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September 14, 2003 EVERYTHING SERIES
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Slashdot
More on SCO Code Snippets
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/14/0149238
[0]anoopsinha writes "A story in [1]linuxworld reports that SCO itself
has [2] no idea what the history of a particular snippet of code might
be - even a high profile snippet like the one SCO highlighted at SCO
Forum. Having no idea if its claims have merit has not stopped SCO so
far, so we can expect more from SCO along the lines of big claims with
no merit."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.linuxworld.com/
2. http://www.linuxworld.com/story/34017.htm
Solar Window Panes
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/13/2258239
Val42K writes "Now, [0]those windows that allow glare onto your
computer screen can be useful. They will provide power to your
computer, air conditioning and other useful necessities. Energy
conversion rates are 'way more than 50 percent'."
Links
0. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,60301,00.html
Half-Life 2, ATI, NVIDIA, and a Sack of Cash
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/13/1923213
Latent IT writes "If you're into games, and unless you've been living
under a rock for the past few days, you've heard a bit of a rumble from
[0]Valve on the relative quality of [1]ATI vs. [2]NVIDIA cards.
Starting with articles like [3]this one (previously reported), Valve
told the world that the ATI 9800 Pro was nearly three times faster in
some cases than the formerly competitive NVIDIA offering, the 5900
Ultra. Curiously, this happened at an ATI sponsored event, "Shader
Day". But the story hasn't stopped there. NVidia released [4]this
response, essentially claiming that their new drivers, that were
available to Valve at the time of their press conference, would make
for vast, legitimate performance improvements. An [5]interview with
Massive, the creators of the Aquamark 3d benchmark, seems to confirm
this opinion - that the NV3x chipset wasn't designed around any certain
API very well, and the drivers are critical in achieving good
performance. Anandtech writes [6]here about the restrictions Valve
placed on what benchmarks could be run. However, the key to this whole
story may be this: [7]an article, which I haven't seen get much
coverage in all this, seems to make everything a little clearer - Valve
stated that their OEM bundling deal with ATI came from the fact that
ATI's cards were so superior, and that they were "performance
enthusiasts". However, if the Inquirer is to be believed, the bundling
deal was a result of an outright auction, on what will probably be the
most popular game of the year. [8]Which year that might be, is another
issue altogether. Whatever happened to just making hardware, and making
games?"
Links
0. http://www.valvesoftware.com/
1. http://www.ati.com/
2. http://www.nvidia.com/
3.
http://www.gamersdepot.com/hardware/video_cards/ati_vs_nvidia/dx9_desktop/HL2_benchmarks/001.htm
4. http://www.tech-report.com/onearticle.x/5641
5. http://www.guru3d.com/newsitem.php?id=467
6. http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.html?i=1863&p=7
7. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11419
8. http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/27654
Response to Spider Robinson on the State of Sci-Fi
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/13/1912217
Garund writes "A day or so ago Slashdot posted a [0]story on Spider
Robinson and his lament for Science Fiction. Well, other people,
including Mark Oakley, publisher of one of my favorite independant
comics, posted a response to Spider on his [1]Thieves & Kings website
(scroll about a third of the way down the page). Interesting take on
it, I thought."
Links
0. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/08/1620216&tid=214
1. http://www.iboxpublishing.com/
The Economist on Open Source in Government
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/13/1834245
[0]locarecords.com writes "The [1]Economist has an excellent article
about [2]Microsoft attempting to undermine the Open Source and Free
Software movements. Particularly interesting are the issues relating to
proprietary software and government and how other countries are
mandating free software in government software projects."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.economist.com/
2. http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2054746
Fame, Fortune and Micropayments
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/13/1750232
adharma writes "Clay Shirky is at it again. Addressed [0]previously,
his new [1]article discussess the failures of [2]Micropayments and the
joys of free content."
