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August 30, 2003 EVERYTHING SERIES
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Slashdot
SCO Roundup
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/2133218
Time to clear out the bin of the taint of SCO, hopefully we haven't
posted these already... The Economist has a piece titled [0]Face Value
-- Of Monkeys and Penguins. The EFF is pushing an [1]email campaign
about SCO. An anonymous reader submits this completely unverified claim
that SCO needs to change the password on their mail server: [2]sco.txt.
And another reader presents a [3]theory about SCO's stock performance.
Links
0. http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2020889
1. http://action.eff.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item=2775
2. http://www.root.cz/data/sco.txt
3. http://www.threenorth.com/sco/cohen.html
How Everyday Things Are Made
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/1817250
OckNock writes "The [0] Alliance for Innovative Manufacturing at
Stanford University in conjunction with [1]Design4x has released
[2]online courses on design and manufacturing that include over 4 hours
of streaming video (Flashplayer required). Some of the topics include
airplanes, crayons, and waterjet cutting. I only they had this when I
had studied mechanical engineering - maybe I would have stayed awake in
class more."
Links
0. http://www.stanford.edu/group/AIM/
1. http://design4x.com/
2. http://manufacturing.stanford.edu/
Build Your Own Lava Lamp
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/1653246
Manip writes "My [0]new project: 'The difficult part about making your
own liquid motion lamp is, of course, the motion. We won't go into the
lamp base too much. The store-bought ones use a 40w appliance bulb in a
metal housing which directs the heat to the underside of the glass
container. If you're making your own base, we recommend installing a
dimmer switch so that you can control your heat output.'"
Links
0. http://www.oozinggoo.com/howto.html
The Unstoppable Shift of IT Jobs Overseas
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/215232
[0]514x0r writes "The spectre in the back of many of our minds is that
in a few years we may be replaced by an underpaid programmer in India.
Newsforge.com is currently running an article about [1]why this is
unstoppable, that actually ends on a positive note...sort of."
Newsforge and Slashdot are both part of OSDN.
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/08/27/132243.shtml?tid=3
AOL Blocks Links from LiveJournal
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/2057242
[0]Evan Martin writes "LiveJournal.com is an [1]open-source weblog site
with over a million users, some of whom use AOL. Last week, AOL began
blocking all HTTP requests with "www.livejournal.com" [2]Referer
headers. This is a common practice by image hosting sites to prevent
off-site linking of their images and 'bandwidth theft'. However, in
AOL's case, they're blocking everything, not just images, effectively
breaking all links to any AOL member's site--but only from LiveJournal.
To be clear: nobody on LiveJournal can even make a link to any AOL
member site without getting a '404 Not Found' error. We've also heard
reports of the same thing happening on AOL properties (Netscape,
Compuserve). This concerns us because we have to deal with the support
requests: it worked in the past for our users, and it continues to work
for other sites, so our users think it's our fault."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.livejournal.org/
2. http://www.livejournal.com/community/lj_dev/566192.html
Statistically Optimal Music
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/1757225
[0]ShinyPlasticBag writes "'[1]Eigenradio makes its optimal music by
analyzing in real time dozens of radio stations at once. When our bank
of computers has heard enough music, it will go to work on making more
just like it. Since we listen to so much music all the time, Eigenradio
is always on and always live. What you hear on Eigenradio is the best
of the New Music, distilled and de-correlated. One song on Eigenradio
is worth at least twenty songs on old radio.' Listen up [2]here or
[3]here (SHOUTcast)."
Links
0. http://shinyplasticbag.com
1. http://eigenradio.media.mit.edu/
2. http://eigenradio.media.mit.edu/tune.m3u
3. http://eigenradio.media.mit.edu:8000/listen.pls
U.S. Funds Anonymizer for Iranians
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/1738223
SiliconEntity writes "British online rag The Register is reporting that
[0]the U.S. Government is funding anonymizer.com to provide anonymous
browsing services to Iranians. Using U.S. funding, [1]the company
created a special version of its anonymizing proxy which has
instructions in Farsi and only accepts connections from Iranian IP
addresses. The service defaults to the Voice of America web site, but
users can input any address and browse free of (Iranian) government
censorship."
