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Interests: Megatokyo Lanyard
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/megatokyo/coolthings/60e9/
Caffeine: Penguin Energy Gum
http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/candy/61f2/
Computing: SnapStream Personal Video Station 3
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/avcards/619c/
Gadgets: Arc LED Flashlight
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/6270/
Gadgets: Laser Widow
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/604c/
Computing: 17" Samsung 170N LCD Display
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/display/lcd/624e/
PC Mods: Startech Cool Aluminator PC Case
http://www.thinkgeek.com/pcmods/cases/6297/
Computing: Multimedia Access Panels
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/628f/
Computing: Zip-Linq Cell Phone Charger Kits
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/62aa/
Computing: Kensington WiFi Finder
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/6247/
Computing: Zip-Linq Retractable Network/Modem Cables
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/62a1/
Computing: Zip-Linq Zip-Mouse
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/629b/
Cube Goodies: Smart Mug
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/mugs/6235/
Cube Goodies: Moving Gear Clock
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/lights/601e/
Computing: BenQ FP2081 20" LCD Display
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/display/lcd/6259/
Gadgets: Microscope Pen
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/tools/6222/
Gadgets: Candeloo Rechargeable Lamps
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5efd/
Computing: ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB
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Electronics: Mustek [EMAIL PROTECTED] D30 Digital Camera
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/cameras/61a5/
PC Mods: Cigarette Lighter Mod
http://www.thinkgeek.com/pcmods/cables/61fd/
Sourceforge
Release 0.4.9
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=305585
KGuitar aims to develop a free, full-featured guitarist helper program,
focusing on tabulature editing and MIDI synthesizers support. Ported to
KDE3 the first time officially, introduced basic KDE help center
documentation. More usability features (zooming, navigation). Brand new
tools - melody/solo editor, rhythm constructor, support for native Qt
tabulature printing (with standard notescore notation). More complete
MIDI playback feature, more complete MusicXML support. New Guitar Pro 3
import support. And, as usually, lots of refactoring and numerous bug
fixes. The latest file release can be found here:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7693&release_id=
180645
GAUL 0.1846 - Now for Windows!
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=305677
San Diego, CA, August 27, 2003 -- The GAUL project announces the latest
release of GAUL(TM) - the Genetic Algorithm Utility Library, a leading
open-source programming library for evolutionary computation. GAUL
0.1846 contains significant enhancements to its features and usability.
This is the first version to officially support the MS Windows
environment, in addition to the prior supported UNIX and UNIX-like
operating systems. An already impressive set of features are further
enhanced by the new version of GAUL. Support for the MS Windows
platform bolsters a long-time aim of the GAUL project to create a
robust and portable framework for evolutionary algorithms. "Development
of a native Windows version of GAUL is a major milestone," says Stewart
Adcock, Lead Developer of the GAUL project. "Programmers requiring a
feature-complete, but portable, framework for evolutionary computation
now have the open-source GAUL as a viable option." GAUL is already
applied in many important domains, including protein structure
prediction and drug discovery. With release of this new version, GAUL
becomes available to a larger community of research scientists and
software developers. About GAUL: The Genetic Algorithm Utility Library
(or, GAUL for short) is an OSI certified programming library for
evolutionary computation. It is a copyrighted work released under the
terms of the GNU General Public License. GAUL is deployed in several
institutions and corporations, on hardware ranging from low-end desktop
PCs through to top 500 supercomputers, in North America, Europe and
Japan. Further information is available on the GAUL website at
http://gaul.sourceforge.net.
Moodle 1.1 is now available!
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=305709
Moodle 1.1, the best system for managing and conducting online courses,
is now available. Highlights include: - A completely new packaging
system for backup, transfer and restore of courses - A new workshop
module for peer grading - A new chat module for synchronous discussions
- All-new course manager to handle very large numbers of courses
(tested with 3700) - Custom-defined grading scales that can be used
throughout a course - Performance improvements in many areas - Many
interface improvements and fixes http://moodle.org has all the
information and download links.
