O | S | D | N NEWSLETTER August 16, 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 Sun Offers To Relax OpenOffice.org License http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/16/0042204 An anonymous reader writes "[0]This article at [1]The Register says Sun has offered to relax licensing terms for contributers' code. "The moves should go some way towards muting criticism from the OpenOffice.org community that Sun was treating members as free labour and nothing else, and taking them at face value..."" Links 0. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26672.html 1. http://www.theregister.co.uk/ Moving from Corporate IT to Science? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/15/2251234 [0]EdinBear asks: "I've been working as a SysAdmin in an increasingly corporate internet services company, which has been hit hard by the fallout from the .com bust. When I started some years ago, I felt I was helping small and interesting companies get benefit from the burgeoning Internet through useful and attractive web services. However, since the Internet became 'normal', the focus has been purely commercial - and instead of helping an enterprise get exposure in an interesting way, it's all about money and finance. I now feel I want to move into Science to use my skills in a productive, 'big picture' kind of way, rather than just helping a client get more rich through financial services. I'm interested to hear if other people have found themselves in a similar position; is the transfer to Science/Research/Academia difficult? Is the grass greener on the other side? The money is less, but is the job satisfaction more?" Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Slashback: Activism, VOIP, Ivies http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/13/1721206 Slashback tonight brings you a response to Declan McCullagh's approach to political activism (and tangentially related, evidence of Bruce Perens' very different way of doing things), a link to a few more VOIP Blasters, tantalizing news from the Blender front, and more -- all below. Crusher Crushed from Nemesis http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/15/1428241 [0]Ant sent in a link to Wil Wheaton's weblog where he writes a surprisingly heartfelt piece on [1]being cut from ST:Nemesis. Its a strangely bittersweet little entry that really speaks volumes, especially considering Wil's fairly public disagreements with Rick Berman. Apparently Wil's bit was cut along with 48 whole minutes of the flick- its just the nature of filmaking. But I guess if nothing else, they've got tons of stuff for the DVD now! Links 0. http://antfarm.ma.cx 1. http://www.wilwheaton.net/ Security In Voice Over IP Converged Networks http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/15/2221213 dotslash writes: "[0]This article at Internet Telephony Magazine has a very interesting analysis of security issues created by converging data and telephony networks with VoIP: "When the phenomenon of Âconvergence between telephony and Internet started, it also brought closer the world of the phreaker and the hacker. VoIP brings all this to the next level. Unfortunately, the security inherent in VoIP solutions is equivalent to that of the early Internet: Non-existent."" Links 0. http://www.tmcnet.com/it/0802/0802gr.htm The Ultimate Gaming Table http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/15/2055219 [0]Johnzo writes: "Wow. [1]Dude's built himself a [2]super-deluxe custom gaming table, with built-in coasters, dice pits, a sound system, lamps for each player, glass inlays for handouts, books and paper storage, an elevated miniatures battlefield, privacy screens for each player, and (best of all) an under-table tube network using hollow gravity-fed balls to deliver secret messages to players. The only way this could possibly be cooler is if he used pneumatics to deliver the messages." Links 0. http://www.johnzo.com 1. http://www.agyris.net/ 2. http://www.agyris.net/portal/game_table.asp Lindows.com Hypes An Upcoming $199 PC http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/15/2029224 [0]prostoalex writes "After having struck a deal with Walmart on $299 PC, Lindows is planning to introduce $199 PC. ExtremeTech has [1]the story, the official message from Michael Robertson, CEO of Lindows, [2]is posted on Lindows.com. Robertson claims that "for under 200 dollars, youÂll be able to browse the Internet, check email and run a variety of software products for far less than the price of most handheld devices! A certified version of LindowsOS will come bundled with the PC"." I wonder if such a machine would fare any better than [3]Larry Ellison's ThinkNIC. Links 0. http://www.moskalyuk.com/ 1. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,468924,00.asp 2. http://www.lindows.com/lindows_michaelsminutes.php 3. http://www.thenicstore.com/nic/ Verizon Switches Programmers to Linux http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/15/1839233 wackysootroom writes: "According to this article at News.com, Verizon [0]saved $6 million in equipment costs by switching its programmers from UNIX and Windows workstations to Linux workstations running OpenOffice. The article says that the average cost per desktop workstation was cut from $22,000 to $3,000." [1]jeffmurphy noted the same story, and wonders "What kind of (Windows) desktops were they buying previously at an average cost of $22k? It seems like software alone wouldn't account for that big of a cut." Links 0. http://news.com.com/2100-1001-949913.html?tag=fd_top 1. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] New DOOM III Shots http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/15/181250 [0]Warrior-GS writes "There are some new [1]DOOM III screens on GameSpy coming from [2]QuakeCon 2002 in Texas. There are also new screens of [3]Elite Force II, the Return to Castle Wolfenstein expansion pack [4]Enemy Territory and [5]Return to Castle Wolfenstein for the PS2. Carmack is also scheduled to speak tomorrow for about two hours." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.gamespy.com/articles/august02/quakecon2002/doom3/screenshots.shtml 2. http://www.gamespy.com/articles/august02/quakecon2002/ 3. http://www.gamespy.com/articles/august02/quakecon2002/ef2/screenshots.shtml 4. http://www.gamespy.com/articles/august02/quakecon2002/rtcwet/screenshots.shtml 5. http://www.gamespy.com/articles/august02/quakecon2002/rtcwps2/screenshots.shtml OSNews on the LinuxWorld Exhibition Floor http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/15/158258 Expo writes "OSNews [0]reports on the second day of the LinuxWorld Expo. Highlights of the article is CodeWeaver's CrossOver Photoshop effort and the fact that OpenOffice.org is collaborating with _all_ the other major Linux office suites and word processors towards the creation of a new, open XML-based, file format. NewsForge also has a [1]report." Links 0. http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1541 1. http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/08/14/1633231.shtml?tid=23 Freshmeat Aggregate Flim 1.0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/94002/ aggregate(8) is a tool for aggregating CIDR networks. It understands IPv4 networks represented as network/prefix, network/netmask and start_address - end_address. It is able to read input in any one of these formats and output in the same or a different format. It is also able to limit the maximum and minimum prefix length that will be output, and thus can be used as a filter. AIO VDR Extension 14.08 for VDR 1.0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/94010/ The AIO Extension is a collection of extensions for VDR. It includes LCD, MP3, Beauty, MPlayer, VCD, and DVD-NAV extensions. Apache Tomcat 4.1.9 Beta (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/94031/ The goal of the Jakarta Project is to provide commercial-quality server solutions based on the Java Platform that are developed in an open and cooperative fashion. Tomcat 3.x is an implementation of the Java Servlet 2.2 and JavaServer Pages 1.1 Specifications. Tomcat 4.x is an implementation of the Java Servlet 2.3 and JavaServer Pages 1.2 Specifications, and is a re-implementation of the Tomcat servlet engine from the ground up. Astaro Security Linux 2.028 (Stable 2.x) http://freshmeat.net/releases/94012/ Astaro Security Linux is a firewall solution. It does stateful packet inspection filtering, content filtering, user authentication, virus scanning, VPN with IPSec (PKI for X.509 certificates) and PPTP, and much more. With its Web-based management tool, WebAdmin, and the ability to pull updates via the Internet, it is pretty easy to manage. It is based on a special hardened Linux 2.4 distribution where most daemons are running in change-roots and are protected by kernel capabilities. Bugzero 1.4.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/93999/ Bugzero is an easy-to-install Web-based feature complete bug/defect/issue/case tracking system. It is platform and database system independent (based on Java), intuitive, and customizable. Bugzero supports multiple projects, group-based access, automatic bug assignment, file attachment, email notification, metric reports, and workflow. It also features advanced search capability, a comprehensive bug audit trail, and an easy to use system administration tool for project configuration and user account management. burnmp3 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/94019/ burnmp3 is a Tcl/Tk GUI for burning audio CDs from MP3 files. It also lets you import .m3u playlists, and rip CDs to MP3. DoctorJ 3.3.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/94027/ DoctorJ is a set of applications that analyze Java code. Documentation is verified for compliance with the standard and for accuracy against the code, beyond what javadoc does. Statistics for a file or project can be generated, including the number of lines of code per class and method, and the overall total. A syntax analyzer is in development. Elm ME+ PL99c (25) (Patch) http://freshmeat.net/releases/94018/ Elm 2.4ME+ is based on Elm 2.4. It contains enhanced MIME and character set support, and the ability to read mail from POP or IMAP folders. Modules have also been included for TLS/SSL, iconv, SMTP, PGP, and GPG. Emdros 1.1.