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Slashdot
Chinese Government to Use Only Local Software
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/0149207
[0]owlmon writes "CNET Asia is reporting that China has [1]outlawed
foreign software in government applications. I expect that software
buyers outside of the government will have to follow this lead. It's
the same "network effect" that has powered Microsoft's growth for
years. When the entire Chinese government is using WPS Office, anyone
doing business with the government will feel mighty encouraged to
follow suit. Otherwise, how will they exchange documents?"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://asia.cnet.com/newstech/applications/0,39001094,39146335,00.htm
Networking the Redwoods
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/0114209
linuxwrangler writes "SF Gate is [0]reporting that ecology researchers
are outfitting a grove of trees with tiny "micromote" sensors to
monitor the light, humidity and other conditions as the trees grow. The
sensors, running the open-source [1]Tiny OS, form and maintain their
own network. This test of the "Smart Dust" concept (mentioned on /.
[2]earlier) only uses 50 sensors but scientists hope to be able to
deploy the sensors on a large scale to help figure out why California's
Redwoods are dying off at an alarming rate."
Links
0. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/08/18/MN299322.DTL
1. http://webs.cs.berkeley.edu/tos/
2. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/1519208&tid=126
Russia Plans Martian Nuclear Station
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/0053250
An anonymous reader writes "The BBC reports that Russian scientists
have announced plans to build a [0]nuclear power station on Mars. They
say that all the necessary technical drawings have now been completed,
and all will be ready for the construction work to begin. The power
plant should be up and running by 2030."
Links
0. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3162129.stm
Home Biomass Power Generators
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/2347213
TLouden writes "The Rocky Mountain News had an article today about
[0]Community Power Corp. and its new BioMax unit which [1]uses
renewable resources such as corncobs, sawdust pellets, and coconut
shells to produce electricity. This gasifier unit isn't commercially
available yet but we might be seeing it sometime in 2004."
Links
0. http://www.gocpc.com/
1.
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/technology/article/0,1299,DRMN_49_2189510,00.html
Spammer Ducks For Cover
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/2345211
rabidgremlin writes "The New Zealand Herald has an article about a NZ
based spammer who has shut up shop after being at the [0]receiving end
of an anti-spam campaign. Good riddance I say, but some of his comments
("never intended to break any regulations" and "I'll just stick to
search engines and web sites - that's still plenty of fun and money.")
had me wondering if he and other spammers are as really naive as the
article makes out."
Links
0.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3518682&thesection=news&thesubsection=general
SCO: FSF Reply To GPL Claims, Conference Sponsors Back Off?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/1943234
[0]bkuhn writes "Last week's Wall Street Journal (and other news
outlets) carried [1]statements by SCO's Mark Heise challenging the
"legality" of FSF's GPL. [2]FSF has issued a response to this baseless
claim." Also, [3]mcgroarty points out that Intel and HP seem to be
backing swiftly away from their sponsorship of SCO's in-progress Las
Vegas conference (a [4]EWeek article suggests that "Intel Corp. was
recently billed as one of the lead sponsors of SCO's [5]Forum 2003
conference here this week, but then suddenly disappeared from all
marketing and press material for the forum. It appears that
Hewlett-Packard Co. also got cold feet. As late as last week, SCO was
telling attendees that HP would be giving a partner keynote at the
forum on Tuesday morning. But on Sunday the [6]schedule of events given
to attendees when they registered makes no mention of an HP
keynote...") [7]M adds: Now we've got a few stories from the
conference: [8]News.com.com and [9]Eweek. Despite some bad headline
writing at News.com, SCO simply continues to employ the Chewbacca
defense, showing no code to back up their claims. Amusingly, Darl
McBride started his rant about copyright infringement by copying some
footage from a James Bond movie. Bravo!
Links
0. http://member.fsf.org/
1. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/14/1521256&tid=88
2. http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/sco/sco-preemption.html
3. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
4. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1224031,00.asp
5. http://www.sco.com/2003forum/
6. http://www.sco.com/2003forum/agenda.html
7. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
8. http://marketwatch-cnet.com.com/2100-1016_3-5065286.html
9. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1224321,00.asp
Talk About A Security Hole, Go To Jail?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/2155210
Nu11.org writes "According to a SecurityFocus article, 'Federal
prosecutors in California went too far when they [0]put a man in prison
for disclosing a website security hole to the people at risk from it.'"
According to the article, "...by explaining how the vulnerability
worked, and why customer data was at risk, prosecutors asserted, the
security specialist 'impaired the integrity' of the affected network",
citing the case of Bret McDanel and his former employer, Tornado
Development, Inc. We've [1]discussed the disclosure of software
exploits recently.
Links
0. http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/179
1. http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/07/2243214&tid=172
Solving a Wiring Mess?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/202249
[0]FueledByRamen asks: "While trying to run a new power line for a
large Sun mass-storage cabinet (located nowhere near a 220 outlet of
course), I had the misfortune of needing to pop the lid on my main
power distribution panel (previously opened in the late 80s). The whole
thing is a rats nest and probably a fire hazard - old-style wiring with
broken-down cloth/plastic insulation strewn everywhere, and the
utility's incoming power cables have some sort of junction in them
that's the size of a 1-liter bottle (on each wire) and is covered in
layers of electrical tape. Even (gently) putting the panel back on
jiggled something important, and there was a nasty cracking noise and
half the breakers blew (all breakers in one of the 2 columns). I've
worked with mains voltage in the past (wiring new rooms, installing
lighting), but nothing on this scale, both in terms of complexity and
potential for death. How do you industrious Slashdot readers go about
fixing a mess like this (on a tight budget, no less) without getting a
mains-induced glimpse at the great beyond?"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
New WiFi Standards, Double the Data?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/2022252
morkeleb writes "According to the New York Times (free reg. req.), just
when you thought it was safe to stock your home or office the 802.11x
way, [0]another possibility springs up. From Stanford and Bell Labs
comes an approach using MIMO, which 'relies on taking advantage of huge
amounts of computing power to send numbers of signals from closely
spaced antennas', thereby enhancing range and throughput. Looks like
Intel and Nokia are interested in the technology, as well as a number
of highroller venture capitalist groups."
