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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
Tshirts: Kids: newbie
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/apparel/59cc.shtml
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
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/apparel/59fe.shtml
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
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/59a9.shtml
Tshirts: Bug Off, I'm On My Break
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/apparel/5a00.shtml
Watches: onHand PC Watch
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/gadgets/5a1a.shtml
Caffeine: Hyperglow Caffeinated Beer
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/looflirpa/beer.shtml
Gadgets: Desktop Zero Point Infinite Power Generator
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/looflirpa/zero.shtml
Cube Fodder: New Desktop Mini Fridge/Warmer
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/5991.shtml
Mods: New Lian-LIi Cases
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/computing/cases-mods.shtml
Cube Fodder: LED Binary Clock
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/59e0.shtml
Cube Fodder: Rogers Connection Magnetic Set
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/59b4.shtml
Caffeine: Warp Mints In Cinnamon Flavor
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/caffeine/59de.shtml
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
Arcade Meets LAN party
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/03/027214
[0]Rylar writes "[1]California Extreme is holding their annual classic
arcade games show at the San Jose Convention Center September 7th and
8th. With paid admission you get free play on all the Pinball machines
and old school upright arcade machines like Space Invaders, Asteroids,
Centipede and Frogger to name a few. This year [2]LANtrocity has joined
the mix for an "old meets new" element. LANtrocity is providing a BYOC
area and several free play computers on the 7th, one admission gets you
into both the old style arcade free play area and the LAN party.
Challenge your friends to a Biathlon; Galaga and SoF2."
Links
0. http://www.lantrocity.com
1. http://www.caextreme.org/
2. http://www.lantrocity.com/
Interview With Pitfall! Creator, David Crane
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/03/0139242
[0]Bill Kendrick writes "Good Deal Games recently [1]interviewed David
Crane, creator of 1982's Game of the Year, '[2]Pitfall!' (as well as
[3]many other titles for the Atari 2600 and other systems). Topics
include the 1000s of fan letters Activision received every week, the
firing of Bill Gates, and how tennis helped bring Activision together."
Links
0. http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/atari/
1. http://www.gooddealgames.com/interviews/int_David_Crane.html
2. http://www.atariage.com/software_page.html?SoftwareLabelID=360
3. http://www.atariage.com/programmer_page.html?SystemID=2600&ProgrammerID=21
Tattoo To Monitor Diabetes
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/03/001216
infonography notes that the "BBC is reporting about using [0]tattoos to
monitor the state of a diabetics' health. While TV's the Invisible Man
series had this, this is actually real. Designed by Gerard Cote, of
Texas A&M University they are made of polyethylene glycol beads that
are coated with fluorescent molecules. Likely this will start to change
the attitudes of parents who have been resisting the urging of their
kids to get Tattoos."
Links
0. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2225404.stm
Convert Unneeded VRAM Into A Storage Device
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/02/2321211
[0]Pawel Kot writes "Have you ever thought why does your graphics card
has so much memory? Do You think you have not enough RAM or awfully
slow swap file? Do you need fast ram-disk or diskless machine? Go for
it! Take one of these cheap 128MB graphics cards and enjoy the speed.
Michal Schulz wrote [1]a good description on how to take the advantage
of not used video card memory."
Links
0. http://linuxnews.pl/
1. http://hedera.linuxnews.pl/_news/2002/09/03/_long/1445.html
Xbox Runs X, KDE, Gnome, StarOffice and Tuxracer
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/02/2211237
[0]freax writes "Today in the the xbox-linux mailinglist: I'm typing
this into KMail using a USB keybaord (and a USB mouse) in front of the
TV connected to the Xbox. ... and even StarOffice works quite fine.
TuxRacer also runs (look at the new screenhots on the website), but
only with one frame per second. [1]Check out screenshots here."
Links
0. http://www.freax.eu.org
1. http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/screenshots.php
Peer-Reviewed Research Over The Web
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/02/2119210
bhoman writes "The San Francisco Chronicle (sfgate.com) has an article
today about Stanford biochemist Patrick O. Brown, who helped develop
low-cost [0]DNA microarrays for gene research. He is seeking $20M to
start a foundation that would fund [1]peer-review of research papers
and then make them available for free over the web, thereby avoiding
the high-cost of subscriptions common in existing research
publications. Predictably, some publishers seem to be warning that
their publishing model is hard to improve upon. The article mentions
that a previous effort by Brown and others, [2]The Public Library of
Science garnered the signatures of 30,000 supporters, but then implies
that it basically failed, suggesting that academics need the journals
more than vice versa. Sounds like Brown's idea is exactly what the web
is made for."