Links
0. http://www.shirky.com/writings/weblogs_publishing.html
1. http://shirky.com/writings/fame_vs_fortune.html
2. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/22/138257&tid=99
Can Lotus Notes R3 Prior Art Save The Browser?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/13/1747219
[0]theodp writes "Apparently stunned by the [1]implications of [2]Eolas
vs Microsoft, Ray Ozzie of Lotus Notes and Groove fame [3]offers up
Notes R3 as prior art for the notorious Eolas patent. To bolster his
argument, Ozzie used the Notes R3 feature set to recreate a scenario
close to what was described in the patent. After the hard part of
putting together a Notes R3 computing environment that included MS-DOS
6.22, Windows for Workgroups 3.11, and a circa-1993 copy of Excel 5.0
obtained from eBay, it only took Ozzie about 15 minutes to knock out a
demo without any programming using the out-of-the-box UI of Notes and
Excel."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/12/1613222&tid=109
2. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/11/2340225&tid=109
3. http://www.ozzie.net/blog/stories/2003/09/12/savingTheBrowser.html
Security Versus Science
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/13/1716219
dogfrt writes "According to this Wired News article, post-9/11 homeland
security has had a [0]decidedly negative effect on US scientific
research. In specific, researchers are self-censoring what they
publish, talented foreign students are being denied visas
(approximately 20%, according to one source in the article), and
researchers are avoiding work with dangerous pathogens, choosing more
innocuous micro-organisms."
Links
0. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,60415,00.html
IEEE to Standardize OS Security Components
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/13/170243
[0]aster_ken writes "The Institute of Electrical and Electronic
Engineers has started [1]work on a standard for securing operating
systems, as a recognition that software security is 'limited by the
operating systems that underpin them', the organization said yesterday.
The standard, dubbed IEEE P2200, will address external threats and
intrinsic flaws arising from software design and engineering
practices."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1.
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?epi-content=GENERIC&newsId=20030911005497&headlineSearchConfigBO=1062673200000%201063321043000%20%20groupByDate%20%201%207%201062673200000%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%201000151%20true%20true%20&newsLang=en&beanID=2055223794&viewID=news_view
Pilot a Plane with a PDA?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/13/0211243
An anonymous reader writes "[0]This whitepaper describes how engineers
at IBM's Pervasive Computing Advanced Technology Laboratory created a
Linux-based, intelligent, remote control system for a model airplane as
a way to showcase gateway server technology. The onboard computer
controls various navigational equipment and interfaces to a wireless
access point and PDA. The user can control the plane through handheld
wireless technology. A 3-dimensional virtual flight environment tracks
the plane's flight and provides a gps-based autopilot function. The
environment is based on LandSAT maps and gives the user a virtual view
of the flight from the cockpit of the plane, which can be augmented by
real-time updates from an onboard camera. The article briefly
introduces "gateway server" concepts, describes the embedded hardware
and software architecture, explains how the IBM developers implemented
the control systems, and includes lots of cool photos."
Links
0. http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT9733962835.html
Freshmeat
Ajaqs 0.9.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135833/
Ajaqs is a Web app that organizes FAQs on a per-project basis. It is
designed to be deployed under popular Web and application servers. It
aims to serve two purposes: to provide engineering groups a mechanism
for consolidating and preserving in-house knowledge in connection to
product development and usage, and to provide small companies with a
Web interface for exposing searchable, internationalizable information
related to products and services.
Aldo 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135828/
Aldo is a Morse code tutor. It generates some strings of chars using a
random number generator, and translates and sounds these strings in
Morse code. You must catch the code and check what you have heard. It
has 6 skills and 4 speeds.
Amoeba Tools 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135570/
Amoeba Tools is a collection of objects for Sun One Active Server Pages
for Unix platforms. Objects included are AmoebaHTTP, Amoeba Command,
Amoeba ScriptTools, Amoeba Spellcheck, Amoeba RegExp, and Amoeba Chart.
Animal Shelter Manager 1.21
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135801/
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.
Avi2VCD 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135745/
Avi2VCD is a bash script that converts an AVI file (DivX, xvid, or AVI)
to a VCD. It uses transcode and vcdimager.
BBclone 0.32.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135834/
BBclone is a PHP Web counter on steroids which displays individual logs
as well as aggregated data. It is a clone of Big Brother webstats,
except that it is written in PHP and it relies only on flat files (no
database needed). BBclone enables any Web site administrator to have a
very precise view of who visit the website: OS, browser, date,
referring page etc. Main features include reload resistance, hostname
resolution, proxy workaround, and blacklist.
