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.
DSPAM 2.6.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132351/
DSPAM is a server-side anti-spam agent for UNIX email servers. It
masquerades as the email server's local delivery agent and
filters/learns spam using a Bayesian statistical approach which
provides an administratively maintenance-free, self-learning anti-spam
service. Each email is broken down into its most interesting tokens,
each assigned a spam probability. All probabilities are then combined
to produce a statistical probability of spam. This approach, applied to
a mature corpus of email, has the potential to yield a 99.75% success
rate with less than a 0.03% chance of false positives.
Easy Funktion 5.20
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132358/
Easy Funktion is 2D function plotter software with an equation solver.
It has an office-like GUI frontend and features a built-in pocket
calculator, calculating with complex numbers (with special extensions
for electronics, e.g. capacitor/inductor impedance), a function to
export to spreadsheet software, and an advanced formula editor with
automatic formatting.
Elm ME+ PL105 (25)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132284/
Elm 2.4ME+ is based on Elm 2.4. It contains enhanced MIME and character
set support. It can read mail from POP or IMAP folders and can pass
mail to the PGP or GPG programs. It can also view digests as a mailbox
and reassemble fragmented (message/partial) messages. It includes
modules for TLS/SSL, iconv, and SMTP.
exifprobe 1.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132315/
Exifprobe examines and reports the contents and structure of JPEG and
TIFF image files. It will recognize all standard JPEG markers
(including APPn markers) and will report the contents of any properly
structured TIFF IFD encountered, even when entry tags are not
recognized. Recognized TIFF and TIFF/EP tags are expanded, including
EXIF2.2 sections and camera MakerNotes which are found to be in TIFF
IFD format. GPS and GeoTIFF tags are recognized and entries printed in
"raw" form, but are not expanded. Location, size, and format
of image data is reported.
FIAIF is an Intelligent Firewall 1.16.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132282/
FIAIF is an Intelligent Firewall. It provides a highly customizable
script for setting up an iptables-based firewall. Configuration is done
through one configuration file for each network to which the firewall
is connected. FIAIF supports masquerading, port forwarding, traffic
shaping, and more.
FireDNS 0.9.3 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132371/
FireDNS is a C library for handling asynchronous DNS queries. It
includes asynchronous functions and low-timeout blocking functions. In
general, it completes DNS queries faster than standard libc resolver
functions such as gethostbyname.
Firehose 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132337/
Firehose is a simple library which stripes multiple, inexpensive,
network devices to provide very high speed data transfers. It supports
any number of devices as long as they have a TCP/IP layer.
FirePay 0.9.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132301/
FirePay is an implementation of the HashCash/MIME
(application/postage-hashcash) specification. HashCash is an anti-spam,
anti-DoS system for email. The concept centers around the sender of the
mail completing a computationally expensive task (in this case,
generating hash collisions) that the recipient can verify very quickly.
This allows the sender to "pay" for transport in CPU cycles,
creating artificial scarcity. Programs are included to add payment to
messages (for the sender) and to verify message payment (for the
recipient).
FluxAqua 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132332/
FluxAqua is a pixmap-based Aqua theme. Developed from files found for
the Enlightenment XAquaX theme and the Blueflux style file, this is the
result of messing with Fluxbox themes and The GIMP in some spare time.
FMPP 0.8.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132368/
FMPP is a text file preprocessor that uses FreeMarker templates to
provide macros, flow control, and expressions. It uses recursive
directory processing, so it can generate complete homepages (a tree of
HTML files and images). It is extendable in Java to display data from
any data source (such as a database). It is usable with a command-line
interface, as an Ant-task, or embedded into a Java application.
FreeMarker 2.3pre11 (Lazarus)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132289/
FreeMarker is a template engine that was originally designed so that
servlet-based applications could keep graphical design separate from
application logic. The templates provide an easy and highly flexible
way to generate any kind of text output (HTML, RTF, PostScript, TeX,
source code, etc.) from a variety of data sources such as Java objects,
Jython objects, XML object models, and more.
Freeside 1.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132268/
Freeside is an open-source billing package for ISPs.
gcc 3.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132263/
The GNU Compiler Collection contains frontends for C, C++, Objective-C,
Fortran, Java, and Ada as well as libraries for these languages. It is
a full-featured ANSI C compiler with support for K&R C as well. GCC
provides many levels of source code error checking traditionally
provided by other tools (such as lint), produces debugging information,
and can perform many different optimizations to the resulting object
code.
gdpc 2.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132318/
gdpc is a tool for visualising the output files of a molecular dynamic
simulation. It can be customized to read almost any input file format
and animate it. It can also be configured to output images of each
frame.
GiNaC 1.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132328/
GiNaC (GiNaC is Not a CAS (Computer Algebra System)) is a C++ library
for symbolic calculations. It is designed to allow the creation of
integrated systems that embed symbolic manipulations together with more
established areas of computer science (like computation-intense numeric
applications, graphical interfaces, etc.). Contrary to other CASes it
does not try to provide extensive algebraic capabilities and a simple
programming language but instead accepts a given language (C++) and
extends it by a set of algebraic capabilities.
GTK Cervi 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132265/
GTK Cervi is clone of very good game called Cervi. It is a multiplayer
game (on one machine) where players drive a worm and mustn't collide
into anything.
hddtemp 0.3 beta 8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132360/
hddtemp shows the temperature of your IDE or SCSI hard drive by reading
S.M.A.R.T. information. Note: only modern drives have a temperature
sensor. A plugin for Gkrellm is also available.
Historical Event Markup and Linking Project 0_5.7-dev-20030806
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132273/
Historical Event Markup and Linking Project (Heml) provides an XML
schema for historical events and a Java Web app which transforms
conforming documents into hyperlinked timelines, maps and tables. It
aims to provide a most information-rich interchange format for
historical data, and thus add a historical component to the growing
movement for a 'Semantic Web.'
ink_level 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132309/
ink_level is a kernel module which allows you to check the ink level of
your printer simply by reading two files in the /proc directory.