Links
0. http://cmgm.stanford.edu/biochem/brown.html
1.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/09/02/MN97506.DTL&type=science
2. http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/plosFAQ.htm
MIT Scientists Create Robotic Sea Life
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/02/175249
[0]Junior Barns writes "[1]This article on the [2]BBC News site reports
on the development of a robot that imitates primitive life forms. This
project led by researchers from the [3] robotic life group at the
[4]MIT media lab is intended to study how people will try to interact
with and relate to an "alien" creature that seems organic but is not
anthropomorphic. Let's just hope no one tries to kill and eat it."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2226327.stm
2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/
3. http://robotic.media.mit.edu/index.html
4. http://www.media.mit.edu/
Connectors: A History of Their Technology?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/02/1913228
dpbsmith asks: "It seems like a simple engineering problem--construct a
device for easily and safely connecting several dozen wires at the same
time--but the variety and creativity in their design over the years has
been amazing, and, clearly there have been trends, fashions, and
styles. In the fifties and sixties, virtually all connectors were
roughly similar to the D-Sub design used for RS-232. A stiff, straight
pin engaged a springy socket that contacted and bore against it on all
sides. There were minor variations in shape and placement; the Amphenol
Blue Ribbons (think Centronics), the connectors into which circuit
boards engaged, but they were all variations on a theme. I was
absolutely astounded the first time I saw a modular RJ-11 connector.
Cheap, effective, and utterly unlike anything I'd ever seen before. Who
invented these? Western Electric? Recently, we have the USB connector
and the Firewire connector, obviously members of the same family (and a
cheap-and-cheesy-seeming family it seems); on the other hand, my
telephone and my digital camera have connectors that are very small and
snap in with a positive lock that must be released with a squeeze,
obviously yet another fundamentally different design. What do people
know about the design, history, and engineering behind connectors over
the years? Is it all hidden away, trade secrets of the connector
companies, or is their a story that can be told?"
Images and Screen Shots of Zaurus SL-A300
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/02/1633223
Ch_Omega writes "Sharps Linux-based Zaurus SL-5500 is a wonderfull PDA
with lots of features, but it's also a bit on the large side. Unknown
to most, Sharp also has a slim and sleek version available, namely the
SL- A300. It's so far only available in Japan, but [0]Infosync has
[1]screen shots!." And it weighs only 120 grams, imagine. A trip to
Akihabara anyone?
Links
0. http://www.infosync.no/
1. http://www.infosync.no/news/2002/n/2243.html
802.11 vs. 3G For Mobile Access
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/02/1735234
[0]bobdole34 writes: "A [1]new way to give us fast mobile net access
spells further trouble for 3G.Imagine being able to surf the net at
speeds faster than DSL from anywhere, at any time - you could watch a
live video webcast while waiting for the bus, email photos to your
friends while sitting in the park, or download the MP3 of the song
that's playing in the pub before it finishes. I smelled vapour until I
saw a demo of MeshNetworks at [2]802.11Planet in Philly."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,781843,00.html
2. http://www.80211-planet.com/
Freshmeat
abcm2ps 3.1.5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/95822/
abcm2ps is a package that converts music tunes from ABC format to
PostScript. Based on abc2ps version 1.2.5, it was developed mainly to
print baroque organ scores that have independant voices played on one
or more keyboards, and a pedal-board. It introduces many extensions to
the ABC language that make it suitable for classical music.
BEAST/BSE 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/95858/
BEAST (the BEdevilled Audio System) is a GTK+/GNOME-based frontend to
BSE (the Bedevilled Sound Engine). BSE comes with the abilities to
load/store songs and synthesis networks (in .bse files), play them
modify them, etc. BEAST provides the necessary GUI to make actual use
of BSE. Synthesis filters (BseSources) are implemented in shared
library modules, and get loaded on demand.
Blassic 0.3.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/95792/
Blassic is a classic Basic interpreter. The line numbers are mandatory,
and it has PEEK & POKE. The main goal is to execute programs
written in old interpreters, but it can be used as a scripting
language.
