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Slashdot
Worm vs. Worm Battle Slows Networks
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/20/0138249
joel_archer writes "According [0]this article at the [1]DrudgeReport, a
worm, apparently designed to patch MSBlaster infected Win2K and XP
machines, brings various Canadian networks to a crawl. Hardest hit was
the 411 system, Air Canada, and Ontario hydro electric operations.
Apparently this is causing more problems than MSBlaster itself."
Links
0. http://www.drudgereport.com/flash1.htm
1. http://www.drudgereport.com/
During Blackout, Ham Radio Shined
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/2223242
[0]Mark Cantrell writes "An interesting bit on [1]AP through Yahoo
today. Seems that ham radio (which recently had a bit of [2]backlash
here on Slashdot from a few people thinking it was useless, outdated,
technology), really shined through during the blackouts. When the power
went, ham radio operators, using battery backup power, were able to
help coordinate emergency workers while the cell phone networks were
overloaded. For anyone wondering why [3]interference due to power line
broadband is considered a bad thing, well, there ya go."
Links
0. http://www.nwinfo.net/~mcantrell/
1.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=528&ncid=528&e=1&u=/ap/20030819/ap_on_hi_te/blackout_ham_radio
2. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?cid=6651327&sid=74100&tid=193
3. http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2003/08/08/2/?nc=1
DNSSEC: Good Enough?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/20/0123255
[0]Phil Windley writes "[1]DNS Security Extension, or DNSSEC, is a set
of extensions to DNS, which provide end-to-end authenticity and
integrity. Paul Mockapetris, the [2]inventor of DNS believes DNSSEC is
the answer to many of the identity problems on the Internet. He wants
the IETF to get off the dime and approve the DNSSEC spec. A recent
[3]article in ZDNet TechUpdate interviews Mockapertis on DNSSEC
([4]summary)."
Links
0. http://www.windley.com
1. http://www.dnssec.net/
2. http://www.windley.com/2003/06/27.html#a697
3. http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2914447,00.html
4. http://www.windley.com/2003/08/19.html#a781
Watercooling Drifting Mainstream
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/2330257
pacc writes "With Prescott said to dissipate [0]103 W and the dual
Apple G5 playing in the same league, air cooling seems less than
sensible. Nikkei Electronics has an article about [1]watercoolers
getting standardized by Hitachi. A technology pioneered by [2]a NEC
desktop last May."
Links
0. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11092
1. http://neasia.nikkeibp.com/wcs/leaf?CID=onair/asabt/fw/260967
2. http://neasia.nikkeibp.com/wcs/leaf?CID=onair/asabt/news/247756
Codename Brutus: Chess-Playing FPGA PCI Card
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/2229238
[0]rockville writes "Brutus, a FPGA add-in PCI card developed by
[1]ChessBase and Dr. Christian Donnegar, just dominated a strong field
of human players at a [2]tournament in Germany. It's the first serious
chess-playing FPGA architecture since Deep Blue was disassembled after
its victory over Kasparov in 1997. Pictures of the card and a short
description are [3]here."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.chessbase.com/
2. http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1131
3. http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=221
Network Blackout
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/2021244
An anonymous reader writes "[0]Renesys put together a [1]special report
on the effects of the recent blackout on routing and network
reachability on the Internet. It includes a [2]cool animation of
networks dropping off the internet (presumably as a result of the power
outage). It is interesting to see how localized some of the outage
was--networks in New York state right up to the Vermont border go dark
while everything on the other side of the border is quiet. New York
City obviously gets clobbered."
Links
0. http://www.renesys.com/
1. http://www.renesys.com/news/
2. http://www.renesys.com/news/2003-08-14/blackout.html
FCC Lifts AOL IM Limits
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/1953252
[0]TypoNAM writes "'The Federal Communications Commission has agreed to
[1]lift restrictions that have barred AOL Time Warner from offering
advanced instant messaging services including videoconferencing,
according to a source familiar with the decision.'" A couple of years
ago, the FCC made a big fuss about how it was [2]watching out for the
public interest in approving the AOL/TW merger.
Links
0. http://slashdot.org/~TypoNAM
1. http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5065650.html
2. http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Cable/Public_Notices/2001/fcc01011_fact.pdf
Movie Industry Blames Texting for Bad Box Office
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/1918243
cybercuzco writes "The movie industry is [0]blaming poor sales of such
movies as Gigli, The Hulk and Charlies Angels not on the fact that they
were poor quality, but because people text message other people telling
them that the movie stinks. Industry executives say that this
undermines a carefully crafted marketing image. Expect texting to be
banned by the MPAA in the near future."
