The Really Slick ScreenSavers GLX Port is a port of some nifty OpenGL screensavers that were originally written for Windows to GLX. It is intended for use with an existing screensaver daemon like xscreensaver.
J.Tatar and a number of other readers alert us to the shooting death of an anti-government webmaster while in police custody in Ingushetiya, a volatile province in southern Russia. Police took Ingushetiya.ru owner Magomed Yevloyev off a plane that had just landed in Ingushetiya. “Yevloyev… was a prominent opponent of the pro-Kremlin president of Ingushetia, Murat Zyazikov [a close ally of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin]. Prosecutors have opened a preliminary manslaughter investigation after Yevloyev was shot in a police car in Narzan, the capital of volatile Ingushetia, a mostly Muslim region that borders Chechnya, Russian media reported. A spokesman for the prosecutor’s office, Vladimir Markin, said ‘an incident’ took place after Yevloyev was taken into a police car ‘resulting in a shooting injury to the head and he later died in hospital,’ Interfax reported.”
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billybob2 writes “VIA has released a 113,800 line open source graphics driver with full mode-setting support for CRT, LCD, and DVI devices along with 2D, X-Video, and cursor acceleration. Harald Welte, VIA’s open source representative, states that the next step is to add 3D (see preview), TV-out, and hardware codec support while integrating this work with existing open source projects. VIA has pre-installed Linux on a significant portion of the company’s latest products, including the EVEREX gPC2, 15.4″ gBook, and CloudBook. It has also helped port the open source CoreBoot BIOS (previously LinuxBIOS) to several of its motherboards.” VIA seems to be making good on the promise of its open source initiative announced last April.
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Gears of War 2 (X360)
It’s official — kids love the chainsaw duels.
Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party (Wii)
The crowds were digging the dancing minigame.
DrasticTools can be used to visualize table data
in a Grid (DrasticGrid), in a Cloud
(DrasticCloud), and on a Google Map (DrasticMap).
The grid supports pagination, sorting, and in-line
editing of data. This tool is the successor of
MySQLPHPGrid.
Lobo is a pure Java Web browser that can render
HTML with support for JavaScript and CSS. It can also render compiled JavaFX Script sources.
Guitar Hero World Tour — Band Kit (X360)
Singing along with Muse is exactly as tough as it looks.
Kimai is software that tracks work time and
classifies it. It tracks time and prints out a
summary (time sheet) of your activities on demand.
The reports can be yearly, monthly, daily, by
customer, by project, or by action. Its interface
is based on using a Web browser. You can install
it as a Web service or as a single-user program on
your local workstation. It is appropriate both for
multiple simultaneous users or a single user.
Kimai does not have to run to do the recording.
Mobius Forensic Toolkit is a forensic framework written in Python/GTK that manages cases and case items, providing an abstract interface for developing extensions. Cases and item categories are defined using XML files for easy integration with other tools.
Sahi is an automation and testing tool for Web
applications, with the facility to record and
playback scripts. Features include, in-browser
controls, text based scripts, ant support for
playback of suites of tests, and multi threaded
playback. It supports HTTP and HTTPS. Sahi runs as
a proxy server, and the browser needs to use the
sahi server as its proxy. Sahi then injects
JavaScript so that it can access elements in the
Web page. This makes the tool independent of the
Web site or Web application.
DOMjudge is an automated judgement system to run
programming contests. It provides a mechanism to
submit problem solutions and interfaces for teams,
the jury, and the general public. It is
lightweight, and depends on standard software to
do its task. It has a Web interface for
portability and simplicity. It is scalable, so
distributed judging is easy. There is a modular
system for plugging in languages and compilers. It
features rejudging, clarifications, and detailed
submission/judging info.
rwdtinker is the core application for a Ruby
application framework using the RubyWebDialogs
GUI. It provides a system for developing programs,
and uses a Web-based interface. It allows a
developer to combine and create applets to
implement an application. It features built-in bug
report submission, remote control with UDP ports,
a test framework, and context-sensitive help.
pdfrecycle creates a PDF file by composing pages from other PDF files. It lets you define PDF bookmarks, scale and rotate pages, put multiple logical pages onto each physical sheet, and add metadata. It uses a simple text file format to define the layout and what pages to include. From this input file, it creates a LaTeX file and then runs pdflatex to produced the PDF file.
Simple Movie Catalog will scan a given directory
for movies, query IMDb for info, and generate a
catalog in HTML that offers sorting and grouping
of found movies by different criteria.
GSTFS (GStreamer FS) is a filesystem for on-demand
transcoding of music files between different
formats. It utilizes the GStreamer library for
conversion, so any formats supported by GStreamer
should also be supported by GSTFS.
MTX is a set of programs for controlling tape
drives and the robotic mechanism of autoloaders
and tape libraries.
Topal is yet another program that links GnuPG and Pine/Alpine. It offers facilities to encrypt, decrypt, sign, and verify messages. Multiple PGP blocks included in the text of a message are processed. Decryption and verification output can be cached to reduce the number of times the passphrase is entered. RFC2015/3156 multipart messages can be sent and received with help from some scripts, procmail, and a patch to Pine/Alpine. It includes basic support for verifying S/MIME multipart/signed messages. There is a remote sending and decryption mode for reading email on a distant computer via SSH with secret keys on the local computer. There is a high level of configurability.
ConstructrCMS is a content management system that features clean frontend URLs, a frontend cache system, backend user management and rights management, nested_sets logic for page structuring, TinyMCE integration, Prototype and Scriptaculous integration, a file based template system, the ability to use a frontend that fits your special needs, and an asset center for your uploads. Automatic synchronization is done after FTP uploads. Thumbnails are automatically created for image uploads.
Vbackup is a modular backup utility that can be
used to perform full or incremental system
backups. It consists of a set of scripts that can
be used to create backups using tar and xfsdump.
It can also make backups of PostgreSQL and MySQL
databases. It has a module for backing up the
Debian package list, and can store the backups to
a local or remote directory. It is modular, and
can be extended to perform other functions.
The KaufKauf Shoppingmanager is a Web-based
application that allows you to manage your goods
at home. It supports barcode scanners for faster
management, and it automatically creates shopping
lists that can be printed out or downloaded by
cellphone. It also watches “best before” dates and
informs you via email or SMS when foods reach that
date. The complete application is a system that
can be accessed from nearly everywhere and offers
you the possibility to find out what you really
need next from the supermarket.
Simple Groupware is a complete enterprise application offering email, calendaring, contacts, tasks, document management, synchronization with cell phones and Outlook, full-text search, and much more. Simple Groupware combines standards like RSS, iCalendar, vCard, IMAP, POP3, SMTP, CIFS, CSV, WebDAV, LDAP, and SyncML under one platform. Unlike other groupware software, Simple Groupware contains the programming language sgsML to enable the quick customization and creation of powerful Web applications.
jsapigen generates glue code for embedding
Mozilla’s JavaScript engine (SpiderMonkey) into C
applications. A simple interface definition
language is used to describe the connection
between native C code and the JavaScript engine.
jsapigen takes such descriptions and converts them
into C code. This code is then compiled into the
application.
Kuklomenos is a simple but challenging abstract
shoot-em-up game. Defend yourself and the Nodes
from encroaching Evil. Control and destroy the
Nodes before Evil can extract enough from them to
destroy all.
Velosurf is a database mapping layer library for the Apache Velocity
template engine. It provides automatic database mapping of tables and
relationships without any code generation. In the context of a Webapp,
it also provides handy tools for authentication, localization, and forms
validation.
