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Cube Fodder: Tangle Desktop Toy
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/5a38.shtml
Gadgets: Sharp Zaurus Linux PDA
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/gadgets/5a3c.shtml
Gadgets: Key Katcher
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/gadgets/5a05.shtml
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Caffeine: Energy Gum
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/caffeine/5a35.shtml
Gadgets: Super Bright GREEN Laser Pointer!
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/gadgets/5a1d.shtml
Gadgets: SoundBug - Turns Glossy Surfaces Into Speakers!
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/computing/5a15.shtml
Tshirts: It Must Be User Error
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Gadgets: Key Katcher Privacy Device
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/gadgets/5a05.shtml
Gadgets: Mini Wireless Color Video Cam (for RC rovers)
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/59eb.shtml
Cube Goodies: Levitron Desktop Levitation Toy
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Tshirts: Bug Off, I'm On My Break
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Caffeine: Hyperglow Caffeinated Beer
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Gadgets: Desktop Zero Point Infinite Power Generator
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Cube Fodder: New Desktop Mini Fridge/Warmer
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/5991.shtml
Mods: New Lian-LIi Cases
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Cube Fodder: LED Binary Clock
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Cube Fodder: Rogers Connection Magnetic Set
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Caffeine: Warp Mints In Cinnamon Flavor
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Sourceforge
Automated Security Tools
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=51027
Release Candidate 1
phpLotto
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=53340
phpLotto 1st Release
Legend of the Wonderer TCG
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=44698
battle system in the project Docs
Advanced Simlulation Toolkit
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=48818
Recruiting
PHPortal
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=28568
PHPortal version 0.1.9 released!
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
MySQL A Threat To The Big Database Vendors?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/18/0335213
geekinexile writes: "Bloomberg is running [0]a story on the growth of
MySQL as an alternative to the big commercial database systems." The
story mentions PostgreSQL as well, and presents a generally positive
view of both.
Links
0.
http://quote.bloomberg.com/fgcgi.cgi?ptitle=Technology%20News&s1=blk&tp=ad_topright_tech&refer=techtop&T=markets_frontsummary_content99.ht&s2=ad_top2_technology&bt=ad_position1_technology&bt2=blk&tag=bbn/technology&right1=ad_right1_all&middle=ad_frame2_technology&s=APV5pLxTAT3JhY2xl
Carmack Expounds on Doom III
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/18/015214
[0]Rainier Wolfecastle writes: "Non-high-end-comp-owning geeks rejoice!
GameSpot is reporting that John Carmack has confirmed that [1]Doom III
is Xbox-bound. Carmack said that id is totally commited to bringing the
game to Microsoft's console with its visual splendor intact. Best of
all, the game could be available on the Xbox as soon as May next year."
And [2]Warrior-GS writes: "John Carmack gave a two-hour presentation
about Doom 3 and engine technology. GameSpy [3]reports on the
presentations and analyzes Carmack's comments and how they apply to the
future of gaming. There is also a look at the demo of [4]Doom III"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://gamespot.com/gamespot/stories/news/0,10870,2877682,00.html
2. http://www.gamespy.com
3. http://www.gamespy.com/articles/august02/quakecon2002/carmack/
4. http://www.gamespy.com/articles/august02/quakecon2002/d3demo/
#debian & IRC Politics
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/17/2147232
eyez writes "Apparently, the recent decision of OPN(now freenode) to
[0]ask for donations has ruffled the feathers of a few debian people.
This article on [1]DebianPlanet talks about the current [2]discussion
on the debian mailing lists which talks about the possibility of moving
#debian (and #debian*) off of OPN altogether."
Links
0. http://freenode.info/contrib.shtml
1. http://debianplanet.org/node.php?id=774
2. http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2002/debian-project-200208/msg00046.html
Five PVR Users Allowed To Join Replay Court Fight
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/17/225252
hachete writes with this snippet from the Mercury News: " 'A federal
judge in Los Angeles agreed to [0]allow consumers to join the legal
battle between Hollywood and the makers of the ReplayTV 4000 digital
video recorder to defend their uses of the device.'" The five customers
chosen to add some insight include [1]craigslist founder Craig Newmark.