Links
0. http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/news/story.jsp?story=434778
Gov't Proposes Massive Homeless Tracking System
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/1714226
[0]Chris Hoofnagle writes "The Dept. of Housing and Urban Development
is proposing a massive system of tracking for homeless people and
others who are served by shelters and care centers. The system will
track people by their SSN, and will collect health (HIV, pregnancy) and
mental information. Secret Service and national security agents can
gain access to the database by just asking for it! EPIC has released a
[1]fact sheet on HMIS, and the public can comment on the [2]guidelines
until September 22, 2003, but no electronic comments are being
accepted."
Links
0. http://choof.org
1. http://epic.org/privacy/poverty
2. http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/homeless/hmis/index.cfm
A Fully Distributed Power Grid?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/1650235
[0]rleyton writes "There's an interesting and [1]topical black-out
article on an "internet inspired" [2]hydrogen powered energy network.
The premise is homes, cars, factories and offices store up hydrogen
when energy is available, and supply it into the new energy network
when it's not. Certainly an intriguing idea, with some interesting
comments on future power management. Feasible in the next "three
decades"? Perhaps."
Links
0. http://www.leyton.org
1. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/14/2050243&tid=99
2. http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1021298,00.html
Freshmeat
Alcea Fast BugTrack 3.62
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133158/
Alcea Fast BugTrack includes problem tracking with attachments, email
notification, charts, history trails, reports, anonymous functionality,
and customization. The free demo installs in 5 minutes. It is ideal for
bug tracking, defect tracking, and customer requests.
Bauk 1.82 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133121/
Bauk is a high-performance HTTP server for Unix-like operating systems.
It brings together a rich set of features with real configurability and
ease of administration. Some of Bauk's features include virtual hosts,
URL aliases, virtual host aliases, execution of CGI programs, HTTP
authentication: Basic method, directory browsing, network traffic per
virtual host quotas, connections per client IP number quotas, access
restriction by IP address, configurable HTTP log format and location,
multiprocess architecture, simple configuration, easy administration,
flexibility, and much more.
BIAsed 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133139/
BIAsed is a partial implementation of RFC 3338: "Dual Stack Hosts
Using BIA". This RFC specifies a mechanism of dual stack hosts
using a technique called "Bump-in-the-API" (BIA) which allows
for the hosts to communicate with other IPv6 hosts using existing IPv4
applications. The goal of this mechanism is the same as that of the
Bump-in-the- stack mechanism, but this mechanism provides the
translation method between the IPv4 APIs and IPv6 APIs. Thus, the goal
is simply achieved without IP header translation.
Booby 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133194/
Booby is a multiuser, multilanguage, fully themeable Web-based desktop
application which provides online management for bookmarks, contacts,
todos, notes, and news. It is written in PHP and is mostly database
independent by using the database abstraction layer 'ADOdb'. It is
fully themeable (using Smarty). It is based on a generic MVC design
pattern/framework that uses items with a potential hierarchical
relationship as its base.
cc65 2.9.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133198/
An almost ISO C compatible C compiler which produces binaries for
6502-based computers. Targets that are supported out of the box are:
Apple ][, Atari 8Bit machines, Commodore C64/C128/C16/C116, Commodore
Plus/4, Commodore 600/700, and GEOS for C64. The package includes a
complete suite of assembler developement tools (assembler, linker,
archiver) which allows mixing of C and assembler code.
Childsplay 0.68
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133196/
Childsplay is a suite of educational games for young children. It aims
to be more games-like then gcompris.
Clustered JDBC 1.0beta7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133182/
Clustered JDBC is to databases what RAID is for disks. C-JDBC provides
transparent database clustering (partitioning, replication, etc.) to
any Java application through JDBC. It works with any Java application
without code modification and with any database engine. C-JDBC has been
successfully tested with Tomcat, JBoss, JOnAS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, HSQL,
SAP DB, Oracle, Sybase, and more.
cmdftp 0.62
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133211/
cmdftp is a command line FTP client for Linux with shell-like functions
which uses passive mode only, works in local and remote mode
transparently, tries to keep the connection alive, and supports
multiple and recursive file transfers. It is aimed at being simple yet
powerful.
