Saturday, April 27, 2002

tvlisting 1.9.2 (Stable) tvlisting is a Perl script that retrieves and displays the TV listing from the Internet. It currently uses tvguide.com as the source of the listings. This script can output the listing as text, HTML, LaTeX, and Xawtv. It can also be used as a CGI script with HTML output. [freshmeat.net] 11:08:28 AM

IBM.com: Bynari Finds Missing Link [Linux Today] 11:07:12 AM

Netstation Linux 0.7 (Development) NetStation is a Linux distribution for diskless thin clients terminals using standard x86 hardware. It can boot from network, floppy, or flash-disk and connect to an application server using VNC, RDP, XDM, SSH, telnet, or Citrix ICA.  [freshmeat.net] 10:55:06 AM

Virtual-U (SimUniversity) Now Available Virtual-U (SimUniversity) Now Available Posted by chrisd on Saturday April 27, @12:41AM from the hope-it-can-simulate-my-last-3-credits dept. Ben Sawyer writes "The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's Virtual U project recently shipped a new version our university simulator. This software simulation game, available at www.virtual-u.org lets you play as president of a U.S. university. You choose how faculty spend time, allocate funds, and decide if you should give special admission to athletes. Version 2.0 improves the model, and adds new features. The product is supported through a grant by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The product runs on Windows 2000/XP/9X/ME. The software is being used by a number of university education programs, and is part of an overall project to improve thinking about how universities are managed." No word on if virtual-u features a "BSA attack" scenario. [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters] If this works it may be too cool.  I'm sure that more than one BigU admin type could learn a thing or two from the sim. 10:53:57 AM

BusyBox 0.60.3 BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. It provides minimalist replacements for most of the utilities you usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc. The utilities in BusyBox generally have fewer options than their full-featured GNU cousins; however, the options that are included provide the expected functionality and behave very much like their GNU counterparts. BusyBox provides a fairly complete POSIX environment for any small or embedded system. [freshmeat.net] 10:36:45 AM