O | S | D | N NEWSLETTER March 26, 2003 DEVELOPER SERIES
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The Illustrated History Of Electronic Games http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/nonfiction/5e26/ Computing: LED Light Sticks http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5e66/ Cube Goodies: Activision 10-in-1 TV Games http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/5d41/ Cube Goodies: Atari Classics 10-in-1 TV Games http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/5d39/ Computing: IQeye3 Network Camera http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/netcams/5e3b/ Electronics: FM Transmitter http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/audio/5dab/ Computing: UV-Treated Rounded Cables http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5e1f/ Computing: 4-D Optical Mouse http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5e45/ Books: Revolution OS DVD/VHS http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/nonfiction/5dd5/ Gadgets: Wireless PenCam http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5d8a/ Gadgets: WristLinx Communicator http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/5db8/ Gadgets: Laser-Sighted MiniTemp http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5d95/ Computing: Labtec Axis 712 Digital USB Headset http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/speakers/headsets/5de1/ Computing: Fly Fan USB Fan http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5dee/ Computing: Antec LanBoy Aluminum PC case http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5de9/ Computing: UV-Treated 80mm Cooling Fans http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5e01/ Computing: Viewsonic Airpanel Wireless 15" LCD http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/display/lcd/5df4/ Computing: Antec PlusView PC Case http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5dfc/ Computing: Klipsch GMX-D5.1 http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/speakers/speakers/5d7b/ Computing: iMic USB Audio Interface http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5d9c/ Sourceforge SpamAssassin 2.52 released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=263444 SpamAssassin is a mail filter to identify spam using text analysis. Using its rule base, it uses a wide range of heuristic tests on mail headers and body text, to identify "spam", or unsolicited commercial email. The SpamAssassin 2.52 release contains a number of bugfixes. Pick it up at http://spamassassin.org/downloads.html . Changes: - bug 1664: expiry imposed way too much load when a single site-wide Bayes db was used, fixed - bug 1672: a typo in a backported patch for 2.51 caused Bayes to sometimes not unlock the db, fixed - INSTALL now strongly recommends using DB_File - some NetBSD support fixes - bug 1601: option --syslog-socket wasn't implemented - bug 1260: corrected description of --nocreate-prefs option Licq 1.2.6 released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=262902 Licq 1.2.6 has been released. This version has quite a large change log, so you should just check that out to see the many improvements. Also, a new On Screen Display plugin has been released. Licq is an ICQ clone written fully in C++. It uses an extensive plugin system to manage many different functions. The main GUI is written using the Qt widget set. Please see http://www.licq.org for information. SoX 12.17.4 released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=262862 SoX is meant to be the Swiss Army Knife of sound processing utils. It can convert audio files to other popular audio file types and also apply sound effects and filters during the conversion. This release adds support for reading and writing MP3 files using the external libraries libmad and libmp3lame; and a number of bugfixes. I'd like to announce the release of SoX 12.17.4. It is avaliable from http://sox.sourceforge.net/. The following things have changed since the release of SoX 12.17.3: o Peter Nyhlen fixed a problem with reading Comments in Ogg Vorbis files. o Added install target to allow installing libgsm from main Makefile. Leigh Smith. o Minor updates to sox.c to free unused memory and close all input files during failures. o Pieter Krul added a patch that makes play script look at AUDIODEV environment variable if it exists to find which device to use. This allows scripts to work with Solaris SunRays and is a good idea in general. o Updated config.sub to detect latest supported OS's. o Fabrizio Gennari added support for reading and writing MP3 files using the external libraries libmad and libmp3lame. o Jens Henrik Goebbert sent in several bugfixes for integer overflows in the compand effect. o Dan Dickerman sent in patches for integer overflows in the resample effect. o Jimen Ching sent in a fix for multi-channel sound file processing using the avg effect. o Richards Bannister added patches to clean up prototypes and filter private sizes being to small. o Jimen Ching adds -d option to specify 64bit data size and changed Ulaw/Alaw encoding to default to 8bit data size if not specified. o David Singer pointed out that a MS program creates AIFF files with an invalid length of 0 in its header. Changed SoX to warn the user but continue instead of aborting since SoX can still read the file just fine. o Bert van Leeuwen added a file handler for Psion record.app used for System/Alarms in some Psion devices. o Richard Bannister sent in a patch to make writing vorbis files work with Vorbis 1.0 libraries. o Fixed configure scripts so that they can be ran with the --with-oss-dsp, --with-alsa, and --with-sun-audio options. Was causing compile time problems. Reported by Raul Coronado. o Change Ogg Vorbis support to use VBR encoding to match defaults of oggenc based on suggestion from Christian Weisgerber. o Prints error message now when a channel value of -1 is given. Reported by Pierre Fortin. o Fixed bug were memory could be trashed if a input WAV file contained a comment. Found by Rhys Chard. o Change command line to compile soxmix.o slightly to try and make Forte compiler happy. o Added support for ALSA 0.9 driver. Jimen Ching FileZilla 2.1.5 released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=262828 FileZilla is a fast FTP client for Windows with a lot of features. This release provides a number of new features and bugfixes. New features: - added statusbar to local and remote file list which shows the number of (selected) folders and files with their size - added remote group / owner column - sort settings of fileviews can be saved - Aborting file exists dialog now skips transfer - enlarged transfer buffer, high-speed FTP transfers should be slightly faster now. - renamed gssapi.dll into FzGSS.dll. If you have gssapi.dll from older version in your FileZilla folder, you can delete it. - improved exception handling - updated to OpenSSL version 0.9.7a Fixed bugs: - FTP over SSL no longer forces passive mode - remote column widths were not saved correctly - fixed download options page in installer - fixed crash if no data was sent/received during transfer for over 60 seconds and transfer did continue then - silent installer now working properly (use /S switch) NAT Monitor (natmonitor) v 0.5 STABLE relased http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=262854 A graphical monitor to keep tracks of hosts bandwidth usage in a Linux-NAT network. It autodetect hosts and has a nice summary statistic. Now critical parts are complete. Program will still remain in alpha state for a while, but seems stable and working. Next relase will probabily have a better UI (I'm thinking about adding some menus and a prefs windows) Download and test please, and summit me any problem/bug! TM4J 0.8.2 released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=262842 This is the latest stable release of TM4J. Primarily this release is a bug-fix release. A number of bugs in the tolog query processing were fixed. TM4J is a topic map engine implemented entirely in