Inti-SourceView 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132287/
Inti-SourceView is an Integrated Foundation Classes binding for the
GTK+ source editing widget, GtkSourceView. GtkSourceView extends the
standard GtkTextView widget by adding syntax highlighting add other
features typical of a source code editor.
IzPack 3.1.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132292/
IzPack is a powerful Java installer builder. It is able to create
lightweight and modular installers. You have the choice of the
installer panels you want to use (some can do the same job, so that you
can select the one you prefer), and you even have the choice of the
kind of installer that you want to use. IzPack doesn't use any portion
of native code, it is designed to be fully independent from the
operating system that runs it. It is very easy for the end user with a
properly installed JVM to use an installer made with IzPack, since a
single "java -jar installer.jar" will launch it.
JaxMeJS 1.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132285/
The JaxMe JavaSource generation framework (a spinoff of the JaxMe
Java/XML binding tool) is an object-oriented view to a set of Java
classes created by you. For example, there are objects JavaSource,
JavaMethod, and so on. Features include automatic generation of import
lists, semiautomatic indentation, and the ability to postprocess
generated sources. This allows source code generation to be a
pipelining process. Additionally, a framework for generating SQL is
included.
JCards 4.0rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132293/
JCards is a free Java application designed to store and manage data in
any format that the user defines. Instead of having multiple
applications/spreadsheets to manage passwords, tasks, shopping lists,
etc., JCards allows the user to define a database that contains the
fields they want. This is accomplished via an easy to use interface
that requires no understanding of SQL or any other database jargon.
JCards was initially developed for the Sharp Zaurus SL-5x00 PDA, but
will run on any desktop or PDA that has a 1.1 or above version of the
Java Virtual Machine on it. The advantage of this is that the user can
use the same application on the PDA and desktop to manage their data.
JGraphpad 2.2.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132260/
JGraphpad is a powerful diagram editor for Swing that offers XML, drag
and drop, zoom, automatic layout, print support, and much more. With
JGraphpad, you can create flow charts, maps, UML diagrams, and networks
with thousands of nodes. JGraphpad is available with sourcecode, which
may be used to develop new (commercial) applications.
KMD 0.9.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132304/
KMD is a multi-processor debugger. It can debug with hardware boards
over serial ports or with software emulators (ARM and MIPS emulators
are included in the project). Using the pipe option you can debug over
the network or any other communication medium. It can load many
executable formats such as ELF, and display and follow the original
source even from multiple source file programs. There is support for
breakpoints and watchpoints which can trap on specific data (such as
loading or executing specific instructions). Support for other features
such as FPGA's is also available, allowing loading or any control
required to drive a specific hardware device. The project uses chump to
allow disassembly and line assembly. Chump also allows new
architectures to be easily added without the need to recompile the
system. Communication with the backend is done using two pipes/fifos
using a simple set of codes. Back end communication program can be
created using very little memory on the target device.
LaTrine 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132195/
LaTrine is a curses-based LAnguage TRaINEr. It takes a dictionary and
asks you for a word or a phrase, and you try to give the correct
answer. The direction is configurable. The selection of the words or
phrases depends on how often you don't know the correct translation. It
can be used with the Free Dictionaries Project, which provides
dictionaries for about 50 language combinations.
LibMPEG3 1.5.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132341/
Libmpeg3 decodes MP2, MP3, AC3, MPEG-1 video, MPEG-2 video, and DVD
footage in a single library. It supports many esoteric features like
parallel video decoding, frame-accurate editing, YUV 4:2:2, and ATSC
transport stream decoding.
LinkChecker 1.9.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132330/
With LinkChecker, you can check HTML documents for broken links. It
features recursion, robots.txt exclusion protocol support, HTTP proxy
support, i18n support, multithreading, regular expression filtering
rules for links, and user/password checking for authorized pages.
Output can be colored or normal text, HTML, SQL, CSV, or a sitemap
graph in GML or XML format. Supported link types are HTTP/1.1 and 1.0,
HTTPS, FTP, mailto:, news:, nntp:, Gopher, Telnet, and local files.
Linux Security Auditing Tool 0.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132345/
Linux Security Auditing Tool (LSAT) is a post install security auditing
tool. It is modular in design, so new features can be added quickly. It
checks many system configurations and local network settings on the
system for common security/config errors and for packages that are not
needed. It has been tested on Linux (Gentoo, Red Hat, Debian, etc.) and
Solaris (SunOS 2.x).
logrelay-pop3 1.1.0 (ipop3)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132217/
logrelay-pop3 is a POP-before-SMTP program on FIFOs and with real time
updating (Perl). It is for solid-pop3d (syslogd) and Sendmail, but you
can easy change this if you want in config section. It reads
authenticated IP and modifies access file (makemap hash, makedb, or how
you want). After a definite time (in conf section) IP expires and the
access base is reloaded. Everything goes in real time.
logrelay-pop3 1.1.0 (Zmailer)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132216/
logrelay-pop3 is a POP-before-SMTP program on FIFOs and with real time
updating (Perl). It is for solid-pop3d (syslogd) and Sendmail, but you
can easy change this if you want in config section. It reads
authenticated IP and modifies access file (makemap hash, makedb, or how
you want). After a definite time (in conf section) IP expires and the
access base is reloaded. Everything goes in real time.
Lunar-Linux 1.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132299/
Lunar-Linux is a source-based Linux distribution with a unique package
management system that builds each software package or module for the
machine it is being installed on. Although a complete installation can
take some time, it tends to be quite fast once installed.
Martin's Picture Viewer 0.2.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132307/
Martin's Picture Viewer is a JPEG viewer for X Windows written in Perl
and Tk. It is able to display and edit JPEG meta-information, including
EXIF data, IPTC/IIM information, and embedded comments. It also serves
as a frontend for performing lossless rotation, resizing, and
filtering, and can displays images as thumbnails.
Matchball 0.33b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132344/
Matchball is a little puzzle game written in C++, using the Simple
DirectMedia Layer. You have to click to remove all adjacent balls with
the same color and reach as many points as possible.
