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| Topic: Open Source Development |
10:28 am EST, Mar 8, 2004 |
Consider a software tool that automates the following: 1. Select files.
2. Select a strong password.
3. Create a ZIP archive containing the selected files, protected by the selected password.
4. Use Captcha to "encode" the selected password in a GIF image.
5. Add said GIF image to the archive -- without password protection. |
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SAP DB - The FREE Enterprise Open Source Database |
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| Topic: Open Source Development |
3:24 pm EDT, Aug 18, 2002 |
SAP DB is a state-of-the art, SQL-based, industrial-strength database management system. SAP DB is platform-independent, so users can deploy it for a wide array of projects. SAP DB is highly scalable, easy to use and maintain, and provides full transaction support. Companies can deploy SAP DB together with SAP applications for a complete out-of-the-box business solution. SAP DB also goes beyond relational processing by offering object orientation as well as support for managing unstructured data. This comprehensive set of features and their availability as Open Source will benefit the entire database development community. The database engine behind SAP is now freely available as an open source product. It runs on Linux, Windows, Solaris, and more. It supports ODBC 3.5.1 and JDBC 2.0 with a Type 4 high-performance driver. SAP DB - The FREE Enterprise Open Source Database |
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AOL Targets Developers with Winamp Makeover |
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| Topic: Open Source Development |
10:34 pm EDT, Aug 12, 2002 |
America Online's Nullsoft has completely rebuilt its Winamp MP3 player on the 'Wasabi' coding platform, targeting developers looking to personalize and customize the popular digital media program. Does anyone care about this? Why do we need a new Winamp? AOLTW is guilding the lily ... trying to look busy for investors. When will they learn? In this case, it's not about the code. It's about the music, stupid! AOL Targets Developers with Winamp Makeover |
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| Topic: Open Source Development |
7:33 pm EST, Nov 26, 2001 |
"It is expected that, within a few years, the majority of traffic on the Internet will be encrypted. Traffic contents will then be very difficult to access, and obsevers will use traffic analysis to infer information about a system. Within the NetCamo ( Network Camouflaging ) project, we study how to prevent traffic analysis in mission-critical QoS-guaranteed networks. In NetCamo, we achieve prevention of traffic analysis by traffic rerouting and padding based on real-time traffic modeling theory. We implemented both host-based version (called NetCamo/M) on Windows NT and appliance-based version (called NetCamo/N) on Linux." Network Camouflaging |
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Cyclone: A Safe Dialect of C |
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| Topic: Open Source Development |
6:24 am EST, Nov 15, 2001 |
"Cyclone is a programming language that is as C-like as possible while preventing unsafe behavior (buffer overflows, dangling pointers, format string attacks, and so on)." Cyclone: A Safe Dialect of C |
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| Topic: Open Source Development |
10:05 pm EDT, Oct 25, 2001 |
Sweetcode reports innovative free software. "Innovative" means that the software reported here isn't just a clone of something else or a minor add-on to something else or a port of something else or yet another implementation of a widely recognized concept. (These are all perfectly fine and useful things, they're just not what this site is for.) "Free software" means "as in speech". Software reported on sweetcode should surprise you in some interesting way. "I didn't know you could do that" or "I never thought about that problem that way" or "What a strange way to do things". sweetcode |
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DSpace and Resource Description Framework (RDF) |
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| Topic: Open Source Development |
1:45 pm EDT, Oct 13, 2001 |
"This note proposes the use of a graph-oriented schema-description mechanism and the use of a persistent triple-store for such schema descriptions and selected metadata as a key storage mechanism within DSpace, along with a PostgresSQL O/R store. Needs: information transparency and longevity; active management of many schemas, over a period of time; accept information and begin creating instance metadata before schemas are fully understood. That is, need to enable and be resilient to evolving schemas; external and ad-hoc assertion capabilities; periodically re-factor schemas." DSpace and Resource Description Framework (RDF) |
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