Miranda IM v0.3.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=304290
The Miranda Instant Messenger project is happy to announce a new public
release of Miranda IM. Miranda IM is a free multi protocol instant
messenger client for Windows designed to be resource efficient and
customisable. It uses very little memory, requires no installation and
runs fast even on very old computers. Its powerful plugin system makes
Miranda IM extremely flexible. Only the most basic features are built
in, but there are currently almost 200 free plugins available for
download that allows users to extend the functionality in Miranda IM.
Miranda IM is open source and published under the terms of the GNU
General Public License. OS support: Windows NT4, 95, 98, Me, 2000 & XP.
Protocol support: Support for ICQ, AIM, MSN, IRC and Jabber is included
in this release. The following protocols are available as separate
downloads on the website: Gadu-Gadu, ICQ Groupware, Yahoo, Netsend,
EmLanProto, Vypress Chat, POP3, Tlen and more! Official Website:
http://www.miranda-im.org Screen Shots:
http://www.miranda-im.org/about/screenshots.php Download:
http://www.miranda-im.org/release/download.php Additional components
(plugins, icons, sounds, etc): http://www.miranda-im.org/download/
Progect for Palm released today: 0.26 - Stability Release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=304323
Progect is a project manager application for Palm type PDA's, it is
very simple and easy to use, but powerful nonetheless. If you manage
projects and you have a Palm type PDA you will want to look at this
software. Today version 0.26 was released, it includes a large number
of stability fixes and has no major stability problems. People use
Progect to manage more than just projects. They use it to manage
inventory lists, shopping lists and many other things. Progect is very
flexible, try it today and get your life organized! Download it now at:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/progect/progect_0_26.prc?download
Slashdot
Microsoft Introduces IM Licensing
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/31/0059234
[0]prostoalex writes "The [1]MSN Messenger ban of outside clients and
cited security issues might be explained by yet another Microsoft move.
The company's Internet unit, MSN, [2]contacted third-party providers
like Trillian and Odigo with a suggestion to buy access licenses. From
the ZDNet article: 'Running an (IM) network is expensive,' said Lisa
Gurry, group product manager for MSN at Microsoft. 'We can't sustain
multiple other people's businesses, particularly if they charge for
certain versions of their software. We're introducing licensing
processes for third parties like Trillian.'"
Links
0. http://www.moskalyuk.com/deals/
1. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/20/221226&tid=109
2.
http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/10B2FC6553AB2D7148256D9100318F66?OpenDocument
Nordic Countries to Promote Open Source
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/31/0128252
Nordic Avenger writes "The Nordic countries have launched a website to
promote open source software to consumers and small businesses. People
can submit open source software links as well as exchange information
in the forums section. As the website states: '[0]Nordicos.org is a
project of the [1]Nordic Ministerial Council, and addresses the need
for a comprehensive overview of open source software available for
consumers'. Now, anybody eager to make good suggestions about software
that normal people could find useful and live happily ever after in the
open source world?"
Links
0. http://www.nordicos.org/
1. http://www.norden.org/webb/news/news.asp?id=3054&lang=6
Microsoft vs. Burst.com
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/30/198214
[0]rocketjam writes "Robert X. Cringley has an interesting story on one
of Microsoft's many little-known legal cases. Burst.com is suing
Microsoft, claiming [1]MS negotiated in bad faith for over a year
before stealing Burst's patented technology for increasing the
efficiency of video and audio streaming. After Microsoft submitted all
emails associated with the their dealings with Burst to the court,
Burst's lawyers discovered a 35-week gap of missing mail during a
critical portion of the negotiations. When the judge learned the Sun
vs. Microsoft antitrust case had revealed that MS keeps backups of all
emails on over 100,000 tapes stored offsite, he ordered them to come up
with the missing messages."
Links
0. http://www.rocketjam.com
1. http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20030828.html
2003 Seattle Wireless Field Day
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/30/1857246
[0]propellerhead writes "Today is [1]2003 Wireless Field Day for
Seattle Wireless. 'Similar to amateur radio field day, a mock emergency
network will be created this summer using off-the-shelf 802.11b
hardware, computers, and battery/gas power supplies. Network
applications such as VoIP (Voice over IP or Internet Telephony),
streaming audio and video, file sharing, chat, network games, and
others will be implemented across a multi-hop wireless infrastructure.