MiddleMan 1.8.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132266/
Middleman is a robust proxy server with many features designed to
remove unwanted content, increase privacy, and to simply make surfing
the Web a more pleasant experience. Some of the highlights include
banner and popup blocking, HTTP and FTP content caching, NTLM and Basic
authentication when forwarding through another proxy server, regular
expression substitution in downloaded files and HTTP headers, regular
expression substitution on requested URLs, many URL commands to
temporarily change the proxy settings or to view information about a
requested file, complete support for HTTP/1.1 including persistent
connections and gzip encoding, and an intutive Web interface for
configuring the proxy.
mkvtoolnix 0.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132346/
mkvtoolnix is a set of tools that allow users to display information
about, extract streams from, merge several streams into, and split
Matroska media files. Supported stream types include video streams from
AVIs or Ogg files and Vorbis audio from Ogg files among many others.
The resulting files can be played back with mplayer or the Matroska
Direct Show filter under Windows.
Modeling Framework 0.9pre13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132257/
Modeling Framework fills the gap between the Python object world and
relational databases in that it allows users to transparently create,
retrieve, update, or delete Python objects from a database without
having to write a single line of SQL. Main features include generation
of database schema, generation of Python code templates ready to be
used, support for transparent mapping of (class) inheritance in
relational databases, object-oriented query language, use of standard
Python getters to traverse relationships (the related objects are
automatically fetched when needed and when appropriate), and automatic
checking for referential-integrity constraints, etc. Supported
databases are PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite.
msmtp 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132374/
msmtp is a simple program that works as an "SMTP plugin" for
Mutt and (probably) other MUAs. It forwards messages to an SMTP server
which does the delivery. Features include various SMTP AUTH methods,
TLS-encrypted connections, and IPv6 support.
mudsbuilder 0.4.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132366/
Mudsbuilder is a set of tools for the creation of dungeon maps in MUDs.
Once a map is created, the user has the ability to generate LPC code
from that map for virtually any mudlib. It supports standard (south,
north, east, etc.) exits, ups and downs, and miscellaneous exits, such
as one-way exits.
NetCDF 3.5.1-beta12 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132305/
NetCDF is a format originally developed at NASA and then taken over by
Unidata. CDF stands for "Common Data Format" and is a
self-describing data format, commonly used in scientific and
engineering applications.
Newts 0.11.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132372/
Newts is a notesfile program, a news-like program for use as a message
board. Newts is designed for UNIX-like systems, and resembles the
Notesfiles program written early in the 1980s at the University at
Urbana-Champaign. The client program included emulates the look and
feel of Notesfiles, and the UIUC backend is compatible with Notesfiles
data files. Future versions of Newts will include a separate daemon to
manage multiple local and network connections, additional backends, and
additional clients.
objobf 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132269/
objobf obfuscates IA32 Linux .o ELF object files and can create graphs
that visualize the structure of a function. It does simple control- and
dataflow-analysis, loop-detection on control flow graphs, and generates
output code. It can insert junk instructions, duplicate code blocks,
insert simple opaque constructs, and reorder the basic blocks within an
object file.
Open Systems Accounting Software 6.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132264/
Open Systems Accounting Software (OSAS) is an accounting and business
management system. It is designed to be easy to learn and use. It is
best suited for companies ranging in size from small companies with 12
users or less to mid-market companies. It comes with many modules for
accounting, distribution, and reporting.
OpenAMF 1.0RC2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132348/
The OpenAMF Project is an open-source alternative to MM's Java Flash
Remoting. The project's goal is to produce a program which is much more
capable of providing application services to SWF clients than the
proprietary MM solution. This project began as a Java port of amfphp.
osdchat 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132297/
osdchat is a program that sends messages from a console client to the
on-screen display on a remote machine. It uses the xosd library.
P::Classes 0.9.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132317/
P::Classes is a portable C++ Application Framework. It includes
everything needed for real world application development, such as
classes for networking, GUI, databases, config, logging, and plugins.
Petal 0.71.0beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132314/
Petal helps maintain the owner, group, and mode on trees of files by
recalling this information from a configuration file. In turn, this
allows system administrators to separate the publication of files (e.g.
pulling system configurations from a change management system) from
their presentation (tweaking the owner/group/mode to satisfaction). If
recursive chown/chmod commands provide inadequate precision for your
needs, Petal may be the tool for you.
photos 4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132274/
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 multiple dataset bar graph 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131831/
This class creates a PNG image bar graph for inclusion into HTML pages.
The graph can display one or more data set in user defined colors. The
font size, font color background color, spacing between sets of bars,
labels, and y-axis tick marks are all set by the user. To use the class
you first need to collect some information, such as the data, labels
and the image dimensions. While the thickness and height of the bars
will adjust to fit your image, the text will not. After creating the
image you can set many of the features.
PHPCoder 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132359/
PHPCoder is a Web-based frontend to the Turck MMCache encoding
functions, which are similar to the Zend Encoder product. PHPCoder
enables you to encode your PHP scripts and applications into
non-reversible bytecode, thus preventing users of your programs from
viewing or altering the source code while having full functionality.
Another excellent use for PHPCoder is to encode your applications PHP
configuration files, that way someone viewing your source code does not
see your databae login and password information. It also allows you to
set restrictions on the encoded scripts, you can lock a script to a
particular server IP address, server host name, visitor IP, or even
place a time limit on the script so it will expire after a configurable
amount of time. You specify Text, HTML, or PHP code that should be
prepended and appended to each file before it is encoded, allowing you
to easily and securely implement your own licensing scheme.
Picfolio 0.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132303/
Picfolio is a static photo gallery generator that uses XML and XSLT. It
has built-in support for thumbnail and midnail generation and optional
support for EXIF data in images.
Postgresql AutoDoc 1.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132367/
Postgresql AutoDoc has the ability to output XML, which can be loaded
into Dia to create a UML diagram of the database (complete with table
relations and descriptive information), an HTML form for further
detailed information, GraphViz .dot output, and Docbook 4.1 style SGML
for inclusion with project documentation as an appendix. It works on
any 7.x PostgreSQL-based database.
potrace 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132363/
potrace is a utility for tracing a bitmap (that is, transforming a
bitmap into a smooth, scalable image). The input is a portable bitmap
(PBM), and the default output is an encapsulated PostScript file (EPS).
