LEDA

Algorithmic Solutions Software GmbH: LEDA Description: "L E D A is our C class library for efficient data types and algorithms. L E D A provides algorithmic in-depth knowledge in the field of graph- and network problems, geometric computations, combinatorial opimization and other.

L E D A is implemented following the object-oriented approach. It is available in four different packages: basic, graph, geometry and GUI.

L E D A is used in application areas such as telecommunication, GIS, VLSI design, scheduling, traffic planning, computational biology and computer-aided design.

L E D A offers all of the relevant algorithm building blocks in an easy-to-use and efficient form dealing with objects such as graphs, sequences, dictionaries, trees, points, flows, matchings, segments, shortest paths, and many more. Thus it is applicable in all software projects using object-oriented generic programming.

In addition L E D A is available for a multitude of different operating systems and compilers."

RDL - GPL .Net Reporting

fyiReporting Software - GPL .Net Reporting: "The
RDL Project is an open source implementation of the Report Definition
Language (RDL) for the .Net environment.

RDL is an XML based language created by Microsoft with the goal of promoting
interoperability of commercial reporting products. fyiReporting's compact
implementation of this powerful, flexible reporting language provides
interoperability with Microsoft Reporting Services reports without the overhead,
letting you use reports in any of your .Net applications."

Eclipse 3.1 Released

Eclipse Project Eventually, after so long waiting, Eclipse 3.1 has been released.

Supreme Court Rules Against P2P Companies!

Slyck News - Supreme Court Rules Against P2P Companies!: "The United States Supreme Court, in a unanimous ruling, disagreed with two lower court rulings. Today’s opinion agrees with the MPAA and RIAA contention that P2P developers are responsible for the infringing activities of its users. The decision is a serious setback for commercial file-sharing companies, who were hoping a favorable Supreme Court decision would give the necessary leverage to negotiate a distribution agreement with the RIAA and MPAA."

Wildfire

Wildfire: "Wildfire is a graphical tool for building workflows. It comes preconfigured to use EMBOSS programs as components for Bioinformatics workflows, and is extensible to support other components.

GEL is a general-purpose parallel scripting language for describing workflows. It features explicit parallel constructs which allow for efficient parallel execution on clusters, Grids and SMP machines. There is GEL support for Condor Grids, and SGE, PBS and LSF-based clusters.

Wildfire/GEL provides an integrated solution for building and executing workflows. Wildfire runs as an application on desktop and laptop platforms, and the GEL workflows can either run on the same machine or remotely on the Grid or on a cluster."

Morpheus Adds BitTorrent Function

News, Free Content, Resources | Morpheus Adds BitTorrent Function: "Morpheus 5.0 incorporates updated search and download technology that gives users 'lightning fast download speeds' and greater search accuracy, in addition to searching for BitTorrent-delivered content. The Morpheus 5.0 beta release is free of any bundled third-party software, spyware and pop-up ads. The company has not specified how much third-party code and advertising there will be in the final version, if any."

Seagate Technology SeaTools

Seagate Technology SeaTools: "SeaTools Diagnostic Suite is Seagate's exclusive disc drive diagnostic software designed to troubleshoot most Seagate hard drive issues."

BitTorrent web-service launches

BitTorrent web-service launches - addict3d.org: "Prodigem is a content hosting service. It uses Bit Torrent peer to peer (p2p) filesharing to enable you to distribute extraordinarily large media files at an extraordinarily low cost. You can check out all of the original content being hosted at Prodigem from the Download Content page, and if you have content that you'd like to distribute or sell, you can easily create your own Prodigem account.

What is revolutionary here is that Prodigem completely automates the entire process of setting up bit torrent sessions for the distribution of your content. You simply upload your content via the web and with the click of a few buttons, the Prodigem servers are hosting and seeding your torrent for your content. This is push-button torrent hosting. Given recent claims that bit torrent makes up over 1/3rd of global internet traffic and given that downloading content via bit torrent is as simple as clicking on a .torrent link on any webpage, using Prodigem to distribute your large content files to your audience of the global internet is a no-brainer.

Prodigem can only be used for the distribution of legally licensed material cleared for distribution via p2p filesharing. So, if you are an artist, creator, author, blogger, podcaster, amateur mogul, lead guitarist, independent movie director or person, and you have material which has been licensed openly, such as with a Creative Commons license, the sky is now the limit."

http://prodigem.com/hosting.html

CMUSphinx: The Carnegie Mellon Sphinx Project

CMUSphinx: The Carnegie Mellon Sphinx Project: "The Sphinx Group at Carnegie Mellon University is committed to releasing the long-time, DARPA-funded Sphinx projects widely, in order to stimulate the creation of speech-using tools and applications, and to advance the state of the art both directly in speech recognition, as well as in related areas including dialog systems and speech synthesis.

The Sphinx Group has been supported for many years by funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the recognition engines to be released are those that the group used for the various DARPA projects and their respective evaluations."

An interview with Linus Torvalds

Good Morning Silicon Valley: An interview with Linus Torvalds: "I do not believe that anything can 'replace' Microsoft in the market that MS is right now. Instead, what I think happens is that markets mature, and as they mature and become commoditized, the kind of dominant player like MS just doesn't happen any more. You don't have another dominant player coming in and taking its place -- to find a new dominant player you actually have to start looking at a totally different market altogether"