Links
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/18/technology/18WIFI.html
Sony Shoots For 4-Filter CCD, 8 Megapixel Camera
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/1852220
Artifex writes "If you're looking to spend about $1200 on a new digital
camera, check out [0]this Digital Photography Review look at Sony's
upcoming [1]8 MegaPixel Cyber-shot DSC-F828. The most interesting thing
isn't the number of pixels in this prosumer-grade camera, but its
4-color filter CCD system. ['Instead of the traditional RGB color
filter array, the new CFA is made up of Red, Green, Blue and Emerald
(like Cyan) color filters.'] I've always been a strict [2]Canon fan,
but this is making me think twice."
Links
0. http://www.dpreview.com/articles/sonydscf828/
1. http://news.sel.sony.com/pressrelease/3909
2. http://www.powershot.com/
Freshmeat
A.R.M. 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133105/
A.R.M. (Assisted Record Making) is a modified version of a utility
written to automate DNS record creation. It is designed to help people
new to BIND and DNS to create DNS records.
Aapl C++ Template Library 2.8.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133096/
Aapl is a C++ template library for generic programming. It contains
Linked List, Avl Tree, Vector, Binary Search Table, Double Ended Queue,
Finite State Machine Graph, String, and Sort. The library is designed
to be versatile for the programmer. For example, the linked list
utilizes both inheritance and templates to allow a single instance of a
data structure to be an element in multiple lists. In general, Aapl
data structures do not have private data members and are thus not
abstracted away.
ABISS_poster 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133038/
ABISS_poster is a LaTeX class for creating A0 posters easily.
afick 0.9.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133040/
afick is another file integrity checker, designed to be fully portable
between Unix and Windows platforms. It works by first creating a
database that represents a snapshot of the most essential parts of your
computer system. You can then run the script to discover all
modifications made since the snapshot was taken (i.e. files added,
changed, or removed).
AirportStatus 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132974/
AirportStatus is a gtkmm2 program that can monitor and set the modem
state of your Apple Airport base station (Type1) modem.
AnimalTracker 0.66
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133080/
AnimalTracker can be used to track the position of animals and their
behavior in the context of an observation. Users can draw a map of the
area and position the animals on it. The application can then calculate
the distance between the animals and the distribution of them on the
map across a specified time period. All data can be exported as tables
to be used in spreadsheet applications or statistics programs.
batchgimp 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132999/
batchgimp is a batch processor for rendering of images. It uses a
command-line interface, and supports JPEG, GIF, PNG, and PSD file
formats. It accesses the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) plug-in
structure to provide image processing functions. Images are processed
in a batch for an entire directory. batchgimp is written in Perl and
interfaces with the Scheme scripting engine provided by the GIMP.
beboCD 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132991/
BeboCD is a libcdaudio-based CD player with an easy-to-use GUI.
BeeCrypt 3.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133008/
BeeCrypt is an ongoing project to provide strong and fast cryptography
in the form of a toolkit usable by commercial and open source projects.
Included in the library are entropy sources, random generators, block
ciphers, hash functions, message authentication codes, multiprecision
integer routines, and public key primitives.
Bookcase 0.6.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133103/
Bookcase is a personal book collection manager for KDE. It uses an XML
file storage format, and tracks 26 book properties by default.
Unlimited user-defined fields are allowed. Author names are
automatically formatted, and the collection may be sorted by any
property. Filters are available to limit the visible books by definable
criteria. Full customization for printing is possible through editing
the default XSLT file. Automatic ISBN validation is included. Exporting
to Bibtex and Bibtexml is possible.
BSDftpd-ssl 0.6.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133026/
BSDftpd-ssl is a TLS/SSL-enhanced FTP server. It is based on FreeBSD's
ftpd, and the TLS/SSL enhancement allows RFC 2228 "FTP Security
Extensions"-compliant TLS/SSL support for both control and data
connections. This feature requires special clients; with standard
clients, this software operates as a standard FTP server.
Bugzero 2.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133047/
Bugzero is an all-in-one product for software bug tracking, defect
issue incident tracking, trouble ticketing, help desk support, and
customer email management. It is simple to use and avoids complexity by
making the tasks or projects separate and independent. It is platform
and database system independent (based on Java). It supports multiple
projects, group and field level access control, automatic bug
assignment, file attachment, email notification, inbound email
management, metric reports, and workflow. It also features advanced
search capability, a comprehensive bug audit trail, CVS version control
integration, self registration to public projects, and an easy to use
system administration tool for project configuration and user account
management.
checksuite 2.1-0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132880/
checksuite is a suite of Perl scripts that provide notification and
assistance with day-to-day system administration tasks. These scripts
monitor system resources as well as some security aspects on a system.
ClarkConnect Internet Gateway 2.0 (Office)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133092/
ClarkConnect is a software package that transforms an old beat up PC
into a smart, simple, and secure Internet gateway and server for your
home or small office network. In addition to connection sharing, the
software comes with a strong firewall, Apache, dynamic DNS utilities,
and Samba filesharing. The software is based on Red Hat Linux.
ColorDesigner 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133011/
ColorDesigner is a small app which lets the user design a color set.
cvsreport 0.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133049/
CVSreport produces text or enhanced HTML activity reports from a local
or remote CVS repository. It can be used to extract activity
information from any timespan, or to automatically generate reports and
store/send them on commit events. It can extract changesets (a set of
commit operations which happen along a single invocation of the cvs
commit command) from a CVS repository history. Used from the client
side, it produces a report starting from an arbitrary date from a
simple working copy. On the server side, it can automatically generate
reports and mail them upon commit.
Cyrus IMAP Server 2.1.15 (2.1)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133062/
The Cyrus IMAP server is generally intended to be run on sealed
systems, where normal users are not permitted to log in. The mailbox
database is stored in parts of the filesystem that are private to
Cyrus. All user access to mail is through the IMAP, POP3, or KPOP
protocols. The private mailbox database design gives the server large
advantages in efficiency, scalability, and administratability. Multiple
concurrent read/write connections to the same mailbox are permitted.