CodeTek VirtualDesktop 2.3.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133206/
CodeTek VirtualDesktop brings full virtual desktop support as available
on other operating systems (Mac OS 9, Windows, Unix, Linux) to the Mac
OS X platform.
Coyote Linux 2.2.3 (GUI Disk Creator)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133155/
Coyote Linux is a single floppy distribution for setting up network
utility services such as Internet connection sharing, firewalling, or
wireless access points. The goal of the Coyote project is to make it as
quick and easy as possible to set up a Linux floppy, and to require a
minimal amount of Linux knowledge to do so.
Coyote Linux 2.02 (Floppy Firewall - Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133154/
Coyote Linux is a single floppy distribution for setting up network
utility services such as Internet connection sharing, firewalling, or
wireless access points. The goal of the Coyote project is to make it as
quick and easy as possible to set up a Linux floppy, and to require a
minimal amount of Linux knowledge to do so.
cuckooo 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133138/
cuckooo is a KDE KPart which allows OpenOffice.org to be run inside a
Konqueror window or as a standalone application with the KDE look and
feel.
Damn Small Linux 0.4.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133166/
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.
Dr. Geo 0.9.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133128/
Dr. Geo is interactive geometry software that uses GTK. It allows you
to create geometric figures and interactive manipulate them within
their geometric constraints.
fake-tools 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133181/
fake-tools consists of various tiny utilities that help to make
building of bigger projects easier. You can merge multiple data files
into one, link data files into your executable, and convert from one
format to another.
fix-mime-charset 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133212/
Fix-mime-charset automatically detects character sets of email message
and modifies the Content-Type header appropriately. It can be used as
mail filter in mailing lists where users often set the charset of their
messages incorrectly. It processes messages fast and accurately,
ignoring attachments, and correctly interprets transfer-encodings. None
but the Content- Type header is changed.
FreeMarker 2.3pre12 (Lazarus)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133200/
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.
g4u 1.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133176/
g4u ("ghost for unix") is a boot-floppy/CD that allows one to
easily clone PC harddisks by using FTP. This is often done to deploy a
common setup on a number of PCs. The floppy/CD offers two functions: it
uploads the compressed image of a local harddisk to a FTP server, and
then it can retrieve that image via FTP, uncompress it, and write it
back to disk. Network configuration is fetched via DHCP. As the
harddisk is processes as a image, any filesystem and operating system
can be deployed using g4u. Easy cloning of local disks as well as
partitions is also supported.
GNUMail.app 1.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133180/
GNUMail.app is a clone of NeXT's excellent Mail.app application. It
uses the GNUstep development framework, which is based on the OpenStep
specification provided by NeXT.
GPL Arcade Volleyball 0.7.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133136/
GAV (GPL Arcade Volleyball) is an object-oriented multi-platform Arcade
Volleyball clone. It supports multiplayer and theme customization.
High Level Assembly Language 1.55
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133126/
The High Level Assembly Language (HLA) was designed to allow advanced
assembly language programmers to write more readable and powerful
assembly language code. It makes it possible to write code by
leveraging knowledge of high level languages like C, C++, Pascal, and
Delphi. HLA compiles into 80x86 assembly language, which is assembled
by MASM, TASM, or Gas.
HyperSpell 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133168/
HyperSpell is a convenient menu item that gives you instant access to
Mac OS X's built-in spellchecker. All you do is click on HyperSpell's
icon in the menu bar and enter the word, or words, that you want
spellchecked. Words that are misspelled appear with a red underline.
You can then control-click (or right-click) on the misspelled words to
reveal a list of possible spellings.
ImageSpace 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133217/
ImageSpace creates 2D images by mutating syntax trees according to user
input. The user acts as the fitness function and selects images by
aesthetic criteria. Selected images can be rendered and saved in
resolutions up to 2048x2048.
jGnash 1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133140/
jGnash is a personal finance application written in Java. A JVM of 1.4
or greater is required. jGnash supports basic account types and simple
investment accounts at this time. jGnash has support for split
transactions, nested accounts, and currencies. jGnash can import QIF
files excluding investment accounts and transactions. Data is stored in
an XML format so it is easy to manipulate and read the data external to
the program.
JHexDump 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133210/
JHexDump is a command-line driven hex dump program. It inputs a stream
of data from a file and outputs the hexidecimal representation of every
byte in the input data.