Catty 2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/95810/
Catty is an interesting chatter bot that uses Google.com to build its
knowledge database, and, having no information about the language,
tries to establish a conversation. Results are not always on topic, but
never predictable.
cdrecord 1.11a32
http://freshmeat.net/releases/95841/
Cdrecord creates home-burned CDs with a CD-R/CD-RW recorder. It works
as a burn engine for several applications. Cdrecord supports CD
recorders from many different vendors; all SCSI-3/mmc and ATAPI/mmc
compliant drives should also work. Supported features include
IDE/ATAPI, parallel-port, and SCSI drives, audio CDs, data CDs, and
mixed CDs, full multi-session support, CD-RWs (rewritable), TAO, DAO
and human-readable error messages. Cdrecord includes remote SCSI
support and can access local or remote CD-writers.
CherryPy 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/95837/
CherryPy is a Python-based tool for developing dynamic Web sites. It
sits between a compiler and an application server. Compiling source
files generates an executable containing everything to run the Web
site, including an HTTP server. CherryPy lets you develop your Web site
in an object-oriented way, using both regular Python and a templating
language. It also comes with a handy standard library for things like
cookie-based authentication, form handling, HTTP authentication, etc.
cipherfunk Patched Linux Kernels 2.4.19-fnk5 (2.4)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/95852/
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.
Cool Linux CD 1.34
http://freshmeat.net/releases/95851/
Cool Linux CD is a bootable CD that contains a a live Linux
distribution based on RedHat 7.3. It also includes the XFS filesystem,
devfs, IceWM, QVWM, ROX-filer, OpenOffice.org, Opera, Mozilla,
Sylpheed, Pan, Licq, X-chat, GFTP, ppp-redialer, xmms, xine, mplayer,
gqview, LinNeighborhood, IPTraffic, VMWare, and more.
Dies Irae 0.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/95809/
Dies Irae is an experimental game engine that is essentially an
IPC-oriented microkernel with a fully object-driven world. It includes
documentation, samples, and visual editors.
diffstat 1.31
http://freshmeat.net/releases/95846/
Diffstat reads the output of the diff command and displays a histogram
of the insertions, deletions, and modifications in each file. Diffstat
is commonly used to provide a summary of the changes in large, complex
patch files.
dnotify 0.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/95835/
dnotify is a simple program that makes it possible to execute a command
every time the contents of a specific directory change in Linux. It is
run from the command line and takes two arguments: one or more
directories to monitor and a command to execute whenever a directory
has changed. Options control what events to trigger on: when a file was
read in the directory, when one was created/deleted, etc.
DotGNU Portable.NET 0.4.4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/95814/
DotGNU Portable.Net is a portable suite of tools (including a C#
compiler, assembler, and runtime engine) for non-Microsoft platforms
such as GNU/Linux. It is a part of the DotGNU meta-project.
dvd::rip 0.45_04 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/95796/
dvd::rip is a Perl GTK+ based program build on top of a low level DVD
Ripping API. It uses the linux video stream processing tool transcode.
dvd::rip simplifies the whole process of making copies of your DVDs
using a straightforward strategy: specify file system storage
locations, read the TOC from the DVD, select a title and rip it, adjust
clipping and zooming parameters, set transcode options, and go. It has
a powerful cluster mode which will use all your hardware to increase
transcode performance by parallel encoding.
EasyTAG 0.23.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/95820/
EasyTAG is an utility for viewing and editing tags for MP3, MP2, FLAC
and Ogg files. It features a simple and attractive GTK+ interface.
eZ publish desktop edition 2.2.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/95827/
eZ publish desktop edition (DE) is a WYSIWYG editor which connects to
your eZ publish content management system. DE lets you edit articles
and images on your Web site through a familiar browser and word
processing interface.
Fenris 0.07-m
http://freshmeat.net/releases/95808/
Fenris is a multipurpose tracer, debugger, and code analysis tool that
detects and documents high-level language constructions, can recover
symbols, graph program execution flow, detect internal functions,
recover symbol tables, and deal with anti-debugging protection. It
features a command-line interface as well as a SoftICE-alike GUI and
Web frontend.
gfire 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/95823/
gfire is a port of the SVGAlib project 'fire' to GTK--.
GNOME Accessibility Toolkit 1.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/95770/
Accessibility is enabling people with disabilities to participate in
substantial life activities that include work and the use of services,
products, and information. GNOME Accessibility is the suite of software
services and support in GNOME that allows people with disabilities to
utilize all of the functionality of the GNOME user environment.