A typical use is to create EPS files from scanned data, such as company
or university logos, handwritten notes, etc. The resulting image is not
"jaggy" like a bitmap, but smooth. It can then be rendered at
any resolution.
ProFTPDTools 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132316/
ProFTPDTools is a Web interface for managing users and groups in a
setup of ProFTPd with mod_sql. It provides a session-based login system
for admins and users. Users can manage their account data via a Web
interface. Admins are able to change normal users to admins, and can
enable and disable accounts. Formatted ftpwho output is also provided.
English and German language files are included.
python-xmltv 0.5.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132253/
python-xmltv is a Python module that provides access to XMLTV data,
which is an XML format for storing TV listings.
QHacc 2.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132291/
QHacc is a personal accounting program based on Qt. It features double-
or single-entry bookkeeping and a reconciliation window. It also
provides support for memorized and split transactions, graphing,
reporting, archiving, and scheduled transactions that can be based on
the account balance.
QtFprot 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132288/
QtFprot is a frontend for FPROT 4.x, a free (for personal use) Linux
virus-scanner. It's similar to XFprot, but written in Qt. It allows you
to set all FPROT paramters with a comfortable GUI.
QueryForm 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132281/
QueryForm is a Java GUI application that provides a powerful form-based
front end for relational databases. It supports multiple concurrent
connections to different databases. Tables can be queried through a
simple form-based interface or a custom WHERE-clause editor. Query
results can be browsed one row at a time through the the form interface
or viewed in a scrollable grid, and can be exported to CSV files or
INSERT statements. Table rows can be created, updated, or deleted, and
table metadata can be viewed for each table in a database.
quicktables 2.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132310/
quicktables is an iptables firewall/NAT (gateway) script generator. It
was created to quickly provide a secure set of iptables rules. It will
ask you to answer a small handful of questions, and generates your very
own personalized firewall script. It supports NAT and no NAT (firewall
only) options, default policy of DROP on INPUT and FORWARD chains (all
packets dropped), TCP and UDP ACCEPTs on INPUT chain (open ports to the
firewall machine), TCP and UPD port forwarding with NAT (forward ports
to multiple internal hosts--NAT only), multiple ICMP (ping) options,
multiple logging options (syslog - kern.info), explicit host drops, and
multiple port forwards for multiple external IP addresses.
Quicktime for Linux 2.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132336/
Quicktime for Linux lets you read and write Quicktime movies using
several codecs. There are many Quicktime libraries for Linux; this one
emphasizes reliability and accuracy while not stressing economy. Also
included are frontends to several of the codecs which don't require
Quicktime encapsulation, header dump, chunk extraction, and recovery
tools.
QuikKopy 0.20
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132283/
QuikKopy is a command-line utility which copies images from a source
directory to a destination directory, creating a structured library of
digital images. It can also perform batch resizing and manipulation of
images using ImageMagick. It is designed for use with large collections
of raw images, such as those downloaded from a digital camera.
Retro Native Forth 6.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132369/
Retro is a clean, usable Forth-based operating system. It attempts to
be a simpler and easier-to-use alternative to more complex operating
systems.
rfbplaymacro 0.2.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132334/
rfbplaymacro lets you send keyboard/mouse events to a VNC server, using
a script file. The companion program rfbproxy can record scripts for
rfbplaymacro to use.
rfbproxy 0.6.6 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132335/
The rfbproxy can be used for recording screen updates from a VNC
server, or key/mouse events from a VNC viewer. Screen updates can be
played back and viewed using vncviewer.
RIPE Whois Server 3.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132308/
The RIPE Whois server uses a backend SQL database to allow support for
very large repositories. There is support for IPv6 records and lookups.
Both RPSL and RIPE181 are supported.
RPL/2 4.00pre7c (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132311/
RPL/2 (Reverse Polish Lisp/2) is a langage derived from the RPL made by
Hewlett-Packard for its HP-28S. It has some extensions (preprocessor,
compilated libraries, new functions), a TeX output, and can draw
graphics.
rpm-analyzer 1.0 r7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132331/
rpm-analyzer is a graphical tool to help you analyze rpm dependencies.
You can easily see what packages are required to install or remove a
specific rpm. It may also help you to maintain a Red Hat-based
distribution by providing hdlist and comps.xml analysis tools.
RTEMS 4.6.0pre4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132356/
RTEMS (Real-Time Executive for Multiprocessor Systems) is a commercial
grade real-time operating system designed for deeply embedded systems.
It is a free (as in beer and speech) open-source solution that supports
multi-processor systems. RTEMS is designed to support applications with
the most stringent real-time requirements while being compatable with
open standards such as POSIX. It's been ported to over ten processor
architectures including ARM, PowerPC, i386, M68K, Coldfire, MIPS,
SPARC, SH, H8, and C3x/C4x DSPs. Using the GNU tools for cross
development, you can use any number of systems as development hosts
including both Unix and Windows platforms.
SAS's Accounting Statistics 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132296/
Sasacct fetches traffic stats via ipchains, ipfstat, iptables, pf,
Cisco IP accounting, and SNMP. It makes mrtg-like graphics using
rrdtool. A CGI interface is included for checking date-to-date traffic
statistics and to generate on-the-fly graphics. It also includes
support for fetching the necessary information remotely via a
super-server (such as inetd or xinetd).
Scilab Image Processing Toolbox 20030811 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132267/
SIP provides image processing, pattern recognition, and computer vision
routines for SciLab, a Matlab-like matrix-oriented programming
environment. SIP is able to read/write images in almost 70 major
formats, including JPEG, PNG, BMP, GIF, FITS, and TIFF. It includes
routines for filtering, segmentation, edge detection, morphology,
curvature, fractal dimension, distance transforms, multiscale
skeletons, and more.
showlister .02b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132279/
Showlister is a really simple content management system (CMS) for
bands, public speakers, performers, entertainers, or anyone else who
needs to maintain a performance calendar online. Rather than having to
deal with your Web site maintainer, you simply log in to a
password-protected page on your site and enter/edit/delete your shows
via a forms-based interface. Then you include some PHP code in your
'shows' page (or use the demo one that comes with the app) so it will
always pull your upcoming shows directly from the MySQL database.