Jinzora 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133173/
Jinzora is a Web-based MP3 library and media streamer. It is a fork of
the Zina project, adding many more end-user features to extend its
functionality. The main goal is to build a very easy-to-use/highly
functional Web interface to an MP3 collection.
JTAG Tools 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133178/
JTAG Tools is a software package which enables working with JTAG-aware
(IEEE 1149.1) hardware devices and boards through a JTAG adapter. This
package has an open and modular architecture with the ability to write
miscellaneous extensions like board testers, flash memory programmers,
and so on.
Kronophobia 1.0-r2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133094/
Kronophobia is a complete event-based school calendaring system that
supports recurrence, transportation assignments, alerts, parent/public
registration, custom reports, event tracking, and e-mail notification.
lambda 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133188/
Lambda is an interactive Lambda calculus interpreter. It reduces lambda
expressions and converts them into the S, K, and I combinators (ext).
It has the ability to associate names with lambda expressions (def),
load definitions from a file (load), and list current definitions
(list). Lambda expressions representing integers are automatically
defined as needed. Many interesting combinators are provided in a
definition file. Various settings are provided to influence the way
reduction and extraction are performed (set). A short manual is
provided showing how lambda works.
Landscapes by B. Kaemper 3.1g
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133147/
Landscapes by B. Kaemper is a theme created with artworks of the
painter B. Kaemper. It contains a KDE theme, an IceWM decoration, an
icon set, images for the slide show screensaver, a console schema, a
splash screen, and a KFM background image.
LaTeXDB 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133219/
LaTeXDB brings together LaTeX and a MySQL database. You can use SQL
queries in your LaTeX document and loop over the result sets creating
tables, serial letters, and other stuff.
Layer-7 Packet Classifier for Linux 2003-08-19 (Pattern Definitions)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133218/
This project is a filter that classifies packets based on application
(or layer 7) data. This means that it is able to classify packets as
HTTP, FTP, Gnucleus, etc, regardless of what port the services are run
on. It complements existing filters that classify based on route, port
numbers, and so on in the existing Linux QoS infrastructure.
libhtmlTemplate 1.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133127/
libhtmlTemplate is a very simple and small library to aid you on
developing CGI applications, by separating the output from the code.
libintl-perl 1.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133195/
libintl-perl is a library that supports message translation for Perl,
written in pure Perl (version 5.004 or better). Its interface is very
similar to the gettext family of functions in C, and it uses the same
file formats as GNU gettext does, making it possible to use all tools
available for gettext itself and to seamlessly integrate
internationalized Perl code into mixed-language projects.
LON-CAPA 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133167/
LON-CAPA (The LearningOnline network with CAPA) is a learning content
and course management system. It is similar to BlackBoard and WebCT in
many respects, but with a focus on science and math in higher
education.
macstl 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133129/
MacSTL is a C++ source library which offers an implementation of
std::valarray which is optimized for the Altivec instructions found on
newer Macintosh computers. Even with Altivec optimizations off, it is
almost 2x faster than gcc's STL, due to the ruthless weeding out of
redundant loads and stores. The Mach copy-on-write vector is a partial
specialization of std::vector for the Mach allocator. It neatly uses
the OS vm_copy facility to "get around" thread safety issues
when doing copy-on-write and reference counting. As a result,
std::vector can be copied, passed back by value and enlarged without
the same overheads.
Manim 0.1.2b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133170/
Manim is simple graphical tool to make stop motion animation. It uses
mplayer, mencoder, and libavcodec to provide support functions.
Martian Memory 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133208/
Martian Memory is a simple memory game oriented to kids, featuring the
Pachi el marciano's world characters. The goal of the game is to pick
up two identical chips from a board that contains 32. The game contains
very nice visual effects, sounds, and very nice music composed by Jonne
Valtonen.
Morphon XML-Editor 3.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133130/
The Morphon XML-Editor is a validating WSYSIWYG XML editor that lets
you create and modify XML documents in an intuitive manner. Using DTDs
(Document Type Definitions) and CSS (Cascading StyleSheets), the editor
guarantees the integrity of your XML documents and presents them in a
consistent and user-friendly way. The XML editor is bundled with the
Morphon CSS Editor that can be used to customize your CSS, allowing you
to change every aspect of the way the XML editor presents your document
while editing. The CSS editor can also be used stand-alone to directly
create CSS for the Web.