Bloof 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135804/
Bloof is an infrastructure for analytical processing of version control
data. Its main application, the Bloof Browser, provides detailed
visualizations of the evolution of software projects. Bloof uses
version control data for analyzing the evolution of software projects.
Bloof is designed to be integrated into other applications, providing a
Java API access interface and an XML output format. Other Tools for
Bloof are: Bloof Shell, Bloof Script, and Bloof Metric SDK.
BomberClone 0.10.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135835/
BomberClone is a free Bomberman-like game for Linux and Windows. The
rules of the game are simple: run though a level and bomb other
players. It features powerups that give you more strength, make you
walk faster through the level, or let you drop more bombs.
Colorer Library beta2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135798/
Colorer Library provides source text syntax highlighting and text
parsing services for host applications. It colorizes source code on
host editor systems in more than 100 formats. It uses the powerful HRC
format (XML, regexp, context-free grammars), allowing it to support any
language. The parser can search and build lists of special text tokens
(function lists, syntax errors) and search and indent programming
language constructions (brackets, paired tags).
config_api 1.3.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135810/
config_api is a library that allows you to easily read/write/syntax
check/erase configuration files.
Cygwin 1.5.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135818/
Cygwin is a DLL which provides a Unix emulation environment for
Windows. The Cygwin environment provides a complete port of such
development utilities as gcc, binutils, gdb, make, etc., as well as a
number of useful utilities.
EasyChem 0.1 alpha
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135787/
EasyChem is designed to draw high-quality molecules and chemical
formulas (organic molecules in particular). It can export to many
formats (e.g. Fig, PostScript, and LaTeX).
Elk 3.99.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135786/
Elk (the Extension Language Kit) is an implementation of the Scheme
programming language. It can be used as a standalone Scheme
interpreter, or as an embeddable, reusable extension language subsystem
for applications written in C or C++ through the libelk library.
Filelight 0.6.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135819/
Filelight graphically represents a file system as a set of concentric
segmented rings, aiming to show where diskspace is being used. Segments
expand from the center, representing files and directories. The size of
segments is proportional to the size of the files they represent.
Directories have child segments which represent the files they contain.
Filelight performs a similar function to the command line tool du, but
all the information is shown in a compact graphical fashion.
flP5 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135793/
flP5 is easy to use, easy to configure, and easy to extend
full-featured PIC (and most of the serially programmed device)
programming software.
gdu A.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135841/
GDU is equivalent to the 'du' command-line tool. It displays a
graphical tree showing the disk space used by each file/folder.
GNOME Structured File Library 1.8.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135805/
The GNOME Structured File Library is a utility library for reading and
writing structured file formats. Support for MS OLE2 streams is
complete, as is zip import. There is also support for document metadata
and some initial work on decompressing VBA streams in OLE files for
future conversion to other languages. This library replaces libole2 and
is used in gnumeric, mrproject, abiword, libwv2, koffice. It is also
part of the AAF format.
Gnu Gatekeeper ACD 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135809/
The GnuGk ACD does automatic call distribution for the Gnu Gatekeeper.
It is the first step to a VOIP call-center solution based on GnuGk.
Incoming calls are routed to agents based on different distribution
algorithms.
Highlight 2.0-9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135815/
Highlight is a universal source code to HTML, XHTML, RTF, TeX, or LaTeX
converter. (X)HTML output is formatted by Cascading Style Sheets. It
supports Bash, C, C++, C#, COBOL, Java, Perl, PHP, and 40 more
programming languages. It's possible to easily enhance the parsing
database.
ICEWall Network Access System 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135790/
ICEWall Network Access System is a modular billing and security system.
The main module is "IC-Radius" (a Radius protocol
implementation); it is needed to work with VPN clients. It can set
traffic limits and time limits, block viewing of external sites, etc.
Th statistics module provides information about individual clients and
total usage.
ID3 Tag Framework 0.93
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135807/
ID3Tag.framework is a Cocoa-based framework for reading and writing ID3
tags. It supports 1.1 and 2.0 - 2.4 tag types.