Links
0. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/32567.html
1. http://www.anonymizer.com/
Consumer Electronics Industry: Linux is the Future
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/1737250
[0]securitas writes "The [1]New York Times is carrying a [2]Reuters
story about [3]Linux as the software of choice for consumer
electronics. At the world's largest [4]consumer electronics show, the
IFA trade fair 'the first Linux products are already on show and more
will come soon, companies said.' The reason? Linux is freely available,
widely embraced and profit margins in the consumer electronics business
are one or two percent at best. The math is simple. The industry push
comes from the members of the [5]Consumer Electronics Linux Forum
(CELF), that includes [6]Sony, [7]Philips, [8]Matsushita/[9]Panasonic,
[10]Hitachi, [11]Sharp, [12]Samsung, [13]NEC, [14]IBM, [15]LG,
[16]Thomson/[17]RCA and [18]Toshiba. The CELF was [19]previously
discussed on Slashdot. Mirrors at [20]Silicon.com and [21]CNet News."
Links
0. http://geartest.com
1. http://www.nytimes.com/pages/technology/
2. http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=3352218
3.
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-tech-linux-consumerelectronics.html
4.
http://vip8prod.messe-berlin.de/vip8_1/website/MesseBerlin/htdocs/www.ifa-berlin.de/fset_home_e.html
5. http://www.celinuxforum.org/
6. http://www.sony.com/
7. http://www.philips.com/
8. http://www.panasonic.co.jp/
9. http://www.panasonic.com/
10. http://www.hitachi.com/
11. http://www.sharp-usa.com/
12. http://www.samsung.com/
13. http://www.nec.com/
14. http://www.ibm.com/
15. http://www.lge.com/
16. http://www.thomson.net/
17. http://www.rca.com/
18. http://www.toshiba.com/
19. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/01/1646220&tid=163
20. http://silicon.com/news/500011/1/5786.html
21. http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-5069341.html
Failure Is Always an Option
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/1734227
Logic Bomb writes "The New York Times has a short but elegant [0]op-ed
regarding the different perspectives of engineers and managers and the
role that plays in accidents like the space shuttle Columbia
[1]disaster. It's the sort of article you'll nod all the way through,
then print and leave anonymously on your supervisor's desk. Any tech
managers in the Slashdot crowd might have some interesting comments on
how the right balance is struck." Henry Petroski has written several
good books on engineering and failure.
Links
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/29/opinion/29PETR.html
1. http://www.nasa.gov/columbia/home/index.html
New Dell Clickthrough Software License
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/1629244
[0]Petrol writes "I just read that Dell is installing a new mandatory
click-through software license at first boot. From the article,
[1]Dude, you're getting screwed: 'Kat and I just received the Dell
Inspiron 5100 notebook we ordered from Dell Canada. We quickly ran
across problems.'"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.cypherpunks.ca/dell.html
Freshmeat
aMule 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134169/
aMule is short for "another eMule file-sharing program". It
is another fork of the xMule project. It connects to the eDonkey2000
network, and supports Linux, *BSD, and Mac OS X platforms. aMule's
distinctive feature is its new vision of the GUI.
AstroCam System 2.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134194/
AstroCam is an C-based Stepmotor Controlsystem including a PHP Web
interface. You can use it for controlling webcams over the
Internet/intranet or everything else you want to do with a stepmotor.
Blazerd 0.1.109
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134180/
Blazerd is a UPS monitoring daemon for the Centralion Blazer UPS. It
monitors a serial connection from the UPS for power failures and shuts
the machine down gracefully if the power remains off for more than a
specified interval, or when the battery power goes too low.
CDStatus 0.94b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134166/
cdstatus checks for drive errors, outputs disc info (such as type and
table of contents), and is capable of ripping full cd's, using
configurable track ranges and retry counts. It usually produces
identical output to cdparanoia with much faster execution.
CodeEditor 0.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134234/
CodeEditor is an attempt at creating a code editor for GNUstep. The
grand plan is to use it as a component in ProjectCenter, and also as a
stand-alone application.
CodeViz 0.12 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134189/
CodeViz is a call graph visualisation tool which uses a variety of
different data collection methods to generate its call graphs. Using a
modified version of the GNU Compiler, very accurate call graphs that
precisely reflect the compiled code may be created. If using a compiler
is undesirable, CodeViz is able to directly parse C/C++ code itself,
and even analyse binaries with objdump, so it will work if the source
isn't available.
cryptoswap 0.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134175/
The cryptoswap package supports creating an encrypted swap partition
when a system boots. This may be necessary on systems that use
encrypted filesystems because plaintext secrets may be written to disk
when memory is swapped to disk. The project also includes the ability
to build a Linux initrd that supports booting with an encrypted root
filesystem.
CuteSITE CMS 1.155
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134191/
CuteSITE is an object oriented Web Content Management System for small-
and medium-sized Web sites. With it, all Web sites consist of a number
of objects and components. Objects can be folders, images, templates,
strings, or custom organized objects (containers). The template
language uses a common PHP script, and is highly efficient.