The server supports access control lists on mailboxes and storage
quotas on mailbox hierarchies, multiple SASL mechanisms, and the Sieve
mail filtering language.
Digital Tester 0.2 ALPHA
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133070/
Digital Tester is a test planning and execution tool. It aims to be an
alternative to Test Director or QA Director. Its features include
requirement definition and tracking, test case design and planning,
test case execution and result tracking, and simple effective reporting
of planning, execution, and result data.
Divmod Quotient 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132995/
Quotient is a conversation server which is part personal information
manager and part messaging server. It provides services such as full
text indexing and structured information extraction. It currently
supports POP3 and IMAP4 with IRC/IM and SIP coming soon.
Dogfood 2.0.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133087/
Dogfood is an groupware and CRM system based on phprojekt. It featues
an improved mail module and tightened relationships.
DotPHP 3.0 (FormForge)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133021/
DotPHP is framework similar to ASP.NET. It contains FormForge, Web
components, NuSOAP, and PHPBaseClasses.
DRT 0.3.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133095/
DRT is a design recovery tool for interactive graphical applications
running under the X Window System. The tool automatically captures
actions performed while using such an application. Functions
particularly relevant to each action are highlighted. Moreover, the
action itself is described visually from fragments of the application
display. One can search and browse these actions to learn about the
design of an application.
DSPAM 2.6.5-alpha-2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133031/
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.
DVDdb 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133003/
DVDdb is a web based DVD database that allows multiple users to track
ownership and loans of DVDs amongst friends.
Etherboot 5.2.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133057/
Etherboot is a free software package for making boot ROMS for booting
Linux and other operating systems on x86, Itanium, and Hammer machines
over a network using Internet Protocols, i.e. DHCP and tftp.
exiftags 0.98
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133066/
exiftags parses a JPEG file looking for Exif (Exchangeable Image File)
data, formatting, and printing image properties. Digital cameras
typically add Exif data to the image files they produce containing
information about the camera and digitized image. exiftags includes
support for some camera manufacturer-specific properties.
Exim 4.21 (exim4)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133036/
Exim is a message transfer agent (MTA) developed at the University of
Cambridge for use on Unix systems connected to the Internet. In style
it is similar to Smail 3, but its facilities are much more extensive.
Exim is in use at many sites around the world.
eXtace 1.8.11 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133101/
eXtace is a visual sound display/analysis program. It requires Esound
(esd) for its audio source. It includes various fast fourier transforms
of the audio data in realtime. Its displays include a 3D wireframe
flying landscape, a 3D textured flying landscape, a 16-256 channel
graphic EQ, three types of scopes, a 3D "spike" flying
landscape, and two forms of spectragrams. The 3D traces can be picked
up, manipulated, and displayed at nearly any angle. eXtace also
features a 3D direction control widget for controlling the angle and
speed at which the trace runs away and a gradient/colormap editor for
changing the colormap to suit your needs. No OpenGL is required.
fam++ 3.5.0 (fampp2)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133027/
fam++ is a C++ wrapper for fam, which uses imon or DNotify (Linux
2.4.x) to inform it when inodes change (the net effect being that
applications can register interest in a file, and have events send to
the application when the file changes). Fam++ also integrates with gdk
and Loki to make creation of C++ GTK+/GNOME apps simpler.
ffproxy 1.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133016/
ffproxy is a filtering HTTP proxy server. It is able to filter by host,
URL, and header. Custom header entries can be filtered and added. It
can even drop its privileges and optionally chroot() to some directory.
Logging to syslog() is supported, as is using another auxiliary proxy
server. An HTTP accelerator feature (acting as a front-end to an HTTP
server) is included. Contacting IPv6 servers as well as binding to IPv6
is supported and allows transparent IPv6 over IPv4 browsing (and vice
versa).
FinalSolution 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133084/
FinalSolution is a network administrator's tool to check the strength
of network passwords. This is done by trying to crack the server you
want to test. FinalSolution is multithreaded--i.e., it makes many
simultaneous connections to the test server in order to optimize the
bandwidth usage. It is also distributed, which means you can make the
test from many computers to a single server. It could be useful in some
cases when the test server has more bandwidth than you. Using
distributed cracking helps optimize the bandwidth usage in the server's
side.
FindBugs 0.6.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133053/
FindBugs looks for bugs in Java programs. It can detect a variety of
common coding mistakes, including thread synchronization problems,
misuse of API methods, etc. It is written in the GJ dialect of Java,
and will run on any Java VM compatible with Sun's JDK 1.4.0 or later.
It includes both GUI (Swing) and commandline frontends.
FireRPC 0.9.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133045/
FireRPC is a library that provides an easy interface for C programs to
make remote function queries via the XML RPC protocol. It supports
SSL/TLS, HTTP authentication, HTTP 1.1 persistent connections, and
pipelining. It also supports POST data compression via bzip2 and
response compression via bzip2, gzip, deflate, and compress.
FUDforum 2.5.3RC1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133019/
FUDforum is templatable forum with i18n support based on PHP and either
MySQL or PostgreSQL. It features a user/group management system, a
multi-lingual spell checker, both flat and thread message views, a
private messaging system with mult-iuser forwarding capabilities, poll
file attachments, and much more. It is an extremely fast and scalable
forum that can fulfill the needs of both small and large forum
operators.
Gerber Viewer 0.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133091/
Gerber Viewer is a viewer for Gerber files, also called RS274X. It lets
you load several files on top of each other, do measurements on the
displayed image, etc. With GDK-PixBuf it is also possible to export
images as PNGs.
gHeiseReader 2002-02-14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132975/
gHeiseReader is a GTK program that provides the ability to read the
German "Heise-news" in a pre-cached form.
gmorgan 0.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133073/
gmorgan is a fully programmable General MIDI rhythm station. It
features chord recognition for playing in real-time.
grepmail 5.20
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132982/
grepmail searches a normal or compressed mailbox (gzip, bzip2, or tzip)
for a given regular expression and returns those emails that match the
query. It also supports searches constrained by date and size.
