O | S | D | N NEWSLETTER August 10, 2002 DEVELOPER SERIES
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PCGen -- A d20 Character Generator http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=25576 PCGen 2.6.3 is available MySQL Objective C API for Cocoa http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42424 SMySQL version 0.7.0 i810 Framebuffer Device Driver http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=39579 Video Overlay Support for the Intel 810 and 815 Framebuffer 'Just For Fun' Network Management System http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=46041 JFF Network Management System 0.6.4 VietPad http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=46758 VietPad 1.0.2 Release Slashdot Congress to Ashcroft: Go After Song Swappers http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/09/2347245 [0]saikou writes "Yahoo has published a news about [1]proposal of 19 lawmakers to prosecute P2P systems' users. Allthough Texas Republican Rep. Lamar Smith, said that FBI should not go for casual users but but instead to go after operators of "network "nodes", there is not enough info in the story to see if this "should" will change to "must in addition to", if or when trying to arrest major node operators fails to curtain song swapping online. Of course, questions of what to do about foreign users and foreign music are omitted. RIAA claps its hands. I guess we should expect network congestion because of users, downloading everything in their sight to beat this initiative." Links 0. http://www.masmol.com 1. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=569&ncid=738&e=2&u=/nm/20020809/tc_nm/tech_copyright_dc_4 High Resolution DVI Support for Plasma Displays? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/09/2125220 spongman asks: "I'm trying to find the best way to connect a computer to a 50" (or larger) plasma display. The display I'm currently looking at is the [0]NEC 50MP2 because its native resolution (1366x768) is high enough to meet my needs and it can display a 16:9 image with square pixels without scaling, but I'm open to suggestions for similarly-capable displays. I also want to use a DVI connection between the computer and the display to reduce interference and noise. The problem I'm having is that I can't work out which video cards support this resolution (or something near it) over a DVI connection. The only card I've found that seems to support this is the [1]PixelPerfect from Imagine Graphics in the UK, but it's based on somewhat old technology (Kyro2) and I'd like a few more choices if possible. Does anyone have experience getting their video card connected to a plasma display over DVI at native resolution?" Links 0. http://www.necvisualsystems.com/applicationFiles/productDetails/appl_productSpecs.cfm?Product_id=267 1. http://www.imaginegraphics.co.uk/products/PixPerfect/pixelperfect.htm Franklin's Glass Armonica http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/09/2039207 [0]CoffeePlease writes "At the time of his death in 1790, when more than 5,000 of his [1]glass armonicas had been built, Ben Franklin had collected no money from his glass armonica. He refused to patent any of his inventions, saying: 'As we enjoy great Advantages from the Inventions of others we should be glad of an Opportunity to serve others by any Invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.' [1]Read more here and [2]here. A [3]historical/sci-fi novel by Louise Marley has come out on the subject also. It would be interesting to find out if any other early inventors shared Franklin's generous views on patents." There's even a [4]FAQ. Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.fi.edu/qa99/attic9/index.html 2. http://www.fi.edu/pieces/dukerich/armonicahistory.html 3. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0441008364 4. http://www.glassarmonica.com/armonica/armfaq/index.html DraganFly III Gyro-stabilized RC Helicopter http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/09/1748205 [0]Pronoun54 writes "It hovers! It spins! It spies! The [1]Draganflyer III weighs just 17 ounces with its high-tech stabilization system. ÂAs an eye in the sky, the Draganflyer III can be used indoors or out, up to a mile away, to take aerial views of real estate, promote products at trade shows, or give the guy in the next cube a close encounter he wonÂt soon forget. ÂOne more advantage of the Draganflyer III: if youÂre grounded by bad weather, you can still open the throttle and hover indoors. Their site has videos of this thing in action both indoors and out. Seems like it can move pretty fast at top speed." The Times has a piece talking about the [2]piezo gyroscopes (including [3]purty pictures) that the chopper uses to self-stabilize. Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.rctoys.com/draganflyer3.php 2. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/08/technology/circuits/08HOWW.html 3. http://www.nytimes.com/packages/khtml/2002/08/08/technology/20020808_HOWW_GRAPHIC.html ActiveState Founder Steps Aside http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/09/2318220 [0]Lumpish Scholar writes "[1]ActiveState founder Dick Hardt [2]has quit. Or, as the [3]press release puts it, "ActiveState Expands Board & Founder Steps Aside." No reason for the resignation was given, unless you count, "The company is looking to become a $100 million company, and they're looking for someone ... that [sic.] has that experience." ActiveState (profitably!) distributes its own proprietary products, and also both free and commercially supported versions of Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl, and XSLT, having given back significantly to the free / Open Source communities associated with those languages." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.activestate.com/ 2. http://news.com.com/2100-1001-949122.html 3. http://www.activestate.com/Corporate/Communications/Releases/Press1028771552.html UK Prepares Own Version of the DMCA http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/09/1932247 [0]philkerr writes "I've just been informed by the UK Patent Office, below, that the EUCD (European Union Copyright Directive, the equivalent EU legislation to the DMCA) [1]consultation paper has been released. It's important that we give feedback to the UK government that this legislation will have a chilling effect on the software industry." NTK has a [2]few choice words on the subject as well. We've done several articles on the [3]EUCD before, and [4]Alan Cox has been campaigning against it, but it appears that the fix is in: Europe is going to get DMCA-like laws implemented in each nation by the end of 2002. Links 0. http://www.plus24.com 1. http://www.patent.gov.uk/about/consultations/eccopyright/index.htm 2. http://www.ntk.net/2002/08/09/ 3. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/27/2326226&tid=153 4. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/30/1922231&tid=153 Penguin Airlines http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/09/1851206 An anonymous reader writes "DesktopLinux.com interviews Chris Stevens, President of [0]Penguin Airlines about his young venture's [1]business model that includes using Linux in all aspects from the ground up -- from desktops to the reservations system! 'Tux' is more than just a name for this new air taxi service which brings convenient, economical, time-saving air travel via the shortest route between home and destination." They wrote an [2]essay about their business plans, and their [3]heavily computerized jets look nifty as well. CD:Those interested in the aviation side of things should check out James Fallows book "[4]Free Flight" as well. Links 0. http://www.penguinairlines.com 1. http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT3386270774.html 2. http://www.penguinairlines.com/articles/flightdeck.php 3. http://www.eclipseaviation.com/500jet/ 4. http://www.jamesfallows.com/freeflight/saved/nyt.html California Tracks Everyone Using Toll Transponders http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/09/171251 obtuse writes "[0]Direct monitoring of traffic sounds pretty cool, but some people don't want their toll transponders tracked. They aren't installing direct driver tracking for law enforcement now, but the collected data could be subpoenaed. Of course, anyone who didn't want to be tracked could just put it in the glovebox anyway, so they won't be catching clever felons or tracking real paranoiacs." Links 0. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/08/09/state1540EDT7757.DTL A Private European Internet? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/09/1646249 jakemk2 writes "Bill Thompson writing in [0]The Register advocates a private European Internet to stop the fact that it has "been so extensively abused by the United States and its politicians, lawyers and programmers that it has become a serious threat to the continued survival of the network as a global communications medium" Read it [1]here" His logical fallacy is , of course, thinking that the US has a monopoly on this kind of thing. Links 0. http://www.theregister.co.uk/ 1. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/26612.html PowerPC Goes 64 bit http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/09/1644223 [0]prostoalex writes "ExtremeTech runs a story about [1]IBM planning to introduce a new 64-bit PowerPC architecture for desktops in October at the Microprocessor Forum. The [2]conference agenda tells us that "this processor is an 8-way superscalar design that fully supports Symmetric MultiProcessing. The processor is further enhanced by a vector processing unit implementing over 160 specialized vector instructions and implements a system interface capable of up to 6.4GB/s"." There's also a [3]News.com story. Links 0. http://www.moskalyuk.com/ 1. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,449954,00.asp 2. https://www.mdronline.com/mpf/conf.html#day1_2 3. http://news.com.com/2100-1001-949030.html Freshmeat Alkaline UNIX/NT Search Engine 1.