Issue Dealer 0.9.7 (Main)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135788/
The Issue Dealer is a simple product for managing (structuring,
editing, prioritizing, categorizing) issues. It is primarily used to
manage information.
jSaluki 0.81
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135792/
jSaluki is a small, easy to use Java hyperelliptic curve cryptography
library. A simple hyperelliptic crypto system is implemented in the
example file.
KCDict 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135796/
KCDict is a frontend to the popular CEDICT Chinese-English dictionary.
It provides lookup of Chinese characters by radical and stroke count
and by pinyin code, allowing regular expressions. User entries can be
stored and edited in a separate user dictionary.
Kripper 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135813/
Kripper is a GUI front-end to some of the Linux command-line tools for
ripping a VCD and converting it into DivX. The goal of this project is
to produce a GUI by which the above task can be done with very few
mouse clicks.
libESMTP 1.0.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135824/
LibESMTP is a library to manage posting (or submission of) electronic
mail using SMTP to a preconfigured Mail Transport Agent (MTA) such as
Exim. It may be used as part of a Mail User Agent (MUA) or another
program that must be able to post electronic mail but where mail
functionality is not the program's primary purpose. LibESMTP is not
intended to be used as part of a program that implements a Mail
Transport Agent.
libthai 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135822/
libthai is a set of Thai language support routines aimed to ease
developers' tasks to incorporate Thai language support in their
applications. It includes important Thai-specific functions (e.g., word
breaking, input and output methods, and basic character and string
supports).
MacXM 1.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135823/
MacXM is a control program for the XM PCR satellite receiver, an XM
radio powered and controlled by a USB connection.
Mathomatic 10.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135838/
Mathomatic is a small, portable symbolic math program that can solve,
simplify, combine, differentiate, and compare algebraic equations.
Complex number and polynomial arithmetic are supported.
mdate 1.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135784/
Mdate is a freely-available mayan date utility. It calculates Mayan
Long Counts, Julian Day Numbers, and dates of the Mayan Tzolkin and
Haab calendars.
Modeling Framework 0.9pre15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135811/
Modeling Framework fills the gap between the Python object world and
relational databases in that it allows users to transparently create,
retrieve, update, or delete Python objects from a database without
having to write a single line of SQL. Its main features include
generation of database schema, generation of Python code templates
ready to be used, support for transparent mapping of (class)
inheritance in relational databases, object-oriented query language,
use of standard Python getters to traverse relationships (the related
objects are automatically fetched when needed and when appropriate),
and automatic checking for referential-integrity constraints, etc.
Supported databases are MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.
Moon Shine 4 -- The Hitch Hiker 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135764/
Moon Shine 4 -- The Hitch Hiker is a CGI telling a tale of when someone
forgot to fill the gas tank. It is part of a series of images which
show scenes lit by moonlight.
mrtg-ping-probe 2.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135832/
mrtg-ping-probe is a ping probe for MRTG. It is used to monitor the
round trip time and packet loss to networked devices. MRTG uses its
output to generate graphs visualizing minimum and maximum round trip
times or packet loss.
net2ftp 0.72
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135791/
net2ftp is a Web-based FTP client, offering standard FTP client
functionality for Web pages.
Ocrad 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135789/
Ocrad is an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program implemented as
a filter and based on a feature extraction method. It reads a bitmap
image in PBM format and outputs text in the ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1)
charset. It includes a layout analyser that is able to separate the
columns or blocks of text normally found on printed pages. Ocrad can be
used as a stand-alone console application, or as a backend to other
programs.
PAR Packaging and Deployment tool 0.74
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135750/
PAR is a cross-platform packaging and deployment tool for Perl
programs, dubbed as a cross between Java's JAR and Perl2EXE/PerlApp.
PHP GEN 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135806/
PHP GEN reads the list of tables in a database, lets you select one,
then reads the structure of it, suggests a basic (modifiable)
configuration, and generates good-style and easily maintainable PHP
code capable of listing, adding, editing, and deleting records. Both
the generated code and the engine itself use Pear::DB for the
database-abstraction layer and Smarty for the presentation/interface
layer.
phpSANE 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135794/
phpSANE is a Web-based frontend for SANE written in HTML/PHP. Now you
can scan with your Web browser, too.