GtkGLExt 1.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133072/
GtkGLExt is an OpenGL extension to GTK 2.0 or later. It provides
additional GDK objects which support OpenGL rendering in GTK, and
GtkWidget API add-ons to make GTK+ widgets OpenGL-capable.
Gwine 0.6.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133010/
Gwine is a GNOME wine cellar manager written in Perl.
HBCI4Java 2.4.2 (Package)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133034/
HBCI4Java is a Java library for the HBCI home banking interface. It
supports almost all aspect of the HBCI versions 2.01, 2.1, 2.2, and
HBCIplus (with PIN/TAN support). Its API is very application-oriented,
so no knowledge about HBCI is required.
Hermes 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133054/
HERMES is a Web application framework designed to help provide a rapid
application development framework for business tools with an initial
focus of CRM (application included). It provides an integrated and
flexible approach to business tools, and allows for database
abstraction, library models, user rights management, and other critical
areas.
ibWebAdmin 0.92
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133088/
ibWebAdmin is a web based admin tool for the InterBase and Firebird
database servers. Beside creating, modifying, and deleting of
databases, tables, domains, generators, triggers, indices, and users,
it supports import and export of data in CSV file format. It features
browsing through tables and entering/editing of data, including BLOBs.
IceWM SilverXP Theme 1.2.10-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132990/
The IceWM SilverXP Theme was inspired by the Microsoft Windows XP
Silver Theme. The title bars and window borders have the look of
Windows XP. The colors of all elements are very similar to the colors
of the Windows XP interface.
Internet Chess ToolKit 0.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132992/
Internet Chess ToolKit is a Java-based set of libraries and widgets
useful for performing common tasks such as reading SAN
(internationalized), FEN, PGN, and generating legal moves.
ivykis 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133022/
ivykis is a library for asynchronous I/O readiness notification. It is
a thin, portable wrapper around OS-provided mechanisms such as
/dev/epoll, /dev/poll, kqueue(2), poll(2), POSIX realtime signals,
select(2), and epoll_create(2). ivykis was mainly designed for building
high-performance network servers, but can be used as building block for
any kind of event-driven application that uses poll(2)able file
descriptors as its inputs.
Javadoc Search 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133102/
Javadoc-search is a CGI script for indexing and searching HTML files
produced by the JavaDoc tool. It allows fast and convenient regular
expression searches for class and class member names, and for full
method signatures that include argument types. It examines pages
generated by JavaDoc and builds its own index.
JaxMeJS 1.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132997/
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.
jSyncManager 3.0 beta 01 (Core Application Set)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132987/
jSyncManager is a Java-based data synchronization toolkit for PalmOS
handhelds. It consists of a developers API, including a fully
Palm-compatible synchronization protocol stack, and a set of end-user
applications. It is ideal for use by any individual or organization
that needs fast, stable, and easily extendable PalmOS handheld data
synchronization that can run on a variety of platforms. It also
supports plug-ins, which can be used to add synchronization support to
applications, and includes a variety of import and export modes,
including XML and CSV.
jSyncManager 3.0 beta 04 (API)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132986/
jSyncManager is a Java-based data synchronization toolkit for PalmOS
handhelds. It consists of a developers API, including a fully
Palm-compatible synchronization protocol stack, and a set of end-user
applications. It is ideal for use by any individual or organization
that needs fast, stable, and easily extendable PalmOS handheld data
synchronization that can run on a variety of platforms. It also
supports plug-ins, which can be used to add synchronization support to
applications, and includes a variety of import and export modes,
including XML and CSV.
KMonodim 2.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133005/
KMonodim is a simple solver for monodimensional particle-in-a-box
problems, written for QT/KDE. It current solves problems with various
potentials such as square well, square well with a barrier, parabolic,
and morse potential. It provides calculation of eigenvalues and
eigenfunctions for a given system, Richardson extrapolation to achieve
better precision, loads and saves in XML format, can do simultaneous
work on multiple systems, and integral evaluation.
KnowledgeTree 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133042/
KnowledgeTree is a feature-rich document management system featuring
knowledge management, document version control, hierarchical document
management, support for common file formats (MS Word, MS Excel, PDF,
TXT, HTML), extensible meta data, creation of custom document types,
application managed document links that guarantees consistent data and
eliminates emailing documents, easy publication of documents,
subscription agents, archiving according to expiry date, expiry time
period, or utilisation for enhanced speed, and much more.
Konstruct 20030818
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133007/
Konstruct is a build system which helps you install KDE releases and
applications on your system. It downloads defined source tarballs,
checks their integrity, decompresses, patches, configures, builds, and
installs them. A complete KDE installation should be as easy as
"cd meta/kde;make install". Optionally, you can install
additional applications like KOffice, KDevelop, or Quanta (for example,
"cd apps/koffice;make install").
kracer 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133046/
kracer is a racing game for Nokia phones that support J2ME. It is aimed
at the higher resolution Nokia phones such as the series 60 phones
(3650, 7650). It still needs more tracks and better graphics.
LaTrine 0.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133015/
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.
libferrisloki 2.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133029/
libferrisloki is a Loki library that has been adapted for Linux and
contains extensions in Extensions.hh.
libferrisstreams 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133030/
libferrisstreams is a collection of base classes for custom
std::basic_streambuf subclasses, SigC signals fired when streambuf
objects are about to be deleted, relative URL handling, easy reference
counting on streambuf objects, a collection of IOStreams which
complement the standard ones on offer (MakeMemoryIOStream(),
MakeFdIOStream(), MakeHoleyOStream(), MakeLimitingIStream(), and
MakeProxyStream()), and additions for UNIX semantics. For example a
file stream can be created using o_mmap|o_mseq when one wants a memory
mapped file to be used an madvise(2) that access to that area will be
sequential.
Lupy 0.1.5.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132989/
Lupy is a full-text indexer for Python. It is a port of Jakarta Lucene
to Python, and reads, writes, and searches indexes in Lucene binary
format. Like Lucene, it is sophisticated, scalable, and Unicode aware.
Mail::Mbox::MessageParser 1.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132977/
Mail::Mbox::MessageParser is a feature-poor but very fast mbox parser.
