2005/09/29

Jython

Jython Home Page

Jython is an implementation of the high-level, dynamic, object-oriented language Python written in 100% Pure Java, and seamlessly integrated with the Java platform. It thus allows you to run Python on any Java platform.

PHP4Mono

PHP4Mono

What is PHP4Mono?

PHP4Mono is a compiler that enables Mono to run PHP code. It is written in C# and translates PHP scripts to Common Intermediate Language (CIL). Like that PHP scripts can be executed as console applications on Mono.

Boo

Boo

Boo is a new object oriented statically typed programming language for the Common Language Infrastructure with a python inspired syntax and a special focus on language and compiler extensibility.

Mono

What is Mono?

Mono provides the necessary software to develop and run .NET client and server applications on Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows, and Unix. Sponsored by Novell, the Mono open source project has an active and enthusiastic contributing community and is positioned to become the leading choice for development of Linux applications."

Massachusetts dumps Microsoft Office

Massachusetts dumps Microsoft Office

It's the Boston Tea Party again

By Nick Farrell: Thursday 01 September 2005, 07:58

THE STATE of Massachusetts, the people who brought you the Boston tea party, have joined in another revolution against good King Billy’s Office software.

The state government has decided that all electronic documents saved and created by state employees have to use open formats from the beginning of 2007.

From then every state document must be in PDF or using Open Office formats. The big idea is to make sure that every citizen one can open and read electronic documents, something that it is convinced that VoleWare cannot do.

Microsoft is clearly worried. A lot of people live in Massachusetts and that is a big thumbs up for open sauce. However Vole is hoping to get around the problem by applying recognition from a technology industry standards body for recognition of its own formats as open standards.

However, since the new formats, soon to be seen in the next version of Office, will still include some proprietary elements, and are specifically excluded under the Massachusetts proposal."

StarOffice 8

StarOffice 8

At a Glance

* Powerful and integrated word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, and database capabilities
* Download price of $69.95, and volume discounts for businesses
* Improved Microsoft Office compatibility and conversion
* OASIS OpenDocument format for global compatibility
* Free PDF export capability included
* Migration tools ease the transition

StarOffice 8 Features

2005/09/21

Opera is FREE

Feel Free: Opera Eliminates Ad Banner and Licensing Fee

Opera Software today permanently removed the ad banner and licensing fee from its award-winning Web browser. The ad-free, full-featured Opera browser is now available for download - completely free of charge – at http://www.opera.com.

Outshine: phpBB Blog

Outshine: phpBB Blog

Overview
This is phpBB Blog, version 2.2.2, released July 30, 2005. Copyright ? 2005 by Tony Boyd.

This is a blog tool for phpBB. The basic idea is this: you have a phpBB installation already running, you've set up a forum for your posts, and now you want to have a blog-ish page and RSS file to show off each post.

There are 3 major ways to use this product. You'll have to decide which one you want to pursue. First, there is the default setup, which uses the provided index.php file to display the blog. If you wish to use that, see the Installation heading, below. Second, there is the option to bypass the provided index.php file, and simply embed the blog display into your pre-existing home page. To do that, see the Howto section, below. The third option is to embed a mini-blog into your pre-existing home page. All this displays is the title of recent posts. If you're interested in that, see the Howto section, below.

Gallina

Gallina

Features

* Uses GMail messages as 'entries' (the message star is the publish status)
* Replies to conversations are the 'entry comments'
* Uses libgmailer (gmail-lite project) to connect to GMail
* Uses XML/XSLT
* Support jpeg/png attachments
* Support comments from the web
* Is free software ;-) (GPL)

Hacked by Candyz

HTTrack Website Copier - Offline Browser

HTTrack Website Copier - Offline Browser

HTTrack is a free (GPL, libre/free software) and easy-to-use offline browser utility.

It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer. HTTrack arranges the original site's relative link-structure. Simply open a page of the "mirrored" website in your browser, and you can browse the site from link to link, as if you were viewing it online. HTTrack can also update an existing mirrored site, and resume interrupted downloads. HTTrack is fully configurable, and has an integrated help system.

WinHTTrack is the Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP release of HTTrack, and WebHTTrack the Linux/Unix/BSD release. See the download page.

New Linux

Mandriva
Mandrake Linux in Taiwan

Publisher of the Mandriva Linux operating system (formerly Mandrake Linux), the most full-featured and easy to use Linux system.

Fedora

The Fedora Project is an open source project sponsored by Red Hat and supported by the Fedora community. It is also a proving ground for new technology that may eventually make its way into Red Hat products. It is not a supported product of Red Hat, Inc.

openSUSE

The openSUSE project is a worldwide community program sponsored by Novell (http://www.novell.com) that promotes the use of Linux everywhere. The program provides anyone with free and easy access to the world's most usable Linux distribution, SUSE Linux.

CentOS

CentOS is an Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor. CentOS conforms fully with the upstream vendors redistribution policy and aims to be 100% binary compatible. (CentOS mainly changes packages to remove upstream vendor branding and artwork.) CentOS is free.

knoppix
knoppix in Taiwan

KNOPPIX is a bootable Live system on CD or DVD, consisting of a representative collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals. KNOPPIX can be used as a productive Linux system for the desktop, educational CD, rescue system, or adapted and used as a platform for commercial software product demos. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk. Due to on-the-fly decompression, the CD can have up to 2 GB of executable software installed on it (over 8GB on the DVD "Maxi" edition).