Sizzle (the DVD author) 0.5b1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132262/
Sizzle is a reasonably smooth Cocoa GUI wrapper for dvdauthor, mplex
(from mjpeg-tools), and mkisofs (from cdrecored) which makes it very
easy to author reasonably simple DVD Video discs.
Software For Requirement Management 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132252/
Software For Requirement Management is a Tcl/Tk application for
creating and managing requirement specifications. It features
requirement connections, maturity, change history, and comments, and
can use all of these as filters when producing reports (requirement
specifications). It also features a free-form HTML general data-part
for each report.
spidtris 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132365/
spidtris is a blocks game, similar to the Amiga Super TwinTris. It
supports custom wallpaper directories, nice explosion sounds, and cool
visual effects (including screen shaking).
SSHKeychain 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132270/
SSHKeychain is a graphical front-end for ssh-agent and ssh-add with all
the features offered by both of those programs, and more.
STUBS Build Suite and Franki/Earlgrey Linux 20030705
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132324/
Franki and Earlgrey Linux are proof-of-concept Linux distributions for
small and embedded-class systems whose configuration is controlled by a
loosely-knit suite of scripts designed to produce utility toolchains,
known as STUBS. STUBS (the Toolchain and Utility Build Suite) is driven
by an easily-tailored set of configuration files and acquires the
requisite sources by download. Subject to runtime dependencies, it is
capable of working within the Franki Linux environment.
Support Information Tracker 2.0.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132290/
Support Information Tracker is a knowledge base for organizations.
Features include multiple document versions, group permissions,
document submission reviews, and many more.
sXid 4.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132319/
sXid is an all in one suid/sgid monitoring program designed to be run
from cron on a regular basis. Basically it tracks any changes in your
s[ug]id files and folders. If there are any new ones, ones that aren't
set any more, or they have changed bits or other modes then it reports
the changes in an easy to read format via email or on the command line.
tasks 1.7rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132272/
tasks is built on PHP and MySQL. It features a dynamic hierarchical
view of your tasks, scheduling due dates and associating URLs with
tasks, an iCalendar of your tasks (scheduled tasks can go into the
calendar as events or task list). and a mobile version for easy access
with a PDA.
the ripfoo 0.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132338/
The ripfoo is an elaborate Python script designed to create a headless
CD burning and encoding station. You put the CD in the drive, it does
the rest.
ThinStation 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132294/
Thinstation is a mini Linux distribution that enables you to convert
standard PCs into full-featured, diskless thin clients supporting all
major connectivity protocols like Ica, Windows terminal services (RDP),
X, telnet, ssh, etc. It can be booted from the network using
Etherboot/PXE or from standard media like floppy/CD/hd/flash-disk etc.
The configuration is centralized to simplify terminal management.
trux_motion 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132251/
trux_motion is a simple program for detecting motion between a pair of
JPEG images. It uses the GD library to load the JPEGs, and it uses a
simple, fairly fast algorithm for detecting motion.
waypointmapper 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132277/
waypointmapper is a small Perl script that grab coordinate data created
by gpsdrive from MySQL and retrieves relevant maps. It is useful for
populating map data for a new gpsdrive installation.
web-cyradm 0.5.4-rc2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132312/
web-cyradm is a Web-based tool to admin the Cyrus IMAP Server and
partially the Postfix MTA with a nice and fast frontend written in PHP.
It supports multiple virtual domains, setting quotas, and mapping email
adresses to mail accounts.
WebCleaner 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132326/
WebCleaner is a filtering HTTP proxy. It can disable animated GIFs,
compress documents on-the-fly (with gzip), add/remove HTTP headers, and
remove unwanted HTML (adverts, Javascript, etc.). It can be customized
to your needs.
XChatOSD 0.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132306/
XChatOSD is a Perl script for X-Chat which displays the messages
recieved by X-Chat through the xosd library.
XMovie 1.9.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132342/
XMovie is a multimedia player for high quality Quicktime, MPEG, and DVD
movies that supports 6 channel audio. The Quicktime decoder reads
OpenDivx, assorted YUV formats, JPEG photo, MJPA, RGB, DV, IMA4, ULAW,
Vorbis, and PCM codecs. The MPEG decoder reads MPEG-1 video, MPEG-2
video, MPEG-1 system streams, MPEG-2 system streams, VOB files, IFO
files, MP2 and MP3 audio, and AC3 audio.
xMule 1.4.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132258/
xMule is a multi-platform clone of the popular eMule client for the
eDonkey filesharing network. Currently supporting various
Linux/Unix/BSD platforms, it aims at higher stability and portability
than the competitors.
Xrefactory 1.6.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132347/
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.
Yapter 2.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132300/
Yapter (Yet Another PHP Template Engine) is a simple, fast, and
powerful template engine written completely in PHP, for PHP. Its
purpose is to fully strip programming logic from the graphical aspects
of creating Web sites in an elegant way. It deals with traditional
template problems like, for example, the "file-boom"
syndrome.
ZoneCheck 2.0.0b6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132275/
ZoneCheck is intended to help solve DNS misconfigurations or
inconsistencies that are usually revealed by an increase in the latency
of the application. The DNS is a critical resource for every network
application, so it is quite important to ensure that a zone or domain
name is correctly configured in the DNS.
Newsforge Reports
SCO sells a Linux license
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/11/1922213
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Yes, they found someone gullible enough
to bite. At least that's what they're claiming in a press release
that's being spread all over the place, including on money.cnn.com.
Naturally, SCO can't tell you who it is because of "confidentiality
provisions," but the truth will certainly come out sooner or later.