Cyberduck 2.1beta5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134238/
Cyberduck is an SFTP (SSH Secure File Transfer) and FTP browser. It
lets you open connections to multiple servers using a document-based
interface. A simple "favorites" manager allows you to store
frequently-used servers. Drag-and-drop is supported for both
downloading and uploading files; just drag the file(s) or folder from
the Finder to the browser window (or vice versa) to start the transfer.
File deletion and renaming and checking and changing of permissions is
possible with a Finder-like information panel.
Debian Tux Blue 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134095/
Debian Tux Blue is a theme featuring a homemade Tux for Debian lovers.
Drakemod 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134199/
Drakemod is a green theme based on the Deskmod.com website. It sports
pixmapped buttons, rounded windows, menu/slit alpha, and more.
Drums++ 0.88
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134171/
Drums++ is a programming language for creating drum sequences for MIDI
devices. It comes with a player program for parsing .dpp files and
sending MIDI commands to a MIDI keyboard or drum machine. It can
alternatively create .midi files for playing on a PC.
Ecasound 2.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134226/
Ecasound is a software package designed for multitrack audio
processing. It can be used for simple tasks like audio playback,
recording, and format conversions, as well as for multitrack effect
processing, mixing, recording and signal recycling. It supports a wide
range of audio inputs, outputs, and effect algorithms. Effects and
audio objects can be combined in various ways, and their parameters can
be controlled by operator objects like oscillators and MIDI-CCs. A
versatile console-mode user interface is included in the package.
Ecdysis 2.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134176/
Ecdysis is a clean, techy LCD theme.
Fast Light WRITER 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134208/
Flwriter is a small WYSIWYG multi-lingual word processor based on the
FLTK library. UTF-8 Xhtml is used as the native file format. It can
export documents to Unicode Rich Text Format. Both right-to-left and
left-to-right words can be entered on the same line.
FireStorm 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134239/
FireStorm is productivity tool for Java developers who need to access
relational databases. It reverse-engineers databases schemas and
generates a Java persistence tier for Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE) or
Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE). The generated source code is based on
the Data Access Object (DAO) design pattern. Full suport is present for
Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, WebLogic, and WebSphere.
FluxAqua 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134218/
FluxAqua is a pixmap-based Aqua theme. It is developed mainly from
files found for the Enlightenment XAquaX theme and the Blueflux style
file.
Form and Table Manager 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134149/
Form and Table Manager is an HTML form and table manager for
HTML::Mason.
Freddy 0.80 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134229/
Freddy is a programmer's editor, written in Qt. It has a nice look, and
is easy to use. It is extendable with its module support, and you can
configure almost everything you want.
GAI bgswitcher 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134196/
GAI bgswitcher is a dockapp and GNOME 2 panel applet that provides a
quick, one-click background rotator.
Gambas 0.65 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134227/
Gambas is a graphical development environment based on a Basic
interpreter, like Visual Basic. It uses the Qt toolkit, but is able to
use any other toolkit that a module is written for.
GetCodecs 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134221/
GetCodecs is a simple applet written in Python with a GTK2 GUI that
downloads, installs, and configures your system to use the various
multimedia formats (MP3, DivX, DVD, etc.) that are not shipped with
many distributions (such as Red Hat).
Goanseech 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134161/
Goanseech is a spinoff of the leverlada IRC leech script. One of its
core parts was extracted and remade into a standalone server. This
server holds information about the basic pattern that specifies the
base name of a TV series, which episodes were already fetched, and the
maximum number of episodes. There are several clients, including a
script that parses Web pages for Bittorrent links, matches them against
the information on the series server, and controls a user-defined
number of Bittorrent clients for retrieval. There is also a directory
watcher which scans a given set of directories and updates the series
server with newly found files.
Gspoof 3.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134202/
Gspoof is a GTK+ program written in the C language which makes it
easier and more accurate to build and send TCP packets with or without
a data-payload. It's possible to modify TCP/IP fields and also ethernet
header working to Link Level. You can send one or more packets
together. It runs also in "console mode" without X and so you
can compile it without GTK+.
