An anonymous reader writes “I’ve recently found a spot in a large company, and I’m noticing that here a lot of people on the technology side are very anti-business. Tech makes up about 40% of the total line of business staff, but the whole LOB is only a tiny percentage of the larger company in the financial industry. I personally haven’t seen this before in prior jobs, but I’m told that this animosity is commonplace. So I come to Slashdot to find out if others have experienced this adversarial relationship between business and tech, and if so, what was the effect on the overall success of the business?”
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PRTree is a Java package which implements a
priority R-Tree, a spatial index. It can be used
to find objects inside a query rectangle very
quickly.
License: BSD License (revised)
Changes:
Tree loading now uses less memory. A fully constructed tree now uses less memory. A problem with loading very big trees has been fixed.
Amora (A mobile remote assistant) is an
application for S60 Nokia smartphones written in
Python (PyS60). It allows you to send keyboard
events and mouse moving in your Linux desktop. You
can control slides, movies, and any other
application. Supported features include: mouse
drag, double clicking, mouse left button, and some
common keyboard keys (Enter, Esc, Space, F5, arrow
key left/right, ‘F’, etc.). It can take a
screenshot of the active window on your desktop
and view thumbnail on the cellphone.
Communication uses Bluetooth.
License: GNU General Public License v2
Changes:
A bug with detection of Bluetooth dongle connection/disconnection has been fixed.
Florence is a scalable on-screen virtual keyboard for GNOME that stays out of your way when you don’t need it. It is useful if you can’t use a real keyboard either because of a handicap, disease, broken keyboard, or tablet PC but you can use a pointing device.
It aims at being easy and pretty.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The most visible change of this version is its speed. It starts more quickly and is more responsive. Animation is also smoother. The non-locking modifiers keys don’t behave exactly like previous versions of florence. All modifiers are released when a non-modifier key is pressed. Under the hood, the drawing system has been redesigned to use less memory with cairo and librsvg instead of libgnomecanvas and libart. XML schema validation has been replaced with relax-ng (compact syntax) validation for the layout file. This is much more readable and maintainable.
Gringotts is a small utility that allows you to
jot down sensitive data
(passwords, PINs, small files, etc.) in an
easy-to-read, easy-to-access,
and most of all very secure form. It lets the user
choose from among
eight strong encryption algorithms (RIJNDAEL-128,
RIJNDAEL-256, SERPENT,
TWOFISH, CAST-256, SAFER+, LOKI97, 3DES), two
hashing algorithms (SHA1,
RIPEMD 160), and two compression techniques (ZLib
and BZip2) with four
compression ratios. It allows the user to use any
file or an entire
floppy disk as a password, as an alternative to
the usual text string.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release fixes the “minimize-to-tray-icon”
functionality.
GLPI (Gestion Libre de Parc Informatique) is an
information resource manager with an
administration interface. You can use it to build
a database with an inventory for your company
(computers, software, printers, etc.). It has
functions to make the daily life of the
administrators easier, including a job/request
tracking system with mail notification and methods
to build a database with basic information about
your network topology. It provides a precise
inventory of all the technical resources (all
their characteristics are stored in a database)
and management and history of the maintenance
actions and the bound procedures. It is dynamic
and is directly connected to the users, who can
post requests to the technicians.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release adds several bugfixes to the mail
gateway and to stats.
TCPDF is a PHP class for generating PDF documents
without requiring external extensions. TCPDF
supports all ISO page formats and custom page
formats, custom margins and units of measure,
UTF-8 Unicode, RTL languages, HTML, barcodes,
TrueTypeUnicode, TrueType, OpenType, Type1, and
CID-0 fonts, images, graphic functions, clipping,
bookmarks, JavaScript, forms, page compression,
and encryption.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Changes:
This release allows use of CJK fonts (Chinese,
Japanese, Korean, CJK,
Asian fonts) without embedding.
phpMyAdmin is a tool intended to handle the
administration of MySQL over the Web. It can
create, rename, and drop databases,
create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields,
execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields,
create dumps of tables and databases,
export/import CSV data, and administrate one
single database and multiple MySQL servers.
phpLogCon is a Web front-end for syslog and other
network event data. It provides easy browsing and
some basic analysis. Data are taken from databases or plain syslog text files, so phpLogCon does not require changes to an existing logging infrastructure. Depending on the log data present, it can process syslog messages, Windows event log entries, and some more exotic things. Its troubleshooting support enables users to quickly find solutions to problems seen in the log data.
