Wednesday, October 22, 2003

fairuse FairUse 0.32.10 released (FairUse - The DVD Backup Wizard). Total project downloads to date: 12189 Project description: FU is a powerful and high quality all-in-one DVD backup tool written in VC++. The wizard interface makes it extremely easy to use. FU encodes video to DivX / Xvid with MP3 / AC3 sound, and then muxes audio and video into a [Download] [Release Notes] By fairuse@users.sourceforge.net (ump). [SourceForge.net: Project File Releases (Site-wide)] 2:46:55 PM

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Storms the Enterprise The culmination of two years of code work and product enhancement dedicated to finally closing the gap between UNIX and Linux functionality has finally arrived with today's release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.  [Linux Today] 2:39:49 PM

BugPort 1.055 The BugPort system is a Web-based system to manage tasks and defects throughout the software development process. It is written with the PHP language, using its object-oriented capabilities, and is in use by INCOGEN for internal management of software development and QA.  [freshmeat.net] 2:38:35 PM

Microsoft Opens Windows Source Code to Its MVPs. Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday will announce that it is giving its Most Valued Professionals access to the more than 100 million aggregate lines of Windows source code, which includes all versions, service packs and betas of the Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 products. [eWEEK Technology News] 2:34:10 PM

More from Blogrunner. The other day, I wished for a Blogdex type service for library weblogs. Well, Philippe at Blogrunner saw my plea and whipped this up. Not that many sources there so far, but it is pretty neat!! Thanks Philippe!! [Library Stuff] 10:05:51 AM

Red Hat overhauls flagship Linux. The dominant Linux seller is set to start offering the newest incarnation of its product for business customers, a version that opens several new markets for the company. [CNET News.com - Front Door] 10:04:08 AM

Helix Player Project 1.0 Milestone 1 The Helix Player is an audio and video player based on the Helix DNA Client engine. It is designed for GTK+, and includes a Mozilla browser plug-in. It supports local file playback and streaming over RTSP/RTP, RTSP/RDT, and HTTP. It supports video zoom in original, double size and full screen, and has support for the following media types: SMIL 2.0, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, H.263 video, JPEG, GIF, PNG, RealPix, RealVideo (RV9, RV8, RV7, RVG2), and RealAudio (RA8, G2 audio) (the latter two only in binary form).  [freshmeat.net] 10:02:10 AM

PHP Performance Profiling. Techniques for learning where the bottlenecks are in your PHP-based Web application. [Linux Journal] 9:59:27 AM

RSSWeather forecast for tonight: "Showers changing to snow showers near midnight." [Scripting News] Very cool.  Hit the site, punch in your zip, get a RSS feed of weather info.  Nice. Great use of the technology. 9:45:35 AM