It uses the best of three strategies for parsing a mailbox: either
using cached folder information, GNU grep, or highly-optimized Perl.
Mes comptes 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133033/
Mes comptes is a French program for managing your finances.
MinDia 0.97.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133002/
MinDia is an application for creating, modifying, and presenting
multimedia slide shows. Slide shows can contain multimedia elements
like images, sounds, and text. In addition to displaying on screen, it
can control Rollei slide projectors (Rolleivision 35 twin digital P and
Rolleivision twin msc 3x0 P) via a serial port.
Minimalist Queue Services 0.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133071/
MQS (Minimalist Queue Services) is a minimalist queueing system that
provides a set of basic methods in order to offer asynchronous
messaging for program/application. Applications can use this type of
services in order to store and retrieve messages to a dedicated queue
in the queue services. This allows you to avoid direct connection
between applications and provides a simple asynchronous communication
system. It provides a simple set of XML-RPC methods for pushing and
getting messages in a specific queue (so you can use the system with
any application that can talk XML-RPC). The queue is stored in a
database (e.g., MySQL).
mod_caml 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133090/
mod_caml is a set of Objective CAML (OCaml) bindings for the Apache
API. It allows you to run CGI scripts written in OCaml directly inside
the Apache Web server. However, it is much much more than just that.
You can bind to any part of the Apache request cycle, read and modify
internal Apache structures, share modules of code between handlers and
scripts, or use the CGI library and templating system (allows
separation of code and presentation).
moodss 17.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133061/
Moodss (the Modular Object Oriented Dynamic SpreadSheet) displays data
described and updated in one or more modules loaded at startup time or
dynamically. Data is originally displayed in tables. Graphical viewers,
summary tables, free text viewers, and threshold entries can be created
from any number of table cells. Moodss has full drag'n'drop support in
the UI, and comes with numerous modules for system, database, network,
and other types of monitoring. New modules can be developed in Tcl,
Perl, Python, or C. A monitoring daemon (moomps) for UNIX is included.
It can react to thresholds and record data history in any database for
later analysis or for presentation using common software.
msmtp 0.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133078/
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.
Nicotine 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133079/
Nicotine is a feature-complete client for the SoulSeek filesharing
network. You can use it to upload, download, search, and chat. You can
keep a "buddy" list and basically everything else a SoulSeek
client is supposed to do. If you are familiar with PySoulSeek, you'll
probably notice a striking resemblance in appearance.
OpenCOE 1.1.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133039/
The OpenCOE project provides an implementation of the
publicly-available DII COE APIs. The Defense Information Infrastructure
Common Operating Environment (DII COE) is an initiative of the Defense
Information System Agency to provide a common set of resources and
procedures for system administration and security across multiple
platforms. The OpenCOE project is not in any way affiliated with or
sponsored by DISA.
OpenOffice.org 1.1 RC3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132996/
OpenOffice.org is the Open Source project through which Sun
Microsystems is releasing the technology for the popular StarOffice
productivity suite.
OpenOffice2Text 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133006/
OpenOffice2Text is a converter that translates OpenOffice.org documents
to ASCII text or HTML.
Oralux 0.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132998/
Oralux is a GNU/Linux distribution for blind or visually impaired
people. It is based on Knoppix, and runs from the CD-ROM. An audio
desktop replaces the graphical user interface.
PasTmon 0.4-0 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133076/
PasTmon (Passive Application Response Time Monitor) passively monitors
your application servers, measuring and reporting user response times,
throughput and congestion. It currently works with HTTP, telnet,
rlogin, rsh, FTP (control channel), SMTP, POP3, and IRC. Measurements
are recorded in a PostgreSQL database and are presented graphically via
a PHP Web front-end using R statistical analysis scripts to create the
plots.
PennMUSH 1.7.7p17 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133068/
PennMUSH is a MUD server that is often used for running social or
role-playing games, with an extensive internal programming language. It
runs on Unix systems, Windows, and MacOS.
pf2x 1.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132985/
pf2x is a PHP script that will take the output of your pflog and
convert it into various different output formats. These output formats
include plain text, XML, HTML, PDF, and MySQL INSERT statements for
import into a MySQL database. This was developed and tested on OpenBSD
3.3 but should work for any system that uses PF.
PHP 4.3.3RC4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133069/
PHP is a widely-used Open Source general-purpose scripting language
that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into
HTML. Its syntax draws upon C, Java, and Perl, and is easy to learn.
PHP runs on many different platforms and can be used as a standalone
executable or as a module under a variety of Web servers. It has
excellent support for databases, XML, LDAP, IMAP, Java, various
Internet protocols, and general data manipulation, and is extensible
via its powerful API. It is actively developed and supported by a
talented and energetic international team. Numerous Open Source and
commercial PHP-based application packages are available.
php Dealer Locator 3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133051/
php Dealer Locator lets you keep track of your dealers with this quick
and easy Web-based PHP application. Your visitors will be able to
search by name, distance, city, and zipcode.
phpBuns 0.5.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133075/
PhpBuns is a generator of SQL query and Web pages written in PHP. For
example, it makes it possible to generate the queries and pages
necessary for creating a Web interface for adding, editing, deleting,
listing, and retrieving data from an SQL database.
potrace 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132994/
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.
PREDICT 2.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133043/
PREDICT is a multi-user satellite tracking and orbital prediction
program. It can provide a real-time display of data such as a
spacecraft's sub-satellite point, azimuth and elevation headings,
Doppler shift, path loss, slant range, orbital altitude, orbital
velocity, footprint diameter, orbital phase (mean anomaly), squint
angle, eclipse depth, the time and date of the next AOS (or LOS of the
current pass), orbit number, and sunlight and visibility information.
PSYC Multi User Virtual Environment cvs-03-04-22
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132724/
PSYC Multi User Virtual Environment is a networkable chat system based
on the Protocol for SYnchronous Conferencing. PSYC is interchanged
between servers and clients, but users can also use telnet, Web-chat,
or IRC clients to connect to the system. Chatrooms are programmable and
cannot be hacked. Unlike IRC, everyone can run a PSYC server and be an
equal member of the communication network.