If resources allow, the goal is to connect this mobile network to the
existing Seattle Wireless network, which currently exists in the
Seattle area. This network can also provide access to the internet and
our community network partners like Seattle Pacific University and
Council House Projects.'"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/2003wirelessfieldday
Virginia Tech to Build Top 5 Supercomputer?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/30/1838222
[0]hype7 writes "ThinkSecret is running [1]a story which might explain
exactly why the Dual 2GHz G5 machines [2]have been delayed to the
customers that ordered them minutes after the keynote was delivered.
Apparently, Virginia Tech has plans to build a G5 cluster of 1100
units. If it manages to complete the cluster before the cut-off date,
it will score a Top 5 rank in the [3]Linpack Top 500 Supercomputer
List. Both Apple and the University are playing mum on the issue, but
there's talk of it all over the campus."
Links
0. http://emptyskies AT mac DOT com
1. http://www.thinksecret.com/news/virginiatech.html
2. http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=36630&mac
3. http://www.top500.org/list/2003/06/
Wendy Seltzer Interviewed
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/30/1724205
[0]mpawlo writes "Wendy Seltzer was recently appointed staff attorney
with the [1]Electronic Frontier Foundation. Seltzer is also a fellow
with [2]the Berkman Center. [3]Greplaw has picked Seltzer's brain on
her new position with the EFF, [4]Chilling Effects and the greatest
opera tunes."
Links
0. http://www.pawlo.com/
1. http://www.eff.org/
2. http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/
3. http://grep.law.harvard.edu/article.pl?sid=03/08/30/1053201
4. http://www.chillingeffects.org/
Dotgnu Coding Competition
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/30/1722212
Honestly writes "Apparently [0]DotGNU seems to be offering more than
the 'warm fuzzy feeling' to its contributors. Somebody has funded about
$4500 worth of prizes for code contributions. The developers have
confirmed that the $$$ is in FSF Hands (good hands, I suppose). Here is
the [1]split up of prizes. It's almost strange to earn money writing
open source. Especially when you're not even employed by dotgnu. Anyway
all I can say is ,I like it. It's ideal for a grad student with lots of
free time. But hardly anyone seems to have seen the [2]Newsforge posts
(except maybe me)."
Links
0. http://dotgnu.org/
1. http://dotgnu.org/competition.html
2. http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/26/1633251&mode=thread&tid=23
InfoWorld on Switching to Linux
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/30/178254
[0]brentlaminack writes "The latest [1]Infoworld is running a lengthy
piece about [2] The Real Cost of Switching to Linux, where it makes
sense and where it doesn't. As one of their [3]columnists points out,
the debate has switched from "if" to "where". One of the big wins for
Linux was in the area of remote administration. Specifically noted was
ssh. Also of note is the shift in calculating cost from TCO (Total Cost
of Ownership) as has been calculated in the past, to ROI (Return on
Investment) that focuses more on what you can do with the technology to
get work done."
Links
0. http://www.laminack.com
1. http://www.infoworld.com/
2. http://www.infoworld.com/infoworld/article/03/08/29/34FElinux_1.html
3. http://www.infoworld.com/opinions
MIT Roofnet
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/29/2320228
[0]prostoalex writes "[1]MIT Technology Review runs a story about MIT
Computer science students [2]building their own mesh network for
Internet access: 'A few weeks ago, MIT graduate student Shan Sinha
canceled his broadband Internet service. Now his Net connection comes
through the chimney. From a computer in the living room of his
Cambridge, MA, apartment, a few blocks from the MIT campus, a cable
goes into the fireplace up to the roof, where it is attached to an
antenna. From there, data packets hop to another roof-mounted antenna
at a nearby student's apartment. That way, from roof to roof in
multiple hops, Sinha's data packets finally reach a gateway--a computer
connected to the fixed Internet--at MIT's computer science building.'"
Links
0. http://www.moskalyuk.com/deals/
1. http://www.technologyreview.com/
2. http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_guizzo082903.asp?p=0
Xr Renamed to Cairo
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/30/1514245
[0]Charles Goodwin writes "Xr, the vector graphics extension for
XFree86 that Keith Packard, Carl Worth, and a few others have been hard
at work on, has been [1] renamed and is now officially called [2]Cairo.