Open Source is good for the Philippine economy
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/09/1355255
- by Victor Serafica - I really do not know why the article "IT
investment and the economy" written by Wison Ng,
(http://www.inq7.net/inf/2003/aug/08/text/inf_38-1 -p.htm) was worth
posting at the most-read news site in the Philippines, since rather
than being an article about IT and the Philippine economy, it is more
of a broadside attack on open source. In this article, "While it may
noted that any savings is always appreciated, any savings ...
Making Linux more like Windows than Windows
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/09/1329244
by Chris Gulker Alan Nugent, CTO of Novell, thinks he knows how to
drive wide adoption of the Linux desktop. Everywhere. Today.
Newsforge Newsvac
Linux Virtual Server Manager Debuts
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/11/2055253
Server provisioning management software vendor Linuxcare on Monday
unveiled the newest version of Levanta, its application for
administering virtual Linux servers on IBM's eServer zSeries systems.
TeraCloud Adds Novell NetWare 6.0 and Linux Support To SRM Solution
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/11/2043225
BELLEVUE, Wash. - August 12, 2003 - TeraCloud Corporation, a leading
provider of storage resource management (SRM) solutions for distributed
and mainframe environments, today announced that its flagship SRM
solution, SpaceNet, will support RedHat(tm) Linux and expand Novell
support to include NetWare v6.0. SpaceNet will help NetWare and Linux
users reduce the cost of managing their storage and improve storage
efficiency with via SpaceNet's ...
Lycoris Tablet OS Shipping on New Toshiba Tablet PCs for $1899
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/11/2035233
*Redmond, WA - August 11, 2003 - *Lycoris Affiliate Desktop Evolution
Launches De-Tablet: an integrated Toshiba Portege Tablet Platform
running Lycoris Desktop L/X Tablet Edition. De-Tablet provides a
flexible Linux desktop operating system in Lycoris Desktop L/X Tablet
Edition on a powerful Toshiba hardware platform. To show dedication to
this new market, the De-Tablet Productivity Bundle is immediately
available for purchase from ...
iAnywhere Teams Up With SuSE Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/11/2022214
iAnywhere Solutions Inc. and SuSE Linux have forged a technology
alliance that will give the mobile technology company access to ongoing
Linux developments, iAnywhere officials announced on Monday.
Caldera employee was important Linux kernel contributor
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/11/1751255
A man employed by SCO Caldera was heavily involved in Linux-ABI binary
emulation modules, it has emerged.
SCO Battle Rooted In Unix History
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/11/1747214
The SCO Group's attempts to squeeze a revenue stream out of Linux is
rooted in the long and tangled history of computer operating systems.
Penguin Wooed By Platform Vendors
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/11/1745200
At LinuxWorld last week, 64-bit Linux was big news. OEMs ranging from
IBM, HP and SGI to lesser known names such as Newisys unveiled hardware
systems based on Intel Itanium or AMD Opteron chip sets.
Starter kit for Sharp BlueStreak LH7A400 SoC supports Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/11/1742239
Sharp Microelectronics of the Americas and Logic Product Development
(Logic) announced the release of a hardware/software development kit
for Sharp's BlueStreak LH7A400 32-bit system-on-chip (SoC) processor.
The kit supports LH7A400-based embedded development targeting the Linux
software platform, and is said to include "production quality" device
drivers, bootloader, board support packages (BSPs), and development
tools.
Linux heads for TVs and videos
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/11/1654206
A group that aims to make Linux run in television sets and other
consumer electronics products is growing in clout.
Samsung Electronics Chooses MontaVista Software
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/11/1650250
Annette Oevermann writes "SEOUL, South Korea and SUNNYVALE, Calif.,
August 11, 2003 -- Samsung Electronics Co. (KSE:05930.KS), Ltd., a
leader in advanced consumer electronics, and MontaVista Software Inc.,
the company powering the embedded revolution, today announced the
signing o f a corporate-wide contract to use MontaVistaî Linuxî,
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CK-Ledger v.0.7.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=300240
A new release, v.0.7.1, of CK-Ledger, has been posted at
SourceForge.Net, http://sf.net/projects/ck-ledger. New features include
traditional Chinese translation, simplified Chinese translation,
Postgresql 7.3.2 compatibility, enhanced payroll generation process and
enhanced email advice when HR staff action on timesheet and leave
application. Other enhancements and bug fixes are also included.
CK-Ledger (with 15 modules, Ledger Admin, Ledger, Bank Reconciliation,
Inventory, Service, AP, AR, PO, SO, Quotation, POS for Cashier, POS for
Manager, HR, Staff Self Service, Payroll) runs on top of phpGroupWare.
Operating platform can either be LAMP or LAPP. It provides accounting
and back office functionalities to SMEs and utilizes phpgw to
administer accounts/groups. Please report error and suggestion to the
mailing list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] . General history
and expected development is available at the mailing list's Archive.
