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August 29, 2003 EVERYTHING SERIES
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Slashdot
Four Core Processor to Bring Tera Ops
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/0138205
panhandler writes "As reported at [0]CNet and the [1]Austin American
Statesman, researchers at UT are working with IBM on a new CPU
architecture called TRIPS (Tera-op Reliable Intelligently adaptive
Processing System). According to IBM, 'at the heart of the TRIPS
architecture is a new concept called 'block-oriented execution"' which
will result in a processor capable of executing more than 1 trillion
operations per second."
Links
0. http://news.com.com/2100-1006_3-5068435.html
1.
http://www.statesman.com/business/content/auto/epaper/editions/today/business_f3c485ca146c513510d1.html
SCO Says It Has No Plan To Sue Linux Companies
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/0416253
cadfael writes "SCO is reported in [0]the Age as saying they '[1]Have
no plans to sue Linux companies...' This seems to contradict [2]the
earlier statements of Chris Sontag. This story also points out how
Canopy owns stakes in several other Linux companies, including Linux
Networx wheich supplied the supercomputer for Lawrence Livermore Nat
Lab. One begins to wonder if the reality of their situation has become
clear to them?" Maybe, just maybe, this is the beginning of the end of
this mess.
Links
0. http://www.theage.com.au/
1. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/29/1062050642514.html
2. http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-1017267.html
Computer Game Improves Children's Hearing
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/019241
[0]wiredbeat2000 writes "The BBC is running a story that claims
[1]children who play video games increase their hearing skills. There
have been several studies over the last few months extolling the
virtues of games and education. For example, Wired News ran a [2]
roundup of college programs, and USA Today published a recent story on
[3]Daphne Bavelier's findings that playing games could help children
develop hand-eye coordination, in addition to Professor James Gee's
Slashdot-covered [4]video transcript and [5]article on 'games that
teach'." Things have come a long way since the time when schoolkids
were dumped in front of a computer and left to play Oregon Trail.
Links
0. http://www.dungeonsanddreamers.com
1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/3186243.stm
2. http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,59855,00.html
3. http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2003-08-04-video-games_x.htm
4. http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/0519230&tid=127
5. http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/12/0548255&tid=127
Reverse Engineering an MPEG Driver
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/0052217
An anonymous reader writes "Following on from the recent spate of
reverse engineering articles, there is an [0]interesting summary of the
reverse engineering of a binary only Linux driver. The driver is for
the integrated MPEG decoder on VIA's popular EPIA-M boards. At the
moment VIA has not publicly released the source code for the MPEG
chipset on these boards and will only make the code available under NDA
saying that "Typically, only requests from companies developing product
for sale will be approved." As a result this is holding back
development of open source tools (e.g. [1]xine, [2]mplayer, [3]vdr)
that would be able to make use of the interesting hardware on these
boards."
Links
0. http://www.ivor.it/cle266/guide.html
1. http://xinehq.de/
2. http://www.mplayerhq.hu/
3. http://www.linuxtv.org/
Blocker Tags to Protect Privacy From RFID Tags
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/2226204
geekee writes "According to an article at [0]CNET, [1]RSA Security is
[2]developing a 'blocker' tag that disrupts RFID tag transmissions,
protecting a person's privacy from those who would abuse RFID
technology. The blocker tag would be embedded in your watch, for
instance. This method has an advantage over destroying the RFID tags
after purchase because useful information on the tag could help
consumers (e.g. laundry instructions)." According to the RSA scientist
quoted in the article, privacy concerns regarding RFID have been
overblown, but it's still worth being proactive when finding ways to
defeat the tags.
Links
0. http://www.news.com/
1. http://www.rsasecurity.com/
2. http://news.com.com/2100-1039_3-5068910.html?tag=fd_top
Mirroring Controllers - What have been Your Experiences?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/2143208
Today's installment is a lengthy (but hopefully informative) piece on
mirroring controllers. Ever had weird problems with a FastTrack TX2000?
Are you curious how well HighPoints RocketRAID boards are really
supported? Ever wondered which controller gives you the best
performance for every dollar spent? In true Slashdot tradition, we're
taking the issue and throwing it out to you, the readers.
[0]Futurepower(R) is willing to start us off with a wealth of
information on his experiences, and I'm hoping a few of you are willing
to do the same.