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/94030/ Emdros is a text database engine aimed at linguistic analysis and research. It has a powerful query language for asking linguistically relevant questions of the data. It is especially useful for storing and retrieving syntactic analyses. It is middleware, acting as a layer between a client (written by the user), and an underlying database. PostgreSQL and MySQL are supported. eyeD3 0.2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/93992/ eyeD3 is a Python module that provides the ability to read ID3 v1.1 and v2 tags. Freeoxyd 0.50 http://freshmeat.net/releases/94035/ Enigma is a reimplementation of Oxyd, a puzzle game that was very popular on the Atari ST and later on the PC. Equipped with a little black marble, your objective is to locate and uncover matching pairs of Oxyd stones. FUDforum 2.3.0RC2 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/94023/ 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. Genetic Algorithms in Squeak 2002-08-15 http://freshmeat.net/releases/93995/ Genetic Algorithm in Squeak is a genetic algorithm framework that implements the operation of selection, mutation, and crossing-over. Memetic-algorithm capabilities were added through an implementation of a local search based on hill climbing and dynamic hill climbing. Mutation operations are based on random gaussian-like distribution, so small adjustments are more likely than drastic ones. Selection is implemented with Tournament or with Roulette Wheel and Elite, in Roulette Wheel you can chose Sigma Fitness Scaling or Linear Fitness Scaling. The modelling capabilities of Smalltalk and the visualization an development capabilities of Squeak were exploited, and priorized in spite of the apparently low performance of both Smalltalk and Squeak. GNU TeXmacs 1.0.0.14 http://freshmeat.net/releases/94015/ GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific text editor, which was inspired by both TeX and GNU Emacs. The editor allows you to write structured documents via a "wysiwyg" and user friendly interface. The program implements high quality typesetting algorithms and TeX fonts. It is also possible to use TeXmacs as an interface to computer algebra systems. Finally, TeXmacs supports the Guile/Scheme extension language, which makes it possible to adapt the user interface to specific needs, and even to extend the editor. GnuCash 1.6.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/94004/ GnuCash allows you to track bank accounts, stocks, income, and expenses. As quick and intuitive to use as a checkbook register, it is based on professional accounting principles to ensure balanced books and accurate reports. It is backed by an active development community and is blossoming into a full-fledged accounting system. HamFax 0.6.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/94009/ HamFax is a QT/X11 application for sending and receiving amateur radio facsimiles. Supported interfaces between computer and transceiver are a sound card and the SCS-PTC. IRC Services 4.5.42 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/94032/ Services for IRC Networks (or just Services for short) provides for definitive nickname and channel ownership, automatic channel mode setting, memo (short message) storage and retrieval, and greater IRC operator control over the network. IRC Services 5.0pre8 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/94013/ Services for IRC Networks (or just Services for short) provides for definitive nickname and channel ownership, automatic channel mode setting, memo (short message) storage and retrieval, and greater IRC operator control over the network. Jcrontab 1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/94024/ Jcrontab provides a scheduler system written in Java. The classes are designed to be fully embeddable and can be used in any project. It provides a servlet to be integrated with app-servers (Tomcat, resin, Jetty, etc.) with a load-on-startup servlet. It reads and stores the crontab table from a file but is designed to include EJB and any other DataSource. It includes a minimal Web interface, and is written to get maximum efficience and performance. jDictionary 1.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/94036/ jDictionary is a powerful multi-platform dictionary application. It features a nice GUI and an easy-to-use plugin management system, which is able to download and install plugins automagically from the Web. Apart from dictionary-related plugins, these can include speech synthesizer plugins which can be invoked by other plugins to pronounce words. JMP 0.20 http://freshmeat.net/releases/94033/ Java Memory Profiler (JMP) uses the JVMPI interface to track objects and method times in the JVM (Java Virtual Machine). It uses a GTK+ interface to display statistics. The current instance count and the total amount of memory for each class is shown as is the total time spent in each method. LGeneral 1.1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/94007/ LGeneral is a turn-based strategy engine heavily inspired by Panzer General. Move your units each turn and attack your enemies in order to capture strategic objectives to win a battle. LGeneral uses the SDL library for graphics and sounds. LM-Solve 0.6.0 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/94022/ LM-Solve is a solver for several types of the puzzles present on the Logic Mazes site. It currently supports Alice Mazes, Number Mazes, Plank Puzzles, Theseus and the Minotaur Mazes, and Tilt Mazes. MailScanner 3.22-12 http://freshmeat.net/releases/94005/ MailScanner is an Email virus scanner and spam tagger. It supports sendmail and Exim MTAs, and the Sophos, McAfee, F-Prot, F-Secure, CommandAV, InoculateIT, Inoculan 4.x, Kaspersky, RAV, and Panda anti-virus scanners. It supports SpamAssassin for highly successful spam identification. It is specifically designed to handle Denial Of Service attacks. It is very easy to install, and requires no changes at all to your sendmail.cf file. It is designed to be lightweight, and won't grind your mail system to a halt with its load. It can be integrated into any email system, regardless of the software in use. MiddleMan 0.9.