GTick 0.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134164/
GTick is a metronome application. It features a scale from 30 beats per
minute to 250 BPM and arbitrary beat modes (meters). It uses GTK+ and
OSS.
ifGraph 0.4.10rc1 (Release Candidate)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134223/
ifGraph is a set of Perl scripts created to help network administrators
to visualize network flow on a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly
basis. The graphics are created with RRDTool, and it shows bytes
(in/out) and errors for each interface. It also shows the
current/average/max use and the respective link/interface usage in
percentages. The program also outputs HTML files to make the
visualization of the PNG/GIF/GD images more friendly and easy.
iRATE client 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134197/
iRATE client is a client for the iRATE radio system. It uses a
collaborative filtering system to allow clients to download music based
on ratings. Tracks are rated and it uses these ratings and other
people's to guess what music to play. The tracks are legal music
downloaded from Websites that allow free music downloads. Binary
GCJ/SWT releases are available for Windows, Linux Motif, and Linux
GTK2. Java/Swing releases are available for Mac OS X, Java WebStart,
and other Java 1.3+ platforms.
Java Imaging Utilities 0.11.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134215/
JIU (Java Imaging Utilities) is a Java library for pixel images. It can
read and write a number of popular image file formats. Several
algorithms for image editing, analysis, and processing are implemented.
A GUI demo application, Javadoc API documentation, and a manual are
provided as well.
Java Runtime Class Editor Alpha 0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134182/
Java Runtime Class Editor allows all methods for user-defined classes
to be altered at runtime. These alterations are then applied to a
single instance, a collection of instances, or an entire class. This
enables interactive application testing and the easy altering of
running programs, allowing a trial and error approach to programming,
testing code, and saving it when it is correct. The built-in script
engine allows Java scripts to be run from within any application. RJCE
can be used to write a program from within itself, ensuring high
coupling between testing and development, with no delay before the
outcome of any alterations. This is of particular interest to
less-experienced developers who depend on more testing to build
reliable applications.
Java Serialization to XML 2 2.0.9.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134154/
Java Serialization to XML 2 allows you to convert Java objects into
streams of XML and back again. Using it is as easy as replacing
"ObjectOutputStream" with "JSX.ObjectWriter" to
convert objects to XML, and replacing "ObjectInputStream"
with "JSX.ObjectReader" to convert XML into objects. JSX
subclasses Java's serialization classes, so it can be used in their
place with the same simple power. This allows you to check and correct
your distributed, persisted, and logged object data, and process it
with XSLT, SAX, and DOM. JSX handles all objects, complex object
graphs, new classes, old classes, and evolving classes. JSX even
handles classes that do not implement the "Serializable"
interface.
Kit 1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134193/
Kit is an AIM client for KDE. It has a standard KDE UI, has standard
KDE sound and other notification support, and uses the open protocol
for reliable service. It has shipped with many operating systems, and
so undergone many hours of testing and portability work. It also
integrates with KDE session management and system tray features.
Kraken 1.1.28
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134217/
Kraken is a small Python application for managing documents, Web pages,
and directories. It also allows users to annotate these files with
metadat, perform complex queries about these annotations, and to
present the result of these queries in the form of HTML pages. The
format of annotations is RDF, thus the annotation files can be easily
parsed by third party applications.
KStella 0.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134174/
KStella is a KDE frontend to the Atari 2600 emulator, Stella. It
currently supports the display of snapshots, labels, manuals, the
configuration of individual game settings and of course, the ability to
play games with just a click of the mouse. All these features are fully
customizable to allow maximum flexibility.
led.pl 1.77
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134150/
Led is a general purpose LDAP editor which allows editing of LDIF
records or standard Unix flat file representations of LDAP databases
using your favorite editor. It supports all of the maps defined by
RFC-2307.
libdvb 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134184/
libdvb (formerly dvb-mpegtools) contains three libraries with examples
for their usage. libdvb is a library for switching channels using the
Linux DVB API and keeping channel list for DVB-C, DVB-S and DVB-T.
libdvbci is used for handling CI interfaces that are optional for some
DVB cards. It is based on the CI handler of vdr. libdvbmpegtools and
the dvb-mpegtools provide a library and various small programs helpful
for converting, demuxing, changing, analyzing, and remuxing MPEG
transport streams coming from DVB receiver cards. They mostly work on
the PES level, but tools for manipulating elementary streams are also
included. All those packages used to be included with the DVB driver.
LinPHA 0.9.0pre2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134159/
LinPHA is an easy to use, multilingual, flexible photo/image
archive/album/gallery written in PHP. It uses a MySQL database to store
information about your pictures. It comes with a HTML-based installer,
so you don't need experience in setting up SQL databases. Thumbnails
are created as needed and stored in the SQL DB.