License: GNU General Public License v3
Changes:
This release adds a Statistics page for chart generation. The following charts are possible: pie, vertical bar, and horizontal bar. All charts can be configured within the Admin Center, if the user system is installed and enabled. Custom charts can be added as well. Filter/search support has been added for processid, event category, and the event user field. There is a database update, as this release has a new table in which to store configured charts. A few minor filtering issues have been fixed, specially with numeric filters.
Renoise is a contemporary digital audio
workstation (DAW) based upon the heritage and
development of tracker software. Its primary use
is the composition of music using samples (in WAV,
AIFF, FLAC, Ogg, and MP3 format), and MIDI
sequencing of VSTi soft synths.
License: Shareware
Changes:
Timing & Precision, Plug-in Delay Compensation (PDC), Audio Units, improved VST/LADSPA plugin support, high-precision filters, drag and drop, quantization, a bigger disk browser, an improved plug-in browser, Windows clipboard integration, improved audio latency when recording, optimizations, GUI improvements, and more.
Piggydb is a personal knowledge base system. You
can write your knowledge in the same manner as
blogging, and classify it by tagging. Piggydb has
Tag Hierarchy capability, so you can tag a tag to
structure your knowledge. Piggydb encourages you
to organize or structure your knowledge to
discover new ideas and concepts rather than to
facilitate searching.
License: The Apache License 2.0
Changes:
The main feature of this release is Fragment Relationship, which enables you to relate between fragments to create a fragment graph or hierarchy. You can use Piggydb as an outliner to write a document, or whatever you like.
Group-Office is a Web-based office suite written that is extensible with modules. It
features user management, module management, an
email client, a file manager, a calendar, project
management, Web site management, and customer relations management. It also features synchronization with PDAs and Outlook.
License: Affero General Public License
Changes:
Many bugfixes and speed improvements were made, especially for Internet Explorer.
RRDtool (Round Robin Database Tool) is time-series
data storage and graphing utility created by the
author of MRTG. Using RRDtool, you can write your
own MRTG-like tools in a matter minutes with only
a few lines of Perl or shell code.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
A regression (segfault) in font selection
introduced in 1.3.2 was fixed. Compilation on
Solaris 2.8 was improved.
Big Medium is a content management system aimed squarely at Web designers who want a CMS that enables extremely flexible designs but remains easy to set up without programming skills. The software does not impose cookie-cutter layouts: If you bring basic to intermediate HTML/CSS know-how, Big Medium can manage just about any design you throw at it. Once the designer configures the templates, he or she can hand the site over to content editors; no technical know-how is required to add or edit pages. Big Medium’s friendly, humane interface is easy and non-threatening for CMS newbies.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Source
Changes:
The “comment count” link element now properly
displays in all link widgets. A bug that could
prevent overflow link pages from being properly
updated was fixed. A bug that caused Internet
Explorer to mishandle email links created in the
rich-text editor was fixed. A display issue that
caused document icons in download links to appear
in the incorrect location in Internet Explorer was
fixed. A compression problem in
prototype-scriptaculous.js was fixed.
Mozilla New Mail Icon is an extension which displays an icon in the system tray when new mail arrives in your Mozilla Mail or Mozilla Thunderbird . It supports the standard (FreeDesktop.org) system tray, as used by GNOME, KDE, and IceWM.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This version was fixed to allow the New Mail alert
feature introduced with Thunderbird 2.0 to be used
along with this add-on.