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/94026/ MiddleMan is a fast HTTP/HTTPS proxy server with features designed to remove unwanted content and increase privacy. It uses an XML configuration file, and is fully compatible with the HTTP 1.1 protocol including persistent proxy connections and chunked encoding. It can be used to block certain URLS, mimetypes, cookies, and HTTP headers, and can filter the content of Web pages using either its builtin rewrite feature or any external program or script. Mp3cdBrowser 0.7 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/94029/ Mp3cdBrowser is a Java program that stores MP3/Ogg information in a database. You can add an MP3/Ogg manually or by scanning a harddrive/CD for files. Information about the MP3s is obtained using their ID3 (v1 and 2) tags. Ogg files are scanned by their comment tags. You can search this database for MP3s/Oggs using CD ID, artist, album, or title as the key. The CD ID is the ID of the harddrive/CD on which the MP3/Ogg resides, allowing you to easily find the physical location of files. PieChartMorph 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/93969/ PieChartMorph is a morph for drawing pie charts in Squeak. PyUID 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/93988/ PyUID provides an implementation of a "unique" ID (UID) generator in Python. The implementation does not follow UUID or GUID standards, but rather uses available system, host, user, shell environment, process, and other ephemeral information fed into a hasher to generate the UID. The system is designed to be used both as a standalone application and as a module. The data used to be fed into the hash, as well as the hashing mechanism itself, can be overridden both through the command line and programmatically by importing the module. SableVM 1.0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/93996/ The goal of SableVM is to build a portable, yet efficient Java virtual machine in C. Security Filter 1.0-b2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/94020/ SecurityFilter is intended for use by Java Web application developers. It provides robust security and automatic authentication services for Web applications. It mimics the behavior and configuration format of container-managed security, but has several important advantages that make it an ideal solution for single-context, public Web sites, or when it is necessary or simply desirable to avoid the server configuration hassles and portability issues associated with container-managed security. StaticCharge GTK 0.5 (devel) http://freshmeat.net/releases/94000/ StaticCharge GTK is a front-end that allows you to update your StaticCling hostname to match your current IP address or an arbitrary IP address of your choosing using a quick and simple GTK interface. You will need a StaticCling Dynamic DNS account in order to use this client. TA-Linux 0.2.0-Beta1 (Alpha) http://freshmeat.net/releases/94008/ TA-linux is a small, multiplatform Linux distribution. It uses the new stable kernel 2.4.x. Installation is simple and fast. This distribution is not for newbies. TightVNC 1.2.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/93994/ TightVNC is a VNC distribution with many new features, improvements, and bugfixes over VNC. It is optimized for faster operation on slow network links such as modem connections, provides more configuration options in the server, features automatic SSH tunneling in the Unix vncviewer, and more. The modified servers and viewers are fully compatible with the original VNC software. WebGUI 4.6.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/93983/ WebGUI is a platform built to allow average business users to build and maintain complex Web sites. It is modular, pluggable, and platform independent. It was designed to allow the people who create the content to manage it online, rather than content management taking up the time of busy IT Staff. Whether you are building a consumer site, an intranet, or an extranet, WebGUI has something to offer. Working Overloaded Linux Kernel 3.5 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/94014/ The Working Overloaded Linux Kernel (WOLK) project provides development kernels for testing purposes only. These kernels provide a service for developers and end users who can't be up-to-date with the latest kernels/patches but want to test new kernel features. Patches may be added upon request. Slashcode RSS Source for QOTD http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/08/15/151241 I'm trying to implement a Quote Of The Day functionality in my site, and I was wondering if anyone knows of any good source of RSS syndication for Quotes? Insurrection http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/08/14/0230202 Announcing Insurrection, a new Slashcode based site devoted to geopolitical news and discussions. Help us enlighten the world. 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. 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