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
SCO DOS Harming Innocent Bystanders
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/2149254
An anonymous reader writes "The SCO-IBM-Linux controversy has certainly
caused quite a stir. Unfortunately the vigilantes conducting the DOS
attacks against SCO are [0]harming innocent by-standers as described in
this e-Week story. " Choice conspiracy theory quote: 'Given SCO's
behavior recently, it's just as likely that they're attacking
themselves in their continued attempt to pump up their stock price'
Links
0. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1233231,00.asp
Auerbach on Internet Cruft
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/171248
Captain Beefheart writes "[0]Karl Auerbach has a story on CircleID in
which he declares '...Between spam, anti-spam blacklists, rogue
packets, never-forgetting search engines, viruses, old machines, bad
regulatory bodies, and bad implementations, [1]I fear that the open
Internet is going to die sooner than I would have expected.' The
Balkanization of the 'Net appears to be upon us."
Links
0. http://www.circleid.com/members/profile_view_ind.php?id=29
1. http://www.circleid.com/article/215_0_1_0_C/
DoS Assaults Underway Against Spam Blocklists
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/1832215
Hiawatha writes "The same sort of denial of service attacks that
[0]drove spam blocklist Osirusoft off the Internet are [1]battering
many other blocklist services as well." Apparently spammers aren't
going to sit by and let people try to ignore their unwanted pitches.
Links
0. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/0214238&tid=111
1.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2003/08/28/saboteurs_hit_spams_blockers/
IBM Releases Compiler for Power4 and G5
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/1746213
[0]davids-world.com writes "IBM offers its optimized XLC compiler not
just for Intel CPUs, but also for its own G5 processor (article in
German at [1]Heise). Unlike gcc, it is optimized for the G5 and
achieves a major boost in speed, as first [2]results show. I guess we
will have to compare the new benchmark data (once available) with the
data we get with the optimized Intel compiler for Xeon. The compiler is
available for [3]download now."
Links
0. http://www.davids-welt.de
1. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/as-28.08.03-000/
2.
http://www.spscicomp.org/ScicomP7/Presentations/Blainey-SciComp7_compiler_update.pdf
3. http://www-3.ibm.com/software/awdtools/ccompilers/
Freshmeat
Abbot 0.10.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134118/
Abbot is a framework for testing Java GUIs. It lets you launch an
application or GUI component, play back user actions on it, and examine
its state. Tests may be coded or scripted. The editor supports
recording user actions into a script, exploring the component
hierarchy, running the script, and other features you'd expect from a
script editor. Test scripts are JUnit extensions.
Abeni 0.0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134119/
Abeni is a Gentoo Linux ebuild GUI editor written in Python/wxPython.
It helps users create syntactically correct ebuilds efficiently. It
incorporates the Scintilla editor for syntax highlighting and Lintool
for syntax checking.
Advanced Web Ranking 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134079/
Advanced Web Ranking is a tool that will help you check your Web site
position on all major search engines. It saves you hours of tedious
work while monitoring your Web site's search engine position. It
generates tabular and graphical reports that will help you check not
just the position of your Web site, but the position of your
competitors' Web sites as well.
Alambic 0.2a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134081/
Alambic is an enterprise class solution for creating and distributing
PDF documents in the home or corporate environment. Implemented as a
CUPS backend, it is able to generate PDF documents and make them
available by email or HTTP. It can use any PostScript to PDF converter,
though Ghostscript is the converter of choice used during development.
Alambic is free, but requires a license to operate.
Angry Sheriff 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134100/
Angry Sheriff is shell script that runs on UNIX and Linux computers. It
downloads and processes realestate foreclosures in NJ (Sheriff's sales
in New Jersey). It can be customized to work with any other region if
an appropriate Web site (that publishes sheriff's sales legal advts) is
known.
Animal Shelter Manager 1.21 PRE 2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134057/
Animal Shelter Manager is a complete computer solution for animal
sanctuaries and rescue shelters. It features complete animal
management, document generation, full reporting, charts, Internet Web
site publishing, and more.
AnnotateIt! 0.4.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134101/
AnnotateIt! is an open source electronic response system targeted at
composition instructors and students. It allows a user to annotate HTML
and provides facilities for group interaction. Annotations may be
either hyperlinked or inline, depending on the user's preference. It
also features reporting of meta information (annotation types and
counts), predefined annotations, community annotations, conversion of
documents to HTML for annotation, easy document management, and an
assignments calendar.
b2evolution 0.8.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133641/
b2evolution is a classy news and Weblog tool that runs on almost any
Web hosting service that has PHP and MySQL. It features an integrated
XHTML validator, supports recursive subcategories and cross posting,
and has an integrated skinning system.
Binc IMAP 1.2.0-1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134132/
Binc IMAP is a modular IMAP4rev1 server for Maildir. It strives to be
stable, fast, flexible, and RFC compliant. It is designed to be
familiar for qmail-pop3d users, uses checkpassword to authenticate, and
it is very easy to set up.