PTlink IRCd 6.16.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135839/
The PTlink IRC daemon integrates some of the most advanced features
needed to manage an IRC network into the stable core from Hybrid IRCd.
It is fully integrated with PTlink IRC Services and PTlink Open Proxy
Monitor, providing a great platform for anyone starting an IRC network.
python3ds 0.3.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135842/
python3ds is a small set of Python routines for reading 3ds archives.
It features support for animations, textures, and collision detection,
and it is compatible with pyopengl and pygame.
QDBM: Quick DataBase Manager 1.6.16
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135812/
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.
RLIB 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135754/
RLIB is a LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) report generator that makes it
possible to easily create professional reports in PDF, HTML, TEXT, and
CSV from one simple XML report definition file.
SiEd 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135840/
SiEd is a simple text editor for Palm OS 3.5+. It is designed to allow
editing of large documents on any Palm. It is targeted more at users
with add-on keyboards for their Palm, as existing editors do not take
full advantage of the keyboard.
SnortPing 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135778/
SnortPing is a preprocessor plugin for the Snort Intrusion Detection
System. It detects packets that are destined for unused IP address as
determined by the built-in ping tool or any custom command, and can
effectively and quickly catch internal network scans by unruly users,
other malicious activity, and even network misconfigurations.
sybadmin 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135837/
Sybadmin is a set of bash scripts which could be useful for the
administration of a Sybase ASE server. These scripts should help you
perform such activities as backing up databases or transaction logs,
saving vital server information (e.g. devices and logins), checking
database consistency with dbcc commands, and checking database usage.
Transit Executive 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135825/
Transit Executive is a real-time strategy simulation game in which you
build transit systems, make profits, and attempt to take over your
competition.
treewm 0.4.4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135827/
treewm is a window manager that tries to implement a new concept. In
addition to the client windows, the user can create desktops which can
themselves contain windows and desktops. By arranging the windows in
such a tree, the user is able to manage tasks efficiently.
ULN - User Level Networking 20030913
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135795/
User Level Networking is software designed to allow the dynamic
allocation of IP addresses. The basic idea is to give different IP
addresses to different users, thus identifying the UID-HOST pair with
an IP address. It includes a patch to the kernel which must be applied
to every client in the LAN, a suid executable which will be used by the
users to get their IP address from the server and activate it on a
virtual interface (like eth0:*) on the local computer, and an
executable which will be launched by sshd on the server host.
Universal FPS Organiser 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135820/
UFO (Universal FPS Organiser) is a way to connect to your preferred FPS
game server. It will let you retrieve your friends in a game such as
Enemy Territory.
uSTL 0.4-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135816/
uSTL is a partial implementation of the Standard Template Library which
reduces code size by factoring memory management code into a
non-template base class and deriving containers from it.
vim2html 1.33
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135836/
vim2html is a small program that will export any Vim- editable file
into well-formed HTML, simulating a Vim session. It fully supports Vim
colorization (customizable) and authentic Vim syntax highlighting. This
program provides an excellent method of presenting
programs/HTML/scripts/etc. on the Web. It fully supports valid CSS and
XHTML-1.0/Transitional or Strict with HTMLtidy.
VIrus 0.0.6 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135830/
VIrus (VI resembling utility skeleton) was originally taken from
busybox and stripped of most unrelated stuff. The intention is to
provide a pure, minimalist VI implementation that allows you to switch
off shell-escaping and other security risks by default, and allow the
admin to offer an interim user to just have a vi as login-shell on a
certain host, while allowing others to work with a resource-sensitive
and small vi implementation for your OS bootdisks.
Web-2-Database 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135829/
The Web-2-Database System is an XML dialect and Java package to reduce
the need to hardwire Java server-side code to a given database schema.
The system features support for dynamic Web clients, and runs where
Java 1.4.x+ and MySQL 3.2.x runs.
xCHM 0.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135817/
xCHM is a graphical CHM viewer for UNIX. It's based on CHMLIB and
written using the wxWindows framework. It is not an extractor, but a
standalone viewer, able to generate and show the topics tree, figure
out the homepage for the document, print the current page, and go
forward and backward in its history.