Autoconf is an extensible package of m4 macros that produce shell scripts to automatically configure software source code packages. These scripts can adapt the package to many kinds of UNIX-like systems without manual user intervention.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The AC_AUTOCONF_VERSION, AC_OPENMP, and
AC_PATH_PROGS_FEATURE_CHECK macros were added.
AC_C_BIGENDIAN now supports universal binaries
like those used by Mac OS X. Performance was
improved. Many bugfixes and enhancements were
made.
Renrot renames files according the flexible name template (allowing DateTimeOriginal and FileModifyDate EXIF tags, if they exist; otherwise, the name will be set according to the current timestamp). It can aggregate files according to shooting time period. It can losslessly rotate JPEGs and their thumbnails according to the Orientation EXIF tag or a given angle. It can put commentary into the Commentary and UserComment tags. Personal details can be specified via XMP tags defined in a configuration file.
License: Perl License
Changes:
The option –aggr-virtual-directory was removed,
and you should use –aggr-directory instead. Now
the “#” (hash) symbol can be used at the beginning
of a given color value in a command line. The tree
for an aggregation is created automatically.
Documentation has been updated accordingly.
MyJgui is a GUI (graphical user interface) for MySQL. It aims to be easy to use for new users as well as experts. You can store multiple connections that can be used simultaneously. Stored passwords are encrypted using symmetric encryption. Underlying databases and tables are displayed in a tree structure with the connections being the first level nodes. MyJgui is capable of easy data manipulation through a grid. It has a unique feature of bookmarking parametrical queries (sqlmarks). The documentation (user guide) is quite comprehensive and kept up-to-date.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Basic edit functions (undo, redo, cut, copy,
paste, select all) were added in the Sql Console
area. Numerous icons were placed, included some
icons from the Oxygen icon project. The logic of
the limit check box in the Content of table was
reversed.
IMAP utils is a set of simple utilities for managing IMAP email messages. It contains utilities to purge old read and unread messages from folders, create folders on an IMAP server, and display a summary about unread and unseen messages.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Parsing of folder listing was improved and failure
is avoided on folders that cannot be listed. This
improves compatibility with various IMAP servers,
including GMail.
The GNU Gatekeeper GUI visualizes all registrations and VoIP calls the gatekeeper is managing. It also allows the user to send commands to the gatekeeper (e.g., to terminate calls or unregister H.323 endpoints).
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Support for initiating calls (MakeCall) was added
and fixes were made to the right-click context
menu.
Sun xVM VirtualBox, formerly innotek VirtualBox, is a family of x86 virtualization products for enterprise and home use.
Gammu (formerly known as MyGnokii2) is a cellular manager for various mobile phones/modems. It supports a wide variety of Nokia, Symbian, and AT devices (Siemens, Alcatel, Falcom, WaveCom, IPAQ, Samsung, SE, and others) over cables, infrared, or BlueTooth. It contains libraries with functions for ringtones, phonebook, SMS, logos, WAP, date/time, alarm, calls, and more (used by external applications like Wammu). It also includes a command line utility that can make many things (including backups) and an SMS gateway with full MySQL and PostgreSQL support from the PHP interface.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Handling of some error conditions in OBEX and AT
drivers was improved. Support was added for
reconnnecting to MySQL server in SMSD. Lot of
smaller fixes were made.
JCR is a Web application for performing and
managing formal code reviews. Although it has some
special logic for reviewing Java projects, it can
be used for reviews of any type of source code.
JCR manages all stages of the review process
(initial project setup, individual review, joint
review meeting, post-review tidy-up), but it’s
mainly there to show diff views of files that have
changed and to allow comments to be made on any
line of any file marked for review.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release adds syntax highlighting for most
types of files, and other changes were made to the
file view and review pages to make them more
usable, including the addition of caching for
speed improvements. There is also now a way to set
the review priority on many files at a time, which
should speed up readying new projects for review.
There is now an option to provide your own review
decision types (the actions in the dropdown on the
comment dialogs) as an alternative to using the
built-in JCR list. There have been a few bugfixes.
