The Caboteria / Tech Web / TechBookmarks (revision 57)

http://www.conglomerate.org/ - client-server xml document management system. The project died for a while but seems to be back in process.

http://www.troubleshooters.com/tpromag/200104/200104.htm - Who owns your data?
http://orange.math.buffalo.edu/csc/resolution2_april2003_approved.html - SUNY Buffalo faculty senate resolution encouraging GNU/Linux and free software.

http://festvox.org/ - voice synthesis.
http://www.gear21.com/speech/html/ - voice recognition
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/ - Dasher, an extremely cool character input method that looks like a great alternative to graffiti.

http://starship.python.net/crew/tibs/iso8211/iso8211.html - ISO 8211 is a standard "used as a transport mechanism by various geographic information transfer standards". i.e. a way to store and process nautical charts. This page has an intro and some Python code. See also http://www.weft.co.uk/library/xmlchart/ for Java code.
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/topo/globe.shtml - NOAA geographic data covering the globe
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Main_Page - publicly-generated street maps
http://reddit.com/r/programming/info/69dia/comments/ - via Reddit, an explanation of the tools needed to build a dynamic mapping web site.

http://hn.org/ - dynamic dns

http://www.openeai.org/ - open source enterprise application integration
http://www.brunswickwdi.com/index.pl/bie - a well-suported application integration platform

http://azz.us-lot.org/code.html - see the code for rawdog which is a simple Python rss aggregator.

http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/ - XML starlet, a set of xml command-line tools.

Work Flow

http://www.wfmc.org/ - Work Flow Management Coalition, has some standards and intro to workflow and intro to workflow management systems whitepapers.
http://www.smartcomps.org/twister/ - Java workflow based on WS-BPEL
http://freshmeat.net/projects/jgpd/ - Java GUI to build workflow processes
http://www.openflow.it/ - work flow in Python
http://werkflow.codehaus.org/ - work flow in Java/XML
http://bonita.debian-sf.objectweb.org/ - work flow in Java, looks cool. Based on EJB, uses jonas as a container. Web interfaces.
http://www.openwfe.org/ - also java, also uses XML to describe workflows
http://www.ofbiz.org/ - the Open For Business framework has a workflow engine component
http://www.opensymphony.com/osworkflow/ - Open Symphony is another framework that has a workflow component
The Apache "Commons Sandbox Workflow" project seems to have thought about this and come up with at least an object model: http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/sandbox/workflow/apidocs/index.html
Paper explaining how petri nets can model workflow: http://tmitwww.tm.tue.nl/research/patterns/download/invited_talk_cpn_2002.pdf
Another petri net workflow intro: http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/activities/NSF-workflow/wfm.html
http://www.manageability.org/blog/stuff/workflow_in_java/view - a nice list of open source Java workflow engines
Interesting program: http://tmitwww.tm.tue.nl/staff/anorta/XRL/ look for XRL/Flower
Another: http://tambora.zenplex.org/architecture.html this one looks more mature and intended for commercial deployment. uses werkflow for its engine
http://www.wfmd.org/ - work flow meta data (DNS no longer resolves as of 2004-01)

RFID

http://www.revasystems.com/ - my former employer (sadly no longer in business)
http://autoidcenter.org/
http://web.mit.edu/mecheng/pml/index.htm
http://www.mit.edu/~tmilne/pml/
http://wwws.sun.com/software/solutions/auto_id/
http://www.icao.int/mrtd/Home/Index.cfm

Misc

http://www.forum.nokia.com/main/1,6566,015_245,00.html - Nokia 6200 specs
http://www.gnokii.org/ - a tool for syncing data with a Nokia phone
http://www.mwiacek.com/gsm/soft/gammu.html - another

http://www.openarchives.org/ - a group that works on standardizing metadata for content repositories.

http://imgv.sourceforge.net/ - looks like a good tool for managing libraries of images.

http://fortytwo.ch/time/ - a cooperative public NTP infrastructure.

http://www.siliconvalleyccie.com/linux-hn/iptables-intro.htm - the best brief Linux firewall HOWTO that I've yet found.

http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/zap.html - insanely useful "bookmarklets" (little bits of javascript in browser bookmarks) that do things like clean up ugly web page colors.

http://lwn.net/Articles/187691/ - discussion of the GNU/Linux version of Google Earth, which includes links to a couple of Free Software alternatives.
also http://gaia.serezhkin.com/, http://edu.kde.org/marble/
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Main_Page - people generating Free maps using GPS's.

http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?fat32format.htm - a small tool for Windows to format disks >32GB with FAT32.

http://amqp.org/ - an open-source high performance message queuing protocol.

http://www.tech-center-enlightentcity.tv/ - the South End Technology center "to enable people to become producers of knowledge and sharers of ideas and information."

http://www.mitre.org/work/info_tech/cloud_computing/ - an online forum with questions and answers about cloud computing in government applications. Sponsored my The MITRE Corporation, where I work.

http://www.bugc.org/ - The Boston-area User Group Calendar

https://calomel.org/firefox_ssh_proxy.html - how to proxy Firefox through ssh

http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ - a tool that makes bootable USB flash drives.

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