Blassic 0.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134109/
Blassic is a classic Basic interpreter. The line numbers are mandatory,
and it has PEEK & POKE. The main goal is to execute programs
written in old interpreters, but it can be used as a scripting
language.
Bugloo 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134102/
Bugloo is a source level debugger for the Scheme compiler Bigloo. It
aims at helping to debug Bigloo programs compiled into JVM bytecode. It
is implemented by means of the JVM Debugging Architecture, a set of
standard APIs provided by Sun to make debuggers and profilers.
Currently, Bugloo can debug Bigloo programs, Java programs, or a mix of
both. It is based on the debugging model used in GDB and provides
additional features like debug sessions, traces, memory debugging,
programmable breakpoints and embeddable interpreters. It is a
command-line debugger. For the sake of simplicity, it includes a
graphical user environment for GNU Emacs or XEmacs.
cacti 0.8.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134147/
Cacti is a complete frontend to RRDTool. It stores all of the necessary
information to create graphs and populate them with data in a MySQL
database. The frontend is completely PHP driven. Along with being able
to maintain graphs, data sources, and round robin archives in a
database, Cacti also handles the data gathering. There is SNMP support
for those used to creating traffic graphs with MRTG.
Cantus 1.99.5-1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134047/
Cantus is an easy to use tool for tagging and renaming MP3 and
OGG/Vorbis files. It has many features including mass tagging and
renaming of MP3s, the ability to generate a tag out of the filename,
filter definitions for renaming, recursive actions, CDDB (Freedb)
lookup (no CD needed), copy between ID3V1 and ID3V2 tags, and a lot
more.
CodeTek VirtualDesktop 2.3.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134096/
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.
cx_Freeze 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134030/
cx_Freeze is a set of utilities for freezing Python scripts into
executables in a cross platform way, using many of the techniques found
in Thomas Heller's py2exe, Gordon McMillan's Installer, and the Freeze
utility that ships with Python itself.
Distributed Hardware Evolution 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134075/
This project allows the distribution of a genetic algorithm evolving
hardware designs across the Internet by setting up an island on each
clients' PC which will evolve during idle time. Individuals from these
islands will migrate between each other as they compete for survival.
All source code is available and is generalizable to any GA or
distributed processing task.
Doulos Web Application Framework 0.1 Beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134026/
Doulos is a framework for rapidly developing object-oriented Web
applications in PHP using the Model View Controller (MVC) paradigm. It
elegantly reduces the total code that needs to be written to create an
application, manages and validates form data, encapsulates SQL
databases, and more.
Evolvica 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134068/
Evolvica is an evolutionary computation framework written in Java. The
aim of the project is to provide a toolkit that enables developers to
create genetic/evolutionary algorithms with minimal programming effort.
The toolkit has a modular architecture and is highly extensible. It
includes a visual algorithm editor, a source code editor, and a
debugger.
fix-mime-charset 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134086/
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.
floppyfw 2.0.7 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134049/
floppyfw is a router and simple firewall on one single floppy. It uses
Linux basic firewall capabilities, and has a very simple packaging
system. It is perfect for masquerading and securing networks on ADSL
and cable lines, using both static IP, DHCP, and PPPoE, and provides a
simple installation, which usually involves editing of only one file on
the floppy.
GAUL 0.1846
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134050/
The Genetic Algorithm Utility Library (GAUL) is a programming library
for evolutionary algorithms. Both steady-state and generation-based
evolution is supported, together with the island model. GAUL supports
the Darwinian, Lamarckian, and Baldwininan evolutionary schemes.
Standard mutation, crossover, and selection operators are provided,
while code hooks additionally allow custom operators. It provides data
structures and functions for handling and manipulation of the data
required for a genetic algorithm. Additional stochastic algorithms are
provided for comparison to the genetic algorithms. Much of the
functionality is also available through a simple S-Lang interface.
GKrellM Dell Plugin 2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134071/
i8krellm is a GKrellM plugin to control the fans on Dell
Inspiron/Latitude notebook computers. It requires the Linux kernel
module and i8kutils package found at http://www.debian.org/~dz/i8k/. It
displays the current CPU temperature, mode indicator, and two animated
fans. Temperature triggers can be set to cycle the fans off, low, or
high speed.
gPhoto 2.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134060/
gphoto2 is a command line application which enables you to transfer
digital photos from almost any serial-port or USB digital camera. It
uses the programming interface provided by libgphoto2.
Grammatica 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134056/
Grammatica is a parser generator (compiler compiler) for C# and Java.
