Orfeo Toolbox (OTB) is a high resolution remote
sensing image processing library. It contains a
set of algorithmic components which allow the user
to capitalize on methodological know how, and
therefore use an incremental approach to profit
from the results of methodological research. OTB
is made of a set of basic elements (a C++ class
API) and utilities (independent programs built
upon the base API).
Release Notes: Large JPEG2000 file (Pleiades-like) support and Pleiades metadata handling. Efficient JPEG2000 visualization and ROI decompression tools in Monteverdi. A revamp of otb applications in a generic and scalable framework: launch applications from the command line, from an auto-generated QT GUI, from Python, from within QGis, etc. There are many new algorithms: Dimensionality Reduction (ICA, PCA, MNF, MAF, etc.), change detection (MAD), Hyperspectral Unmixing, elevation map from stereo data, compare segmentation with a ground truth (Hoover), etc. There are various bugfixes.
Release Tags: pleiades monteverdi phr cnes jpeg2000 openjpeg wrapper
Tags: multimedia, Graphics, Scientific/Engineering, Image Recognition
Licenses: CeCILL
openpom is a Web interface based on NDO for Nagios or Icinga. It allows you to view almost everything about Nagios or Icinga in a single page: alert, ack, downtime, comment. You can also interact with Nagios or Icinga through ack, downtime, comment, disable, and reset buttons. You can filter on hosts and services states (such as critical, warning, unknown, ok, or outage). The status popin allows you to display graphs, either the ones from Nagios (trends.cgi) or custom ones based on RRD (such as pnp4nagios).
Release Notes: New major features: advanced filtering, new levels and filters, disable check, more information on status popin, history popup by host/service, more configuration options, and the addition of a queue to the external command script. Many bugs have been corrected.
Release Tags: Stable
Tags: Nagios, Monitoring, ndoutils, Icinga, Nagios GUI, Icinga GUI
Licenses: GPLv2
GriF is a collaborative grid framework to support computational chemistry applications. It is meant to be used as a tool to facilitate massive grid calculations and also to improve scientific collaboration. Accordingly, GriF facilitates profiling the users of grid communities in order to systematically evaluate the work carried out in a grid and to foster its sustainability.
Release Notes: This major update includes the ability to combine the ‘Parameter Study’ running modality (in order to distribute in parallel on the Grid the same program within different inputs) within that of ‘Workflow’. Accordingly, now you can run multiple Workflows on the Grid concurrently.
Release Tags: Workflow, concurrent Workflows, parameter study Workflows
Tags: GRID, Web service, Quality, Scientific Computing, frameworks, Scientific software
Licenses: Apache 2.0
The first tablet computer that comes with Plasma Active pre-installed is to be named “Spark”. It sports an open Linux stack on unlocked hardware and comes with an open content and services market. The user experience is, of course, Plasma Active and it will be available to the general public. The hardware is modest but compelling: 1GHz AMLogic ARM processor, Mali-400 GPU, 512 MB RAM, 4GB internal storage plus SD card slot, a 7″ capacitive multi-touch screen and wifi connectivity. The retail price will be â¬200.
An article at The Next Web points out that the latest marketshare numbers put Apple at the top of “PC” makers, and that some PC makers that don’t have any tablet momentum are calling foul. It’s “controversial” to count tablets as PCs, they say. The article points out various justifications for not categorizing tablets as personal computers, and then shoots them down. I must say, I find the argument compelling.
The 3.3-rc2 prepatch is out, a little later
than would have ordinarily been expected. “The diffstat is pretty
flat – indicative of mostly small changes spread out. Which is what I like
seeing, and we don’t always see at this point. There’s some file movement
(8250-based serial and the arm mx5 -> imx merge), but otherwise really not
a lot of excitement. Good.” That said, there are quite a few
changes in this prepatch; see the short-form changelog in the announcement
for details. Thirteen of those changes are reverts for patches that didn’t
work out.
In its analysis of last year’s smartphone market in the U.S., NPD found that market share for Apple’s iOS went up following the release of the iPhone 4S, to 43 percent of all smartphone sales in October and November from 26 percent in the third quarter. Android, meanwhile, retained its lead, but lost market share towards the end of the year, dropping in October and November to 47 percent from 60 percent in the previous quarter. These are some dramatic shifts in market share but what do they really mean to you and me? Read more on this exclusive OSNews article…
With so many threats to a free and open Internet, sooner or later, people will need to arm themselves for the fight, writes Deep End’s Paul Venezia. ‘If the baboons succeed in constraining speech and information flow on the broader Internet, the new Internet will emerge quickly. For an analogy, consider the iPhone and the efforts of a few smart hackers who have allowed anyone to jailbreak an iPhone with only a small downloaded app and a few minutes,’ Venezia writes. ‘All that scenario would require would be a way to wrap up existing technologies into a nice, easily-installed package available through any number of methods. Picture the harrowing future of rampant Internet take-downs and censorship, and then picture a single installer that runs under Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux that installs tor, tools to leverage alternative DNS servers, anonymizing proxies, and even private VPN services. A few clicks of the mouse, and suddenly that machine would be able to access sites “banned” through general means.’
The last set of interviews
with FOSDEM speakers has been
released. This list includes Juan David Gonzalez Cobas and Javier Serrano
(open hardware), Bryan Østergaard (community management), Ben Klang
(Adhearsion), Soren Hansen (monitoring), Kristian Høgsberg (Wayland), Anil
Madhavapeddy (UNIX I/O), Carl-Daniel Hailfinger (coreboot), and Claire Corgnou (average Jane and Joe).
CentOS has updated C6: ruby (denial
of service), ruby (C5;C4: denial of service/predictable random
numbers), C6: t1lib (multiple
vulnerabilities), C6: openssl (multiple
vulnerabilities), C6: glibc (denial of
service), and C4: php (multiple
vulnerabilities).
Debian has updated curl (multiple
vulnerabilities), php5 (multiple
vulnerabilities), and php5 (fixes a
regression from the previous update).
Oracle has updated OL6: ruby (denial
of service), ruby (OL5; OL4: denial of service/predictable random
numbers) and OL4: php (multiple
vulnerabilities).
Red Hat has updated RHEL6: ruby
(denial of service), RHEL4&5: ruby
(denial of service/predictable random numbers), and RHEL4: php (multiple vulnerabilities).
Scientific Linux has updated SL4, SL5:
ruby (denial of service/predictable random numbers), SL4: php (multiple vulnerabilities), SL6: ruby (denial of service).
Ubuntu has updated accountsservice
(privilege escalation) and software-properties (man-in-the-middle
attack).