Linux Port/Socket Pseudo ACLs 2.4.22-19
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134183/
These patches allow an administrator to delegate privilege for some
protected network resources to non-root users. They are generally used
to run untrusted or insecure applications as an unprivileged process,
thereby mitigating some undiscovered denial of service or root
compromise. The ACLs currently cover protected ports, raw sockets, and
packet sockets.
Loggerithim 6.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134225/
Loggerithim is an extensible monitoring and remote management package.
It allows you to monitor your systems, proactively spot problems,
remotely manage, perform post-mortems, throw alerts when bad things
happen, predict future needs, and automate adminstration tasks.
ManageIP 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134168/
ManageIP is an LDAP-enabled IP address and domain name management
solution that includes LDAP-enabled DHCP and DNS servers. All
information required for the operation of DHCP and DNS services, and
for managing IP addresses and domain names, is stored in the customer's
LDAP repository. ManageIP provides full- featured GUI access to
configuration and other management functionality of the DHCP and DNS
servers.
MartokBot IRC Framework 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134178/
MartokBot is a modular IRC bot built on pircbot. It can load modules so
it is easy to make a bot that does exactly what you want it to do. At
the moment there are some plugins to do useful tasks with CounterStrike
servers.
mkvtoolnix 0.6.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134163/
mkvtoolnix is a set of tools that allow users to display information
about, extract streams from, merge several streams into, and split
Matroska media files. Supported stream types include video streams from
AVIs or Ogg files and Vorbis audio from Ogg files among many others.
The resulting files can be played back with mplayer or the Matroska
Direct Show filter under Windows.
mod_layout 4.0.2a (Apache 2.0)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134242/
mod_layout is an Apache module that provides both a Footer and Header
directive to automagically include output from other URIs at the
beginning and ending of a Web page. It can be used to wrap documents
for a standard look and feel for a site (or to insert banners on any
given document in a site). Currently known to support mod_perl, PHP and
Apache JServ. Should support just about any type of handler.
Moodle 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134153/
Moodle is a learning management system for producing Internet-based
course Web sites. It is written in PHP and is easy to install and use
on Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, and Netware 6. It has been designed to
support modern pedagogies based on social constructionist theory, and
includes activity modules such as forums, chats, resources, journals,
quizzes, surveys, choices, workshops, and assignments. It has been
translated into over 33 languages, with more on the way. Moodle offers
a free alternative to commercial software such as WebCT or Blackboard,
and is being used by a growing number of universities, schools, and
independent teachers for distance education or to supplement
face-to-face teaching.
NASM - The Netwide Assembler 0.98.37 (Devel)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134240/
NASM is an 80x86 assembler designed for portability and modularity. It
supports a range of object file formats including Linux a.out and ELF,
COFF, Microsoft 16-bit OBJ and Win32. It will also output plain binary
files. Its syntax is designed to be simple and easy to understand,
similar to Intel's but less complex. It supports Pentium, P6, MMX,
3DNow! and SSE opcodes, and has macro capability. It includes a
disassembler as well.
Open Source Microsoft Exchange Replacement beta1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134222/
The purpose of this project is to provide an open source replacement
for all Exchange functionality. This includes, but is not limited to,
email, groupware, and instant messaging. It will tie together existing
open source projects, and provide an easy to use installer.
OpenPlugin 0.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134190/
OpenPlugin is an architecture written in Perl which manages plugins for
Web applications. It allows you to incorporate any number of plugins
and drivers into your Web application. For example, the Log plugin has
drivers for logging to STDERR, files, syslog, email, and so on. The
Session plugin has drivers for storing sessions in files, databases,
and the like. Changing drivers is easy; you just change the driver name
in a config file. There are plugins which abstract Apache::Request and
CGI.pm, allowing you to build applications that can work seamlessly
under mod_perl or CGI. If you want to move your application from one
environment to another, you can just change the driver being used in
the config file.
OpenSched 0.4.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134170/
OpenSched is used to automatically schedule resources for a project.
For instance, if 5 programmers cooperate on a software development
project, and 100 tasks must be done, opensched can capture information
about who can do what, what tasks depend on which, etc.
OpenThought 0.71
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134188/
OpenThought is a powerful and flexible Web application environment.
OpenThought applications are different from other Web applications in
that all communication between the browser and the server is performed
in the background. This gives a browser the ability to receive data
from the server without ever reloading the currently loaded document.
Data received can be displayed automatically on the existing page, can
access JavaScript functions and variables, and can load new pages.
Additionally, OpenThought completely manages all of your session data
for you. These features give the look and feel of a full-blown
application instead of just an ordinary Web page.