It improves upon similar tools (like yacc and ANTLR) by creating
well-commented and readable source code, by having automatic error
recovery and detailed error messages, and by support for testing and
debugging grammars without generating source code. Grammatica supports
LL(k) grammars with an unlimited number of look-ahead tokens.
GTetrinet 0.7.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134144/
GTetrinet is a clone of the popular Windows game Tetrinet. It is
written for Gtk/GNOME, and is designed to be fully compatible with the
original Tetrinet, as well as being identical in gameplay.
Helma Object Publisher 1.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134083/
Helma (also called Hop, for Helma object publisher) is a scriptable web
application server written in Java. It lets you define object
prototypes and map them to relational database tables. These so-called
HopObjects can be created, modified, and deleted using a comfortable
object/container model. Hence, no manual fiddling around with database
code is necessary. HopObjects are extended JavaScript objects which can
be scripted using server-side JavaScript. Beyond the common JavaScript
features, Helma provides comfortable skinning and templating
functionalities which facilitate the rendering of objects via a web
interface. It's also possible to use the skin-and-macro layer
separately from the persistence layer, providing a nice scriptable
presentation layer to arbitrary Java object models.
iftop 0.14pre1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134111/
iftop provides real-time bandwidth usage information on a specified
interface, listed by host pairs.
ImageroReader 1.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134062/
ImageroReader is a Java library for reading image files. It can read
BMP, TIFF, PNG, and JPEG image files, and can read thumbnails and
metadata in TIFF, PNG, JPEG, JFIF, EXIF, and PSD files.
Jaffm 0.9.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134069/
Jaffm is a lightweight wxWindows (GTK+ interface) file manager for
Unix, written in C++. It is aimed at nonsense-free file management. It
is mostly inspired by the List View in Mac OS Finder, but does and will
have Unix-handy features such as an interactive location bar, and a
simple but elegant user interface.
jclasslib bytecode viewer 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134055/
jclasslib bytecode viewer is a tool that visualizes all aspects of
compiled Java class files and the contained bytecode. In addition, it
contains a library that enables developers to read, modify, and write
Java class files and bytecode.
JD4X 2003-08-27
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134008/
JD4X (Java Desktop for X Window) is a completely Java-based desktop for
X Window users running Linux. It is aimed at Java users and developers
who desire a truly Java friendly desktop.
JHDL 0.3.31
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134122/
JHDL is a set of FPGA CAD tools which allows the user to design the
structure and layout of a circuit, debug the circuit in simulation,
netlist, and interface with backend tools for synthesis, etc. It is an
exploratory attempt to identify the key features and functionality of
good FPGA tools.
JOGI 0.0.1EA
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134006/
JOGI is a Java interface for the OpenGroupware.org project. Starting
out with a wrapper for the OpenGroupware.orgs XML-RPC interface, this
is bound to become the standard means for Java code to access
OpenGroupware.orgs functionality.
KDirStat 2.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134087/
KDirStat (KDE Directory Statistics) is a small utility program that
sums up disk usage for direcory trees, very much like the Unix 'du'
command. It displays the disk space used up by a directory tree, both
numerically and graphically. It is network transparent (i.e., you can
use it to sum up FTP servers), and comes with predefined and user
configurable cleanup actions. You can directly open a directory branch
in Konqueror or the shell of your choice, compress it to a .tar.bz2
archive, or define your own cleanup actions.
Key Netplug 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134133/
Netplug is a Linux daemon that manages network interfaces in response
to network cables being plugged in and out. If you're familiar with
Windows XP, which just does the Right Thing when you plug an ethernet
cable into a laptop, netplug will need no further explanation.
Basically, netplug brings up an interface and runs a DHCP client when a
cable is plugged into that interface, and it brings the interface down
when the cable is unplugged. On a typical Linux system or laptop, you
have to run a command (such as "/sbin/ifup") manually to
handle these events, but netplug automates this for you.
KGuitar 0.4.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134116/
KGuitar is a guitarist suite for KDE. It's based on MIDI concepts and
includes tabulature editor, chord construction helpers, and importing
and exporting song formats.
Koncert 0.1b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134089/
Koncert is a clone of an old C64 arcade game (Rootin Tootin), written
for KDE/Qt. It's part of the K64 project.
Layer-7 Packet Classifier for Linux 2003-08-28 (Pattern Definitions)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134146/
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.
libgphoto 2.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134059/
libgphoto2 is a user space library which provides applications with
camera independent access to almost 300 digital cameras. It contains
more than 30 drivers to complement the drivers in your operating system
kernel.
Linux 2.4.23-pre1 (2.4-testing)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134058/
Linux is a clone of the Unix kernel, written from scratch by Linus
Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the
Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance. It
has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix
kernel, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries,
demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory
management, and TCP/IP networking.
Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator 2.6 (CD distribution)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134051/
Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator allows beginning-to-advanced network
administrators to control bandwidth. It is designed to be completely
turn-key in its default configuration. You just plug it into your
network trunk, and it self configures and immediately starts slowing
"bandwidth hogs". It also comes with finer controls that are
easy to use, and can be configured to target specific applications such
as Kazaa, IMAP, and POP. Traffic can be limited by host IP, subnet, and
content blocking.
logintop10 1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134103/
LoginTop10 creates several "Top 10" lists from wtmp (usally
in /var/log/) statistics. Lists include login frequency, login
duration, busiest day of the week, busiest day of the month, and
busiest month. It outputs a formatted HTML file.
masterplan 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134066/
masterplan is an EBNF parser generator that allows you to swiftly
create to-XML convertors for arbitrarily-structured data. Several
examples are provided, including Cobol and pl-sql.
Metadot Portal Server 5.6.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134094/
Metadot Portal Server is point-and-click Web site building portal
software. It features content management, collaboration, and a
dashboard 'My News Pages' like My Yahoo!'s. It is used by NASA,
Berkeley, Schlumberger, MIT, and other leading organizations.
Moosic 1.4.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134117/
Moosic is a music player that focuses on easy playlist management. It
consists of a server process that maintains a queue of music files to
play and a client program which sends commands to the server. The
server continually runs through its playlist, popping items off the top
of the list and playing each with an external program. The client is a
simple command-line utility which allows you to perform powerful
operations upon the server's queue, including the addition of whole
directory trees, automatic shuffling, and item removal according to
regular expressions. The server comes configured to play MP3, Ogg,
MIDI, MOD, and WAV files.
MOSIX Kernel Patch 1.10.1 for Linux 2.4.22 (Linux 2.4)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134097/
MOSIX is a unique clustering package that can make any size Linux
cluster of x86 nodes (workstations and servers) run almost like a
single system with multiple processors. The core of MOSIX contains
adaptive management algorithms that monitor and respond to uneven
resource distribution among the nodes by preemptive process migration.
In addition to automatic load-balancing, MOSIX supports massive
parallel I/O by partitioning the data of a file to several nodes so
that parallel processes will migrate to the node which has their
portion of the data. The algorithms of MOSIX are geared toward maximal
performance, overhead-free scalability, and ease-of-use.
MoviX 0.8.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134099/
MoviX is a small Linux distro that transforms your PC in a powerful
multimedia box. After booting your PC with MoviX, a user-friendly
console menu will allow you to use MPlayer (www.mplayerhq.hu) to play
any DVD/VCD, video/audio files (most noticeably DivX, AVI, MPEG,
QuickTime, WMV, ASF, MP3, and OGG/VORBIS), TV (provided you have a TV
card), and radio stations on the Internet (if you are connected to a
LAN). Since the entire operating system is loaded into RAM, you do not
even need a hard disk to use MoviX.
Naken Chat 2.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134070/
Naken Chat is a port of Javachat to C. Javachat can be directly
replaced with this server and the Java chat client or telnet client
will talk to it as if it was Javachat. Naken Chat is multithreaded
(like Javachat) and has all the features (channels, gagging,
squelching, private messages, etc) and has been tested on: Linux,
FreeBSD, Irix, Solaris, and Win32.
Natural Docs 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134088/
Natural Docs is an extensible, multi-language, source code
documentation generator written in Perl. Its syntax is transparent so
the source comments read just as easily as the generated documentation.
It also focuses on automation and high-quality HTML output.
Nicotine 1.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134107/
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.
PalmFontConv 0.42
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134078/
PalmFontConv is a collection of command-line utilities to manipulate
Palm fonts in both v1 and v2 formats. Currently, there is a converter
that converts between afnx, nfnt (low, high, or both densities), NFNT,
and text editable formats, and another converter that converts Type
1/TrueType/BDF/PCF and other formats supported by FreeType2 into the
text editable format. Eventually, there will be support for
anti-aliased fonts too.
pam_smb 2.0.0-rc5 (2.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134065/
pam_smb is a module which allows Linux users to be authenticated from
Samba, NT or Windows 95/8 machines.
pam_smb 1.1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134064/
pam_smb is a module which allows Linux users to be authenticated from
Samba, NT or Windows 95/8 machines.
Perl Archive Toolkit 0.74
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134021/
PAR is a cross-platform packaging and deployment tool, dubbed as a
cross between Java's JAR and Perl2EXE/PerlApp. It can turn your Perl
programs into ready-to-run executables, build and use PAR files into
@INC to avoid version conflicts, turn CPAN module distributions into
PAR distributions, or install/uninstall/sign/verify PAR distributions.