Keith and Carl recently gave a [3]detailed presentation on Cairo (then
known as Xr) which should be a useful read for those wishing to
understand it a little better. There is already a useful [4]Gtk+
rendering backend that uses Cairo, as well as an [5]SVG test suite.
This, along with Gnome2's subtle adoption of SVG and the inception of
[6]Xouvert (which now has goals for both the [7] short term and [8]long
term, and an [9]initial plan which includes coexisting with XFree86),
spells a bright future for the eye candy of an X desktop."
Links
0. mailto:charlie@@xwt...org
1. http://cairographics.org/pipermail/cairo/2003-July/000191.html
2. http://www.cairographics.org/
3. http://cairographics.org/xr_ols2003/
4. http://gtk-themes.cairographics.org/
5. http://www.xsvg.org/
6. http://www.xouvert.org/
7. http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/xouvert-general/2003-08/msg00002.html
8. http://www.xouvert.org/modularising-xfree86.html
9. http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/xouvert-general/2003-08/msg00072.html
Freshmeat
BlingBling 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134303/
BlingBling is a cross-platform puzzle game. It is a clone of Puyo-Puyo,
a popular alternative to Tetris. Currently, it works with Windows and
Linux.
Boot Everywhere Linux 0.20-r2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134312/
bootE Linux is yet another minimalist (i386) Linux distribution and is
contained entirely on a single floppy disk. It supports only single
user mode, and is intended as a repair/rescue/emergency distribution.
Burgner 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134314/
The Burgner project aims to be a complete free burning suite that is
written totally from scratch - it does not include any code from
cdrtools (cdrecord and mkisofs) or cdrdao, and is not a front-end for
these tools. It can generate ISO images with RockRidge and Eltorito
extensions, and burn audio, data, and extra CDs.
Burgner 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134272/
The Burgner project aims to be a complete free burning suite that is
written totally from scratch - it does not include any code from
cdrtools (cdrecord and mkisofs) or cdrdao, and is not a front-end for
these tools. It can generate ISO images with RockRidge and Eltorito
extensions, and burn audio, data, and extra CDs.
cddb2md 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134286/
cddb2md is a tool for automatically setting the titles of tracks on a
NetMD-capable MiniDisc recorder. It fetches the titles from freedb.org
and writes them to the disc via a USB cable.
Chump 0.0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134288/
Chump is a table-driven assembler and dissembler with a very fast new
architecture input format. Both the assembler and disassembler are
created using a single description. It comes with descriptions for ARM,
MIPS, Stump, and 6809. It is intended for use as a library compiled
with other programs to allow line assembly and disassembly.
CleanIce 1.2.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134254/
CleanIce is a simplistic, semi-flat theme engine for GTK+ 2.x, based on
the ThinIce and Clean engines of old. The GTK+ 2.x engine has many
benefits over the original theme. The arrows are more consistent, the
colors are slightly revised to be more usable, etc.
Cobex 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134269/
Cobex is a small implementation of the OBEX communication protocol for
slow serial cables. It's primary use is to communicate with cell phones
such as the Sony Ericsson T310 and T300.
config-dhcpd 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134265/
config-dhcpd is a graphical DHCP daemon configuration tool written in
Python.
d 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134297/
d is an alternative to ls's --format=long output. It optimizes the file
info on the left to add as many as ~20 extra spaces for the filename on
the right, especially on systems with short user/group names. It has
two options that ls doesn't have: a --dirs-first option to always print
directories before regular files regardless of the current sort option,
and the --tree option which prints a tree-like output using line
drawing or ASCII characters. It allows for system and user
configuration files, where the user file can override the system file,
and where several options can be set, including the 'color' option
which can be used to customize the colorization of the output.
Digital Tester 0.4 ALPHA
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134290/
Digital Tester can be used by testers as a cost-effective test
management solution. By using the built-in reports and third-party
tools like Crystal Reports, it will help you analyze your test results,
allowing you to quickly identify areas of your application that have
bugs.
DSPAM 2.6.5-rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134282/
DSPAM is a server-side anti-spam agent for UNIX email servers. It
masquerades as the email server's local delivery agent and
filters/learns spam using a Bayesian statistical approach which
provides an administratively maintenance-free, self-learning anti-spam
service. Each email is broken down into its most interesting tokens,
each assigned a spam probability. All probabilities are then combined
to produce a statistical probability of spam. This approach, applied to
a mature corpus of email, has the potential to yield a 99.75% success
rate with less than a 0.03% chance of false positives.