Newsforge Reports
Iran's First GNU/Linux Seminar
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/13/1538208
Aryan Ameri writes: Iran's first GNU/Linux seminar will be held on
Thursday September 16 at the University of Tehran (UT). It is the
result of a joint collaboration between linuxiran.org! and LIGLUG,
TalareWeb.Com and University of Tehran. It was first scheduled to be a
simple installfest but very soon it became apparent that there was
space and need to do more.
GNU/Linux saves the day
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/12/1733209
- by Jason Yost - Microsoft, in its neverending quest to convince the
world that Windows is better and more cost-effective than GNU/Linux,
recently funded a research group to run some tests. The results of
course came out in favor of Microsoft and .NET being more
cost-effective to develop applications than J2EE and GNU/Linux. I
chuckled to myself, wondering who could be so gullible, as I glanced
over at the new Linux server my IT department had ...
MandrakeSoft plans new revenue source
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/12/157237
- by Joe Barr - Following up on a story appearing this morning at
DesktopLinux.com about MandrakeSoft selling ads in their free download
version of Mandrake Linux, I contacted Gaël Duval at MandrakeSoft for
more detail on the new advertising/revenue source. Updated
Newsforge Newsvac
An Open Source Letter to Whom, SCO?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/14/0132224
When Darl McBride sent his open letter to the open source community, I
was especially struck by the offer to work with the community to work
out various IP issues and perhaps a new "design a new business model
that enhances the stability and trustworthiness of the Open Source
community in the eyes of enterprise customers." Many members of the
community, from everyday desktop users right on up to Linus Torvalds,
jumped on the statements made by ...
The most-attacked servers?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/13/1543248
Guru prasath writes "Microsoft Windows may be dominating the headlines
for security-related breaches but the open-source Linux server
operating system remains the biggest target of overt intruder attacks,
according to a study by U.K.-based Mi2g."
Nokia joins to CELinuxForum
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/13/1534238
bryam writes "Nokia is joining the CE Linux Forum. This mean that maybe
the MIPI Alliance could be adopt Linux?"
Linux-based "gateway server" remotely pilots model plane
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/13/1533238
Anonymous Reader writes "This whitepaper describes how engineers at
IBM's Pervasive Computing Advanced Technology Laboratory created a
Linux-based, intelligent, remote control system for a model airplane as
a way to showcase gateway server technology. The onboard computer
controls various navigational equipment and interfaces to a wireless
access point and PDA. The user can control the plane through handheld
wireless technology."
The Unholy Trinity: SCO, SUN, MS
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/12/223239
Glanz writes "Raving Luni, aka Ron of Linux-Universe
http://linux-universe.com/ has contributed this interesting analysis of
the current battle raging against Open Source, and by extension,
Freedom in general. Sun is behind it too, very much. The Unholy Trinity
shares one common issue: "Open Source software is eating into their
profits". So they all support this action in a desperate attempt to
save their business model. Here are the patients: ...
Who is responsible for security: Can we move past the finger-pointing?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/12/1852242
No matter which operating system is running on the device you're using
to read this article, you're vulnerable to being hacked. Modern
operating systems are too complex to be completely secure in every
respect. Let that sink in--what you are doing right now is not 100
percent secure and never will be.
IBM supercomputers aid melanoma diagnosis
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/12/1850240
Electro-Optical Sciences will be the first life sciences company to
use on-demand supercomputing power from IBM to analyze data collected
by a handheld skin-scanning device for detecting malignant melanoma.
Open Source on the Brink
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/12/1847239
In the next five years, open source "is going to take [the government]
market away from Microsoft completely," predicts Eben Moglen, Columbia
University law professor and Free Software Foundation general counsel.
Q&A: SCO's McBride on his open letter to the Linux community
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/12/1845257
On Tuesday, Darl McBride, CEO and president of Unix vendor The SCO
Group Inc., released an open letter offering to talk about the issues
separating his company and the open-source and Linux communities. In an
interview with Computerworld yesterday, McBride explained why he wrote
the letter and what he expects to accomplish.
