A competitor to the recently created OS Linux software developers? alliance is to appear in the near future. St. Petersburg Company Linux Ink has developed a project within which the domestic open-source community participants are suggested to enter an alternative consortium. It is to forge active PR-operations and close cooperation with educational institutions, the organizers say. They also offer their own development methods for Linux-products, which are to be used in Russian schools.

“SCO CEO Darl McBride is not popular among many segments of the IT industry, thanks to his aggressive methods for defending his ownership rights to the Unix operating system. McBride on Aug. 28 sat down with InformationWeek editor-at-large Paul McDougall to discuss a broad range of topics relating to the company’s legal battle against Novell, and what the future might hold for the company in light of its recent courtroom and financial setbacks.”

The repeated voting session (because of anomalies) at Hungarian Standards Institution again was not legitimate today, because it was not the secretary but the general manager who sent out the invitation letters, which should be breaching the internal rules of the Standards Body. The number of members to vote raised from about ten to 55, 42 of which were present at the session. Microsoft did not want to vote, but they wanted to let the previous voting session be recognised as legitimate, because they claim the intervention of the minister after the previous session to repeat the voting session was not valid. The result is: no official position, due to the lack of time to organise a new voting session.

Have you ever mistyped a web address and ended up somewhere you definitely did not want to go? You miss one letter in the URL, and instead of getting to your favorite site, you end up in the virtual red light district! In this article, Anderson Silva explains how to set up a basic web filter.

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Retecasa is a real estate extranet multi-language
platform realized with GWT, PHP 5, and ADOdb. It
supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, DB2, Oracle, and others.

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Alerttail monitors a given file and executes a
list of actions when a user-defined text pattern
has been written to the file. For example, the
user can pop up a GTK notification window when a
certain message is written to a log file. Actions can be alerttail built in actions (GTK notify action, geoipLocalization action, or filtering text action) or a custom user defined shell command action. A Qt 4 GUI frontend helps with configuration.

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Benoit is a fractal explorer that focuses on easy navigation in a
fractal image and flexible creation of new fractals. Due to its modular
design single components like iterators, renderers, and colorings can be
replaced, making it easy to experiment with individual aspects of the
creation of a fractal image. Using the Java class loading API, new
components can be created from templates and compiled and supplied at
runtime.

haXe is a multi-platform Web programming language.
It can be used to develop Web sites on the server
side. It can also be used to implement the client
side of a Web application since you can use haXe
instead of JavaScript to code AJAX Applications.
haXe can also be used to create Flash SWF content.

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License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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Changes:
Bugfixes for Flash 9 support.

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SHOGUN is a machine learning toolbox whose focus is on large scale kernel methods and especially on Support Vector Machines (SVM). It provides a generic SVM object interfacing to several different SVM implementations, all making use of the same underlying, efficient kernel implementations. Apart from SVMs and regression, SHOGUN also features a number of linear methods like Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), Linear Programming Machine (LPM), (Kernel) Perceptrons, and algorithms to train hidden Markov models. SHOGUN can be used from within C++, Matlab, R, Octave, and Python.

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License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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This release contains many minor fixes, among them fixes for SVMLin, the python and R examples, and cplex 10 compatibility fixes. It also includes new methods, such as liblinear and the local alignment kernel.

ActiveShipping is a unified Ruby API (quite useful
on Rails) for shipping information from multiple
carriers. It calculates shipping, handling, finds
the best price from multiple sources, etc. It is
primarily focused on rate requests, but may be
extended to cover other aspects of shipping as
well. Currently, it includes UPS and USPS modules,
and modules for Fedex and DHL are coming soon.

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License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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Changes:
This release adds a FedEx gateway and a Con-Way gateway. It adds a lot of documentation.