Entagged 0.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134319/
Entagged is a Java MP3 tagger and Library which uses the freedb online
database.
epsutil 0.2-rc3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134299/
epsutil is a PyQt3-based graphical Epson inkjet printer toolbox
frontend for the command line utility escputil (available from the
gimp-print package). It is able to perform basic maintainance steps:
check ink level, test nozzles, and clean heads.
fix-mime-charset 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134318/
Fix-mime-charset automatically detects character sets of email message
and modifies the Content-Type header appropriately. It can be used as
mail filter in mailing lists where users often set the charset of their
messages incorrectly. It processes messages fast and accurately,
ignoring attachments, and correctly interprets transfer-encodings. None
but the Content- Type header is changed.
flscan 1.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134278/
flscan (Fast Light Scan) is a new frontend for the SANE libraries and
dlls. It can rotate images by 90° both clockwise and counter
clockwise, flip images both vertically and horizontally, correct the
horizontal aspect of the image, save aquired images in JPEG or in PNG
format, let you view images even at full size after they've been
acquired, and potentially supports all the SANE backends.
GameQ 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134294/
GameQ is a small PHP class for querying servers and parsing the
returned data. It's designed for easy use and modification.
Guis widget server 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134321/
Guis widget server is a Gtk2 widget server. It listens on pipes for
widget requests (in the LUA scripting language), and emits widget
events using an XML-based protocol or an equivalent S-expr lispy
syntax. It is useful for programs (in particular setuid programs) and
scripts that don't or can't link the Gtk2 libraries and need to
delegate the user interface to another process.
HotSaNIC 0.5.0-pre4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134276/
HotSaNIC is a Web-based information center for Unix-based systems. It
gives you a graphical overview about certain network- and system
statistics. HotSaNIC is programmed (mainly in Perl 5) in a modular way
to give you a great flexibility of which items you like to use, and it
can be extended with further modules written by yourself or others.
KMD 0.9.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134289/
KMD is a multi-processor debugger. It can debug with hardware boards
over serial ports or with software emulators (ARM and MIPS emulators
are included in the project). Using the pipe option you can debug over
the network or any other communication medium. It can load many
executable formats such as ELF, and display and follow the original
source even from multiple source file programs. There is support for
breakpoints and watchpoints which can trap on specific data (such as
loading or executing specific instructions). Support for other features
such as FPGA's is also available, allowing loading or any control
required to drive a specific hardware device. The project uses chump to
allow disassembly and line assembly. Chump also allows new
architectures to be easily added without the need to recompile the
system. Communication with the backend is done using two pipes/fifos
using a simple set of codes. Back end communication program can be
created using very little memory on the target device.
LilyPond 1.9.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134320/
LilyPond is a music typesetter. It produces beautiful sheet music using
a file as input. LilyPond is part of the GNU Project.
LinSMS 4.07.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134036/
LinSMS allows you to send SMS to Spanish mobile phones from Linux.
lyskom-server 2.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134313/
LysKOM is an online, text based, interactive discussion system sort of
like a mix between Mail, News, IRC and a BBS system. It's modeled after
the KOM system that was available to DECsystems running the TOPS-20
operating system ages ago. The web site for LysKOM is written in
Swedish, but the README files on the FTP site are in English. Both the
server and (some of) the client(s) can speak both Swedish, English and
other languages. LysKOM is a client-server system. This project is the
server software itself.
Magma 1.4r3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134279/
Magma is a bash script designed to make CD burning at the console
easier. It supports burning normal data CDs, audio CDs, blanking
CD-RWs, multisession, and more.
Megamek.NET 0.333
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134295/
Megamek.NET allows you to enter the World of Battletech and become
commander of a subsection of the forces of one of the 5 big houses or a
minor faction. You then use your lances (groups of Meks) to fight
against other players online. The game's community is already quite
large, and there are 2 major servers set up. One is using the 3025
timeline and the other one is set in the year 3060.
mkautosmb 1.1.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134317/
mkautosmb autodiscovers the local SMB (Windows) network using
smbclient, sets up an autofs configuration, and can optionally create a
"virtual" directory hierarchy with symlinks. This makes the
network completely transparent for all applications. Most of the smbfs
mount options are supported.
