Thursday, January 15, 2004

StarOffice 7 Makes a Run at Office. Can Sun Microsystems' StarOffice 7 supplant Microsoft Office on your desktop? [PC Magazine: New Product Reviews] 2:34:22 PM

Make Music like a Pro. The Digidesign M-Box with Pro Tools LE 6.1.1 is a winner. [PC Magazine: New Product Reviews] 2:33:12 PM

Apache Cookbook Apache Cookbook Posted by timothy on Thursday January 15, @01:00PM honestpuck writes "While Apache is possibly the most popular and ubiquitous open source project it is certainly not the most simple. One module alone, mod_rewrite, causes me almost more problems and regex wrestling matches than all other products combined. The 'httpd.conf' file is a long and critical one. In these circumstances the Apache Cookbook from O'Reilly might be a godsend. It is certainly a well-written, well-researched volume. Ken Coar has spent many years working on Apache and Rich Bowen has long laboured on the Apache documentation. They both know their stuff -- and if this is an example, both know how to write." Read on for the rest of honestpuck's review.  [Slashdot] 2:30:10 PM

Microsoft takes on Linux with free tools. Microsoft broadens its attack on Linux and related operating systems by giving away a set of tools for migrating applications to Windows. [CNET News.com - Front Door] I've just downloded this and will try it out. 1:22:59 PM

webCDwriter 2.6.4 webCDwriter can be used to make the CD- and DVD-writer(s) connected to a Linux box available to all users in your network. It consists of the server CDWserver and the clients webCDcreator and rcdrecord. CDWserver stores the files transmitted by the clients, reserves the CD-writer and controls the CD-writer using cdrecord. webCDcreator is a Java applet that runs within your browser or by Java Web Start, assists you when putting together a CD, and transmits the files. Finally rcdrecord is a command line client that tries to offer the functionality of cdrecord over the network with full multi-user support.  [freshmeat.net] 11:20:34 AM

Announcing: SDK for Share Your OPML. It's a draft, that means it can change. It's time to dust off the programming manuals and think about interesting apps you can build on the data behind the SYO website. It's off to the races in DeveloperLand! [Scripting News] 10:13:24 AM

Meltdown BBS Meltdown BBS 1.0 alpha 3 released (Meltdown BBS). Total project downloads to date: 58 Project description: Meltdown BBS is a free, web-based Bulletin Board System written entirely in PHP, which allows message and file exchange, and is compatible with Fidonet-technology networks. [Download] [Release Notes] By bossakov@users.sourceforge.net (Petko Bossakov). [SourceForge.net: Project File Releases (Site-wide)] 10:12:01 AM

WASTE Client (Win32) v1.4 alpha 1 released (WASTE). Total project downloads to date: 35086 Project description: WASTE is a mesh-based workgroup tool that allows for encrypted, private communication between distant parties on the internet, independant of local network organization. [Download] [Release Notes] By sh4rd@users.sourceforge.net (Eric). [SourceForge.net: Project File Releases (Site-wide)] 8:53:03 AM

BUGS - The Bug Genie BUGS 1.2 released (BUGS - The Bug Genie). Total project downloads to date: 134 Project description: BUGS - The Bug Genie is a web-based tool for posting and following up bugs (bug tracking). The system has been designed with ease of use as its foremost goal, but also features a high level of flexibility for developers and administrators. BUGS requires [Download] [Release Notes] By zegenie@users.sourceforge.net (Daniel André). [SourceForge.net: Project File Releases (Site-wide)] 8:50:43 AM

CinemaNow Revamps Web Site, Offers Films for Sale (Reuters). Reuters - Online movie download site CinemaNow on Thursday unveiled an updated service with new features that for the first time include the ability to own digital copies of movies for about the price of a DVD. [Yahoo! News - Technology] 8:32:43 AM