PurpleWiki 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132939/
PurpleWiki is a WikiWikiWeb implementation derived from UseModWiki that
adds several features and modularizes the code for easier development.
It includes purple numbers (a system that allows fine-grained linking
to elements in a page), a parser that supports pluggable output formats
and use by other tools (plugins for Movable Type and Bloxsom are
included), RSS feeds of recents changes, and transclusion of content
between pages managed by the parser (within and without the Wiki).
pxlib 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133041/
pxlib is a simple and small C library to read Paradox DB files. It
supports all versions starting from 3.0. It currently has a very
limited set of functions, like opening a DB file, reading its header,
and reading every single record. It can also extract blob data and
write it to a file.
PyCg 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132959/
PyCg is a Python wrapper for the Cg runtime fron NVIDIA. It allows you
to transfer and control vertex and fragment programs from Python.
PycURL 7.10.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133009/
PycURL is a Python module interface to the cURL library. PycURL can be
used to fetch objects identified by an URL within a Python program.
Pymprovisator 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133052/
Pymprovisator is a program for jazz musicians. Jazz music is based on
improvisation and this program is intended to help musicians to
improvise. The user sets the song parameters and the program generates
a MIDI file with an adequate accompaniment. It emulates the program
Band in a Box from PG Music. You can think of it as the electronic
version of the books/CD from Jamey Aebersold.
Q 4.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132978/
Q is a powerful and extensible functional programming language based on
the term rewriting calculus. When programming with Q, you specify an
arbitrary system of equations which the interpreter uses as rewrite
rules to reduce expressions to normal form. Q is useful for scientific
programming and other advanced applications, and also as a
sophisticated kind of desktop calculator. The distribution includes the
Q programming tools, a standard library, add-on modules for interfacing
to GNU Octave, Tcl/Tk and IBM's Data Explorer, and an Emacs mode.
Q-Audio 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132979/
Q-Audio is a digital audio interface for Q. The package contains two
modules which together provide the basic functionality needed to write
digital audio applications. The audio module implements a (nearly)
real-time audio interface on top of the PortAudio library, and the
sndfile module allows you to access sound files in various formats
using libsndfile.
Q-Midi 1.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132980/
Q-Midi is a MIDI interface module which allows you to write MIDI
applications in the Q programming language. It runs on top of Grame's
MidiShare package. Most basic MidiShare functionality is available,
including timing functions for realtime programming and MIDI file
access. A sample MIDI player application is included (which requires
Tcl/Tk).
Qalculate! 0.2 (GTK+)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133050/
Qalculate! is a modern desktop calculator. It is small and simple to
use, but with much power underneath. It features customizable functions
and variables, unit handling, and an interface with one-line
fault-tolerant expression entry, but with optional traditional buttons.
Quick Spam Filter 0.7.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133100/
Quick Spam Filter is a small, fast spam filter that works by learning
to recognise the words that are more likely to appear in spam than
non-spam. It is intended to be used in a procmail recipe to mark email
as being possible spam.
RedLeaf 0.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133012/
RedLeaf is simple mailing list management software. If you interested
in sending periodic email messages to a group of opt-in subscribers
(people who are interested enough to subscribe to your newsletter),
then it will help you maintain that list.
RetroForth 6.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133099/
Retro is a clean, usable Forth-based development system. It currently
runs under Linux and DOS, or as an operating system.
Reverend 0.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132988/
Reverend is a general purpose Bayesian classifier written in Python. It
is designed to be easily adapted for your application and is not tied
to email.
S tar 1.5a20 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133001/
Star is a very fast, POSIX-compliant tar archiver. It reads and writes
POSIX compliant tar archives as well as non-POSIX GNU tar archives.
Star is the first free POSIX.1-2001 compliant tar implementation. It
saves many files together into a single tape or disk archive, and can
restore individual files from the archive. It includes a FIFO for
speed, a pattern matcher, multi-volume support, the ability to archive
sparse files and ACLs, the ability to archive extended file flags,
automatic archive format detection, automatic byte order recognition,
automatic archive compression/decompression, remote archives, and
special features that allow star to be used for full and incremental
backups. It includes the only known platform independent
"rmt" server program that hides Linux incompatibilities. The
"rmt" server from the star package implements all
Sun/GNU/Schily/BSD enhancements and allows any "rmt" client
from any OS to contact any OS as server.
saintSQLadmin 2.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132910/
saintSQLadmin is a simple Web-based application for administrating your
MySQL databases. It is capable of adding or dropping databases, adding
or dropping tables, changing or modifying your table definitions, and
viewing, adding, editing, or deleting records.
Samba 3.0RC1 (3.0.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133097/
The Samba software suite is a collection of programs that implements
the SMB protocol for unix systems, allowing you to serve files and
printers to Windows, NT, OS/2 and DOS clients. This protocol is
sometimes also referred to as the LanManager or Netbios protocol.
SaveMyModem 1.0pre8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133025/
SaveMyModem is an anti-spam, email-shaping, and delete-on-server email
tool. It is designed for users with slow dialup connections who are
tired of downloading large amounts of spam and worm and virus
attachments.
sensorTrends 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132981/
sensorTrends is a Web-based application that displays a high-level view
of the ports that are being scanned over the course of time. The
display is similar to the look and feel of incidents.org and
Dshield.com. There are also quick links to correlate your data with
incidents.org and Dshield.com. Supported log formats are Cisco router
Access Control Lists (ACLs) syslog output, Cisco PIX firewall syslog
output, Snort's portscan.log files, and NetScreen syslog output.
Slibo 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133074/
Slibo aims to be a comfortable replacement for the xboard chess
interface, written for OpenGL and KDE. It uses the xboard protocol and
can be used with common chess engines like crafty or gnuchess, but it
provides its own chess engine too. Though its designed to be easy to
use for the new chess player, it supports playing multiple games the
same time, or anaylzing PGN files with multiple engines.
slurm 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133059/
slurm started as a port of pppstatus to FreeBSD and now is a generic
network load monitor. It features three different modes with real-time
ASCII graphs and interface statistics for all kinds of network
interfaces on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Linux.