PHP Photogallery 1.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134093/
PHP Photogallery is a simple, easy-to-use photo gallery for your Web
site. There is a separate thumbnail view. In the full-size view there
are links for next/previous image. This photogallery also supports a
simple text-file database for descriptions of images.
phpFriendlyAdmin 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134042/
phpFriendlyAdmin is a remote database management package made
specifically for Web developers who want to ease an audience into the
world of content management. It features support for 10 major databases
(including MySQL), user management, and plugins for additional backend
tasks.
phpQLAdmin 2.0.16
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134053/
phpQLAdmin is designed primarily for administration of a QmailLDAP user
database, but also has EZMLM and QmailLDAP/Controls management ability.
QDBM: Quick DataBase Manager 1.6.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134108/
QDBM is an embeded database library compatible with GDBM and NDBM. It
features hash database and B+ tree database and is developed referring
to GDBM for the purpose of the following three points: higher
processing speed, smaller size of a database file, and simpler API.
Quick Spam Filter 0.9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134145/
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.
QuickFIX 1.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134115/
QuickFIX is a C++, Java, and .NET FIX (Financial Information eXchange)
engine, helping financial institutions easily integrate with each
other.
Really Slick ScreenSavers GLX Port 0.7.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134129/
The Really Slick ScreenSavers GLX Port is a port of some nifty OpenGL
screensavers that were originally written for Windows to GLX. It is
intended for use with an existing screensaver daemon like xscreensaver.
Recovery Is Possible! 6.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134105/
Recovery Is Possible (RIP) is a CD or floppy
boot/rescue/backup/maintenance system. It has support for a lot of
filesystem types (Reiserfs, ext2/3, iso9660, UDF, XFS, JFS, UFS, HPFS,
HFS, MINIX, MS DOS, NTFS, UMSDOS, and VFAT) and contains a bunch of
utilities for system recovery. It also has PCMCIA, RAID, LVM, and
Ethernet/DSL/cable network support.
Redland RDF library 0.9.13 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134104/
Redland is a library providing high-level APIs for RDF (Resource
Description Framework), allowing it to be stored, parsed, queried, and
manipulated. Redland has an object-based, modular design and comes with
detailed reference documentation and examples. APIs are provided in C,
Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP, Java, and Tcl.
semv 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134072/
semv is a tool for setting and viewing SVR4 semaphores. It is a little
smarter than ipcs and is useful for debugging.
Sluice 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134090/
Sluice is a workflow engine Jabber component. Its goal is to allow
users to create and configure an automated workflow or business process
with ease. The clients should be very simple with all the work being
done on the server/component end. The main component and modules are
done in perl. The Web client is done in PHP.
Space Hulk 1.4.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134077/
Space Hulk is a board game which takes place in the world of Warhammer
40000. It is a two player turn-based game where one player plays the
'Marine', and the other player plays the alien called 'Genestealer'.
This video game is a complete conversion of the board game with the 2nd
edition rules. It features playing over the network, either in real
time or asynchronously via email.
sscript 20030828
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134082/
SScript is an object oriented scripting language with weak typing. It's
written in C++ and uses bytecode pre-compilation for speeder execution
and cheaper memory costs. Its syntax is somewhat inspired from those
found in Java or ADA. It has support for virtual functions,
polymorphism, interfaces, exceptions, and more. As Java does, it also
provides a garbage collector. One of the goals of this project is to
provide a way for real time strategy games to separate the AI and game
logic from the interface.
SWISH++ 5.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134048/
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.
Tonto 1.44 (Main)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133997/
Tonto is a developer-oriented companion to the popular Pronto line of
programmable remotes made by Philips. Tonto provides both an IDE GUI
and a Java API for editing CCF files.
UNFS3 0.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134110/
UNFS3 is a user-space implementation of the NFSv3 server specification.
It is designed to be portable to different operating systems, with
built-in Linux and Solaris support.
WCG 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134073/
WCG (Web Chess Game) is a Web-based chess game written in PHP. Text
files are used for storing data and the installation is very easy.
Webmatic applets 1.39
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134091/
The Webmatic applets are some Java applets with various graphics
effects to add to your Web site.
white_dune 0.25beta70 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134084/
white_dune is a graphical VRML97 editor. VRML97 (Virtual Reality
Modeling Language) is the ISO standard for displaying 3D data over the
Web via browser plugins. It has support for animation, realtime
interaction and multimedia (image, movie, sound). White_dune can read
VRML97 files, display and let the user change the scenegraph/fields,
and load and store x3d (the next generation VRML XML format) files if
configured to work with the nist.gov x3d translators. It also has
support for stereoscopic view via "quadbuffer"-capable stereo
visuals, and support for 3D input devices like a joystick, spaceball,
or magnetic tracker.