Java. Topic maps are a standard paradigm for the interchange of knowledge structures. This project aims to produce a complete suite of tools for creating, processing and publishing topic map information. In addition, this release clears up the way that resourceLocator and id properties of objects interact when the topic map is exported to XTM files. For more details see the release notes. Thanks to all those who reported bugs with TM4J 0.8.1 and who provided patches and helpful comments. Audacity sound editor 1.1.3 beta http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=261798 Audacity 1.1.3 is the latest development snapshot of Audacity, a multitrack sound editor for MacOS, Linux and Windows. Version 1.1.3 includes a mixer toolbar for directly controlling the hardware input and output levels and recording source, gain and pan controls in every track, improved audio I/O with lower latency, higher quality resampling, and more. Audacity's project files now use standard AU files, so they can be read by other programs, but unfortunately this version of Audacity cannot open project files written by previous versions of Audacity. SOURCEFORGE.NET UPDATE - 2003-03-18 EDITION http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=262061 0. Intro 1. New RSS Feeds 2. New SF.NET Download mirrors. 3. Project of the month 4. Work for SourceForge.net 5. Stats and Top Projects SF.NET Sitewide Update sponsored by IBM: -------------------------------------------------------------------- Join us. IBM developerWorks(TM) Live! New Orleans, April 9-12. Over 312 technical session hours, 126 hands-on lab hours and 75 hours dedicated to meet the developers and experts. Explore the e-business on demand roadmap for developers. Register now. Save up to $200 off a new Palm Tungsten T. http://www.ibm.com/events/ibmdeveloperworkslive/r/nltr34 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear SourceForge.net Developer, With this sitewide update, I'm pleased to announce two new enhancements to SourceForge.net. First, we've implemented new RSS feeds that are accessible to all projects and developers to aid in the publishing of information and project status to other sites. Second, SF.NET has added two new download servers, including our first mirror in Australia. Details below. Progress on IBM DB2's deployment on SF.NET continues. We are in the final phases of testing before we rollout it out to SouceForge.net itself. Currently, only mailing list archives are being powered by DB2. As you might have noticed in recent weeks, SF.net's project search database has been overwhelmed at times. As we roll out DB2 to the rest of the site in April, we expect this issue, and other issues like it to be resolved. Finally, in this time of global political uncertainty, it is good to be reminded that Open Source software has no boundaries. The work you do on your Open Source project benefits countless individuals and nations in every corner of the globe. Regardless of location, faith, or race, developers are collaborating together to create software that will not only benefit themselves, but all of humanity. At a time when it's hard to see something positive in the news, remember in our own way, the Open Source community is making a difference. Thank you for supporting SourceForge.net and the Open Source software movement. As always, if you have a question or want to share feedback regarding the site, please feel free to email me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pat- Patrick McGovern Director, SF.NET [EMAIL PROTECTED] New RSS Feeds. --------------------------------------------- A convenient way to keep up-to-date with the SourceForge.net site, project news, activity information, and new projects is now available. SourceForge.net provides a number of RSS feeds that may be accessed using an RSS reader or aggregator (some content management systems also allow you include data from an RSS feed on your website, much as Slashdot and Freshmeat do in the right sidebar of their layout). Using these RSS feeds, you can keep up-to-date with the latest project news and file releases, Site Status updates and SourceForge.net statistics (such as top projects). Project-specific RSS feeds may now be accessed using the "View list of RSS feeds available for this project" link on the Summary page for each project. Information about the full set of the available SourceForge.net RSS feeds (14 feeds, in all), including information on the software needed to view RSS feed data and a complete list of the options available for each RSS feed, may be found at: https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=15483&group_id=1 New SF.NET Download mirrors. --------------------------------------------- SF.NET now has two additional download mirrors. The first, Flow Communications, is our first mirror in Australia. We know, from looking at statistics, that SF.NET has many enthusiastic developers 'down under'. We are very excited that SF.net now has a server in Australia to allow users in that part of the world acquire files faster. To learn more about Flow Communication, please visit their website at: http://www.flow.com.au/ Our second new mirror is Aleron, located in Virgina, USA. Aleron provides high-speed, high-performance Internet connectivity, data transmission and value-added network applications for it's customers. For more information, please visit their website at: http://www.aleron.com/ The SF.NET team would like to thank Flow Communications, Aleron, and our other download partners, in helping distribute Open Source code and Open Source binaries around the world. Currently SF.NET serves approximately 500,000 files daily and these mirrors help a great deal in providing global accessibility to all of the software generated by our 60,000 projects. SourceForge.net's March 2003 Project of the month. --------------------------------------------- Keeping a team of people on task and well organized is a difficult chore. There are timelines to meet, information to organize, and the need to be more efficient. SourceForge.net's March 2003 Project of the Month helps with all of these difficult issues. TUTOS, 'The ultimate team organization Software', is a broad focused Open Source Application targeted at making groups of individuals more successful when collaborating. Tutos Project of the month page: http://sourceforge.net/pom_0303.php Tutos Home Page: http://www.tutos.org Tutos SF.NET Summary Page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tutos Work for SourceForge.net --------------------------------------------- We have a new position for a senior web developer available at SourceForge.net. We are looking for someone to help us maintain, upgrade, and add new features to SourceForge.net. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of development experience on high end, high volume websites (3+ million page views a day). He/she as a vast level of knowledge of Internet technologies: PHP, PostgreSQL, MYSQL, DB2, Linux, PERL, Apache, LDAP, Mailman. A flare for design / UI is a bonus. SourceForge is a unique site with unique challenges. We are looking for someone at the top of his/her game. Location of Job is in Fremont, California. Please send resume and URL's of sites you have worked on to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Text resumes only. (No MSWORD files!) Stats and Top Projects. --------------------------------------------- Number of Projects: 58,245 Number of Registered Users: 586,017 Daily Stats for March 12, 2003 SF.NET : 1,907,806 pages served SF.NET project web space : 3,211,337 pages served Total Pages: 5,119,143 CVS updates: 14,161 Open Source Files downloaded in 24 period: 454,134 Outgoing Mailing list emails: 1,362,151 Top 20 SourceForge.net Projects 1. Gaim http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/ Gaim is an all-in-one IM client that resembles AIM. Gaim lets you use AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, MSN, IRC, Jabber, Napster, Zephyr, and Gadu-Gadu, all at once. Gaim is NOT endorsed by or affiliated with AOL, Yahoo, MSN or Napster. 