SMTP client class 2003.08.18 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133077/
SMTP client class is a class that connects to a SMTP mail server to
send messages. It can relay message delivery to a defined SMTP server
or directly deliver messages to a recipient's SMTP server for urgent
message delivery. It supports connection timeouts, SMTP authentication,
returns message delivery success, detects extensions supported by the
SMTP server, and takes advantage of the SMTP PIPELINING extension to
buffer SMTP commands, providing much faster queueing of messages when
delivering to a large number of recipients (bulk mail).
Snownews 1.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133082/
Snownews is a text mode RSS/RDF newsreader. It supports RSS feeds that
comply to W3C's RDF 1.0 specification and Radio Userland's 0.9x and
2.0. Snownews depends on ncurses and uses libxml2 for XML parsing.
SoulSeek for Linux 1.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132949/
Soulseek (http://www.slsk.org) is a communication and file-sharing
system. It is quite similar to Napster: it lets you exchange files,
search for files, chat with other users in public and in private,
browse their files, and get recommendations for music. SoulSeek for
Linux is a GUI client for the system written in Python/wxPython. It
includes all the major functionality: chat, searches, and file
transfers.
SWISH++ 5.14.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133086/
SWISH++ is a Unix-based file indexing and searching engine (typically
used to index and search files on web sites). It was based on SWISH-E
although SWISH++ is a complete rewrite. SWISH++ is at least 10 times
faster and can handle much larger numbers of files. Additionally, it
has unique features such as selective non-indexing, on-the-fly filters,
user-selectable stemming, and more.
Sword 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133085/
Sword is a general-purpose C++ library which gives you high-quality
classes for some very common tasks such as "logging",
"time/date", "commandline parsing", etc.
tasks 1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133000/
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.
Telboek 0.05
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133098/
Telboek provides a commandline interface (Perl) for the Dutch
whitepages of the KPN. It fetches data from
http://www.detelefoongids.nl/ and formats it nicely, so you don't have
to open a browser to look up a phone number.
tgif 4.1.43
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133081/
tgif is a vector-based drawing tool, with the additional benefit of
being sort of a web-browser. That is, you can fetch drawings from a web
server with it, and you can make objects in your picture into hotlinks
to other parts of the drawing, or to other drawings accessible via
HTTP.
The Figaro 1.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133058/
The "Framework for Implicit Graph Algorithms and Representations
by OBDDs" (Figaro) automatically manages experiments with input
generator and algorithm plugins. It contains network generators and
maxflow algorithms, both explicit and implicit.
TinyCA 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133017/
TinyCA is a simple GUI written in Perl-Gtk to manage a small
certification authority. It works as a frontend to OpenSSL. TinyCA lets
you manage x509 certificates. It is possible to export data in PEM or
DER format for use with servers, as PKCS#12 for use with clients, or as
S/MIME certificates for use with email programs. It is also possible to
import your own PKCS#10 requests and generate certificates from them.
TinyCA is available in English and German.
VDRadmin 0.94
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133044/
VDRadmin is a program to administer VDR (video digital recorder) via
HTTP. A small HTTP server is included.
vhost 3.05r3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133018/
vHost is a one-step solution for all virtual hosting needs. It enables
a Linux/BSD server with single or multiple IP addresses to handle
unlimited Web/FTP/email domains. It comes with both command-line and
Web-based graphical user interface, which gives maximum control to a
domain's owner, while relieving the system administrator of most
routine administration tasks. It also has built-in
"clustering" capability.
viPlugin 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133089/
viPlugin is an Eclipse plugin that adds vi functionality to the editors
that are provided with Eclipse (JDT, CDT, etc.).
VIPS 7.9.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133067/
VIPS is a free image processing system. It's particularly good with
large images (i.e., images larger than the amount of RAM in your
machine), and for working with colour.
weex 2.6.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133013/
Weex is a utility that is designed to automate the task of remotely
maintaining a Web page or other FTP archive. It will synchronize a set
of local files to a remote server by performing uploads and remote
deletes as required.
Xeuphoric 0.18.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133014/
Xeuphoric is a port of Euphoric, Fabrice Francès' Oric emulator,
to the X window system. It emulates the Oric-1, the Oric Atmos, and the
Telestrat.
xMule v2 0.1.0 (Web UI)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133020/
xMule v2 is a multi-platform file-sharing program, a fork of the
original xMule project. It connects to the eDonkey2000 network, has
customizable user interface(s), features console and Web interfaces for
local and remote controlling, and includes much more.
Zabbix 1.0beta10 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133024/
Zabbix is software that monitors your servers and applications. Polling
and trapping techniques are both supported. It has a simple, yet very
flexible notification mechanism, and a Web interface that allows quick
and easy administration. It can be used for logging, monitoring,
capacity planning, availability and performance measurement, and
providing the latest information to a helpdesk.
ZenEngine 0.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133048/
ZenEngine is a lightweight PHP CMS framework, mainly designed for
homepages. It's actually based on XML/XSLT for content, and the
file-system for navigation, but it is largely customizable and could be
used with an SQL database or other kind of data store.
Newsforge Reports
The inevitability of Total Information Awareness
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/13/1755205
- by Campbell Vertesi - In the age of the Internet, technology
inevitably fills demand. In the case of music-swapping services, we all
recognize that the recording industry hasn't a hope of stopping every
file-sharing service around. So long as there is a demand for easy
access to music, technology will rise to meet that demand, and all the
lawsuits in the world won't help the RIAA to stop it. So why should we
expect anything different from ...
SCO Scuttles Sense, Claiming GPL Invalidity
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/160200
- by Eben Moglen - Now that the tide has turned, and SCO is facing the
dissolution of its legal position, claiming to "enforce its
intellectual property rights" while actually massively infringing the
rights of others, the company and its lawyers have jettisoned even the
appearance of legal responsibility.
Tea leaves and Linux market share
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/1516245
- by Joe Barr - I was - just as the story lead suggested - a bit
slackjawed over a statistic from Gartner Dataquest cited in a recent
news story. The statistic causing that reaction was that the Linux
server market share of U.S. sales had grown 90% in the 4th quarter of
2002 over the same quarter in 2001. Try as I might, I could not make
that statistic fit with data from IDC.