Demo is located at, http://ck-ledger.sourceforge.net
http://ck-ledger.gro.clinux.org http://ck-ledger.cosoft.org.cn Download
is available from, http://sourceforge.net/projects/ck-ledger
http://gro.clinux.org/projects/ck-ledger
http://cosoft.org.cn/projects/ck-ledger
http://sf.linuxforum.net/projects/ck-ledger
Gimp-Print 4.3.19 (development)
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=300227
Gimp-Print 4.3.19, released August 8, 2003, is a development release of
this package. Like all development releases, this version is considered
unstable and should only be used by those individuals tolerant of the
likelihood of problems. Individuals desiring a stable release of
Gimp-Print should use the latest 4.2 release. Gimp-Print is a suite of
printer drivers that may be used with most common UNIX print spooling
systems, including CUPS, lpr, LPRng, or others. These drivers provide
high quality printing for UNIX (including Macintosh OS X 10.2 and
newer) and Linux systems in many cases equal to or better than
proprietary vendor-supplied drivers, and can be used for many of the
most demanding printing tasks. This software includes the Print plug-in
for the Gimp, and Ghostscript and CUPS drivers, including Foomatic
data. The Print plugin for the Gimp requires the Gimp 1.2 (later
versions of the Gimp are not supported). You may need to install a
package named "gimp-devel" or the like on many distributions. The CUPS
driver requires CUPS 1.1.15 or higher. You may need to install a
package named "cups-devel" or the like on many distributions. The
Foomatic data will work with either Foomatic 2.x or 3.x. Foomatic 3.x
has additional capabilities that this package detects and takes
advantage of. The IJS-based GhostScript plugin driver requires GNU
Ghostscript 6.53 or later, ESP Ghostscript 7.05 or later, or APFL
GhostScript 7.04 or later. Users of Macintosh OS X 10.2 and above can
use this package, as the printing system is based on CUPS, which is
supported by Gimp-print. Note that Macintosh OS X 10.0 and 10.1
(including 10.1.5) cannot use this package. Please read the README file
for full instructions on installing this package. Gimp-Print 4.3.19
contains the following major changes over Gimp-Print 4.3.18: 1) An
ImageType setting has been added, with several settings for common
types of image (text, graphics, photograph, mixed). This setting
controls a bundle of other options, considerably simplifying the
available choices. The Manual Control setting enables setting the
individual options. 2) The ImageOptimization setting has been renamed
ColorCorrection. The main effect of this is that settings for the
ImageOptimization control in the GIMP plugin will not be carried
forward from 4.3.18; they will need to be changed back. 3) The Cyan,
Magenta, Yellow, and Black controls have been renamed CyanGamma,
MagentaGamma, YellowGamma, and BlackGamma to avoid technically illegal
constructs in the PPD files. 4) Preliminary support for the Epson
Stylus Photo 935, C43SX, C43UX, C44SX, and C44UX. 5) The
cups-genppdupdate script and PPD files are fixed such that
cups-genppdupdate will work in future releases. The script relies upon
new information in the PPD files, so the script will not correctly
update PPD files from 4.3.18. However, going forward the script will
operate correctly. In addition, the cups-genppdupdate script no longer
requires the non-standard Compress:Zlib perl module. 6) Color quality
has been improved substantially for Epson printers. 7) The CUPS driver
(rastertoprinter) now prefixes all messages with "Gimp-Print: " to
simplify recognition of messages in the CUPS error log. 8) The Quality
setting now controls additional options in the core (dithering and
color correction). 9) The escputil utility has been changed to use the
core package for its printer information database, so all Epson
printers recognized by the core package will now be recognized by
escputil. In addition, the -d option now prints out only the printer
model name rather than the entire status line, and adds an option to
print out only the short name. Finally, certain cases where escputil
did not wait correctly for output from the printer have been fixed. 10)
The XML code has been updated to mxml 1.1.2. 11) A bug in the curve
code whereby rescaling wraparound curves increases the number of points
has been fixed. 12) Constraints have been added to the PPD files such
that using grayscale or black and white mode, or using the Quality or
Image Type settings, will disable certain options. 13) Support and
tuning for Epson Watercolor - Radiant White paper has been added for
printers using Ultrachrome ink (matte black). In addition, Premium
Luster and Premium Semigloss papers have been tuned on most printers.
PasswordSafe 1.9.2c released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=300400
Password Safe is a password database utility. Users can keep their
passwords securely encrypted on their computers. A single Safe
Combination unlocks them all. Release 1.92c is available for download.
This is a maintenance release, fixing a few minor annoyances: Bugfix
[783314] Clearing the clipboard now properly trashes the password in
process memory, as well as emptying the clipboard. Bugfix [760656]
Passing a filename that contains spaces via the command line now works
correctly. Previously, the quotation marks confused PasswordSafe.
Bugfix [777367] The Edit/View Item dialog box's Help button now works
correctly. RFE [772212] Pressing Cancel when prompted for the password
when unminimizing the application no longer exits the program. (Would
happen only if "Lock password database on minimize" is set) Bugfix
[769820] Pressing Cancel in the Clear Clipboard dialog box will now
prevent the passowrd from being copied to the clipboard. Previously, it
was equivalent to pressing OK. (Would happen only if "Confirm item copy
to clipboard" was selected) RFE [768870] Added a manifest file for
native Windows XP theme support. RFE [754790] The option "Clear the
clipboard when minimized" has been changed to "Clear clipboard upon
minimize or exit". Previously, the clipboard was unconditionally
cleared upon exit. This allows the user to change the behaviour. The
PocketPC release incorporates the fixes of the Windows release. In
addition, the endianness of devices built around the SH3 CPU is now