2. phpMyAdmin http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/ phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the WWW. Currently, it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields. 3. XboxMediaPlayer http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbplayer/ The XboxMediaPlayer for the Xbox allows you to use a modded Xbox to play/view DivX, XVID, MPEG-1/2, MP3, JPG & other supported video/audio/picture formats via your TV so it can used as a multimedia jukebox. It also supports streaming media over a network. 4. DC++ http://sourceforge.net/projects/dcplusplus/ This project is aimed at producing a C++ version of the popular DirectConnect client, enhancing functionality and performance. A hub (server) is planned. 5. JBoss.org http://sourceforge.net/projects/jboss/ The JBoss/Server is the leading Open Source, standards-compliant, J2EE based application server implemented in 100% Pure Java. 6. eMule for Linux http://sourceforge.net/projects/lmule/ This is a Linux port of eMule client (see http://www.emule-project.net) using wxWindows class library. 7 Miranda IM Client http://sourceforge.net/projects/miranda-icq/ A free Win32 instant messaging client. Smaller, Faster, Easier. 8. zenTrack http://sourceforge.net/projects/zentrack/ A complete project management, bug tracking, ticket, and tech support/help desk/phone log system. Tracker is configuable and adaptable; a simple design. Supports most databases, including mySql, Oracle, postgres, others. Works on Windows and Unix. 9. Compiere ERP + CRM Business Solution http://sourceforge.net/projects/compiere/ Smart ERP+CRM solution for Small-Medium Enterprises in the global marketplace covering all areas from customer management, supply chain and accounting. For $2-200M revenue companies looking for "brick and click" first tier functionality. 10. POPFile - Automatic Email Classification http://sourceforge.net/projects/popfile/ POPFile is an email classification tool with a Naive Bayes classifier, a POP3 proxy and a web interface. It runs on most platforms and with most email clients. 11. PCGen -- A Character Generator http://sourceforge.net/projects/pcgen/ PCGen is a java character generator and maintenance program. All datafiles are ASCII so they can be modified by users, and are available through the pcgendm project. An XML conversion is underway. 12. Dev-C++ http://sourceforge.net/projects/dev-cpp/ Dev-C++ is an full-featured Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Win32. It uses GCC, Mingw or Cygwin as compiler and libraries set. 13. ScummVM http://sourceforge.net/projects/scummvm/ ScummVM is a cross-platform interpreter for SCUMM-based games, used by LucasArts in games like Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island, Day Of The Tentacle, The Dig, etc. It also includes a non-SCUMM interpreter for Simon The Sorcerer 1/2. 14. Newsfighter http://sourceforge.net/projects/newsfighter/ Newsfighter is a J2EE web portal designed and geared for indy media. It combines a skinnable template engine with a host of web-based content management features. Cross-site data sharing and trust modelling features are in the queue. 1.5 FreeCraft real-time strategy game engine http://sourceforge.net/projects/freecraft/ This is a free cross-platform real-time strategy game engine. It is possible to play over LAN, internet or against the computer and to build C&C, W*rCr*ft, St*rCr*ft or AOE like RTS games with it. Currently, only a W*rCr*ft II compatible theme is available. 16. Hibernate http://sourceforge.net/projects/hibernate/ Hibernate - Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java. 17. TUTOS http://sourceforge.net/projects/tutos/ TUTOS is the ultimate team organization software; a webbased groupware or ERP/CRM system to manage events/calendars, addresses, teams, projects, tasks, bugs, mailboxes, documents, and your time spent with these things. 18. XMeeting http://sourceforge.net/projects/xmeeting/ The project goal is to produce a Mac OS X native application that does Internet VoIP and video conferencing. The application will base on protocol stack developed by openh323.org. 19. bitpim http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitpim/ BitPim allows synchronization of Phone Book, Calendar, WallPapers and RingTones with the LG VX4400 cell phone. 20. Fink http://sourceforge.net/projects/fink/ Fink is an attempt to bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and Mac OS X. Packages are downloaded, built automatically and installed into a tree managed by dpkg. New release lksctp-2_5_65-0_6_8 available http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=262312 A new release of lksctp based on linux kernel 2.5.65 is available for download. This includes a kernel patch against 2.5.65 that includes sctp specific changes that didn't go into 2.5.65; and a lksctp tools tar ball that includes the user level library and test programs for sctp users and developers. Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is a reliable, message-oriented, multihomed transport protocol. Developed by the IETF SIGTRAN working group to transport SS7 over IP, it is now the third general-purpose transport developed by the IETF. NOTE: Several users reported build/configure issues for the previous release of lksctp-tools. We are still investigating this issue, but have been unable to reproduce this issue locally. If you see the following error: ... checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B ltconfig: you must specify a host type if you use `--no-verify' Try `ltconfig --help' for more information. configure: error: libtool configure failed make: *** [config.status] Error 1 we'd greatly appreciate any debugging/fix for the issue. Best Regards, Jon Grimm SpamAssassin 2.51 released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=262344 SpamAssassin is a mail filter to identify spam using text analysis. Using its rule base, it uses a wide range of heuristic tests on mail headers and body text, to identify "spam", or unsolicited commercial email. Download at: http://spamassassin.org/downloads.html If you're running 2.50, this release is strongly recommended, since 2.50 cannot expire Bayes tokens from its databases. It's also no longer a beta release. Changes: - Bayes locking and concurrency issues fixed - Bayes expiration was not working; fixed - spamd was not enabling Bayes after auto-learning without restart; fixed - safer way to attach spams, for broken mail clients, using 'report_safe 2' - a few doco cleanups Slashdot False Information A-Okay in Primary FBI Database http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/26/0237257 blamanj writes "The FBI's [0]National Crime Information Center (NCIC), which compiles a huge database on criminals, arrest warrants, missing persons, etc., no longer has to put up with the [1]pesky problem of ensuring the data is accurate. I guess the Justice Department isn't particularly concerned with justice anymore." The full text of the provision which the main FBI criminal database will no longer have to adhere to is: "Each agency that maintains a system of records shall ... maintain all records which are used by the agency in making any determination about any individual with such accuracy, relevance, timeliness, and completeness as is reasonably necessary to assure fairness to the individual in the determination." Links 0. http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cjisd/ncic.htm 1. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=542&u=/ap/20030325/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/fbi_database_4&printer=1 Deathmatch for Dollars? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/26/028217 [0]quixado writes "[1]You Play Games is an online wager service where you can bet and earn money for each kill or injury to opponents. You can even cap how much money you can lose in a 24 hour period. [2]Return to Castle Wolfenstein is the first title. The press release can be found [3]here. [4]More info here too. And they said that spending days on end playing first person shooters wouldn't pay off..." Links 0. http://www.collectivedetective.org 1. http://youplaygames.com/ 2. http://www.idsoftware.com/games/wolfenstein/rtcw/ 3. http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030304/latu045_1.html 4. http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5423630.htm Harvard Open Source Courseware http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/26/0139241 [0]mpawlo writes "[1]Gnuheter reports that the [2]Berkman Center for Internet and Society releases the [3]H20 courseware software as open source. Two years and 1 million USD are invested in the software so far... The software has been tested at Harvard Law School, but should be suitable for other disciplines than law." Links 0. http://www.pawlo.com/ 1. http://www.gnuheter.com/article.php?sid=2328 2. http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ 3. http://h2o.law.harvard.edu/ Slashback: Security, Telephony, Solicitude http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/23/2035250 Slashback with more on Linux telephony, Mailblocks' terms of service, the scary disease known as SARS, the status of civilian GPS accuracy and more -- read on for the details. Gnutella2 Specifications http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/25/2144240 An anonymous reader writes "After lots of heated debate regarding Gnutella2, ([0]first story and [1]more recent story), the specifications have finally been [2]released. There is a [3]mirror here. Let the debates begin." Links 0. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/06/1316251&tid=95 1. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/1551251&tid=95 2. http://www.gnutella2.com/gnutella2_draft.htm 3. http://www.kiwiuk.net/gnutella2_draft.htm Spirited Away Set for 800 Theatre Rerelease http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/25/2040249 [0]Robotech_Master writes "According to [1]the website of Jerry Beck, a 20-year-animation industry veteran and one of the co-founders of Streamline Animation, when Spirited Away won the Oscar, it also "won the right to be re-released to 800 theatres this Friday. Disney will be announcing plans to re-release the Japanese masterpiece in theatres later today." When I emailed Beck to ask him his source, he said it was someone within the Disney publicity department and it would be made public sometime today. According to Spirited Away's [2]numbers page at [3]Rotten Tomatoes, it peaked during its first run at 151 screens. Wonder how it'll do this time around?" Links 0. http://www.eyrie.org/~robotech/ 1. http://www.cartoonresearch.com/news.html 2. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/SpiritedAway-1116064/numbers.php 3. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/ Mandrake Linux 9.1 (Bamboo) Is Available! http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/25/204225 Not to load you up with Mandrake, but joestar writes "Mandrake Linux 9.1 (Bamboo) is now officially available at a number of FTP mirrors. This version appears to be a key release for MandrakeSoft and includes many [0]new features such as a new simplified installation procedure, ZeroConf network support, Wi-Fi support, NTFS partition resizing and a brand-new... MandrakeGalaxy theme. It's very beautiful and the whole thing has apparently very few bugs, which is a good news. A full presentation is available at [1]Mandrake's website, download is available from their FTP page [2]as usual. As I see it, it's certainly the most important Mandrake release since version 7.0..." Update: 03/25 21:44 GMT by [3]T: And if you like the distro, you can do both yourself and Mandrake a favor by ordering [4]box sets straight from them, or joining [5]Mandrake's Club. Links 0. http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/9.1/91PR.php3 1. http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/9.1/features/ 2. http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ftp.php3 3. http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/ 4. http://www.mandrakestore.com/ 5. http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/club/ TEACH vs. DMCA Showdown Looming http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/25/1940259 [0]TVmisGuided writes "A copyright showdown between the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) and the Teach (Technology Education and Copyright Harmonization) Act is brewing that will have serious implications on the future of higher education on-line. The [1]article from Chronicle.com spells out the upcoming brouhaha. IMO, this will be one of the strongest litmus tests of the DMCA since it was signed into law in the U.S." Links 0. mailto:awjump@@@sprintmail...com 1. http://chronicle.com/free/2003/03/2003031801t.htm Intel Patents Anti-Overclocking Technology http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/25/1825201 VCAGuy writes "It appears that Intel has pantented a crystal-locking technology to lock processors to the processor's clock speed. [0]The Inquirer has a story about it, and you can read the patent description from the [1]USPTO. Let's hope AMD doesn't try to copy this..." Links 0. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=8518 1. http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,535,988.WKU.&OS=PN/6,535,988&RS=PN/6,535,988 First Mandrake 9.1 Review Out http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/25/1621234 icantblvitsnotbutter writes "With [0]Mandrake Linux 9.1 [1]right around the corner, it's [2]OSNews first out of the gates with [3]a review of this desktop-oriented distro's latest release. The review is actually pretty bland, skimming the surface to linger on some of Eugenia's pet peeves. Having used 9.1 in a production environment since beta 3, I can say that the improvements to the installation and the signature Mandrake tools are much-appreciated. Don't forget that [4]Mandrake Club members get their own set of mirrors, as well as being eligible for extras like the voting process that selected the packages for the 9.1 release." Update: 03/25 18:29 GMT by [5]T: [6]anyweb also points out a [7]review of Red Hat Linux 9 on the same site, writing "an informative article -- well I had to say that, I wrote it ;-)" Links 0. http://www.mandrakelinux.com/ 1. http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/cooker/2003-02/msg10376.php 2. http://www.osnews.com/ 3. http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3116 4. http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/club/ 5. http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/ 6. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3119 Freshmeat align 1.7.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117519/ align is a general-purpose text filter tool that helps vertically align columns in string-separated tables of input text. It also includes width, another general-purpose text filter tool that helps you work with the printing width or length of lines of input text. Apache Ant 1.5.3beta1 (stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/117447/ Ant is a Java based build tool, similar to make, but with better support for the cross platform issues involved with developing Java applications. Ant is the build tool of choice for all Java projects at Apache and many other Open Source Java projects. Atari Running on Any Machine 0.8.0beta1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117431/ Atari Running on Any Machine is a virtual machine that allows you to run existing and develop new Atari ST/TT/Falcon applications on your computer. Autopilot UAV 2.