Gronk 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/95845/
Gronk is a Web-based MP3 jukebox. It generates heavily-hyperlinked Web
pages listing all of your ripped CDs, by extracting information from
CDDB data. These Web pages allow easy selection of songs or albums to
play, and when nothing has been explicitly selected, it selects songs
randomly. Playback is done via either XMMS or mpg123.
GtkLP for CUPS 0.9m
http://freshmeat.net/releases/95830/
GTK LP for CUPS is a frontend for the lpr that comes with CUPS. It is
written to make it easy to use nearly all the options from CUPS without
knowing them by name. For print-admins, there is also an pretty simple
queue tool implemented.
HTML::TextToHTML 0.06
http://freshmeat.net/releases/95855/
HTML::TextToHTML converts plain text files into HTML. It supports
headings, tables, lists, simple character markup, and hyperlinking, and
is highly customizable. It recognizes some of the apparent structure of
the source document (mostly whitespace and typographic layout), and
attempts to mark that structure explicitly using HTML. This Perl module
can be used inside Perl scripts or called from the commandline, making
it versatile and easy to use.
ioperm for Cygwin 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/95844/
ioperm for Cygwin adds support for the ioperm() function to Cygwin.
This support includes sys/io.h and sys/perm.h header files (not
included in Cygwin by default) with development and runtime libraries.
KAlarm 0.7.5 (KDE 3)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/95836/
KAlarm lets you configure personal messages to be displayed, or
commands to be executed, at scheduled times. It allows you to choose
the message font and color, how often to repeat, whether to play a
sound when the message is displayed, and whether to cancel the alarm if
it can't be triggered on time (e.g. if you are logged out at the time).
As well as using the graphical interface to configure alarms, you can
use the command line, and there is a DCOP interface for other
applications. Note that this application is unrelated to KAlarm for
KDE1.
libEtPan! 0.26
http://freshmeat.net/releases/95825/
LibEtPan! implements different types of access to a mailbox over TCP/IP
and SSL, including IMAP, POP3, NNTP, and SMTP. It can read mbox and MH
format mailboxes, and does MIME parsing.
libpdf++ 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/95769/
A C++ library to generate PDF files.
Lifebook B-Series Touchscreen Driver for XFree 4.x 0.7.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/95848/
This is a touchscreen driver for XFree86 4.x for the Fujitsu-Siemens
Lifebook B-Series.
LJ::Simple 0.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/95832/
LJ::Simple is a Perl module to provide a simple OOP-based API for
accessing the LiveJournal system.
MetaCam 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/95838/
MetaCam is a utility to read and decode meta-information from digtial
camera images with Exif information. It was specifically written to
read images from a Nikon D1, but supports other cameras too.
Modular Controller Architecture 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/95833/
Modular Controller Architecture us a modular, network-transparent,
realtime capable C/C++ framework for controlling robots and other kind
of hardware. The main plattform is Linux/RTLinux, but support for Win32
and Solaris also exists.
myrss 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/95831/
myrss gathers RSS feeds and writes them in XHTML output. The 'feel' of
the output is designed to be similar to O'Reilly Network's Meerkat, and
is modifiable through CSS. The interface is command-line driven.
MySQL Database Server 4.0.3 (Alpha)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/95824/
MySQL is a widely used and fast SQL database server. It is a
client/server implementation that consists of a server daemon (mysqld)
and many different client programs/libraries.
Namazu 2.0.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/95842/
Namazu is a full-text search system intended for easy use. Not only
does it work as a small or medium scale Web search engine, but also as
a personal search system for email or other files. Supported document
types: HTML, Mail/News, MHonArc, RFC, TeX (with detex), man (with
groff), Word (with wvWare), PDF (with pdftotext) and plain text.
PHP Layers Menu 2.0beta3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/95787/
PHP Layers Menu is a hierarchical dynamic menu system to rapidly choose
among the items. It works with both PHP3 and PHP4. It achieves a
compact view and a reasonably small file size for the page with a very
large number of entries. Its behaviour is completely analogous to the
Gnome, KDE and MS Windows main menus. You can use as many levels as you
need, and the menu is dynamically generated from the menu structure
file. It supports Mozilla, Netscape 4.x and 6.x, Konqueror, Opera 5 and
6, and Internet Explorer 4, 5, 5.5, and 6.