MoviX2 0.3.1pre3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133152/
MoviX2 is a small Linux distro that transforms your PC in a powerful
multimedia box. Using the GUI version of mplayer to play audio/video
files, after booting your PC with MoviX2 you will be able to play any
DVD/VCD, most video/audio files (most noticeably DivX but generically
any AVI, MPEG, QuickTime, WMV, ASF, MP3, and OGG), and also radio
stations on the Internet if you are connected to a LAN. And since all
systems will be completely loaded in RAM, you do not even need a HD to
use MoviX2.
MUSCLE 2.43
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133185/
MUSCLE (Multi User Server Client Linking Environment) is a messaging
server and networking API. It is portable to any OS with a sockets API
and a C++ compiler. It lets programs communicate via streams of
PortableMessages (very similar to BeOS's BMessage class) layered over
TCP streams. The included server program ("muscled") lets its
clients message each other, and/or store information in its serverside
hierarchical database. The database supports queries via regex and
"live" updates via a subscription mechanism, and may be
subclassed to if application-specific logic is needed.
MyClient 2.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133171/
MyClient is a simple and clean Web client interface for the MySQL
database. Features include multiple query windows, one-button table
descriptions, one button database switching, query save and load, and
query results saving. It is not a full featured administration tool,
but rather a quick and easy query interface designed for those who are
looking for a Web-based implementation of the command line interface.
myDVDs 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133183/
myDVDs is a complete personal Web-based graphical DVD inventory
database based fully upon PHP with a MySQL backend and the master
Region1 DVD database. Additionally, it makes use of the :CueCat:
barcode reader for database Adds and Searches. It represents an easy
and efficient way of managing that ever-growing collection of DVDs.
NeoStats 2.5.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133164/
NeoStats provides unique services to IRC via loadable modules. It does
not provide the traditional NickServ/ChanServ services, but instead
provides services like "HostServ", which can automatically
set a user's virtual host upon logging onto a IRC network, or
"StatServ", which can provide detailed statistics about the
network, individual servers, or channels, and produce an HTML page. It
also includes a number of "Fun" services, like
"LoveServ" and "MoraleServ". Additional modules are
available via the NeoStats Web site or through third party developers.
Currently, NeoStats supports UnrealIRCd, UltimateIRCD, Hybrid7,
Bahamut, MysticIRCd, QuantumIRCd, and NeoIRCd, with more IRCD support
being developed.
Nicotine 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133207/
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.
oxygen XML editor 2.0.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133133/
Oxygen is a Java-based XML editor with support for XML, XSL, TXT, XSD,
and DTD documents. It has FOP and Unicode support and the interface
messages have been translated to English, French, German, Italian, and
Romanian.
p0f2 2.0 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133134/
p0f2 is a versatile passive OS fingerprinting utility, to be used for
evidence or information gathering on servers, firewalls, IDSes, and
honeypots, for pen-testing, or just for the fun of it. It is a complete
rewrite of p0f version 1 by William Stearns, and until (if) both
projects are merged, will be listed separately.
Pantomime 1.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133179/
Pantomime provides a set of Objective-C classes that model a mail
system. It is fully written in Objective-C (some very small parts in C
where performance is critical), and is part of GNUMail.app.
pdc 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133191/
PDC is a desktop calculator in the 'bc' style with features designed
for programmers. It does not support floating point math, but does
provide all the C operators (logical, bitwise, shifts, etc.) and
implements ISO C operator precedence. Additionally, functions are
available to assist with 'bit bashing' tasks such as byte swapping and
bit scanning.
PhpDocumentor 1.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133184/
PHPDocumentor is a PHP script for creating javaDoc-style documentation
from PHP code. It can document object-oriented and procedural code. It
supports all javaDoc tags, including inline links, and also supports
PHPdoc documentation in PEAR style.
PHPlist 2.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133202/
PHPlist is a mailing list system that allows posting via a Web page. It
works well when used for announcements, and can handle very large email
address lists. Users can sign up to multiple lists, but will only
receive a single copy of cross-posted messages. When signing up, users
can identify their geographical location, and messages can be targetted
to these. You can add place holders in your email that will be replaced
with personal details (such as the person's name). Users can update
their own information, and unlike many other mailing list systems, they
can change their email address. HTML emails are supported.
Poppassd-ceti 1.8.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133153/
Poppassd-ceti is a Qualcomm password changer daemon with PAM support
and several other improvements. This program is intended to be a secure
way to change system passwords via the Web. Methods that involve
calling SUID programs directly from the Web are especially avoided.