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/93382/ Alkaline is a full-featured standalone search and index server. The spider is a fully remote indexing daemon which includes support for all standards like robots.txt and "skip" meta tags, and allows multiple distinct configurations and search groups (searching many different sites from your server), including complex regexp indexing paths, authentification, filters for various document formats, XML-based online management and statistics, mrtg-compatible perf numbers, and more. centericq 4.8.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/93397/ centericq is a text mode menu- and window-driven IM interface that supports the ICQ2000, Yahoo!, AIM, MSN, and IRC protocols. It allows you to send, receive, and forward messages, URLs, SMSes (both through the ICQ server and email gateways supported by Mirabilis), contacts, and email express messages, and it has many other useful features. cipherfunk Patched Linux Kernels 2.4.19-fnk (2.4) http://freshmeat.net/releases/93386/ cipherfunk Patched Linux Kernels provide patchsets that focus on optimizations, bugfixes, and security enhancements to the current stable Linux Kernel. They are suitable for workstation or high-end server use in both production and development environments. Cluster Infrastructure for Linux 0.7.0 (Cluster Tools) http://freshmeat.net/releases/93378/ The Cluster Infrastructure (CI) for Linux extends the Cluster Membership and Internode Communication Subsystems from HP's NonStop Clusters for Unixware code base. It also provides the basis for the SSI Clusters for Linux project. cWriter 1.6b http://freshmeat.net/releases/93390/ cWriter is a Web-based collaborative writer. Its goal is to facilitate working on a document online and collaborating with peers. It includes tools like a calendar, a file repository, user permissions fixed per document, a bookmark database, and more. cWriter can also be used as an intranet freeform tool. Delicious 0.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/93104/ Delicious is a comic theme that uses clean icons and a funny background. Efsane II 0.8.0 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/93391/ Efsane II is the first Turkish-made and award-winning window manager. It is programmed in C++, and with the OOB technique. Gods! alfa 3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/93385/ Gods! is an MMORPG Java client. The MMORPG aims to feature many races and technologies, on a real size 4,000,000 square kilometer board. The ability to mine, research, build on surface and underwater, build an empire, trade with other people, and build guilds are among the goals for this project. H-Sphere 2.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/93341/ H-Sphere is a multiserver control panel for automating web hosting tasks. It has many advanced features, a sophisticated billing system, private label/resellers support, and an integrated trouble ticket system to automate and improve your web hosting service. It is designed to work on many servers and can be scaled by adding more web servers, mail servers, database servers, and DNS servers without any downtime. It provides a simple, easy to use web interface that can be maintained from any computer with an internet connection. H-Sphere is written in Java and works with any SQL-compliant database. Java Regular Expression Package 1.00 http://freshmeat.net/releases/93381/ Java Regular Expression Package is a Java package that includes classes for handling regular expressions and non-deterministic finite state automata (NFAs). It contains much of the functionality of Perl-type regular expression handlers. JedABC 1.9.3 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/93395/ JedABC is an extension to the JED editor that turns it into a powerful and easy to use IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for ABC files, with full integration with players, and previewers. It is similar in concept to BarFly or runabc, with several advantages. It works on Windows and Linux, and possibly other Unix variants. Julia Stiles 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/93354/ Julia Stiles is a theme which combines images of Julia Stiles with original icons. KMyIRC 0.2.3 (Alpha) http://freshmeat.net/releases/93408/ KMyIRC is an attempt to provide an IRC client for KDE which is high-quality and easy to use, but not bloated. It was created because it was felt that the other KDE-based IRC clients were either not user-friendly or burdened with features that are not useful to the average IRC user. KOffice 1.2 RC 1 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/93398/ KOffice is an integrated office suite based on the KDE libraries. KOffice currently includes KWord, KSpread, KPresenter, KChart, Kontour, Karbon14, KFormula, Kugar, and Kivio. There are no special mail and news clients included in KOffice, because there are KMail and KNode available for KDE anyway. All KOffice components work together, and you can embed every KOffice component into any other KOffice component. This is realized using the KParts object model. LinuxTrade 2.55 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/93407/ LinuxTrade is a curses (text-based) implementation of the Scottrader Java application, plus additional features inspired by the excellent MedVed QuoteTracker Windows program, plus