Links
0. http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/business/technology/3883072.htm
1. http://www.craigslist.org
Three Major Linux Distributions Certified LSB Compliant
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/17/213253
[0]KevinDumpsCore writes "RedHat, Mandrake, and SuSE are now certified
LSB compliant!" Here's the [1]announcement on the Free Standards
Group's site. The Linux Standards Base (check out these [2]related
Slashdot posts) has been working for years to perhaps tame the
what-lives-where cross-distro craziness. (Of course, distro makers are
under no obligation to comply with the LSB's choices.)
Links
0. mailto:kevin.kevindumpscore@com
1. http://www.freestandards.org/news.php?id=35
2.
https://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=freestandards&op=stories&author=&tid=§ion=&sort=1
FBI Warns Companies About Wireless Warchalking
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/17/202217
[0]nobilid writes: "Well-meaning wireless activists have [1]caught the
attention of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation. One of its
agents has issued a warning about the popular practice of [2]using
chalk marks to show the location of wireless networks."
Links
0. http://nobilid.com
1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2197252.stm
2. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/25/152245&tid=99
Taiwan and South Korea's LCD Market-Share Battle
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/17/1837217
[0]prostoalex writes: "This [1]lengthy article on Reuters Web site,
filled with numbers and analyst references, talks about Korean and
Taiwanese manufacturers starting a price war in the field of LCD.
Apparently, last year all Taiwan-based manufacturers lost money, while
Koreans made money, and the companies are ready to slash their prices
in turn for market share." From my reading of the article, it looks
like the manufacturers may actually be reluctant to trade profits for
market share, but this kind of competition still sounds good for LCD
buyers.
Links
0. http://www.moskalyuk.com/
1. http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=technologynews&StoryID=1337747
NWN Linux Screenshots
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/17/1652222
[0]Gabe writes "Looks like the NWN linux client page has been updated
with [1]screenshots!. Finally, some decent proof that Bioware is coming
through for us linux folks. Maybe it's time to open my copy soon :)" My
replacement CPU fan is here, so I theoretically can now play NWN. Can't
wait for the good modules to start being developed. In the meantime, we
should use it as the prettiest IRC server ever... where you can kill
your friends instead of just kickbanning them :)
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://nwn.bioware.com/downloads/linuxclient.html
NASA Plan to Read Brainwaves at Airports
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/17/1459217
cascino writes: "In one of the more bizarre (and intrusive) spinoffs of
the Government's 'crackdown on terrorism,' Officials of the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration have told Northwest Airlines
security specialists that the agency is developing brain-monitoring
devices in cooperation with a commercial firm, which it did not
identify. Space technology would be adapted to receive and analyze
brain-wave and heartbeat patterns, then feed that data into
computerized programs 'to detect passengers who potentially might pose
a threat,' [0]according to briefing documents obtained by The
Washington Times." This is the [1]second story recently that gives me
second thoughts about flying Northwest.
Links
0. http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020817-704732.htm
1. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/22/1333239&tid=158
Microsoft Sinks Teeth Into New Orleans
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/17/1413216
An anonymous reader writes: "The New Orleans Times-Picayune is
reporting that Mayor Nagin is considering letting Microsoft upgrade the
city's computers free of charge. The catch? New Orleans [0]eventually
has to buy the software and Microsoft gets to use the city as a
marketing model to push this on the rest of the country." According to
the article, a similar system Microsoft developed for Oklahoma "is
expected to expand into accident reporting, video arraignment and
automated pawn-shop-ticket tracking." So don't worry about privacy --
it's all taken care of. Open bidding's taken care of too: "Because
these services are considered a gift, the city won't have to publicly
bid the project." Sounds like dirty pool to me.
Links
0. http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/neworleans/index.ssf?/newsstory/o_microsoft16.html
Freshmeat
Linux in Education: Two Years Later
http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/533
About two years ago, Doug Loss and I from the Simple End User Linux
Project (SEUL.org) wrote an editorial about the state of Linux in
schools. In the intervening time, much has happened, both inside and
outside the Linux/Free Software community, and in this editorial, I
revisit the state of Linux in terms of its use both as infrastructure
and on the desktop. I conclude by examining some of the non-technical
issues impinging on the periphery where I feel work needs to be done to
make it an even more compelling choice.
Article Manager 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/94160/
Article Manager is a fully featured Web content management system that
makes it easy for non- technical users to easily update and manage
articles, news stories, headlines, and editorials. It includes the
following features: supports multiple users with different access
levels (Administrators, Editors, Trusted Writers, and Writers), uploads
up to 10 images per article, password protected login screen, advanced
setup options to make it easy to customize the program, a powerful
search engine, a customizable database, the ability to customize the
HTML templates, and much more.