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117496/ autopilot is a command and control system for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. It provides hands-off flight controls for helicopters and simple "moving map" control for the ground station. Manual control is similar to operation under IFR with three axis EFIS. BEJY 1.1.1.42 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117471/ BEJY is a modular server application. It has functionality similar to inetd and some helper classes/functions to ease the implementation of new protocols. It provides a generic multithreaded TPC/IP server implementation with optional SSL support, covering the complete connection and thread management. Each supported service provides its protocol implementation(s), where the protocol dependend handling is done. The current version comes with HTTP, SMTP, POP3, and IMAP protocol implementations. The HTTP protocol implementation also contains a servlet engine, a JSP engine, a handler to invoke CGI, and other useful things. BHL 1.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117435/ BHL is an Emacs mode which enables you to convert plain text files into HTML, LaTeX, Texinfo, SGML (Linuxdoc), and TXT files. The BHL mode handles common font-styles, three levels of sections, any kind of lists, tables, URLs, horizontal rules, and Wiki names. BHL handles a list of links (lol) and a table of contents (toc): you can browse the lol and the toc, insert the toc where you want, and update the sections' numbers with one keystroke. Cerberus Helpdesk 1.5.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117485/ Cerberus Helpdesk is an email response system built to diminish the need for redundant, time-consuming human interaction with your customers. The system is built to allow your support/sales/billing/etc. department to react quickly to inbound customer email inquiries. It was written originally as a trouble ticket system. CVSps 2.0b7 (Beta) http://freshmeat.net/releases/117463/ CVSps is a program for generating 'patchset' information from a CVS repository. A patchset in this case is defined as a set of changes made to a collection of files, and all committed at the same time (using a single 'cvs commit' command). This information is valuable to seeing the big picture of the evolution of a cvs project. CVSps allows you to see history of committed patchsets, restrict by author, date range, files affected, branches affected. CVSps can generate a diff of a given patchset. DireqCafe 1.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117439/ DireqCafe is a full featured and complete open-source Internet cafe system for use with the LTSP thin client solution. Download4J 1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117503/ Download4J is pure Java component (Servlet + JavaBean) that allows you to download files. It can be integrated into any JSP/Servlet application. You can download files from any folder, ZIP archive , or Database (Oracle, IBM DB2, MySQL, etc.). You can count and set a maximum limit for download hits, and HTTP authentication (login/password) can be applied to each of the downloads. Configuration is done through an XML file. Easysoft ODBC-ODBC Bridge 1.2.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117442/ The Easysoft ODBC-ODBC Bridge allows applications on one machine to access ODBC data sources on another. It supports multiple concurrent connections from multiple clients to multiple target databases. The principle application is to enable access from Linux and Unix platforms to remote ODBC databases. For example, Apache/PHP programs on Linux can read/write data held on MS SQL Server on Windows, and Perl programs can read/write data held in a MS Access database. Supported applications include Applixware, Open Office, Python, Rexx/SQL, mnGoSearch, OpenLDAP, and Oracle sqlplus. Supported platforms include Linux, MacOSX, IBM zSeries, Windows and various Unix flavors. EPM 3.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117504/ The ESP Package Manager (EPM) is a simple tool that generates software and patch distributions in various formats, including AT&T software packages ("pkg") used by Solaris, Debian ("dpkg"), HP-UX software packages ("swinstall" or "depot"), IRIX Software Manager ("inst" or "tardist"), portable (installation and removal scripts with tar files), and Red Hat Package Manager ("RPM"). Fade to Blue 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117416/ Fade to Blue is a blue fade-in, fade-out animated cursor scheme for XFree 4.3. All included cursors fade in and out once every 1.2 seconds, from a brilliant blue at 100% opacity all the way down to 50% opacity. There are 20 frames of fading goodness per cursor. Freecell Solver 2.8.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117441/ Freecell Solver is a 100% ANSI C program that automatically solves games of Freecell, and several similar Solitaire variants, as well as games of Simple Simon. It can also be compiled as a library for use within third-party applications. FUDforum 2.3.9RC1 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/117461/ FUDforum is templatable forum with i18n support based on PHP and either MySQL or PostgreSQL. It features a user/group management system, a multi-lingual spell checker, both flat and thread message views, a private messaging system with mult-iuser forwarding capabilities, poll file attachments, and much more. It is an extremely fast and scalable forum that can fulfill the needs of both small and large forum operators. GKrellM giFT 0.1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117512/ GKrellM giFT is a GKrellM plugin which monitors active giFT transfers by showing their progress. gmencoder 0.0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117468/ Gmencoder is a GNOME 2 frontend to mencoder. It supports an output codec for video (lavcodec) and one for audio (lame). It support postprocesing, cropping, scale, subtitles ripping, and multiple encoding passes. GNU Source-highlight 1.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117518/ GNU Source-highlight produces a document with syntax highlighting when given a source file. At the moment, it handles Java, C/C++, Prolog, Perl, PHP3, Python, Flex, and ChangeLog as source languages and HTML and XHTML as output formats. GNUstep 0.8.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117470/ GNUstep is a set of general-purpose Objective-C libraries based on the OpenStep standard developed by NeXT (now Apple) Inc. The libraries consist of everything from foundation classes, such as dictionaries and arrays, to GUI interface classes such as windows, sliders, buttons, etc. Goben 0.0.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117482/ Goben is a GTK+ 1.2 GUI for playing Go. It allows any combination of human vs computer, computer vs computer, or human vs human play, and supports any board size from 5x5 to the full 19x19. Computer players are controlled via GTP for compatibility with GNUGo and other GTP talking Go programs. Gpasman 1.9.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117459/ Gpasman is a password manager. People working with the internet have to remember lots of passwords. Saving them in a textfile is not a secure idea. Gpasman is a GTK solution to this problem since it saves the password information encrypted, so now you have to remember only one password instead of ten (or more). GXMame 0.32 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117453/ GXMame is a frontend for XMame which uses the GTK library to provide the same GUI as mame32. It can control xmame with almost all options. Hatari 0.30 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117484/ Hatari is a portable Atari ST emulator using SDL based on WinSTon and UAE's CPU core. hdup 1.6.6 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/117493/ hdup is used to back up a filesystem. Features include encryption of the archive (via mcrypt), compression of the archive (bzip/gzip/none), the ability to transfer the archive to a remote host (via scp/rsync), and no obscure archive format (it is a normal compressed tar file). IceWM Menu Config 2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117498/ IceWM Menu Config is a GUI menu configuration program for IceWm. It is based on QT 3.1.0-free (or above). Cut and paste and Drag-n-Drop are available. Interactive BDD Environment 1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117456/ IBEN is a tool used for teaching Reduced Ordered Binary Decision Diagrams. It allows the student to work with ROBDDs without learning a complex C or C++ interface to an ROBDD package. One can enter the expressions interactively, and view the result as a graph or ask questions about the ROBDD, such as the number of nodes in the ROBDD. ITracker 1.5.1 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/117454/ ITracker is a Java J2EE issue/bug tracking system designed to support multiple projects with independent user bases. It supports features such as multiple versions and project components, detailed histories, issue searching, file attachments, dynamic reports with charts, and multiple email notifications. Java Serialization to XML 2 0.7.