Open-Source Software Debate Reaches Ivory Towers
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/12/1838246
"The culture of open-source development is fundamentally similar to
peer review in academia," says Stanford University researcher Sanatan
Rai. "The work is reviewed by other experts and is available for open
scrutiny. Hence mistakes are found, and errors corrected."
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Sourceforge
Tiny COBOL Compiler release 0.61
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=309483
This release contains mainly bugs fixes, and some enhancements. It
includes updates to the main compiler and run-time. Tiny COBOL is a
COBOL compiler being developed on the Linux OS. It generates GNU x86
assembler code.
Gallery v1.4-pl1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=309878
Gallery v.1.4-pl1 has been released. Gallery is a slick, intuitive web
based photo gallery with authenticated users and privileged albums.
Easy to install, configure and use. Photo management includes automatic
thumbnails, resizing, rotation, etc. User privileges make this great
for communities. Version 1.4 premieres some major new features: Gallery
is now internationalized, and can be displayed in more than 20
languages, with more on the way! In addition, we've completely
overhauled the documentation and made it more accessible and more
informative. Other changes include ownership of individual album items,
not just of albums, and a slew of minor improvements and bugfixes.
Additional features new to Gallery 1.4 include: * Support for lossless
JPEG rotation, and new "flip photo" options * Image size and JPEG EXIF
data can be displayed below photos * Data loss prevented if disk space
is exceeded * Image dimensions and file size can be restricted *
Support for "*" wildcards in search field * Add items to front or back
of album * Tons of other feature enhancements and bugfixes Gallery
Remote v.1.1 is also now available. This new version now sports a
preferences dialogue. Also: Proxy and HTTPS support, ability to rotate
pictures before uploading them, a more efficient protocol for getting
the list of albums, and support for the "Extra Fields" functionality
introduced in Gallery 1.3.4. Download:
http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7130 Read more:
http://gallery.sf.net/article.php?sid=88
NASM 0.98.38 is released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=310061
The most important change to 0.98.38 is that the broken ELF backend in
0.98.37 has (hopefully) been fixed. The Netwide Assembler, NASM, is an
80x86 assembler designed for portability and modularity. It supports a
range of object file formats, including Linux and NetBSD/FreeBSD a.out,
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!, SSE and SSE2 opcodes, and has macro capability. * Add
Makefile for 16-bit DOS binaries under OpenWatcom, and modify mkdep.pl
to be able to generate completely pathless dependencies, as required by
OpenWatcom wmake (it supports path searches, but not explicit paths.) *
Fix the STR instruction. * Fix the ELF output format, which was broken
under certain circumstances due to the addition of stabs support. *
Quick-fix Borland format debug-info for -f obj * Fix for %rep with no
arguments (#560568) * Fix concatenation of preprocessor function call
(#794686) * Fix long label causes coredump (#677841) * Use autoheader
as well as autoconf to keep configure from generating ridiculously long
command lines. * Make sure that all of the formats which support
debugging output actually will suppress debugging output when -g not
specified.
Updates to mp4live - testing help wanted
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=310093
We're finished with the main updates to mp4live. Our in-house test has
been running for 10 days still maintaining audio/video sync. These
changes were accomplished by updating to the V4L2 driver, and updating
faac. These changes have been submitted to CVS on sourceforge. To use
them you must install v4L2 (server/mp4live has a new html file telling
you how we accomplished that). The MPEG4IP project provides an MPEG and
IETF standards-based system for encoding, streaming, and playing MPEG-4
encoded audio and video. We also require a seperate installation of the
faac package, like we did with lame. You must go to www.audiocoding.com
and download the latest faac. Then, before configuring or compiling,
un-tar the faac_mpeg4ip_add.tar in the faac directory. Then configure,
build and install faac. faac_mpeg4ip_add.tar is used to install the
faac.h file. We will be working with the faac guys to have that as part
of their package. Then configure and install mpeg4ip. Bill
KDE 3.1.3(a) RPMs moved to stable
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=310176
The kde 3.1.3(a) packages have been moved to the stable repository. Get
'em while they're hot. The KDE for RedHat project intends to promote
the use of KDE and KDE-based applications on RedHat Linux. (3.1.4 is in
the works, and maybe, just maybe, we may see a preview of 3.2 showing
up in unstable in the not-too-distant future.).
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