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"GlusterFS is a scale-out NAS file system developed by Gluster. It aggregates various storage servers over Ethernet or Infiniband RDMA interconnect into one large parallel network file system. GlusterFS is based on a stackable user space design without compromising performance. It has found a variety of applications including cloud computing, biomedical sciences and archival storage. GlusterFS is free software, licensed under GNU AGPL v3 license."

Sounds quite impressive.
Here're a few more links:
http://www.gluster.org/about/
http://www.gluster.com/products/glusterfs/

It remains to be seen whether the recent acquisition of Gluster Inc. (by Red Hat) interferes with the open-source product's development/availability or not.

There was already a Munin plugin called wget_page at MuninExchange, but it was very limited in respect of configuration/customization. I've rewritten the plugin with a number of supported options, each can be specified globally or on a per URL basis too. The point of the rewrite was to allow per-URL customization of wget's timeout parameter. In the process I've added lots of other options as well.

"nrg4iso is a command line utility designed to extract data from a Nero Burning ROM image file (.nrg).
Nrg image files may contain various types of data (audio, iso9660,...) and nrg4iso will as development progresses be able to extract most of them."

The program is not developed any further, but a universal binary is available and it works just fine in OS X 10.5.x (and most probably in 10.6.x too).

Munin is a great open source monitoring program available for a number of platforms. Flash Media Server (FMS) is a streaming server from Adobe aiming mainly at video playback in Flash applications (video players, video conference solutions, etc.). There was already a Munin plugin for FMS (monitoring the number of active connections) at MuninExchange, but the config parameters were hard-coded (in the plugin code) and it lacked documentation on usage and did not match the structure of standard Munin plugins. I've rewritten the plugin to come up for all these shortcomings. The new version of the plugin is available both attached to this post and at MuninExchange.

First of all, you need the SVN client. On Mac OS X you can get it through Fink or via FinkCommander (install the svn-client package). On Debian (or derivatives) you just install the subversion package as usually (apt-get install subversion).
Th command to download some source from an SVN repository:

"URL" stands for the trunk URL of the repository you want to get, "PATH" stands for the local directory name to fetch the files into.
Of course you can read the complete documentation of the checkout command with issuing svn help checkout.

PS: checkout can be abbreviated to co.

A colleague of mine gave me the hint about RoundCube, a fairly new webmail client written in PHP. It uses MySQL (and supports a number of other databases) to store various data (sessions, user preferences, addressbooks, cache, etc.) and IMAP (with support for IMAP over SSL) to access the mail repository. It utilizes AJAX to add some extra over the standard HTML pages that so many other webmail clients already provide.

I've just found Synergy, a solution for easy parallel access to the desktop (screen, mouse, keyboard) of multiple workstations. It's a wonderful piece of open-source and free software. Unfortunately it does not support Windows Terminal Services, but it's still a masterpiece.

Today I've read about TinyMCE (a Javascript based WYSIWYG editor) on drupal.org. I played around with the demo on their website and I'm quite impressed. It's very usable and (according to the news at the Drupal site) very easy to integrate wit Drupal-powered websites.

[HWSW] A NetLock Kft. által kibocsátott tanúsítványok már nyílt forráskódú környezetben is zökkenőmentesen használhatók, így ez a cég az első hitelesítés-szolgáltató Magyarországon, akinek tanúsítványai Linux környezetben is alkalmazhatók és több böngészőben, többek között már a Mozilla 1.5 legújabb magyar nyelvű verziójában is alapértelmezetten megtalálhatók.

[Techconnect] If digital-music veteran Rob Lord wanted to court controversy with his new open-source start-up, he probably couldn't have done much better than to compare Apple Computer's iTunes software to Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser.
(...)
Lord's new five-person company, the ambitiously named Pioneers of the Inevitable, is building a piece of digital-music software called "Songbird," based on much of the same underlying open-source technology as the Firefox Web browser.

It would be nice to have a music player (or even better: a media player!) with the same quality and professionalism as the Mozilla Thunderbird and Firefox (in their own fields).