correct. Thanks to Gregg and Karlo for their work fixing the bugs, and
to Kevin for building the PocketPC versions. Link to files:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=41019&release_id
=177038 md5sums: 49b87547f2a09178d2b50bfd4bc72283 pwsafe-1.9.2c-bin.zip
7f00423b03db942422a933039d73fb21 pwsafe-1.9.2c-ppc-bin.zip
bb25d7ab1f0d9bcaf4133b7c311e24c8 pwsafe-1.9.2c-src.zip
Ruby-GNOME2-0.6.0
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=300272
This project is a set of Ruby language bindings for the various
application development libraries included with the GNOME/GTK+
environment. This project is for GTK+2.0 or later. Ruby-GNOME2-0.6.0 is
now available. Enjoy! Highlights ========== * Support ruby-1.8.0. *
Added Ruby/GnomeVFS, Ruby/GtkHtml2 * Merged Ruby/GStreamer * Fixed some
bugs, Improved. * Some classes/methods were added. Downloads =========
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=53614 * ruby-gtk2
The minimum package which includes Ruby/GLib2, Ruby/GdkPixbuf,
Ruby/Pango, Ruby/GTK2. * ruby-gstreamer The minimum package for
Ruby/GStreamer. Ruby/GLib2, Ruby/GStreamer. * ruby-gnome2 All of
Ruby-GNOME2 libraries. Changes since version 0.5.0
=========================== * Ruby/GLib - mkmf-gnome2.rb,rbglib.h,
rbgobject.h, rbgutil.h are installed to site-ruby directories. The
other libraries which depends on Ruby/GLib can compile in any
directotires. [Masahiro Sakai, Masao Mutoh] - Support ruby-1.8.0 [Masao
Mutoh] - Added new macros: [Geoff Youngs, Masao Mutoh]
CBOOL2RVAL/RVAL2CBOOL, G_DEF_CONSTANTS, G_RENAME_CONSTANT - Improved
and Fixed some bugs. [Masahiro Sakai] GLib::Object, GLib::Type,
GLib::Closure, GLib::Signal, - Added some methods: [Masahiro Sakai]
GLib::Param, GLib::Param::*, GLib::Boxed, GLib::Signal, GLib::Pointer -
Removed some methods. [Masahiro Sakai] GLib::Param::*#default,
#default_value * Ruby/GTK - Follow Ruby/GLib changes. [Sakai, Masahiro,
Masao Mutoh] - rbgtk.h are installed to site-ruby directories. The
other libraries which depends on Ruby/GTK can compile in any
directotires. [Masao Mutoh] - Completed: [Geoff Youngs, Masao Mutoh]
Gtk::Clipboard, Gtk::Menu, Gtk::Notebook, Gtk::Socket, Gtk::Plug,
Gtk::FileSelection, Gtk::ListStore, Gtk::TreeStore, Gtk::TreeModel,
Gtk::TextView, Gtk::Notebook, Gtk::ColorSelection, Gtk::Style,
Gtk::ItemFactory, Gtk::Invisible, Gtk::TreeSortable, Gtk::TreeView,
Gtk::TreeSelection, Gtk::TreePath, Gtk::TreeViewColumn, Gtk::Drag,
Gtk::TextTag, Gtk module - Added and completed. Gtk::TreeDragSource,
Gtk::TreeDragDest, - Added some methods, improved, fixed bugs: [Geoff
Youngs, Masahiro Sakai, Masao Mutoh] Gdk::Window, Gdk::Drawable,
Gdk::EventProperty, Gdk module, Gtk::Object, Gtk::Editable,
Gtk::TreeModel, Gtk module, Gtk::TextBuffer, Gtk::IMContext, Gtk::Menu
- Added: [Geoff Youngs, Masao Mutoh] Gtk::BingindSet, Gdk::Display,
Gdk::Screen - Removed: [Masao Mutoh] Gtk::Socket#xwindow,
Gtk::Menu#set_path, Gtk::Notebook#popup_disable/enable,
Gtk::ItemFactory.add_foreign Gtk::TreeSortable#sort_func=,
Gtk::TreePath#to_s * Ruby/GNOME - Follow Ruby/GLib changes. [Masao
Mutoh] - Add Gnome::PixmapEntry#set_preview. [Masao Mutoh] *
Ruby/GnomeCanvas - Follow Ruby/GLib changes. [Masao Mutoh] *
Ruby/Libglade - Follow Ruby/GLib changes. [Masao Mutoh] * Ruby/Libart -
Follow Ruby/GLib changes. [Masao Mutoh] * Ruby/GConf - Fix a bug
[744158] [Masao Mutoh] * Ruby/GStreamer [NEW] - Merged with
Ruby-GStreamer project. [Laurent Sansonetti] - Version informations are
also merged. - Completed: [Laurent Sansonetti] Gst, Gst::Autoplug,
Gst::Cpu, Gst::Format, Gst::Object, Gst::PadTemplate, Gst::Pipeline,
Gst::PluginFeature, Gst::QueryType, Gst::Type - Added and completed.
[Laurent Sansonetti] Gst::AutoplugFactory, Gst::EventMask,
Gsk::EventSeek, Gst::EventSegmentSeek, Gst::EventSize, Gst::Parse,
Gst::SystemClock, Gst::Thread,Gst::MediaInfo, Gst::MediaInfoStream,
Gst::MediaInfoTrack - Added some methods, improved, fixed bugs:
[Laurent Sansonetti] Gst::Caps, Gst::Clock, Gst::Plugin, Gst::Pad,
Gst::Element, - Added: [Nikolai :: lone-star :: Weibull, Laurent
Sansonetti] sample/media-type.rb, gst-inspect.rb, mediap-type2.rb *
Ruby/GnomeVFS [NEW] - Initial release. [Nikolai :: lone-star ::
Weibull] - Completed: [Nikolai :: lone-star :: Weibull] GnomeVFS
module, GnomeVFS::Directory, GnomeVFS::Monitor, GnomeVFS::FileInfo,
GnomeVFS::Error - Added: [Nikolai :: lone-star :: Weibull]
GnomeVFS::File, GnomeVFS::URI * Ruby/GtkHtml2 [NEW] - Initial release.
[Martin Povoln] - Added: [Martin Povoln] Gtk::HtmlDocument,
Gtk::HtmlView
Archetypes 1.0 Released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=300288
Archetypes is a framework for the development of new Content Types in
Zope/CMF/Plone. Schema driven automatic form generation, simple
integration with rich content types, and a lower entry bar to the
complex requirements Zope places on new content objects. New Archetypes
Release is out on the streets. Powered by Brazilian coffee :^) Just
made the final 1.0 release of
"Archetypes":http://sf.net/projects/archetypes This new release
includes a whole bunch of bugfixes, improved FTP support for
BaseContent-based objects with the new RFC822Marshaller (made default),
slight UI cleaning, fixed handling of error messages on form
validation. Also, on this release the *transform* package was
deprecated, and the *validation* and *transform* packages were turned
into standalone distutils-enabled packages. Get the files here: -
"Archetypes":http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/archetypes/archetypes-1
_0-final.tgz?download -
"generator":http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/archetypes/generator-1.0
.tar.gz?download (required) -
"validation":http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/archetypes/validation-1
.0.tar.gz?download (required) - "Portal
Transforms":http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/archetypes/PortalTransfo
rms-1.0a2.tar.bz2?download (optional) Many thanks go to Benjamin
Saller, Sylvain Thenault, Andy McKay, Alan Runyan, Philipp Auersperg,
Robert Boulanger, Fabiano Weimar dos Santos and all the folks that
submitted patches and bug reports. -- Sidnei da Silva dreamcatching ::
making your dreams come true
"http://dreamcatcher.homeunix.org":http://dreamcatcher.homeunix.org
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