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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
Canadian Lawful Access Legislation
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/07/2231244
[0]EvilAlien writes "In Canada, existing legislation covers access to
telephone records, disclosure of customer information in accordance
with the [1]Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents
Act (PIPEDA) and other means compelling the release of information.
However, the laws regulating access to these networks for Canadian law
enforcement and national security groups are only under development.
The Department of Justice has released their [2]Lawful Access
Consultation Document to get feedback from all the stakeholders
including industry, civil liberties groups, and the legal community."
Links
0. http://www.badmonkey.ca
1. http://www.privcom.gc.ca/legislation/02_06_01_e.asp
2. http://canada.justice.gc.ca/en/cons/la_al/
Palladium, 'Trusted PCs' in the News
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/07/2239235
Reuters is carrying a fairly lengthy article on [0]Palladium and
'Trusted Computing'. Worth reading - remember that what the Reuters/AP
wires carry is all that most people will ever know about any particular
issue.
Links
0.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=569&ncid=738&e=1&u=/nm/20020907/tc_nm/bizcomputers_security_dc
Physical and Network Security Merging?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/07/2225256
MonMotha writes "[0]CSO reports that [1]physical and network security
may be merging in an effort to eliminate redundant jobs, create a more
secure security plan, and make security procedures more standardized
across the company. This would seem to be a logical step forward as
businesses become more and more dependent on their computers, and as
the old adage goes, an attacker with physical access already has you
owned."
Links
0. http://www.csoonline.com/
1. http://www.csoonline.com/read/090402/beast.html
Open Source Mac Game Programming Competition
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/07/2152253
[0]Geert Poels writes "The [1]uDevGame Mac Game Programming Contest was
established by [2]iDevGames in 2001 to energize game development on the
Apple Macintosh platform. With the 2002 edition launched only two weeks
ago, already [3]42 games have entered the competition. Most notable
about this competition isn't the impressive collection of [4]prizes
worth $11,000 but rather the obligation for all participants to submit
all source code. This kind of competition is groundbreaking for the Mac
community in every way."
Links
0. http://www.idevgames.com
1. http://www.idevgames.com/content/contest.php?id=6
2. http://www.idevgames.com/
3. http://www.idevgames.com/content/contest.php?id=6&show_entries=1
4. http://www.idevgames.com/content/contest.php?id=6&sponsors=1
Perpetual Motion Delorean?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/07/1952252
An anonymous reader writes "An [0]electric-powered Delorean that can
supposedly go "hundreds of miles" at speeds over 100MPH without
stopping to recharge will be [1]tested today beginning at 8am at the
Nashville Superspeedway. They claim the vehicle uses 12 standard car
batteries, so the invention appears to relate to recharging the
batteries." I found a website offering [2]current updates on the
demonstration of this perpetual motion device: it appears they've
suffered mechanical difficulties and cancelled the test.
Links
0. http://www.tilleyfoundation.com/
1. http://www.tennessean.com/business/archives/02/09/22041880.shtml
2. http://www.greaterthings.com/News/Tilley/newstuff/index.html
The Casimir Effect
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/07/1727225
[0]HobbySpacer writes "A recent article in Physics World provides a
[1]lucid description of the the Casimir effect, which is an attractive
force between two surfaces caused by electromagnetic fluctuations in
the vacuum. The article discusses some practical application such as
the nanotech machines mentioned here [2]earlier."
Links
0. http://www.hobbyspace.com/Links/sciTech.html
1. http://physicsweb.org/article/world/15/9/6
2. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/19/219241&tid=126
A History of the Digital Copyright Struggle
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/06/215209
sconeu writes "The [0]National Journal has an article detailing the
[1]battle between Hollywood and Silicon Valley. An interesting read, it
discusses the tech industry's early miscues, and the efforts made to
ensure that Hollywood isn't the only voice heard on the Hill."
Links
0. http://nationaljournal.com/
1. http://nationaljournal.com/about/njweekly/stories/2002/0906nj1.htm
Linux Backups Made Easy
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/07/1630234
mfago writes "A colleague of mine has written a great [0] tutorial on
how to use rsync to create automatic [1]"snapshot-style" backups.
Nothing is required except for a simple script, although it is thus not
necessarily suitable for data-center applications. Please try to be
gentle on his server: it is the $80 computer that he mentions in the
tutorial. Perhaps try the [2]Google cache." An excellent article
answering a frequently asked question.
Links
0. http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/
1. http://www.netapp.com/products/filer/snapmirror.html
2.
http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:ysk5qyhZDzcC:www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/+%22mike+rubel%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
Taking MicroBSD for a Test Run
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/07/1517248
[0]LiquidPC writes "In this [1]article Jeremy Reed of
[2]BSDNewsletter.com talks about installing [3]MicroBSD, what features
make it special, troubles and successes I encountered, and the beauty
of the BSD license."