Prelude Manager 0.8.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/95849/
Prelude Manager is the main program of the Prelude Hybrid IDS suite. It
is a multithreaded server which handles connections from the Prelude
sensors. It is able to register local or remote sensors, let the
operator configure them remotely, receive alerts, and store alerts in a
database or any format supported by reporting plugins, thus providing
centralized logging and analysis. It also provides relaying
capabilities for failover and replication. The IDMEF standard is used
for alert representation. Support for filtering plugins allows you to
hook in different places in the Manager to define custom criteria for
alert relaying and logging.
Raw Socket Library 1.0 RC
http://freshmeat.net/releases/95791/
Raw Socket Library provides a simple mechanism to send raw socket
packet using IPV4 and IPV6 using a simple struct. It currently supports
TCP, ICMP, UDP, and ICMPv6.
sipsak 0.7.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/95803/
sipsak is a command line tool for performing various tests on Session
Initiation Protocol (SIP) applications and devices. It can make 4
different tests, send the contents of a file, and interpret and react
on the responses.
Skaringa r1p4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/95829/
Skaringa is a framework for Java and XML language binding. It transform
Java objects into XML documents and back, and can generate XML schema
definitions for a Java class. It is designed for simplicity, supporting
a wide range of types, and speed.
SMS Server Tools 1.7.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/95843/
The SMS Server Tools were made to send and receive SMS from one or many
GSM modems. They include a send/receive daemon and some sample scripts
to build an SMS email gateway and for logging into an SQL database. The
daemon waits for files in an outgoing spool directory and sends them.
It puts all received SMS in an incoming spool directory, and can call
any external program for incoming or outgoing notification.
Sonice 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/95804/
Sonice is a set of Python scripts to automate the decompression of
.flac archives to the Ogg Vorbis format while keeping comments intact
as part of the "source" to the .ogg files generated.
The Tamber Project 1.0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/95857/
The Tamber project is a componentized n-tier Web site engine that uses
open languages such as XML and JavaScript. Content is stored in
separate XML files, in databases, or other data objects. Business
functions are carried out by JavaScript and ASP. Presentation is
controlled by an XSL transformation, which allows for delivery over
multiple channels such as HTML, WAP, and MHEG. Currently, Tamber can
deliver to HTML and WAP, and contains modules that support e-commerce
shopping carts, secure sign in, data access and conversion services,
and advanced session management.
TrustWall HTTP Proxy 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/95816/
TrustWall HTTP Proxy protects your internal Web server by acting as an
inbound proxy (like a reserve Squid proxy). It can also work as a
secure outbound proxy to protect your browser client. It allows you to
inspect almost every detail of the HTTP protocol headers, including the
URL request line, the server version, user-agent, referrer, cookie,
query, etc., in a easy-to-use script-like configuration file. This
program is generally considered an "Expert Tool"; you will
need knowledge of the HTTP protocol to configure the proxy properly.
txt2pdf 6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/95853/
txt2pdf is a very flexible and powerful Perl program that converts
files from text to PDF format.
uClinux 2.5.33-uc0 (2.5.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/95805/
uClinux is a set of patches for Linux that supports MMUless processors.
It brings a full featured operating system onto platforms that would
otherwise run less advanced, simpler operating systems. uClinux gives
the programmer a Linux API with remarkably few concessions to the lack
of MMU (Memory Management Unit), and in terms of code size and
efficiency it has an advantage over standard Linux.
VTWM 5.4.6a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/95847/
The Virtual Tab Window Manager (VTWM) is a virtual window manager with
adjustable graphical complexity. With minimal settings, it is ideal for
limited resource situations, using little memory, little CPU time, few
colors, and little bandwidth. Fully blown, it supports m4 and regex
processing of the resource file, sound effects, user-defined color
icons and buttons, and more.
wmpasman 0.8.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/95811/
wmpasman stores passwords and makes them available for pasting (both
via the middle-click primary selection and the clipboard selection) at
the click of a button. It also contains a digital clock. Access is
controlled by a passphrase.
wmweather+ 1.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/95812/
wmweather+ will download the National Weather Serivce METAR bulletins,
ANV and MRF forecasts, and any weather map for display in a WindowMaker
dockapp. It includes forecasts, a weather map, and a sky condition
display.
Zaval Light-Weight Visual Components Library 2.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/95840/
Zaval Light-Weight Visual Components Library (LwVCL) is an alternative
to humble AWT-based and SWING-based GUI interfaces. Designed as
light-weight, but built separately from AWT (not on top of the java.awt
library like Swing), the LwVCL is a good alternative for high
performance, memory-efficient, flexible GUIs for standalone and applet
applications.