OperaHotlist2HTML 2.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134228/
OperaHotlist2HTML is a script that converts Opera Hotlist files into
HTML 4.01-compliant Web pages.
Pan 0.14.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134209/
Pan is a newsreader which attempts to be pleasing to both new and
experienced users. In addition to the standard newsreader features, Pan
also supports yEnc, offline newsreading, article filtering, multiple
connections, and more features for power users and alt.binaries fans.
PHP vCard Creator 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134172/
PHP vCard Creator is a PHP function for creating vCard files conforming
to the vCard 3.0 specification.
phppdflib 2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134235/
phppdflib is a PHP class that allows dynamic generation of PDF files.
It focuses on being easy to use, without requiring special Web server
configuration. It currently supports automatic JPEG image embedding, as
well as manual embedding of bitmapped image formats. Several methods of
text placement (specifically designed for easy layout) are supported.
PHPX 3.1.1 (PHPX 3.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134216/
PHPX is a Web portal system, blog, Content Management System (CMS),
forum, and more. It is designed to allow everyone to be able to have
feature-rich, interactive websites even if you do not know a bit of
programming. Some key features include fully-integrated forums,
downloads, an image gallery with slideshow and auto-thumbnailing,
support ticket system, a GUI interface for Web page content management,
news with topics and instances, and a whole lot more. It allows you to
fully customize the look of your site.
pLog 0.1RC1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134061/
pLog is a blogging system designed with the idea of "plug and
blog", so minimal configuration is required to start blogging.
Easy to use, it has all the features one would expect: articles, a
commenting system, categories, a powerful template system, translations
to several languages out of the box, generation and aggregation of RSS
sources, statistics, notification of updates via the XML-RPC ping
protocol, and support for Trackback requests. It supports multiple
blogs per installation and more than one user per blog, so it is
equally suitable for personal journals and for sites wishing to offer
such service to casual users.
python-fchksum 1.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134158/
python-fchksum is a module used to find checksums of files (or stdin).
It supports md5, crc32, cksum, bsd-style sum, and sysv-style sum. The
advantage of using fchksum over the Python md5 and zlib(.crc32) modules
is both ease of use and speed. You only need to tell it the filename,
and the work is done by C code.
Samba 3.0RC2 (3.0.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134210/
The Samba software suite is a collection of programs that implements
the SMB protocol for unix systems, allowing you to serve files and
printers to Windows, NT, OS/2 and DOS clients. This protocol is
sometimes also referred to as the LanManager or Netbios protocol.
Scribe Email Client 1.86-test35 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134155/
Scribe is a cross platform email client, address book, and calendar. It
is small, fast, and easy to install. It has multi-language support, and
currently includes English, French, Chinese, Italian, Czech, Spanish,
German, and Dutch. It is very expandable via a plugin interface, and
uses its own HTML engine (and not IE when run on Windows). It supports
POP3, [E]SMTP, MIME, IMAP4, and MAPI. An integrated contact database
and calendar are included.
Scrubber 0.0-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134212/
Scrubber is a server-side, high performance, extendable,
SMTP-independent mail content filtering system. It supports global,
per- domain, and per-user configurations with caching support. Any
number of configuration storage mechanisms are supported through the
plugin interface. It supports anti-virus scanning, whitelist/blacklist
matching, Bayesian probability scoring, and attachment blocking.
Clients exist for SMTP-level integration in the common client-server
architecture. Additional clients can be created for any mailer on any
platform.
SimpleData 3.0.18
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134230/
SimpleData is a Web application for managing your sales, inventory,
invoices, quotes, purchases, and requests for quotes. It offers the
ability to track all payments and balances on purchases and orders, and
allows reports and forms to be printed or emailed. The printed forms
are intended to fit in a standard 2-pane envelope for easy mailing. It
features four sales and purchase reports, and can be easily extended.
SingIt Lyric Displayer 0.0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134205/
The SingIt Lyric Displayer is an XMMS plugin which displays formatted
lyrics, including id3v2xx lyrics. It consists of the displayer and an
integrated editor which allows one to easily insert time stamps, edit
the text, and export & strip HTML.
SlackUpdate 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134085/
SlackUpdate is a bash script that can be used to check for, download,
and install Slackware updates. It currently supports Slackware 8.1-9.0.
Snownews 1.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134231/
Snownews is a text mode RSS/RDF newsreader. It supports RSS feeds that
comply to W3C's RDF 1.0 specification and Radio Userland's 0.9x and
2.0. Snownews depends on ncurses and uses libxml2 for XML parsing.
SSHKeychain 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134200/
SSHKeychain is a graphical front-end for ssh-agent and ssh-add with all
the features offered by both of those programs, and more.