MMBase 1.6.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134308/
MMBase is an Open Source Java-based content management system that can
be used for publishing Internet content (e.g. Web sites, mailing lists,
etc). It covers the whole spectrum needed to import, manage, maintain,
export, and publish information. In other words, it contains Web-based
editors for editorial people to insert, manipulate, and delete
information. MMBase uses a jsp-taglib for Web designers to publish the
information dynamically.
mooix 1.0rc4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134304/
Mooix is a multiuser object-oriented dimension (a MOO) layered over top
of your favorite Unix system. To the user, mooix looks much like any
other MOO. To the programmer, mooix objects look like directories full
of files: executable methods, properties, and links to other objects.
MOOs have historically had poor support for such things as real
programming languages, encrypted logins, multitasking, and editors.
Mooix inherits all of these things from the Unix system it is based on.
At the same time, it's not wedded too tightly to Unix (e.g., it
implements its own permissions system that is much more suited to a MOO
environment than the historical Unix system).
MozPlugger 1.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134306/
MozPlugger is a modification of Plugger, a very small multimedia plugin
for the Unix versions of Netscape, Mozilla, and Opera which uses
external programs to show and play many file formats. This modification
fixes bugs which occurred with Mozilla 1.x and allows a player to
stream a media file directly from the URL.
MyOrgBook 2.6 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134285/
MyOrgBook is an Open Source online organizer programmed with PHP and
MySQL. Its features include multi-user login, a lost password emailer,
contacts, a to- do/scheduler, a calendar, and a profile changer. It
allows you to edit, delete, and update contacts, and much more.
Natural Docs 1.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134296/
Natural Docs is an extensible, multi-language, source code
documentation generator written in Perl. Its syntax is transparent so
the source comments read just as easily as the generated documentation.
It also focuses on automation and high-quality HTML output.
nautilus-thumbnailers 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134266/
Nautilus-thumbnailers provides scripts that generate thumbnails for
several file formats commonly used in the GNOME environment. When used
with the Nautilus file manager, for example, icons for PDF files will
present the same appearance as the document itself. This has long been
the case with images, but this package extends this technique to
formats like PDF, PostScript, and GIMP XCF.
Netcurse 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134307/
Netcurse is a GNU ncurses-based network speed monitor written in C. It
can also run over networks because of its client/daemon architecture.
It supports multiple network interfaces, also over TCP.
NetInstaller 1.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134283/
NetInstaller lets you create setup wizards for Web applications written
in PHP. Users only have to upload two files; everything else will be
decompressed online on the server, created, and configured. This
eliminates the need to perform tedious permission changes (with chmod)
or to upload of hundred of files in order to install a PHP application
onto a Web server.
Newts 0.12.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134298/
Newts is a notesfile program, a news-like program for use as a message
board. Newts is designed for UNIX-like systems, and resembles the
Notesfiles program written early in the 1980s at the University at
Urbana-Champaign. The client program included emulates the look and
feel of Notesfiles, and the UIUC backend is compatible with Notesfiles
data files. Future versions of Newts will include a separate daemon to
manage multiple local and network connections, additional backends, and
additional clients.
pal 0.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134292/
pal is a commandline utility which displays a color calendar and marks
approaching events and holidays. It supports several different types of
recurring events (one time, annual, monthly, etc.). Events are defined
in text files, and pal is distributed with files for significant
holidays and events. pal is similar to both the Unix "cal"
command and OpenBSD's "calendar" command.
phpOpenTracker 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134268/
phpOpenTracker is a framework solution for the analysis of Web site
traffic and visitor behaviour. It features a logging engine that,
either invoked as a Web bug by an HTML image tag or embedded with two
lines of code into your PHP application, logs each request to a Web
site into a database. One installation can track an arbitrary number of
Web sites. Through its API, you can easily access the gathered data and
perform complex operations on it (for instance, the analysis of your
visitors' click paths).