its own set of unique features. It is lightweight, yet full featured. It can save a session to a file and replay it. It has portfolios, real time quotes, charts with live updates, time and sales, fundamental and technical indicators, top ten and market movers, news articles, alerts, and Level 2 market depth indications from Archipelago and the Island Book. Mr. Tester 1.02r2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/93387/ Mr. Tester is a program written in Pascal that asks questions from a list created and edited by the users. It was originally written to assist in remembering produce codes in the grocery business. OpenRatings 1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/93406/ OpenRatings is a PHP/MySQL-based engine and Web site template for rating professors. The site sports a quick survey and free-form comments, and allows students to search for the best professors on their campuses based on a number of criteria. OpenRatings is great for students that want to start (and maintain) a professor evaluation site on their own campuses, as well as for smaller universities who want to allow their students to rate professors. QVV 0.16 http://freshmeat.net/releases/93399/ QVV is a small Qt-based image viewer that offers a simple user interface, single-key operations, key-only navigation, and multiple browsers and image windows. It also supports a commandline interface. recurrance 1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/93370/ recurrance takes a date recurrance expression in near-English, and returns all the dates that match. For example, entering "the second and last friday of every month" might tell you all the dates on which you should get paid. It is very explible and easy to use, and complies to RFC 2445 RRULE implementations with the exception of BYWEEKPOS, WKST, and the start and end dates, which are done using the code interface. It also supports an XML version of RRULE, includes tests, and is completely self contained. SGI XFS / Red Hat Linux system installer 1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/93384/ The SGI XFS installer for Red Hat Linux is a modified version of Red Hat's anaconda system installer. It is available as a bootable ISO which works with current Red Hat Linux installation media to allow you to set up a new system running Red Hat Linux on SGI's XFS filesystem. Single System Image Clusters for Linux 0.7.0 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/93379/ The Single System Image (SSI) project leverages both HP's NonStop Clusters for Unixware technology and other open source technology to provide a full, highly available SSI environment for Linux. Goals for SSI Clusters include availability, scalability, and manageability, built from standard servers. single-honeypot 0.1 (Beta) http://freshmeat.net/releases/93348/ single-honeypot simulates many services like SMTP, HTTP, shell, and FTP. It can show many different faces, including those of Windows FTP systems, Windows SMTP systems, different Linux distributions, and some Posix distributions. unace 2.20 http://freshmeat.net/releases/93388/ unace is a utility to extract, view, and test the contents of an ACE archive. uudeview 0.5.18 http://freshmeat.net/releases/93392/ uudeview is a smart multi-file multi-part encoder and decoder for uuencoded, xxencoded, Base64, quoted-printable, yEnc, and BinHex encoded files. Weather Plotter 2.0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/93383/ Weather Plotter is a program for anyone who likes to gather, track, and look at historical weather data. It uses PHP to gather weather information from the US National Weather Service Web site on an hourly basis, then allows you to view that weather data in several convenient graphical charts within your Web browser. Charts are generated in real-time using the PNG format, and can be easily customized. Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Access, MSSQL, and others for data storage. whois 4.5.29 http://freshmeat.net/releases/93393/ whois supports all protocol extensions (RIPE, 6bone, CRSNIC) with the familiar RIPE command line interface and IPv6 support. It also automagically queries the right registry for all domains and most netblocks. Wollabot 0.2.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/93411/ Wollabot is a modular service bot for IRC channels. It's written entirely in PHP, making it crossplatform and easy to customize. It's not supposed to be guarding channels and does not contain such functionality, thus increasing performance for the tasks it is supposed to do. It comes bundled with a couple of modules (e.g., a PHP function prototype lookup and a Google lookup tool). XMail Queue Manager 0.94 http://freshmeat.net/releases/93394/ XMail Queue Manager gives you control over an XMail Server's multi-level nested mail queue. You can use it to track messages in their different states (sending, resending, and frozen). Statistics tell you about the number of spooled messages. You can sort entries by any column header field, and can start and stop the server directly. xmms-kde 3.0.