Saturday, December 27, 2003

MenuetOS 0.76 pre-2.3 Released [BetaNews.Com] 2:19:25 PM

isbnsearch 0.4 released (Distributed ISBN portal). Total project downloads to date: 243 Project description: A distributed search portal of common sources of ISBN numbers, with permanent caching of results. To provide a open-source free interface for ISBN retrieval using HTML, SQL or XML to be independent of any toolkits or software. [Download] [Release Notes] By codehelpgpg@users.sourceforge.net (Neil Williams). [SourceForge.net: Project File Releases (Site-wide)] 1:18:22 PM

gmorgan gmorgan-0.20 released (gmorgan). Total project downloads to date: 89 Project description: gmorgan is a rhythm station, a modern organ for play in real time and also for use like a sequencer. Fully programable can record, load and save your music as midi files. [Download] [Release Notes] By holborn@users.sourceforge.net (Josep Andreu). [SourceForge.net: Project File Releases (Site-wide)] 12:30:06 PM

netpaste installer b1.0 released (NetPaste - Network Copy & Paste). Total project downloads to date: 2 Project description: NetPaste, is a natural and transparent extension of copy & pasting for developers over multiple PC’s sharing a LAN. Simply By Ctrl-Alt-Shift C broadcasting copy event to all NetPaste aware PC's and Ctrl-Alt-Shift V pasting from source PC. [Download] [Release Notes] By zlig@users.sourceforge.net (Haim Zlig). [SourceForge.net: Project File Releases (Site-wide)] 12:27:08 PM

GM's OnStar System Hacked GM's OnStar System Hacked Posted by michael on Friday December 26, @12:31PM from the think-outside-the-box dept. Makarand writes "According to this Mercury News article users of GM's OnStar system are finding that they can modify their OnStar unit to make it work with commercially available mapping software after disconnecting it from the OnStar network. Websites and message boards are rife with step-by-step instructions to personalize OnStar's navigational and communications components. When a driver requests directions from OnStar his GPS data is routed over an analog cellular network to OnStar computers and the directions are read back to the driver on the same network. The price for this service is around $400 each year. Those who tap into their OnStar systems pay no such fees."  [Slashdot] 10:59:42 AM

PHP 5.0 Beta 3 released!. PHP 5.0 Beta 3 has been released. The third beta of PHP is also scheduled to be the last one (barring unexpected surprises). This beta incorporates dozens of bug fixes since Beta 2, better XML support and many other improvements, some of which are documented in the ChangeLog. Some of the key features of PHP 5 include: PHP 5 features the Zend Engine 2. XML support has been completely redone in PHP 5, all extensions are now focused around the excellent libxml2 library (http://www.xmlsoft.org/). SQLite has been bundled with PHP. For more information on SQLite, please visit their website. A new SimpleXML extension for easily accessing and manipulating XML as PHP objects. It can also interface with the DOM extension and vice-versa. Streams have been greatly improved, including the ability to access low-level socket operations on streams. [PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor] 10:21:49 AM

MySQL: MySQL 5.0.0 Has Been Released [Linux Today] This is the first ALPHA release of the MySQL 5 development release. 10:19:20 AM