PHPX 3.1.2 (PHPX 3.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134281/
PHPX is a Web portal system, blog, Content Management System (CMS),
forum, and more. It is designed to allow everyone to be able to have
feature-rich, interactive websites even if you do not know a bit of
programming. Some key features include fully-integrated forums,
downloads, an image gallery with slideshow and auto-thumbnailing,
support ticket system, a GUI interface for Web page content management,
news with topics and instances, and a whole lot more. It allows you to
fully customize the look of your site.
Pogo 2.0rc4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134263/
Pogo is a lightweight, elegant, customizable application launcher for
X11.
QuickDownloader 4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134277/
QuickDownloader is a download manager that accelerates downloads by
between 200 and 300%. It provides a resume capability for resuming
broken downloads. It supports both HTTP and FTP downloads.
RPM Builder 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134271/
RPM Builder is a druid plugin for Anjuta that makes an RPM spec file
and RPM packages from projects and user settings. It featutes a
configurable user skill level.
rpmUpdate 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134302/
rpmUpdate is a Perl script to determine which RPMs on your system are
out of date. It currently requires that you mirror an RPM database
(such as ftp.redhat.com or ftp.rpmfind.net) locally, but will support
FTP in the future.
Siproxd 0.3.5 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134293/
Siproxd is a SIP proxy for SIP based softphones hidden behind an IP
masquerading firewall. It includes an RTP data stream proxy for
incoming audio data (outgoing RTP data should be handled by IP
masquerading by the firewall). Multiple local users/hosts can be
simultaneously masqueraded. All configuration is done via one simple
ASCII text file.
Sisela 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134291/
Sisela is a 1.44MB Linux-based boot disk that allows you to turn any
spare PC system into a router, firewall, wireless access point, or any
combination of these functions. It supports ISA, PCI, PCMCIA, and
CardBus network cards, including wireless adapters. It provides a DHCP
client/server, remote access through SSH2, DNS caching/forwarding, and
iptables-based firewalling.
Software Suspend 1.1-rc7 (2.4 Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134275/
Software suspend (swsusp) allows you to suspend your machine without
needing APM, BIOS, or ACPI support. It creates an image that is saved
in your active swap partition or swap files. At the next system bootup,
the kernel detects the saved image, restores the memory from it and
then it continues to run as if you'd never powered down.
Stuffed Tracker 1.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134270/
Stuffed Tracker is used to track Return on Investment (ROI). 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.
Tcpreplay 1.4.5 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134267/
Tcpreplay is a set of Unix tools which allows the replaying of captured
network traffic in pcap (tcpdump) format. It can be used to test a
variety of network devices including routers, firewalls, and NIDS.
Timeless Meaning 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134257/
Timeless Meaning is a Java library that supports schema evolution for
rapid development. Information stored in an application is encoded as a
series of method calls written with method names that are meaningful
sentences. The method calls are serialized to create a data dump and
then deserialized to reload the data dump into a new version of the
application. The semantics of the data dump are grounded in natural
language, which makes upgrading relatively painless and robust.
Veejay 0.4.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134305/
Veejay is a live performance tool featuring non-linear editing and
mixing from multiple sources (to one). It lets you load multiple video
clips or Edit Decision lists, cut and paste portions of video/audio,
and save it as a (new) Editlist. Also, you can create video samples
from clips or tags from (live) streams. With these samples, you can
change playback speeds (slow motion/acceleration), set looptypes, and
set markers. With both samples and tags, you can edit the effect chain
and mix from multiple sources to one. Veejay has 50+ video effects and
many frame blending methods. "Gveejay", a graphical
interface, maps the control keys to mouse-click buttons and sliders.
Gveejay communicates over TCP/IP, and can be invoked from a remote
machine.
Windmill 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134232/
Windmill is a theme for those living in South Texas, the land of the
big iron sunflower. The background image comes from the author's own
backyard.
Yet Another Passwd 2 LDIF Converter 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134280/
Yap2lc (Yet Another Passwd 2 LDIF Converter) is an LDAP migration tool
which extracts information from passwd, shadow/passwd, and
master.passwd formatted files, combines them with a user specifiable
template, and writes an LDIF file you can import into your LDAP server.
It supports BSD-like and non-BSD-like systems, and performs sanity
checks on user entries to detect invalid fields.