StarDict 2.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134165/
StarDict is an international dictionary written for the GNOME
environment. It has powerful features such as glob-style pattern
matching, scan selection word, and fuzzy query, etc.
TextMaker rev 391
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134167/
TextMaker is a word processor that launches quickly, needs little
memory, does not require complicated setup, and has the full feature
set of a modern high-end word processor. It reads and writes Microsoft
Word 6/95/97/2000/XP files.
uClinux 2.4.22-uc0 (2.4.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134157/
uClinux is a set of patches for Linux that supports MMUless processors.
It brings a full featured operating system onto platforms that would
otherwise run less advanced, simpler operating systems. uClinux gives
the programmer a Linux API with remarkably few concessions to the lack
of MMU (Memory Management Unit), and in terms of code size and
efficiency it has an advantage over standard Linux.
UNFS3 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134192/
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.
Virtual Universe / Virtual Worlds 0.30
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134185/
VU/VW is a 3D cyberspace which offers more possibilities than just
chat: it is a combination of the Web, chat, and instant messaging
within a realistic, three-dimensional cyberspace. Here people can meet,
interact with each other, and build houses and whole worlds. The
Virtual Universe is a virtual reality environment which runs on top of
the Internet.
Walter 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134162/
Walter will intercept keystrokes and insert text to the Web page being
viewed. The idea is to turn the Web browser into a WYSIWYG HTML editor.
Main uses for Walter might be as a replacement for a textarea in chats
and bulletin boards or content management systems.
WebList 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133951/
WebList is a PHP script that allows users who access the script to
browse the contents of a directory on a Web server directly with their
Web browser.
XzibitIRCD a2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134160/
XzibitIRCD is an Unreal-based IRCD that includes commands such as
addoper adv protection and more.
Newsforge Reports
Why offshore IT outsourcing can't be stopped
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/132243
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - I have many friends who have lost high IT
industry paychecks and are struggling financially because their jobs
are now being done in lower-cost countries. But none of the legal
remedies currently proposed are going to stop this problem -- assuming
it really is a problem in the long run.
Linux Advisory Watch - August 29th 2003
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/1022217
- by Benjamin D. Thomas - This week, advisories were released for
docview, unzip, sendmail, iptables, pam_smb, gdm, php, and perl. The
distributors include Debian, FreeBSD, Gentoo, Mandrake, Red Hat,
Slackware, SuSE, and TurboLinux.
IBM's Eclipse now compatible with Jikes VM
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/28/2349207
- by Chris Preimesberger - IBM has announced that Eclipse, its
open-source development platform, will now run on the Java-based,
open-source Jikes Research Virtual Machine. Previously Eclipse was
usable only on IBM's and Sun's proprietary JVMs.
Newsforge Newsvac
700,000 Flawed Routers Flood University of Wisconsin
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/2229253
gulker writes "700,000 low-cost Netgear routers were shipped with a
flawed SNTP client that pings a hard-coded IP address at the University
of Wisconsin once a second, amounting to a 150 Mbit/second flood. U of
W expects the flood will last for at least 5 years."
Keeping Ourselves Safe
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/228234
SoBig.F made me fairly angry last week, because even though I use
Linux, I was still feeling its effects. MSBlaster had not really
bothered me directly, though clearly it had some negative effects on
other organizations. What made me so angry was not just the fact there
are idiots out there who come up with such things, but there is a
larger idiot company out there that keeps letting things like this
happen to them.
Opinion - SCO vs. IBM
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/1958256
LogError writes "Bob Toxen, the author of "Real World Linux Security:
Intrusion Prevention, Detection, and Recovery", gives his take on the
SCO situation."
Doubts about SCO DoS claim
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/1956227
Anonymous Reader writes "Reviewing a NetCraft graph of www.sco.com
reveals that their periods of downtime seem to be as regular as
clockwork. That sure would be a surprising pattern for a DoS attack!
Further doubts arise about whether there was a DoS attack, because at
least three times SCO employees seemed to say that there wasn't one."
Blaster.B author arrested in Minnesota
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/1940224
gulker writes "T33kid, aka Jeffrey Lee Parson, 18, of Hopkins,
Minnesota has been arrested, and his 7 computers siezed, according to
wire reports. Parson is suspected of authoring the worm variant
variously know as 'Hi Mom' or 'Blaster.B'. t33kid.com, Jeffrey's Web
site is still in Google's cache, complete with worm code samples."