Wing IDE 1.1.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134120/
Wing IDE is a development environment for Python. It includes a
graphical networked debugger, a powerful source code editor, and a
project manager. Some of the IDE's productivity features include
auto-completion, source index menu, goto-definition, syntax
highlighting, and auto-indentation. An optional Emacs mode and many
customization options make the IDE easy to adopt. The Standard edition
also includes a source code browser that speeds the process of
understanding and navigating Python code.
WOOP::GridShell 0.97
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134027/
WOOP::GridShell provides a skinnable JavaScript scalable imagemap
Web-based user interface as the frontend to a simplified, intelligent,
grid computing environment. It also includes the artificial
intelligence programming language "SequenceL", which has the
ability to naturally and automatically parallelize and distribute
itself across a heterogenous grid or cluster. No software installation
(other than a Web browser) is necessary to access a GridShell server.
Xfprot 0.24beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134076/
XFPROT is a graphical frontend for the F-Prot Antivirus for Linux Small
Business Edition. It was based upon the XSTEP-3.5.1 library. Starting
from version 0.20beta, it is based on the GTK+ 1.2 libraries.
xMule v2 0.1.7 (wx UI)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134128/
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.
yaws 1.30 (Main)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134130/
Yaws is a high performance, light-weight, threaded HTTP 1.1 Web server
targeted for the generation of dynamic content. It is written in
Erlang, and the server side dynamic content is generated by Erlang code
embedded in the HTML code.
zblast 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134063/
zblast is a simple but fairly manic shoot-em-up game. There are
versions for both svgalib and X.
Newsforge Reports
IBM to release new Eclipse to run on Jikes VM
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/2349207
- by Chris Preimesberger - IBM soon will announce that it is making
available for free download a new version of Eclipse, its open-source
development platform, for the Java-based Jikes Research Virtual
Machine. All previous versions of Eclipse have been released for Red
Hat Linux 7.1 and several versions of Windows.
Sun publishes new hardware compatibility list for Solaris 9 x86
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/1830226
- by Chris Preimesberger - SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Sun Microsystems
announced today that it has posted a new hardware compatibility list
for its lower-end Solaris 9 x86 Platform Edition operating system and
has populated it with 100 new third-party systems and 100 components.
SCO: Inside the hurricane
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/2323256
by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols with additional reporting by Joe Barr
Between hate mail from open source supporters and love notes from
investors, life isn't easy inside SCO. There have been more hated
technology companies; IBM and Microsoft immediately come to mind. But
they weren't pounded earlier this week by a successful Distributed
Denial of Service (DDoS) attack despite the efforts of open source
leaders like Eric Raymond to stop it. And no ...
Newsforge Newsvac
Blocking Kazaa traffic with Linux/IPTables firewal,
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/2320207
Chris Lowth writes "The "p2pwall" project has developed a GPL add-in
for iptables based firewalls that allows blocking of traffic to and
from "Fast-Track" software such as "Kazaa", Kazaa-lite, iMesh and
grokster. The software is designed for use in "permissive" firewall
configurations where home-net hosts are permitted more or less
unlimited access to the public internet, but are protected from
in-bound connections. Ftwall adds logic to such ...
Linux Moves Behind the Screen
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/2032231
Linux, the fast growing and freely available operating system, looks
like the software of choice for future televisions, set-top boxes and
DVD recorders, consumer electronics executives and specialists said.
IBM Doubles Its Linux Reward
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/1913236
IBM is upping the incentives to partners who sell Linux solutions.
Last month, the company rolled out a program dubbed "Double Your
Discount with Linux" as part of its Value Advantage Plus Initiative for
ISVs and VARs. Participants in the program are now eligible for up to a
60 percent discount on IBM software (double the existing resales
incentive) when they use that software to create Linux-based solutions
for midsize companies. The program ...
Linux to make consumer-electronics buzz
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/198245
Linux, the fast-growing and freely available operating system, is set
to be the software of choice for future televisions, set top boxes and
DVD recorders, according to consumer-electronics executives and
specialists on Thursday.
Of monkeys and penguins
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/1840256
SCO, for anyone who has never heard of the company, is pronounced
"skoh", as in Scopes. Indeed "the SCO case" of 2003 sounds increasingly
like the famous Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925, which pitted religious
fundamentalists against progressives wanting to teach Darwin alongside
the Bible in American classrooms.