Zoinks 0.3.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134315/
Zoinks is a programmer's editor and development environment for
Unix/X11 systems. The editor has features similar to Mac text editors
like MPW and CodeWarrior. It also has some features for HTML authoring.
Zoinks supports comparing/diffing files and directory hierarchies. It
also supports inputting and editing multi-byte text (e.g. Japanese and
other Asian languages).
Slashcode
How to Allow Longer Subjects?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/30/1923252
An anonymous reader asks: "By default there is a limit on how long a
poster's subject can be. Is there a way to get beyond this limitation,
so that the subject lines for comments and stories can be longer?"
Sure, it's easy... this is a good introduction to using MySQL to
customize Slash.
Slash on Mac OS X
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/12/158239
This is how I installed Slash on Mac OS X Server 10.2.6 on August 8,
2003. YMMV. This is not intended to be a tutorial, it is a log of what
I did for my system. You may wish to use a release version of perl, to
include different Apache modules, to compile with DSO, etc. Whatever.
If someone wants to take some or all of this information and include it
in a more comprehensive guide, be my guest.
How to Force Previewing?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/08/1931216
An anonymous user writes: "I'd like to see an option added to enable a
user to force themselves to preview a post before they actually post
the comment. At the moment, a user is required to preview a story
submission before they post it, but there is no way for this
requirement to be there for standard posts. I often find myself hitting
'submit' when I wish I'd previewed first. I know that a 'force post
preview' option could be added to the options section and implemented
in SLASH *very* easily, which would simply remove the 'Submit' button
from the initial post screen... so could someone do it? I'd do it
myself if I was able to update the CVS source :-)" This is a one-liner
change... details follow...
YogaCircle.net (New Yoga Slash Site)
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/28/0339211
Well this should be a first. A Yoga base Slash site. Check it out, if
you have any questions or comments let me know. Thanks for the code.
csdaily.com
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/28/0337226
Yet another Slash site, Computer Science Daily News. Aims to be a
resource for Computer Science professionals, researchers, students and
instructors. Hopefully this fills a niche, computer science
developments seem to be very decentralized, and hard to find. Slash
seems to be working out nicely, though I'm still learning the ropes...
--csdaily
Slash on server running Livejournal?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/24/0035257
Maybe this is the wrong venue to ask in, and I'm sorry if it is, but
this question has been nagging me for about the past week or so. I have
a personal server running Slackware 8 with a custom-compiled Apache
1.3.27 (with the appropriate mod_perl) and MySQL 4.0.13. This server is
currently running the LiveJournal server code and works quite well at
this. I'm interested in attempting to set up slash for personal use
(the Livejournal code is running for personal use as well), and herein
lies the question. Can slash be run on the same server in another
VirtualHost without having a separate apache installation/process and
doing some fancy trick with mod_rewrite? Or am I asking too much? I
will be happy to provide any further info anyone needs through e-mail
(the e-mail link above is NOT spam-armored at all).
QubitNews is finally launched!
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/24/0030227
QubitNews: News and Inforation from the Quantum Community. This is
conceived as a meeting-point for the community working in the fast
developing field of Quantum Information and Computation. This is an
open and free project devoted to the exchange of information in this
field.: news, stories, announcements, comments of scientific work,
debates, polls, forums, etc... Many aspects of your work that cannot
appear in scientific journals may find a place here. The main feature
of QubitNews is that it is dynamical: you are wellcome to participate
and modify the look and feel of this site. You may become an anonymous
user, site user or an Author. Visit the homepage and consult the
documents About, FAQ, How-To and GettingStarted. It may be useful,
helpful and a lot of fun.
Tuxedo.org Now running Slashcode
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/2014232
Tuxedo.org is now running Slashcode. I should have done this a couple
of years ago... Most recent story is Linus Torvalds Comments on SCO
Lawsuit and Linux. Hope you all enjoy the new site! --Chuck Peters
Best hosting service for Slash?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/1449209
I'm going to be doing some "big things" with Slashcode but am
interested in going through someone to set up Slashcode and the server,
so that I can just right in and start building the site. What are the
best hosting services out there? Will they set up Slash for me? What
kinds of experiences have people had?
Dissociated Press goes Slash
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/1442252
After a bit of poking and prodding, I've converted Dissociated Press to
Slashcode (2.2.6). Works great!
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