Poppassd strictly isolates the Web interface from actual password
manipulations. The program contains no known security bugs that could
be reported since it was released several years ago. This version uses
PAM, which means you can do anything PAM can. Currently, there are PAM
modules for almost all known authentication methods available.
Python Gutenberg E-text Project 0.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133190/
The PyGE project aims to provide free cross-platform desktop
applications to make the growing collection of copyright-free literary
works from Project Gutenberg more accessible to the typical computer
user. The suite includes PyGETS, a program for searching and
downloading available PG e-texts, PyGEMZ, a program for converting
e-texts to a format suitable for both desktop and Palm PDA usage, and
PyGERS, a program for comfortably viewing e-texts which includes basic
text-to-speech capabilities.
Qastrocam 3.7 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133209/
Qastrocam is a capture program that can work with any video4linux
device. Its main purpose is to do astrophotography. It can control a
telescope to do guiding with the images received from the video device.
It can also control the extended features of a webcam modified to do
long exposure (several seconds) captures.
QtTV 0.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133141/
QtTV is a TV guide that uses XMLTV as a backend to display TV listings
on any QT enabled platform, although it has been primarily designed for
the Sharp Zaurus.
RefDB 0.9.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133125/
RefDB is a reference database and bibliography tool for SGML, XML, and
LaTeX documents. This is an attempt to provide most of the
functionality of commercial packages like Reference Manager or EndNote
in a platform-independent tool, targeting markup languages rather than
word processors.
rpm-analyzer 1.0 r8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133193/
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.
Samwise 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133177/
Samwise is a keyword-based link keeper that allows you to tag a given
link with multiple keywords and generate listings on the intersection
of sets of keywords. It supports multiple users, each with their own
distinct set of keywords and bookmarks, and allows each user to have a
set of private bookmarks visible only when they are fully logged in.
SecureServ 0.9.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133165/
SecureServ is an IRC trojan detector. It's much like a virus scanner,
but aimed at IRC networks. Using several methods, including version
checks, behavior analysis, and general pattern matching, it aims to
detect trojans, viruses, and floodbots which connect to your IRC
network. Its "brains" are based on a "Definition
file" which contains information on how to detect trojans. To
update detection for new trojans, you only have to download a new file.
Sentinel IRC Services 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133169/
Sentinel provides statistical and operator services for EFnet, IRCnet,
and Dalnet IRC daemons. It supports Hybrid/Comstud (5, 6, 7, comstud
1.x, CSr, csircd, ircd-ratbox), IRCnet 2.10.x, and Bahamut. It features
a StatServ, a SplitServ, flood protection, customized HTML output, a
Jupe service, and a number of drone/clone tracking tools. It fully
supports many Hybrid 6 and 7 extensions.
Server Status 1.6.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133192/
Server Status is a server monitor that simply displays a list of
servers to monitor and displays whether they are alive on the network
or not.
skill and snice 4.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133186/
skill sends signals to processes given any combination of user names,
ttys, commands, and pids. snice changes the priority of processes
(given the same). They are similar to kill(1) and renice(8), but the
commandline is order-independent. There are also verbose, search, and
interactive modes of operation.
SourceStyler 1.3.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133160/
SourceStyler is a tool for C++ developers that provides complete
control over the formatting and layout of C++ source code. SourceStyler
features over 75 individual formatting options, 7 predefined formatting
schemes, user-defined formatting schemes, complete support for ANSI
C++, a convenient graphical interface, real time preview facilities,
automated formatting on trigger events, and a command line interface
for use in scripts.
SuperKaramba 0.30
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133215/
SuperKaramba is a tool that allows anyone to easily create and run
little interactive widgets on a KDE desktop. Widgets are defined in a
simple text file and can be augmented with Python code to make them
interactive. Current widgets include everything from simple news
headline displays to complete custom replacements for kicker, the KDE
toolbar.
sybadmin 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133157/
Sybadmin is a set of bash scripts which could be useful for the
administration of a Sybase ASE server. These scripts should help you
perform such activities as backing up databases or transaction logs,
saving vital server information (e.g. devices and logins), checking
database consistency with dbcc commands, and checking database usage.
TAMS 2.23b2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133162/
TAMS (Text Analysis Markup System) is a qualitative or ethnographic
coding and data extraction-analysis system.