Backpack 0.3-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/94185/
Backpack is a little script that performs a selective backup of
selected directories and Debian package configurations.
CRM 20020817
http://freshmeat.net/releases/94192/
CRM is a very powerful filtering and mutilation language based on regex
operations. It is capable of classifying mail messages, syslogs,
firewall logs, and other incoming streams of unbounded length. It has a
very powerful sparse-spectral learning capability; given examples of
multiple classes (say, business email, jokes, and spam), it can learn
to discriminate the classes.
empy 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/94188/
empy is a system for embedding Python expressions and statements in
template text (or any other unexecuted content); it takes source files,
processes them, and produces output. These are done via expansions,
which are snippets of Python code delimited by character sequences
involving a special prefix (by default the at sign, '@'), and are
substituted in the output with the return value (for expressions) or
with any in-Python printing to stdout that takes place (for both
expressions and statements). If the value of an evaluated expression is
None, nothing is expanded (that is, it acts like the interactive Python
interpreter). Textual data not explicitly delimited in this way is sent
unaffected to the output file, allowing Python to be used in effect as
a markup language. Explicit expansion, or inclusion of other files to
be expanded, is possible. Also supported are m4-style diversions, where
output can be systematically deferred and recalled, as well as
"significators," which are special assignments forms intended
to be easily parsed externally.
GNU Smalltalk 2.0.5 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/94194/
GNU Smalltalk is a free implementation of the Smalltalk-80 language.
gspy 0.1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/94187/
Gspy retrieves images from a video4linux device and processes these
into a daily MPEG movie on the disk drive. Each image is recorded with
a time stamp to ensure accurate real-world correlation. Special motion
detection algorithms are used to reduce the size of the daily movies by
eliminating pictures with similar content as well as the normal
compression obtained by the mpeg process. The result is a time lapse
video per day with nonlinear time compression using only the images of
interest.
Katoob 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/94177/
Katoob is a small text editor for Unix operating systems, based on the
GTK+ 2.0.
LBreakout 2.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/94189/
LBreakout is a breakout game with nice effects, graphics, and sounds.
It's got a menu to configure a lot of things and a high score chart. It
can be played either by mouse or keyboard. New levels can also be
created, and most other aspects of the game can be customized.
MailWebForm 0.8.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/94128/
MailWebForm allows you to send an e-mail from a Web site. It processes
an HTML form, composes an e-mail, and delivers it. It protects against
spam by specifying the recipients address in a property file instead of
the HTML form. Configuration is possible through a global property
file, user property files, and HTML forms. An administration Web site
eases setup. It uses the Java Servlet API and Java Mail API.
mod_savi 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/94163/
mod_savi integrates the Sophos anti-virus scanning engine into the
Apache Web server. This allows files delivered by the Web server to be
scanned for viruses in real time.
PWebs 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/94190/
PWebS is an HTTP server written in Python. It is intended to be used
for testing, but it implements a multi-threaded architecture, CGI/1.1
with GET and POST methods, supports PHP through the CGI interface, and
directory listing. It also features a caching system, which stores all
pages (static or dynamically generated) in memory to improve the speed
of the server and reduce the overall load. Requests and server errors
are logged, and the server can drop root privileges to run as a
specific user.
Report Magic 2.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/94178/
Report Magic for Analog is an add-on for Analog, a Web site logfile
analysis program. Generated reports include a description with
tabulated, graphed, and summarized results. All colors, fonts, and
background images are completely customizable to help make resulting
reports fit the theme of your Web site. Report Magic has translations
for several languages. It runs on any platform that will run Perl and
pre-compiled versions are available for Win32 and Mac.
rssh 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/94161/
rssh is a small shell that provides the ability for system
administrators to give specific users access to a given system via scp
or sftp only.
Slashcode
DiverseDVD
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/08/17/1822201
Its another Slash Site - http://www.DiverseDVD.com/ this time about
DVDs, VHS, and Cinema releases. It comes to you from the team which
produced http://news.DiverseBooks.com
Displaying Number of Comments in Storylink,Index,D
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/08/16/0544259
I've been trying to find the code that displays the number of comments
on a story. In looking at the template "storylink,index,default", I see
[% links.join(' | ') %] which I assume is the item that displays the
"(Read more | X comments...)" Where the heck to do find this?
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.
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