ZenWeb 2.13.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/95850/
ZenWeb is a system for building entire Web sites, not just pages. It
allows you to focus on the content and the structure of the website,
while leaving page construction, markup, layout, and navigation as
secondary concerns. It provides tools for complete Web site design and
creation, simple paragraph to HTML generation with embellishments, and
a rich set of tools for page and Web site creation, modification, and
customization.
Slashcode
RDF/RSS not automagically updating
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/09/02/0635259
Our rdf file hasn't automagically updated in 3 days... is there
something I can do to force it to update? I've also noticed that the
deletion queue wasn't getting completed until I kicked freshenup.pl. It
looks like everything else is being done properly (stories being moved
to older stories, authors tables being refreshed, etc.) Does anyone
have any ideas? Thanks for any help you may be able to offer.
WildFaith.org
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/08/30/1926246
We've helped setup yass for an initiative that flows into the UN's
International day of Peace, Ceasefire, and Non-Violence, which occurs
on Sept 21st. Wild Faith is building a network of distributed actions
to celebrate this day, and get more people involved. Slash has provided
the platform for rapid publishing of new info as the day draws near, as
well as the ability to allow others to comment and participate.
Slash DB Question: Part II
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/08/29/1551232
Following my previous post asking where user settings are saved (Thanks
to thelink (http://thelink.concordia.ca) for his speedy response), I
have an additional, almost identical question for the Slashcoders out
there. On the Comment options page (users.pl?op=editcomm), does anyone
know where the follwing settings are saved? "Email Display" "Signature
Dash" "Reason Modifier" "People Modifier" "Anonymous Modifier" "NewUser
Modifier" (Both the percentage field and the bonus) "Display Link
Domains" Sorry to be such a pest. I've pretty much figured out all the
other settings on this page.
Playball4free.com
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/08/29/1528200
A new slash site (our first) talking about MLB and the coming strike.
Please check it out... --wrttnwrd
Submiting Long Story question
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/08/28/0442225
How do you only post part of the story and then when you click read
more it shows a larger story. I know /. uses it and I was wondering
how. Bruce Gillham
Disappearing/Reappearing Topics and Sections
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/08/27/0542208
I've recently installed Slash 2.2.6 and for the most part, it's running
beautifully. The only thing that's succeeding in driving me nuts is
that my defined topics and sections appear in the dropdown menu
inconsistenly when posting a new article or when searching. So one
minute all topics/sections will appear, and for the next new article,
one or two may appear, and the next, all but one appears, but it
happens with no rhyme or reason. All topics and sections are correctly
listed in their respective backslash sections and in the database
table. I've restarted slash (apache and the server), but it didn't
help. Is it one of those things that are handled by some hidden
scheduled process, like the authors table? Any suggestions anyone can
offer would be greatly appreciated. Jasmine
Colors not saving
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/08/26/0728247
I just installed slash, and whenever I try to customize the colors on
my site, I pick them out, enter them into the boxen, then click either
"preview" or "save" and am summarily presented with the story list (not
to mention an unchanged site). Is there something I'm missing here?
Amateur Astronomy Site: m57.org
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/08/25/1643254
Just setup a new slash site for amateur astronomers: The Ring: m57.org.
Please visit! Thanks to Micah Yoder Internet Development for capable
hosting.
uCdot
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/08/23/058243
A new slash site http://www.ucdot.org/ for uClinux and Embedded linux
developers and users.
Only new headlines
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/08/22/0558213
I have two suggestions that I think would be really cool. I've listed
them after a short story of what prompted the ideas. I keep a mozilla
window with slashdot in it on one of my virtual desktops all the time.
I open interesting stories in their own tab leaving the first tab
solely for slashdot. Whenever I refersh the page I have to scroll down
to find the last headline that I read and start reading up from there.
Sound familiar? Sometimes it gets complicated when I don't find the
last headline I read and have to go back and look at the older stuff
for what I might have missed. My quick fix suggestion first then, my
really cool suggestion. 1) Previous 10 headlines button. 2) A
Last_Headline_Read field stored in my cookie. If the site remembers
that I'm logged in it should be able to remember the last headline that
I read. It would be cool if, when I refreshed the page, slashdot only
displayed the new headlines! Just a thought... Thanks
for the awesome work you guys do. --Tres
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