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/93396/ xmms-kde is an MP3 player for the KDE panel. It can also be used as a frontend for controlling XMMS and Noatun. It provides keyboard shortcuts, an on-screen display, and comes with many different themes. Slashcode Theme addition 'include_theme' http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/08/09/0650236 In CVS there is a new addition to the THEME file syntax. You can now choose to add an included theme. This allows you too easily create a theme with just your changed templates (yet still pick up fixes to the templates you don't customize). If you base your site off of the "slashcode" theme just add to your theme file: include_theme=slashcode If this is for a site that already exists make sure you add this information to the site_info table. Invalid command 'PerlHandler' http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/08/07/2319210 Hi all, I come already the two days trying to install the Slash in two machines with Mandrake.. I followed all the steps of the installation manual, however I have received, when initiating the apache with the INCLUDE of slash.conf this error: ---- Syntax error on line 6 of /etc/httpd/conf/slash.conf: Invalid command 'PerlHandler', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration. -- I'm checked lists and installed File-Spec with: "install RBS/File-Spec-0.82.tar.gz"... Without this configuration Apache works fine! Help me please! Image and File Uploads? http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/08/06/0531259 Is/will there be a plugin to allow slash to be able to upload files and images? Something like what Moveabletype has? Slashcode login hangs http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/08/05/199233 Have the lastest Slash codebase running. However, when a user attempts to log in with a correct password, the page just sits there--the IE icon twirls mysteriously, as if connection was being made, but no return. Conversely, if the enter a valid username, but invalid password, the page return is immediate, with a message that either the username or password was incorrect. Any assistance...etc. --Hieronymous Coward Install Slash For Dummies - failing on final step http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/08/04/0626227 I was successful with every step of the "Install Slash For Dummies" instructions, but then failed on the final step when starting slash: [root@dedicated init.d]# ./slash start Starting slashd virtslash: ok PID = 28526 [root@dedicated init.d]# This account is currently not available. Does anyone have any ideas how to troubleshoot? I've looked through the docs and can't find anything... Slash installation in one step? http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/08/03/0750238 I think Slash installation is simple and clear, but also, it's manual. There must would be an automatic installation procedure. I'm thinking in a Perl script based on a response file or similar that installs Slash components (Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Bundle::Slash and Slash itself) all in one step. Of course, you have previously to wite the responses to interactive questions that will be formulated during installation process. This response file may act as your 'Slash based settings for your site'. Also, the Perl script may write an 'installation log' during its execution. Could not determine the server's FQDN http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/08/02/0514248 This is probably something stupid I did, but I can't figure out what it is. After installing Slash without error, I try to start Apache via "apachectl start" and I get the following error: "[alert] httpd: Could not determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName" I have a DNS server running and the FQDN I used in the slash install *does* resolve. All I get if I try to access the site is the default Apache test page. Anyone got any suggestions? Thanks. SlashCode on Apache2+ModPerl 2 http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/08/02/0513259 I have installed Apache 2.0.39 with ModPerl 1.99_04. Now I want to install slashcode on it, but libapreq-1.0 doesn't installs because, I think, libapreq need ModPerl 1.3.xx. Someone installed successfully SlashCode on apache2? How? Thanks a lot. Starting out: Bundle or Current Release? http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/08/01/0511244 I'm interested in implementing slashcode but although I have a Unix background I'm new to the world of Linux and open source development. I noticed that Bundle-Slash is listed as version 2.13 (last updated last September),whereas slash 2.2.6 is current as of this month. My question is this: do I need to download and install the bundle first to provide some sort of base, or if I install the individual components (Apache, mod_perl, etc.) as directed can skip the bundle and just install 2.2.6? Thanks in advance. Slash DB ERD Please? http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/07/31/0011217 Does anyone have an updated ERD of the Slash DB (preferably the MySQL version, but I'm not picky), from a working site? 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