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Conrad Sanderson, a PhD student in Australia, and an advent critic of Microsoft, sent in an interesting piece about Microsoft's upcoming frontal assault on Apache with the release of Windows 2000, and its effect on Linux. To read the text, hit the details link. Links: Conrad Sanderson [Comments are disabled]
About: SMPEG is a general purpose MPEG video/audio player for Linux based on the mpeg_play and SPLAY MPEG decoders. It interfaces with the Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) to provide cross-platform MP3 playback for games. Changes: Decoupled audio stream from video stream. More optimized code. Better (but not perfect) audio/video synchronization. Plays MP3 files, as well as MPEG-1 video and MPEG system streams.
About: TkSeti is a GUI to control the SETI@Home client for UNIX. It can passively monitor an already running setiathome client, manually run/kill/pause/continue the setiathome client, automatically run the client only on certain days between certain hours, and start/stop/pause the client when TkSeti starts and exits. On Linux platforms it can automatically run/kill/pause/continue the setiathome client based on system idleness by monitoring interrupt controlled devices such as keyboard, mouse, etc. It even keeps track of your personal best Spike and Gaussian scores, and notifies you if you or your friends make the official Top Users, Spikes or Gaussians lists. Changes: Now featuring a map of the sky showing where your current work unit is from, a font selector, and other various enhancements/fixes.
About: KBiff is a KDE "biff" or new mail notification utility. It is highly configurable but very easy to use and setup. It supports session managment (it "remembers" the last state it was in before you logged off) and can be docked into the panel. It has support for mbox (Unix-style), maildir (qmail-style), mh, POP3, IMAP4, and NNTP mailboxes. Changes: This fixes the "KBiff dumps core when I use it with session management" bug introduced in 2.3.8. Upgrade only if you are using 2.3.8 and are experiencing that problem.
About: VMware allows you to run 'virtual machines' inside a Linux host. It is not an emulator. It provides a virtual computer within the host which can boot whichever OS you decide to put on the filesystem image that is used as a harddrive. It will run DOS 6.22, Win 3.1, Win9x, WinNT/2000/XP/2003, Linux, Novell, and more. The only main requirement is a 400 MHz or better machine, along with lots of RAM (128M minimum, 256M recommended). Changes: This version fixes a buffer overrun vulnerability present in VMWare 1.0.1.
About: The Remote Microscope system consists of a server that manages the microscope and handles TCP connections, and Java-based client software that allows users to control the microscope. Currently the server software supports two different Leica microscopes, and two image acquisition devices. Changes: Lots of bugfixes and improvements: the Z-axis can now be adjusted for manual focusing, the server is much more stable and a bit faster, double buffering implemented in the client, client applet now works on Macs and MSIE 4.0.
About: X-Chat is a fully-featured graphical IRC client using the GTK toolkit. Optionally it can be compiled to use GNOME and Perl scripting. Changes: Cleanup release before a new development branch is started.
About: OpenMap is a JavaBeans-based GIS toolkit for building applications and applets needing geographic information. Using OpenMap components, you can access data from legacy applications, in-place, in a distributed setting. At its core, OpenMap is a set of Swing components that understand geographic coordinates. These components help you show map data, and help you handle user input events to manipulate that data. Changes: Minor bugfixes and tweaks.
About: MP3c is a curses-based audio CD-to-MP3/OGG converter with CDDB support. It can be used in an interactive menu environment or a batch mode which lets you encode automatically. MP3c tries to find the most useful information in a CDDB entry, and even recognizes sampler CDs correctly. It is very configurable and can be used with every available encoder, ripper, and tag editor. It is available in different languages (currently English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Polish, and German). Changes: Added some nice status information (about track, time, and estimated mp3-filelength). Also added commandline-option to change cdrom-device, support for LAME encoder and some minor bugfixes.
About: CGILua is a tool for developing dynamic HTML pages and manipulating input data from forms. It uses the interpreted language Lua for codifying its scripts. It has been on the road for almost 8 years now, being used in many Web products and sites. It is extensible through Lua libraries and dynamic loading of C/C++ libraries. Scripts can be written as Lua programs or HTML templates (HTML with Lua code embedded). Scripts are platform-independent. Changes: Uses the new version of the Lua interpreter (3.2); new documentation, both in english and in portuguese; improved error messages; file upload handling; new template directive IF; enhanced flexibility for customizing errors signaling (error information can be easily sent for the webmaster by email, for instance); new libraries providing mail capability, criptography functions and cookies facilities; new core functions for HTTP headers handling; new state managing mechanism provided by the function cgilua.savestate()
About: HTMLPerlSETI uses the SETI::Stats Perl module to gather statistics about the UNIX SETI@home client and formats them as an HTML table.
About: The awk utility interprets a special-purpose programming language that makes it possible to handle simple data-reformatting jobs with just a few lines of code.