Thy 0.8.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133161/
Thy is a lightweight HTTP daemon that is designed to be clean and fast,
yet powerful enough to serve many hits a day. Despite its small size,
it supports CGI, IPv6, SSL/TLS, and on-the-fly compression.
TPL Compiler 1.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133163/
TPL Compiler compiles a phpBB-style template into a Python module,
which can be called with a data dictionary to apply that data to the
template.
tropism 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132984/
tropism is a 3-in-1 theme; it has light, medium, and dark versions.
ViIndex 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133205/
ViIndex is an indexer program with a flexible and powerful indexer, a
finder that allows you to use a combination of AND, OR, a regular
expression, and the relative places of the keywords, and a powerful
displayer with filter functionality.
Virtual Exim 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133144/
Virtual Exim is a PHP-enabled Web interface for managing multiple
virtual mail domains with Exim and MySQL. POP/IMAP accounts, aliases,
forwards, and permanent fail accounts can all be created and managed
easily without the need for corresponding shell accounts. Virtual Exim
also allows the server administrator to designate a SiteAdmin who can
create and delete domains on the fly through the interface, so no
editing of the Exim configuration file is required. Individual users
can also log in to change their "Real Name" and passwords
with ease.
WDX 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133132/
WDX is dedicated communication software for use between multi-vendor
computers. It detects network failures and computer failures. It
automates application failover for over 2 to 16 networked computer
groups. It interoperates over Linux, Unix, NT, and VMS platforms, with
simple nodes or clustered ones.
Xchangeboard 1.0 Beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133146/
Xchangeboard is forum software based on PHP and MySQL. It offers an
easy way of administration to handle design and/or user-specific tasks.
The look and feel resembles other well known boards
Yahoo Group Archiver 1.5 (Messages)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133119/
Yahoo Group Archiver is a command line utility to interact with Yahoo
Groups. Messages are stored locally in Maildir format.
Yahoo Group Archiver 1.10 (Attachments)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133118/
Yahoo Group Archiver is a command line utility to interact with Yahoo
Groups. Messages are stored locally in Maildir format.
Yet Another Advanced Log Analyzer 0.7.0 (Experimental)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133174/
"yaala" parses logfiles and generates very detailed
statistics in HTML format. The information one will get can be selected
by using SQL-like expressions, which provide filtering with relational
operators (like equal, greater than, less than) as well as regular
expressions. It includes input parsers for the Common Log Format (e.g.
Apache's access logs), NCSA logs (e.g. Apache's combined logs), Squid
access logs, the xferlog format (used by FTP daemons), bind9's query
logs, and postfix entries in the maillog.
Zuul 1.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133204/
Zuul is yet another PHP frontend for mldonkey. It allows full access to
many of the features of mldonkey, including starting/viewing downloads,
viewing uploads, viewing servers, and setting all the options.
Newsforge Reports
Promising Rosegarden almost ready for its musical debut
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/14/1555203
- by Peter Fernando - Rosegarden is a free general-purpose music
composition and editing application for Unix and Linux with a matrix
editor and a fully-featured MIDI sequencer. Though it shows promise,
bugs in this beta version make me recommend waiting for the 1.0
release.
Linus on McBride's latest claim
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/1633233
- by Joe Barr - Darl McBride is at it again. According to a VNUNet.com
story this morning, McBride claimed yesterday at the SCOForum
Conference in Las Vegas that there are over a million lines of
copyrighted SCO code in Linux. He added that they can't be removed
because only SCO knows which lines they are.
Is Linux becoming closed to innovation?
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/1359229
- by Chris Gulker - Vinod Khosla, one of Silicon Valley's most
successful venture capitalists, says that while he is optimistic about
Open Source, he fears that Linux, as a few distributions become
dominant, risks becoming "closed." If that happens, he says, innovation
will cease and Linux will "no longer matter."
Newsforge Newsvac
3rd Annual East-Coast Linux/Debian Anniversary
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/2114213
Anonymous Reader writes "This weekend August 22nd-24th, PLUG hosts it's
Third Annual East-Coast Linux/OSS Celebration Weekend in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. Previous events have drawn participants from over seven
different States! This years' events include a bar night and a BBQ as
bookends, with lots of spontaneous activities inbetween! This is in
celebration of the 12th anniversary of the Linux Kernel as well as the
10th Anniversary of Debian, ...