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117430/ Java Serialization to XML 2 allows you to convert Java objects into streams of XML and back again. Using it is as easy as replacing "ObjectOutputStream" with "JSX.ObjectWriter" to convert objects to XML, and replacing "ObjectInputStream" with "JSX.ObjectReader" to convert XML into objects. JSX subclasses Java's serialization classes, so it can be used in their place with the same simple power. This allows you to check and correct your distributed, persisted, and logged object data, and process it with XSLT, SAX, and DOM. JSX handles all objects, complex object graphs, new classes, old classes, and evolving classes. JSX even handles classes that do not implement the "Serializable" interface. JFtp 1.21 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117443/ JFtp is a Swing Java network and file transfer client. It supports FTP with its own FTP API, SMB using jcfis, SFTP using j2ssh, and local file IO using the j2se library. It includes many advanced features such as recursive directory up/download, browsing FTP servers while transferring files, FTP resuming, browsing the LAN for Windows shares, and more. The FTP API is separated from the GUI and can also be used in third-party applications or in a commandline mode. It should ideally be launched in a Web browser via Java Web Start (contained by the Java 1.4 plugin) but can also be started locally. jpop 0.34 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117517/ Jpop is a Java replacement for Winpopup. It allows popup messages to be sent to any machine which is capable of running Java. It also adds functionality to the basic popup messages, like clipboard sharing. kbarcode 1.1.90 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/117464/ KBarcode is a barcode and label printing application for KDE 3. It can be used to print everything from simple business cards up to complex labels with several barcodes, such as article descriptions. KBarcode comes with an easy-to-use WYSIWYG label designer, a setup wizard, batch import of labels (directly from the delivery note), thousands of predefined labels, database managment tools, and translations in many languages. Even printing more than 10,000 labels in one go is no problem for KBarcode. Additionally, it is a simple xbarcode replacement for the creation of barcodes. All major types of barcodes like EAN, UPC, CODE39, and ISBN are supported. Kernel Graphic Interface 0.9 cvs (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/117452/ KGI (Kernel Graphic Interface) has three main goals. The first is to provide an in-kernel framework for video card drivers that allows 3D accelleration on the console in Linux, *BSD, and other OSes. The second goal is to provide video card drivers with full accelleration that run on all supported OSes with only a recompile. The third goal is to provide a flexible virtual console layer that allows easy switching between multiple keyboards, multiple displays, and multiple virtual consoles per display. Together with the GGI library, it can offer full 3D accelleration, and a very flexible development platform for games and window managers. Kernel Mode Linux 2.5.66_001 (For Linux 2.5) http://freshmeat.net/releases/117478/ Kernel Mode Linux is a technology which enables the execution of user programs in a kernel mode. In Kernel Mode Linux, user programs can access kernel address space directly. Unlike kernel modules, user programs are executed as ordinary processes (except for their privilege level), so scheduling and paging are performed as usual. Although it seems dangerous, the safety of the kernel can be ensured through such methods as static type checking, software fault isolation, and so forth. LambdaTensor 1.1.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117506/ LambdaTensor is a CMU Common LISP library for efficient symbolic and numeric higher-rank sparse tensor multilinear algebra. Originally written to do some specialized calculations in extended supergravity theories, it is especially well suited to interactively work with exceptional Lie algebras and Lie groups, all the way up to the largest (248-dimensional) exceptional Lie group E8. LCARStrek 1.3-corrected http://freshmeat.net/releases/117445/ LCARStrek is a Star Trek skin, using the LCARS interface from the Federation Star Ships (heavily used in The Next Generation and Voyager series). It has rounded borders and hover (mouse-over) effects, be aware that it may look and feel quite unusual or strange, but keep in mind that this is an interface design which was not originally designed for the 21st but the 24th century. Libxml 2.5.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117449/ Libxml is the XML C library developed for the Gnome project. The library code is portable (to Linux, Unix, Windows, embedded systems, etc.) and modular; most of the extensions can be compiled out. Libxml implements a number of existing standards related to markup languages, including the XML standard, Namespaces in XML, XML Base, Relax NG, RFC 2396, XPath, XPointer, HTML4, XInclude, SGML Catalogs, and XML Catalogs. In most cases, libxml tries to implement the specifications in a relatively strict way. To some extent, it provides support for the following specifications, but doesn't claim to implement them: DOM, FTP client, HTTP client, SAX, and DocBook SGML. Support for W3C XML Schemas is in progress. Linux 2.5.66 (2.5) http://freshmeat.net/releases/117474/ Linux is a clone of the Unix kernel, written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance. It has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix kernel, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory management, and TCP/IP networking. LTOOLS 5.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117434/ The LTOOLS are a set of command line tools for reading and writing Linux ext2 and ext3 filesystems from DOS, Windows, Solaris, or Linux. They are useful for dual-boot configurations and system recovery. It also includes an Explorer-like interface in a Web browser, and includes a method of providing remote access to filesystems. A Java interface is also included. mgetty+sendfax 1.1.30 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117488/ The mgetty package contains an intelligent getty for allowing logins over a serial line (such as through a modem) and receiving incoming faxes. The companion program sendfax is used for sending faxes from the commandline or from other applications. The third main component is vgetty/vm which can be used with a voice-capable modem to implement an answering machine, a voice menu system, and similar things. Miscellaneous Unix scripts 1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117437/ This is a collection of (mostly) Unix scripts for general use. The package consists of scripts to aid system administration, text processing, and more. They can mount devices via a menu, open documents in new Netscape windows, justify ASCII text, split files into many parts and restore then, print PS files with 4 pages per sheet, convert encodings and UTF-8, trim Unix mailboxes, adjust system time, and maintain databases of files on media. My Personal Books Library 0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117510/ MPBL is a curses application fitted for console used for simple books listing. It allows you to keep a database with a listing of books with the following criteria: Name, Author, Year, and Loaner. mySiteMaker 3.