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After sporadic reports of data loss and corruption with FireWire 800 devices operating with the new Mac OS X 10.3 "Panther" operating system, Apple Computer made an official press release to indicate this problem has been traced to Oxford Semiconductor's 922 Firmware used by nearly all FireWire... Platforms: Mac

emuecobbei stands for "Eastern Michigan University Black Board Equipment Inventory" is an equipment inventory application that is intended to be used on a campus that has deployed the blackboard.com technology.. Platforms: *nix

BSPonMPI is a platform independent software library for developing parallel programs. BSPonMPI implements the BSPlib standard (with one small exception) and runs on all machines which have MPI. This last property is the main feature of this library and with this feature it distinguishes itself... Platforms: *nix

BezieArtist - Ghost is an artistic program that can be used as a screensaver (rename the exe file to .scr) press F1 to get the secret key to interact with the program. User can take screenshots in various formats: JPG, PNG or BMP (configurable through INI file modification). Platforms: Windows

Exim is a message transfer agent (MTA) developed at the University of Cambridge for use on Unix systems connected to the Internet. Exim is freely available under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence. In style it is similar to Smail 3, but its facilities are more general. There is a... Platforms: *nix

Powered by The New York Times on the Web, Hot Off the Press displays the latest headlines in each of the paper's major sections, including the National, International, Washington, Business, Technology, Science, Health and Sports sections. A click of a headline leads to the full article on the New... Platforms: Mac

KScannerButtons is a daemon plus a KDE application for monitoring your scanner buttons: Perform a copy with one button press, Send a paper document via email, Open a paper document in gimp with one button press... Its composed of a daemon (sanebuttond) and a frontend that will display an... Platforms: *nix

[via www.MacMinute.com] The Answers.com widget provides access to Answers.com content drawn from Wikipedia, American Heritage Dictionary, Roget's Thesaurus, Columbia University Press Encyclopedia as well as maps, company snapshots, stock prices, legal, medical, nutrition, and many other sources. Platforms: Mac

PRES project (the Press Release System) is a simple content management system, essentially targeted at producing a news and information site. Managing a PRES system is designed to be simple. However, presentation is sophisticated and flexible. An elementary knowledge of IT would be useful but... Platforms: *nix

HyperHide allows you to take control of your desktop by making any window instantly hidden or visible with the press of a key. Then with the press of a key make any window reappear right where you left it. Hide programs like Internet Explorer, Excel, Word, Windows Media Player and virtually any... Platforms: Windows

The NSCL Data Acquisition system is a general purpose nuclear physics data acquisition system in use at several university labs and, of course, the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University. Platforms: *nix

Ganglia is a scalable distributed monitoring system for high-performance computing systems such as clusters and Grids. It is based on a hierarchical design targeted at federations of clusters. It leverages widely used technologies such as XML for data representation, XDR for compact, portable... Platforms: *nix

CsWebmail - yet another webmail application written on PHP for CS department of BGU university with IMAP/NNTP/SMTP support. CsWebmail includes next features: address book,procmail interface,backup,WYSIWYG compose,messages threading etc. Platforms: *nix

FluxConf is a set of 3 programs for configuring fluxbox. FluxConf project is simple but you can configure almost everything. HOWTO: fluxconf: Run fluxconf, then make your changes. When you want to apply your changes press the "Save" button, go to the fluxbox menu (configuration section) and... Platforms: *nix

HyperHide allows you to take control of your desktop by making any window instantly hidden or visible with the press of a key. Then with the press of a key make any window reappear right where you left it. Hide programs like Internet Explorer, Excel, Word, Windows Media Player and virtually any... Platforms: Windows

Advene (Annotate Digital Video, Exchange on the NEt) is an ongoing project in the LIRIS laboratory (UMR 5205 CNRS) at University Claude Bernard Lyon 1. The project aims at providing a model and a format to share annotations about digital video documents (movies, courses, conferences...), as well... Platforms: *nix

UIDirect alllows University of Illinois students and faculty to access UIDirect via the OS X.2 terminal with minimum effort.UIDirect.app is a series of shell scripts that automatically configure kerberos and telnet (managing kerberos tickets and everything) to access the UIDirect system. This... Platforms: Mac

KeysID project is a highly configurable linux daemon which lets you intercept keyboard key press and make them execute the programs you want. Its thought for laptop and multimedia keyboards, which usually have more keys than standard keyboards, but it works with all the keys. Installation:... Platforms: *nix

AFS is a distributed filesystem product, pioneered at Carnegie Mellon University and supported and developed as a product by Transarc Corporation (now IBM Pittsburgh Labs). It offers a client-server architecture for file sharing, providing location independence, scalability and transparent... Platforms: *nix

mensaH is a Dashboard widget that hows the food menu of the all the mensa/cafeteria of the university of Hannover/Germany.So it's only useful for people studying there or at least who are eating there. Platforms: Mac