About: Pavuk is a Web grabber with an optional GTK GUI, and optional support for downloading with multiple threads. It supports the HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTP via SSL, and Gopher protocols, as well as HTTP GET, and POST requests. It is capable of filling HTML forms while downloading HTML trees, and lets you mirror Web documents for local browsing. You can even synchronize changes to these documents. Recent versions also support processing of Javascript patterns in HTML pages. Pavuk have JavaScript bindings that allow writing of own scripts to perform special tasks. Changes: Fixed several memory leaks inside new HTML and CSS parser code, new type of log file for using with scripts, fixed the random crashes with Xt GUI.
About: Strip is a password and account management program for the Palm Computing Platform. Designed to fit the needs of both IT professionals and the average user, it combines ease of use with flexibility and security. 128 bit encryption ensures that even if your Palm Pilot is lost or stolen your important account and password information will remain confidential. Strip has a quick and easy to use interface, with many useful features including the ability to beam shared accounts to other Strip users. Changes: Initial public release.
About: mnoGoSearch is a full-featured Web search engine that you can use to build search engines over HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and NTTP servers, local files, and database text fields. It supports many database systems as backends. It has built-in support for XML, HTML, and text, and external converters can be used to support other document types. An automatic language/charset guesser for more 70 language/charset combinations is included, along with cluster support, making it possible to distribute data over multiple computers and index huge collections with up to several hundred million documents. Changes: Support for templates to easily customize web search interface, support for different word forms using ispell files, support for external parser programs, indexer now uses syslog for logging by default, support for find same documents with different URLs (such as mirrors) through MD5 hash as well as a bunch of smaller improvements and bugfixes. UdmSearch works on Solaris out-of-the-box now. Users of older versions are advised to upgrade. Homepage has also been heavily updated.
About: Clean_mail is a series of shell and Perl scripts that help a system administrator maintain mail spool files on a large system. They offer deleting of old mails, backup, deleting of spam, automatic mails to users, etc. Changes: Added protection against incoherent variables in clean_mail.conf.
About: Gnumeric is a powerful and easy to use spreadsheet using GNOME. Its goal is to provide a full featured spreadsheet and a smooth migration path for people and organizations currently using proprietary applications. It provides more sheet functions and greatly improved accuracy when compared to Microsoft's Excel. A plugin system lets you extend Gnumeric, adding functions, I/O formats, and real time data capabilities. The existing Python, Guile, and Perl plugins let you define complex functions. Gnumeric is capable of reading and writing MS Excel (XLS and Office Open XML), and reading Lotus, Applix, Quattro Pro, OpenCalc (ODF), XBase, DIF, SYLK, HTML, Psion, MPS, oleo, sc, misc. text formats, and its native XML. It can also generate Latex, HTML, and others. Changes: Implemented 'X-base' importing support (DBase, FoxPro etc.) Several translations updated, and lots of bugs fixed.
About: RearSite is a simple collaborative Web site manager. It has been designed with security, ease of use, and interoperability with existing information services (LDAP directories) as main goals. RearSite allows users to download documents at a glance but also to control who is allowed to retrieve the published documents. Collaborative tools may be added on a directory basis (one forum, one chat and one shared calendar per directory). Changes: Install script now included, as well as HTML 4.0 validation.
About: JChemPaint is a program for drawing 2D chemical structures like those found in most chemistry textbooks. Changes: Chemical Markup Language (CML) import and export is now available. One-click spiro ring attachments have been added as well as an automated 2D structure layout.
About: Mahogany is a GUI email client for the X11/Unix, Windows, and Mac platforms. It supports a wide range of Internet protocols (IMAP4, POP3, ESMTP, NNTP) and encrypted communications using SSL, includes full MIME support, and aims to be fully standard-compliant. It allows the use of unlimited number of servers, supports filters and identities, and offers optional HTML viewing and much more. Changes: Now includes a Windows version, too. Minor fixes and improvements for the Unix version. MacOS port progressing but not available yet.
About: durep is a perl script used for disk usage reports. It can generate text output with bar graphs to allow easy comparisons of disk usage between directories. It can also generate web pages which can be navigated through the directory structure. This allows easy visual monitoring of disk usage. Changes: New options, bugfixes and improvements.
About: GMailWatch is a GNOME Panel Applet that displays a summary of incoming mail (sender/subject) rather than just an icon. It's similar to the old xmailwatcher utility (and uses some of the same code), and is also based upon mailcheck (of gnome-core). The user can change the size of the panel applet. Changes: Added the ability to specify the mailbox file, and whether to show warnings if the file exists or not. It also scrolls down automatically to show the newest summaries.
About: BladeEnc is a free, cross-platform, console-based MP3 encoder, based on the ISO reference code. It is mostly intended for high quality encoding in high bitrates. Changes: This is the first release under the LGPL license. The source code is now available for download.
About: CDPlayer.app is a small CD Audio Player for GNUstep. Changes: Added a CDDB site editor.
About: Apache FOP is an XSL-FO formatter. It is used in conjunction with an XSLT transformation engine to format XML documents into PDF, PostScript, and other output formats. Changes: Minor bug fixes and better error handling/reporting.
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