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117499/ mySiteMaker is a collection of CGI tools to rapidly create Web interfaces to database tables. It includes a Web-based configuration tool that automatically generates search, results, and edit HTML screens. The search screen is easy to use and allows the data to be exported in a variety of formats. Object Relational Membrane 0.10 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117507/ The Object Relational Membrane is a Python package that provides the functionality of an object relational layer like EJB or other persistence storage systems. It is a thin compatibility layer between SQL table layouts and Object Oriented Python. While providing a good deal of functionality, it tries to be as small and simple as possible. It works with PostgreSQL and MySQL. OpenPGP Public Key Server 0.9.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117487/ The OpenPGP Public Key Server allows users to store and lookup PGP/GPG public keys from the server's database. Additionally, it can synchronize with other servers to make a distributed, replicated database of public keys. This package provides only the server side. The client side is usually an OpenPGP application (like GnuPG or PGP), although you can use a simple HTML form to allow queries from a Web page. PCS Vision Uploader 0.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117472/ PCS Vision Uploader is a program written in PHP that allows you to send files to your Sprint PCS Vision Phone. Filetypes include jpg, png, mid, qcp, and wbmp. Perl HL7 Toolkit 0.61 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117475/ Perl HL7 Toolkit provides a number of Perl libraries and scripts for developing HL7-capable applications in Perl. phpVideoPro 0.4.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117438/ phpVideoPro is a program to manage your collection of DVDs, Video CDs, and video tapes. It stores all data in a database, and provides you with features for adding/changing entries, displaying lists, printing labels and lists, and more. An online help system is built-in to guide you when necessary. Support for multiple languages is provided (English, German, French, Polish, Bulgarian, Swedish, etc.), and supported databases include MySQL and PostgreSQL. PSMON 1.0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117467/ psmon is a Perl script which can be run as a stand-alone program or a fully functional background daemon, capable of logging to syslog with customisable email notification facilities. The user defines a set of rules in an Apache-style plain text configuration file. These rules describe what processes should always be running on the system, and any limitations on concurrent instances, TTL, and maximum CPU/memory usage of processes. psmon scans the UNIX process table and, using the set of rules defined in the configuration file, will respawn any dead processes, and slay or "deal with" any aggressive or illegal processes. Pyndex 0.2a http://freshmeat.net/releases/117491/ Pyndex is a simple and fast full-text indexer implemented in Python. It uses Metakit as its storage back-end. It works well for quickly adding search to an application, and is also well suited to in-memory indexing and search. It can handle phrase queries and has a Bayesian classifier component. It performs best in applications involving a few thousand documents, but its scaling is mostly limited by available memory. Python Desktop Server 0.4.18 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117436/ The Python Desktop Server is a combined Weblog authoring tool, XMLRPC/SOAP server, and news aggregator. It allows one to read RSS news feeds, post to a community server (such as Radio Userland or any Python Community Server installation), and includes tools for Weblog and homepage management. It features a Web interface, a built-in Web server, extensibility through scripts that connect via XMLRPC or macros, and a plugin architecture. Qmail Auditor 0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117455/ QMail Auditor provides simple a method for auditing emails. It is easy to configure and uses regular expressions as rules. Radeox 0.6.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117451/ Radeox is a Wiki markup rendering engine written in Java. It is part of the weblog and Wiki tool, SnipSnap. Skaringa r1p8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117489/ Skaringa is a framework for Java and XML language binding. It transform Java objects into XML documents and back, and can generate XML schema definitions for a Java class. It is designed for simplicity, supporting a wide range of types, and speed. Smart Cache 0.85 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/117477/ Smart Cache is full-featured pure Java proxy cache server. It can cache any pages and make them available for offline browsing. Other features include a URL filter, cookie filter, ability to fake User-Agents, Referer, and Cookie headers, Web forwarder (accelerator) mode, background downloading, multiple logs, fast operation, very configurable garbage collection, cache directory structure copies server structure, and cached files are ready for use (no headers inside). SnipSnap 0.4.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117450/ SnipSnap is an easy to install and use Web log and Wiki engine written in Java. It has no external dependency on Web servers or databases, as both are built-in. SNMP Trap Translator 0.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117494/ SNMPTT is an SNMP trap handler written in Perl for use with the NET-SNMP/UCD-SNMP snmptrapd program. Received traps are translated into friendly messages using variable substitution. Output can be to STDOUT, text log file, syslog, MySQL (Linux/Windows), or a Windows ODBC database. User defined programs can also be executed. Spam-X 3.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117433/ Spam-X is a very unique and effective proactive approach to spammers. Not only does it act as a spambot tarpit by trapping a spambot into requesting page after page of random, fake email addresses, it also acts as though it were on a very slow link by taking a full minute to send each page of sixty random mailto: links. It outputs extremely minimal HTML in an effort to minimize its bandwidth impact, while at the same time allowing you to flood a visiting spambot's database with thousands of worthless email addresses and consume a great deal of the spambot's time. Placing a small or hidden link to the Spam-X script above any valid mailto: links on your site will hopefully trap the visiting spambot and prevent it from actually harvesting your valid email addresses. SQL ToolBox 0.5b http://freshmeat.net/releases/117481/ SQL ToolBox is a database administration and code generation tool that features a graphical user interface, compatibility with JDBC databases, a code generator for EJBs, and CSV and XML data support. Its JBuilder and NetBeans integration supports a database browser and a SQL editor with syntax highlighting and syntax checking. Stuffed Tracker 1.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117465/ Stuffed Tracker is used to track Return on Investment. It might be very useful for any site that uses advertising to attract visitors and that have some sort of ordering process (registration, selling products, etc.). With the help of the Stuffed Tracker, the site owner can learn how many visitors that came from online advertising were converted into customers, as well as the actual return on investment for every advertising campaign. Stuffed Tracker also provides referrer-based tracking. tenc 0.5beta http://freshmeat.net/releases/117486/ tenc converts your audio cd tracks into Ogg Vorbis files. It uses information gained from freedb. tentakel 0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117440/ Tentakel is a simple program that executes the same command on many hosts in parallel using ssh or rsh. It is designed to handle different types of remote systems and unavailable hosts. Webfish Linux 1.0pre1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117444/ Webfish Linux is aimed at servers, routers, and customised workstations for experienced Linux users. It attempts to get away from the bloat factor of many common distributions, and does not include large amounts of binary packages or a package manager. It is based on a small base set that provides kernel, gcc, Perl, sed, awk, bash, ethernet tools, etc. (basically, all that is required to run a base system and compile software but not any software itself). Workrave 1.2.