Newsforge Newsvac
Top Tip: Best card for hassle-free sound in Linux?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/2058218
"Which budget sound card would you recommend as the most likely to be
configured automatically by a majority of Linux distros? Which high-end
card?
Details emerge on new $299 Linux PDA
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/1945237
Anonymous Reader writes "A brand-new Linux-based PDA is due to hit the
market this September, at a price of $299 (USD). Softfield, which took
on support of the Agenda VR3 following the demise of Agenda Computing,
said it will release the entirely-new MX-7 in early Sep., 2003. The
device is based on an ARM 920T based processor running at 200MHz"
Unix/Linux Keystroke Information Disclosure Weakness
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/1944211
A weakness has been discovered in the entropy pool implemented by the
/dev/random device on various Unix-derived operating systems. The
problem occurs when the pool has been emtpied, and the entropy
mechanism begins to the seed the pool with a source of pseudo-random
data. It has been discovered that due to keystrokes from the console
being a source of seeding the entropy pool, it may be possible for an
attacker to deduce a user's keystrokes ...
Red Hat embarrassed by SuSE certification
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/1942237
LAST FEBRUARY, Red Hat and Oracle jointly announced (C|NET)
cooperation to obtain Common Criteria (CC) certification for the Red
Hat Advanced Server operating system and the Oracle 9i Release 2
database running on that platform. But at LinuxWorld last week, IBM and
SuSE revealed their achievement (LWN) of CC Enterprise Assurance Level
2+ (EAL2+) certification first, with SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 on
the IBM xSeries platforms, thus beating ...
Creditcard-sized XScale SBC boasts extensive embedded Linux support
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/190256
InHand Electronics Inc. announced immediate availability of the third
generation of its tiny "Fingertip" single-board computer family. The
credit card sized Fingertip3 is InHand's first SBC to be based on an
Intel XScale microprocessor, and also provides substantially enhanced
power management capabilities and an SD Card slot. The board supports
embedded Linux as its target operating system.
Los Alamos to study weapons, HIV virus with Linux clusters
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/1550226
Los Alamos National Laboratory yesterday announced a deal to acquire
two Linux clusters, one for modeling nuclear weapons and the other for
unclassified research in biology, chemistry and engineering.
Microsoft Urges Users Not to Use Windows on the Internet
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/1546219
Microsoft's Web site was recently urging users to purchase additional
hardware or software - or keep computers using the Windows OS off of
the Internet altogether. Steve Suehring makes no claim that Linux has
all of the answers for security. "However, attacks can be prevented
much easier with Linux," he writes.
Expert says Linux may be 'inevitable'
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/1215219
DAVID D. FRYE, the man whose "job is to make Linux run better" at
IBM's laboratory for the open source operating system, sees the day
when the average computer user, home or office, will be using a
computer run on open-source software. Perhaps in as little as two
years, he surmised.
Report predicts Linux surge in corporate desktops
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/1323239
Siemens Business Systems is predicting that Linux will garner 20% of
the corporate desktop market within five years. The claim is based on
the results of extensive real world testing with non-technical users
who could be just as productive on a Linux desktop, but at a lower
cost.
Cheaper Linux makes rapid strides in India
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/1252257
Linux, a low-cost and lesser-known operating system with growing
corporate use and backing by cash-strapped state governments, has
caught on in India, diluting Microsoft's monopoly.
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Sourceforge
Aqsis Renderer bug fix release 0.7.16
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=301920
This is just a bug fix release. There was a critical bug in the 0.7.15
release which meant the Aqsis executable wouldn't work under Windows,
it couldn't find displays an other resources via the environment
variables. Aqsis is a Renderman(tm) compliant 3D rendering toolkit.
Aqsis is based on the Reyes rendering architecture. Features include :
Programmable Shading True Displacements NURBS CSG Motion Blur
Subdivision Surfaces
EVMS 2.1.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=302041
The EVMS Project uses a layered, plug-in model to provide unparalleled
flexibility and extensibility in managing storage. This allows for easy
expansion or customization of various levels of volume management. The
EVMS team is announcing the next maintenance release of the Enterprise
Volume Management System. Package 2.1.1 is now available for download.
This release is primarily intended to allow EVMS to work with the new
Device-Mapper interface, but also contains other miscellaneous bug
fixes. This version of EVMS will continue to work with existing 2.4
kernels compiled for EVMS 2.x, but users are encouraged to upgrade to
the new Device-Mapper kernel driver if possible. Downloads at the
project page: http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/evms/ Please see the
INSTALL file in the 2.1.1 package for information about installing and
getting started with this new EVMS release. EVMS 2.1.1 is supported on
2.4.21, 2.4.20, 2.4.19, and 2.6.0-test3 kernels. If you have any
questions, find any bugs, or simply want to report success stories,
please send email to the EVMS mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) or
visit the EVMS IRC channel (irc.freenode.net, #evms). Please see the
notes and changelog at:
http://www.sf.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=178193
Glib/Gtk2 0.94 and GladeXML 0.90
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=302040
The latest beta cycle introduces more missing functions and quite a lot
of documentation for those wishing to write bindings for other
gtk2/gobject-based libraries. This is also the first release in a beta
cycle that should take the GladeXML module to 1.0. We need bug and
missing functionality reports! This project provides perl bindings for
gtk+ 2.x and a few related libraries.
Bogofilter-0.14.5-New Current Release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=302168
Two parser fixes, a new '-T' (terse mode) option for scripting, and FAQ
updates. See NEWS-0.14 for more detail. The bogofilter package
implements a fast Bayesian spam filter along the lines suggested by
Paul Graham in his article "A Plan For Spam" . It is written in C.
Supported platforms: Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and OS X.
Animal Shelter Manager 1.20 Stable released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=301793
This release contains the awaited medical tracking, lots of new
features, improvements and of course the obligatory bug fixes. Animal
Shelter Manager is a complete computer solution for animal sanctuaries
and rescue shelters. Features complete animal management, document
generation, full reporting, charts, internet website publishing,
PetFinder integration and more.
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