Microsoft 'hiding behind Linux'
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/1832247
gulker writes "ZDNet UK says that even Microsoft can't defend itself
from massive DDoS and other problems resulting from security flaws its
own products without relying on Linux - in the form of Akamai's
distributed serving system."
Why use CIFS with Linux? Why not?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/1824245
Michael S. Mimoso writes "In this interview, Samba Team member Chris
Hertel explains the benefits and limitations of the Common Internet
File System (CIFS) for an enterprise Linux shop."
Linux, Mac OS added to Federal Enterprise Architecture platforms
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/1739230
The Office of Management and Budget added Linux and Mac OS to the list
of supporting platforms under the Technical Reference Model of the
Federal Enterprise Architecture.
Get a free UML poster and CD from Rational
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/1659258
Anonymous Reader writes "Learn how the Unified Modeling Language can
help you build better software faster. This wall poster from IBM
Rational is an eye-catching, instant reference guide to UML notation,
with handy tips, techniques, and reminders of the most commonly used
UML rules and guidelines. The IBM Rational software UML CD includes a
tutorial on model-driven development with the UML. It's an excellent
way to introduce yourself--and your ...
SGI cuts another 600 jobs to help reduce costs
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/1758258
Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) will cut another 600 jobs as part of its
effort to cut costs and focus on products that show the most potential,
the company said Wednesday. The layoffs bring the total number of cuts
at the Mountain View, California, high-end computer company this year
to 1,000. Total headcount at the company has been reduced by about 25
percent over a two-quarter period, SGI said in a statement.
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Sourceforge
Miranda IM v0.3.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=304290
The Miranda Instant Messenger project is happy to announce a new public
release of Miranda IM. Miranda IM is a free multi protocol instant
messenger client for Windows designed to be resource efficient and
customisable. It uses very little memory, requires no installation and
runs fast even on very old computers. Its powerful plugin system makes
Miranda IM extremely flexible. Only the most basic features are built
in, but there are currently almost 200 free plugins available for
download that allows users to extend the functionality in Miranda IM.
Miranda IM is open source and published under the terms of the GNU
General Public License. OS support: Windows NT4, 95, 98, Me, 2000 & XP.
Protocol support: Support for ICQ, AIM, MSN, IRC and Jabber is included
in this release. The following protocols are available as separate
downloads on the website: Gadu-Gadu, ICQ Groupware, Yahoo, Netsend,
EmLanProto, Vypress Chat, POP3, Tlen and more! Official Website:
http://www.miranda-im.org Screen Shots:
http://www.miranda-im.org/about/screenshots.php Download:
http://www.miranda-im.org/release/download.php Additional components
(plugins, icons, sounds, etc): http://www.miranda-im.org/download/
Progect for Palm released today: 0.26 - Stability Release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=304323
Progect is a project manager application for Palm type PDA's, it is
very simple and easy to use, but powerful nonetheless. If you manage
projects and you have a Palm type PDA you will want to look at this
software. Today version 0.26 was released, it includes a large number
of stability fixes and has no major stability problems. People use
Progect to manage more than just projects. They use it to manage
inventory lists, shopping lists and many other things. Progect is very
flexible, try it today and get your life organized! Download it now at:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/progect/progect_0_26.prc?download
Many to Many, One to One Support
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=305321
We've been working in the background for a while now. Some of the
features currently available in the CVS archive are many-to-many
support as well as one-to-one support. We have also added support for
Oracle and MySql 4.1 as Sisyphus Data Stores. Sisyphus Persistence
Framework is an object persistence framework for .NET implemented in
C#. Provides a simple way to persist objects that allows developers to
hook in custom validation and business logic. Check out the code and
kick the tires. Help us make Sisyphus better!
Mahogany 0.65 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=304315
All existing users should upgrade to this version, it adds many new
features (real Drafts folder with automatic messages saving in case of
crash; TLS and PGP/GPG support; many, many UI enhancements) and fixes
tons of bugs. Mahogany is a GUI-based email and news client using the
wxWindows cross-platform framework and featuring IMAP, POP3, SMTP, and
NNTP support, SSL, a powerful address database, Python scripting,
filtering, and a PalmOS synchronisation module. Work on 0.66 is already
in good progress too, stay tuned!
xMule 1.6.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=304482
This is the next major stable version. It fixes all known security
exploits, and offers a wide range of new, exciting features --
categories, A4AF, NNS, etc -- in addition to faster, less CPU- and
memory-intensive operation. xMule is an easy to use multi-platform
synchronizing fork of the popular eMule client. Based upon the
wxWindows library and GNU C++, xMule aims to support the Linux, *BSD,
and MacOS X operating systems.
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