BalanceNG is a modern software IP load balancing
solution. It is small, fast, and easy to use and
setup. It offers session persistence, different
distribution methods (Round Robin, Random,
Weighted Random, Least Session, Least Bandwidth,
Hash, Agent, and Randomized Agent) and a
customizable UDP health check agent in source
code. It supports VRRP to set up high availability
configurations on multiple nodes. It supports
SNMP, integrating the BALANCENG-MIB with
Net-SNMPD. It implements a very fast in-memory
IP-to-location database, allowing powerful
location-based server load-balancing.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
Changes:
MAC address changes in the BalanceNG internal ARP
table are now reported in the log. The
ip-to-country.csv IP-to-location database file has
been updated in the packages (Source:
webhosting.info, September 01 2008). The OEM
licensing has been extended to include the
upcoming SECUDOS appliances. The manual has been
updated to release 2.183.0. The Ubuntu JeOS VMware
virtual appliance has been updated accordingly.
Spket IDE is a powerful editor for JavaScript, XUL/XBL, Laszlo, Flex, SVG, Silverlight, and Yahoo! Widget development. It provides features like code completion, syntax highlighting, and a content outline that helps developers create efficient JavaScript code. It can run as a standalone application or as an Eclipse plugin.
License: Free for non-commercial use
Changes:
Outline and folding for JSON Editor was added. New
options for JavaScript Formatter were added. A new
option for the scanner to skip “Server Side Tag”
was added. There were other minor bugfixes and
feature enhancements.
SPTK (Simply Powerful Toolkit) is a cross-platform
toolkit that provides a set of C++ classes for
fast and easy application development. It provides
GUI components that use FLTK, and features
database support with seamless connection to GUI
components. There are drivers for use of SQLite
and PostgreSQL directly, as well as support for
other database engines through UnixODBC. SPTK
includes many classes for working with strings,
dynamic arrays, and maps, and is faster and has a
smaller footprint than STL. It also supports
reading, writing, and creating Excel 7 files,
high-level GUI components with dataset support,
support for automatic layouts, and support for
Aspell.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Changes:
Direct support for MySQL 5 was added. Partial
support for GTK themes is usable. Some bugs in the
64-bit version were fixed.
pdnsd is a Proxy DNS server for Linux and FreeBSD that is designed to cope with unreacheable nameservers (e.g. because the dial-in link is not up) in a graceful manner to prevent DNS-dependent applications like Netscape from hanging. It has a permanent disk cache and supports parallel query and a wide variety of link uptests. It also has the ability to serve some local records.
License: GNU General Public License v3
Changes:
This version fixes some security problems. It
contains a fix for a “dangling pointer” bug that
could cause pdnsd to crash when it received a long
reply. It also addresses some of the issues raised
in the CERT vulnerability note VU#800113 by making
source port randomization the default. This
release also fixes problems with compiling pdnsd
for the ARM architecture and for the Darwin
platform (Max OS X). There are a number of (minor)
new features, such as support for “include” files.
GromJS is a server-side JavaScript implementation of Mozilla SpiderMonkey, a JavaScript interpreter for Unix-like operating systems. It provides Web designers/programmers the ability to use JavaScript object-based code for creating dynamic pages/Web scripts and interacting with objects on a Web server, i.e. manipulate files and directories, handle client-sent data, databases,
create dynamic content, etc. The GromJS interpreter includes support for files, SQLite3 databases, session variables, hash arrays, pipes, HTTP file upload, cookies, and more. It
currently supports Linux and FreeBSD.
License: Mozilla Public License (MPL)
Changes:
This release includes an improved JavaScript API
for the SQLite3 database and the Pipe class,
various optimizations, additional features and
enhancements, a new package, and additions to the
documentation.
Skwish is a fast, simple, lightweight Java library for storing blobs on the file system. It allows multiple concurrent readers and writers, provides all-or-nothing write semantics, and is designed to survive abnormal, unclean shutdown. Skwish is a structured implementation of storing all blobs in a single file to save on file system I/O. Skwish is premised on the proposition that blob storage ought to be orthogonal to the task of indexing. It is meant to be a clean and simple store on which some other index can be built.