Corporate Linux Lab opens in Mountain View, California
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/2111214
A state-of-the-art "Corporate Linux Environment" (CLE) has launched in
the heart of Silicon Valley. The Freedom Technology Center will feature
desktop Linux systems, a Linux-based server infrastructure, modern
teleconferencing, network and presentation facilities.
Tonight Live: SCO, SCO, SCO, and more SCO
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/216256
Tonight LIVE on www.thelinuxshow.com: News from SCOforum in Las Vegas,
where Jeff talked with Darl McBride in the flesh. The usual crowd will
be there, plus Eric S. Raymond and Robin 'Roblimo' Miller. Catch the
Linux show at 6pm pt, 7pm mt, 8pm ct, and 9pm et!
What is a wiki? Beginner's overview.
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/1828237
Matthew Revell writes "ContentPeople has a beginner's overview,
explaining what a wiki is and what it does."
SCO code revealed - it's BSD
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/1825249
Anonymous Reader writes "SCO did a big dog and pony show yesterday at
their conference. They also raised their claims, and according to them,
there are "millions of lines" of offending code which they have
identified by "rocket scientists" using "spectral recognition" and
"pattern analysis". To convince SCOforum attendees of their case, SCO
showed obscured slides which supposedly proved copying. Research
reveals that the code fragment SCO showed ...
China blocks foreign software use in gov't
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/1825202
A new policy by China's governing body will rule that all ministries
buy only locally-produced software at the next upgrade cycle.
IEEE and The Open Group to Extend POSIX Certification to the Latest POSIX Standard
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/1717206
POSIX certification is about to take another step forward. The Open
Group and The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Standards Association (IEEE-SA) will offer a program to certify
products to the 2003 edition of IEEE 1003.1(TM)-2001, "Standard for
Information Technology-Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX),"
which incorporates the IEEE 1003.1 Corrigendum. The new program updates
the existing one and will take effect early ...
CRN Interview: SCO CEO Darl McBride
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/1619210
SCO CEO Darl McBride met Monday with CRN Senior Editor Paula Rooney to
talk about the company's Unix crusade and product plans. The interview
took place at the SCO Forum 2003 in Las Vegas. CRN is a sponsor of the
conference.
WideXS Selects Vexira Antivirus To Protect Over 60,000 Customer Domains From Email
Viruses
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/159219
Anonymous Reader writes "Leading European Web hosting company selects
Vexira Antivirus as best of breed in enterprise-class email virus
scanning on Linux.
Damn Small Linux: Damn Nice Distro
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/1453253
ladislav writes "Damn Small Linux is a Linux distribution with a
difference. Although it is based on the Knoppix live CD, its size has
been reduced drastically to fit on a 50MB business-card shape CD. Damn
Small Linux is a general purpose distribution to carry around in one's
wallet; it comes with XFree86 and the Fluxbox window manager, while
other light-weight applications for email, web browsing, word
processing, instant messaging and playing ...
Thinkgeek
Caffeine: Penguin Energy Gum
http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/candy/61f2/
Computing: SnapStream Personal Video Station 3
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/avcards/619c/
Gadgets: Arc LED Flashlight
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/6270/
Gadgets: Laser Widow
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/604c/
Computing: 17" Samsung 170N LCD Display
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/display/lcd/624e/
PC Mods: Startech Cool Aluminator PC Case
http://www.thinkgeek.com/pcmods/cases/6297/
Computing: Multimedia Access Panels
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/628f/
Computing: Zip-Linq Cell Phone Charger Kits
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/62aa/
Computing: Kensington WiFi Finder
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/6247/
Computing: Zip-Linq Retractable Network/Modem Cables
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/62a1/
Computing: Zip-Linq Zip-Mouse
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/629b/
Cube Goodies: Smart Mug
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/mugs/6235/
Cube Goodies: Moving Gear Clock
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/lights/601e/
Computing: BenQ FP2081 20" LCD Display
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/display/lcd/6259/
Gadgets: Microscope Pen
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/tools/6222/
Gadgets: Candeloo Rechargeable Lamps
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5efd/
Computing: ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/avcards/623c/
Electronics: Mustek [EMAIL PROTECTED] D30 Digital Camera
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/cameras/61a5/
PC Mods: Cigarette Lighter Mod
http://www.thinkgeek.com/pcmods/cables/61fd/
PC Mods: Bubble Lights
http://www.thinkgeek.com/pcmods/lighting/620c/
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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