End Users Have Rights Too
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/1920227
Anonymous Reader writes "Considering the amount of time and money
wasted on the most recent outbreak of Windows-born contaminants, I
think it's time that the root of the problem is exposed for what it is.
In my opinion, too many people are either completely ignorant of the
facts or just too lazy to care. Either way, someone needs to be held
responsible for the damages incurred by this utter lack of ethics and
security practices."
Linux Makes Phone Debut
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/1726200
Linux has so far failed to make much of an impact in the mobile client
market. A handful of handheld PDAs have used the open-source operating
system, most notably Sharp's Zaurus SL-5500, but the majority of buyers
have opted for Pocket PC or Palm models.
Spaces still available in Sept iCanProgram courses
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/1723228
bob findlay writes "Since 2002 Jan iCanProgram has been running online
training courses for nofees in return for a voluntary Cancer Research
donation in memory of one of the founders. Nearly 2000 students
worldwide have taken an iCanProgram course since then. Courses are
offered when demand warrants. The Intro to Linux Programming and
Extreme Linux Programming courses are both going to be offering Sept
sessions. There are still plenty of spots ...
IBM To Develop Single-Chip Supercomputer
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/1720258
Applications for the TRIPS chip range from cell phones, which
currently use several different processors for different functions, to
scientific research that involves complicated calculations.
IDC: Linux, blades the high spots in server market
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/1519228
The worldwide server market was worth $10.6 billion in the second
quarter of 2003, a scant 0.2 percent higher than in the same quarter
last year, according to revenue figures released Friday by IDC.
Thinkgeek
Interests: Megatokyo Lanyard
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Caffeine: Penguin Energy Gum
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Computing: SnapStream Personal Video Station 3
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Gadgets: Arc LED Flashlight
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Gadgets: Laser Widow
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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
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Computing: Zip-Linq Cell Phone Charger Kits
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Computing: Kensington WiFi Finder
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Computing: Zip-Linq Retractable Network/Modem Cables
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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/
Sourceforge
Release 0.4.9
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=305585
KGuitar aims to develop a free, full-featured guitarist helper program,
focusing on tabulature editing and MIDI synthesizers support. Ported to
KDE3 the first time officially, introduced basic KDE help center
documentation. More usability features (zooming, navigation). Brand new
tools - melody/solo editor, rhythm constructor, support for native Qt
tabulature printing (with standard notescore notation). More complete
MIDI playback feature, more complete MusicXML support. New Guitar Pro 3
import support. And, as usually, lots of refactoring and numerous bug
fixes. The latest file release can be found here:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7693&release_id=
180645
GAUL 0.1846 - Now for Windows!
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=305677
San Diego, CA, August 27, 2003 -- The GAUL project announces the latest
release of GAUL(TM) - the Genetic Algorithm Utility Library, a leading
open-source programming library for evolutionary computation. GAUL
0.1846 contains significant enhancements to its features and usability.
This is the first version to officially support the MS Windows
environment, in addition to the prior supported UNIX and UNIX-like
operating systems. An already impressive set of features are further
enhanced by the new version of GAUL. Support for the MS Windows
platform bolsters a long-time aim of the GAUL project to create a
robust and portable framework for evolutionary algorithms. "Development
of a native Windows version of GAUL is a major milestone," says Stewart
Adcock, Lead Developer of the GAUL project. "Programmers requiring a
feature-complete, but portable, framework for evolutionary computation
now have the open-source GAUL as a viable option." GAUL is already
applied in many important domains, including protein structure
prediction and drug discovery. With release of this new version, GAUL
becomes available to a larger community of research scientists and
software developers. About GAUL: The Genetic Algorithm Utility Library
(or, GAUL for short) is an OSI certified programming library for
evolutionary computation. It is a copyrighted work released under the
terms of the GNU General Public License. GAUL is deployed in several
institutions and corporations, on hardware ranging from low-end desktop
PCs through to top 500 supercomputers, in North America, Europe and
Japan. Further information is available on the GAUL website at
http://gaul.sourceforge.net.
Moodle 1.1 is now available!
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=305709
Moodle 1.1, the best system for managing and conducting online courses,
is now available. Highlights include: - A completely new packaging
system for backup, transfer and restore of courses - A new workshop
module for peer grading - A new chat module for synchronous discussions
- All-new course manager to handle very large numbers of courses
(tested with 3700) - Custom-defined grading scales that can be used
throughout a course - Performance improvements in many areas - Many
interface improvements and fixes http://moodle.org has all the
information and download links.
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
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