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117516/ Workrave is a program that assists in the recovery and prevention of repetitive strain injury (RSI). The program frequently alerts you to take micro-pauses and rest breaks, and restricts you to your daily limit. It currently runs on GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows (using GTK/Win32). xine xine-ui 0.9.20 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117469/ xine is a free multimedia player. It plays back CDs, DVDs, and VCDs. It also decodes multimedia files like AVI, MOV, WMV, and MP3 from local disk drives, and displays multimedia streamed over the Internet. It interprets many of the most common multimedia formats available--and some of the most uncommon formats, too. All those features come in a reusable library (xine-lib) which can easily be embedded in your applications. XiStrat 0.6.59 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117515/ XiStrat (aka 'Extended Strategy') is in particular about turn-based, networked multiplayer, non-cooperative, zero-sum, abstract strategy board games (e.g., Chess, Go, Reversi variants, etc.) on 3D-visualized polyhedra and contains a server, client GUI, autoplayer engine, utilities, and documentation. Related recreational modern mathematics (single agent, cellular automata, graph/group/complexity/knot theory, discrete geometry, algebra, combinatorics, and mathematical physics) is also dealt with. Yet another nV Configurator 0.2.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117501/ YanC (Yet another nV Configurator) is a small tool which you can use to change the nVidia-specific settings (almost) as easily as with the Windows drivers. You can edit the settings for the AGP-Support, the Cursor Shadow, the nVidia-Logo, for Digital Vibrance Control and, of course, TwinView. Furthermore, YanC offers the possibility to run your OpenGL applications (e.g., games) with your favourite settings for antialiasing, anisotropic texture filtering, and vsync to blank without difficult commandline operations. zExtranet Portal System 1.6.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117448/ The zExtranet Portal System is a Zope-based portal and dynamic Web site system that features static HTML, dynamic articles, polls, shopping carts, a meeting planner, appointments, calendars, contact management, file sharing, a time-off/sick planner, an RSS newsfeed manager, forums, shift management, asset management, expense management, reminders, timed events, and collective lunch ordering. It also features an authentication system. Slashcode ricecooker.org, Asian and Asian American topics http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/181242 Hi everyone - We've just launched a slash site on Asian and Asian American topics called ricecooker.org. Thanks so much for the software and the inspiration. We're pretty nervous about whether this can take off or will just linger in some obscure corner of the web, so if you are interested in the community we're trying to create, please help us by telling other people who might also be interested in our site! We acknowledge our direct inspiration from slash in our mission statement. Cheers everyone from the people at ricecooker.org! Current Slash Tags http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/1633257 Keep in mind that the type="op" is the syntax that is saved. Most have multiple forms. Also keep in mind that to use links you need to have Slash::Relocate installed and Slash::Blob. For image and file uploads all you need is Slash::Blob. Read one for the entire list: SLASH tags http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/24/0315249 Thanks for all the help with the upgrade, but I have another question. What's the syntax for the new SLASH tags? I've tried looking through the code, but alas, I'm not much of a perl programmer, and expirementing hasn't given me much help. Cluster Rant http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/21/234230 Yet another slash site for Beowulf/HPC cluster users. Check out Cluster Rant if you are interested. --deadline Upgrading http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/15/2012236 I just wanted to suggest that someone out there who's rather good with Slash write a How-To on Upgrading to the latest CVS, or upgrading to the latest release, or both! It'd sure help me out. (a simple how-to in the comments to this article would help a great deal as well!) Misusing backSlash as Instant Messenger http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/13/1712245 We just recently noticed, that backSlash is (in 1.x as well as 2.x) a very fine instant messenger between authors who just have web access or not liking IRC or ICQ. Just start a new story, put the message (up to 50 characters) in the title field, and hit preview. Immediately your message is shown to all logged in authors when they load the next Slash page. And if you then have the submission list open with it's refresh of 900 seconds (the default valalue), you always have the newest messages even without hitting the reload button. It also proofed to be useful to send replies or ACK messages to acknowledge, that the message has been read. But be careful not to submit those messages as stories. This can be awkward. (So there's even a little bit of thrill when using this type of IM... ;-) What is the Mysterious future and why did it show http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/12/1952234 Currently Slashdot has an article posted "in the Mysterious future" showing on the main page. What up with dat? SSL and slashcode fulltime http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/11/0737249 Does anyone know if Slash works with SSL (not just for auth. but full time https)???? I need this and I'm not sure where to go from here. Current setup: Linux 8.0 / apache 1.3 / latest slash. (works very well). Some links and instructions would greatly be appreciated. thanks, -Kam. Streetnoise.org - Your Daily Political Roller Coaster http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/10/1820238 Without further ado, here are the fruit of my last 12 weekends. The site runs on 2.6.6 and I probably won't touch it until there is a more decent upgrade strategy. Let me know if you like it and if you're interested in politics, please don't be shy and post a story when you run into something outrageous (which is easy these days). New Features! http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/10/0322236 So bunch of new features are in the latest CVS. Including image and file support int stories. Other hight lights include: Slash::Relocate, an href tool that changes all of your links on your site to relocateable links. Coming soon to this will be a task to track if the link is dead or not (and give you an alternate link to google if it is). Slash meta language. Now in stories (and soon in Journals) you can use custom slash links to do all sorts of nifty little things. If you notice the story before this one with the like to you will noticed the hyper link to their homepage. Plus if you are logged in it will show you your Zoo Relationships. Finally, we now have image and file support with stories. Here is with his cat. Multi page documents are now supported by using the SLASH tag language. Bunch more that I am probably forgetting.... 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