Links
0. http://e3labs.ath.cx
1. http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/2002/09/Features39.html
2. http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/
3. http://www.microbsd.org/
FTC Encourages Consumers to Forward Them Spam
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/07/1433250
Burl Ives writes "See this [0]CNN Article. 'The FTC encourages
consumers to forward any spam they receive to the e-mail address
[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. I'd say if they've posted their e-mail on the web, they
are probably getting as much as the rest of us already, which isn't to
say I'm not hoping to see some discussion of using the statistical spam
sorters to auto forward a lot to them in encouragement..." I've been
using [1]SpamAssassin for some time now with excellent results. Perhaps
now I need to have my spam folder auto-forward to the FTC as well.
Links
0. http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/09/04/spam.stop.reut/index.html
1. http://www.spamassassin.org/
Freshmeat
Alfandega Firewall 1.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96353/
Alfandega Firewall is a collection of Perl modules that helps users to
implement iptables-based firewalls for two interfaces. It provides
local and remote blacklists, spoofing checks, packet forwarding, ICMP
control, service configuration, and more.
BannerFilter 1.06 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96342/
BannerFilter is a redirect script for the Squid proxy server, designed
to block advertising banners on the Web. Unlike most other solutions,
it also automatically closes popup windows.
CRM 2002-09-06
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96345/
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.
dachshund 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96346/
Dachshund is a software modeling tool for the GNOME environment.
Dachshund allows developers to create a structured design document with
embedded UML diagrams. Many parts of Dachshund are implemented using
Python and can be customised to suit individual needs.
FLAT Assembler 1.40
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96356/
FLAT Assembler is an assembler that supports extended memory, 8086-
80486/Pentium/MMX/SSE/SSE2 instructions, 16-bi and 32-bit code, macro
instructions, code optimization, and binary, MZ, PE, and COFF output
formats.
gentoo 0.11.34
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96354/
gentoo is a file manager written in C. It uses the GTK+ toolkit, and
the two-pane concept, somewhat inspired by DOpus. gentoo strives to be
very configurable, and also to let you do all configuration from a GUI
within the program itself. Using advanced file typing and styling
systems, gentoo determines how to display files in its listings, and
also how to act on them. The package includes a set of ~100 unique
handcrafted icons, for many different types of files.
guile 1.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96349/
Guile is a portable, embeddable Scheme implementation written in C.
Guile provides a machine independent execution platform that can be
linked in as a library when building extensible programs.
herbix 1.0-36
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96363/
Herbix is a Linux server that fits on a floppy. It supports ipchains
and can serve FTP, HTTP, IRC, DHCP, SMTP, and IDENT.
Hibernate 1.1 beta 11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96359/
Hibernate is a powerful, high performance object/relational persistence
and query service for Java. It lets you develop persistent objects
following common Java idiom, including composition, association,
inheritance, polymorphism, and the Java collections framework. To allow
a rapid build procedure, Hibernate rejects the use of code generation
or bytecode processing. Instead, runtime reflection is used and SQL
generation occurs at system startup time. It supports Oracle, DB2,
MySQL, PostgreSQL, Sybase, Interbase, Microsoft SQL Server, Mckoi SQL,
Progress, SAP DB, and HypersonicSQL.
IRC Services 4.5.43 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96350/
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.
JBoss 3.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96351/
JBoss is an Open Source, standards-compliant, Enterprise JavaBeans
application server implemented in pure Java. JBoss provides
JBossServer, the basic EJB container and JMX infrastructure, JBossMQ
for JMS messaging, JBossMail for mail, JBossTX for JTA/JTS
transactions, JBossSX for JAAS based security, JBossCX for JCA
connectivity, and JBossCMP for CMP persistence. It integrates with
Tomcat Servlet/JSP container and Jetty Web server/servlet container,
and enables you to mix and match these components through JMX by
replacing any component you wish with a JMX-compliant implementation
for the same APIs. The goal is to provide a full J2EE stack in the
Free/Open Source software world.
Korseby1 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96352/
Korseby1 is a subdued, blue and grey theme.
libieee1284 0.2.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96357/
libieee1284 is intended to be used by applications that need to
communicate with (or at least identify) devices that are attached via a
parallel port.
Mp3 Database 6.0 (Release)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96347/
MP3 Database uses Apache/PHP/MySQL to work as an MP3/OGG Jukebox. Users
select songs from a client machine; the program will pull from a CD on
the server and play (using mpg123/ogg123). Users can also alter the
volume with a Web interface to aumix.
mpiocli 0.6.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96360/
mpiocli is a user space command line interface application that uses
libusb to communicate with the MPIO DMB+. It supports basic file
uploading/downloading and device formatting.
netrik 0.20
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96348/
Netrik is a full-featured, text mode WWW browser. It offers all the
features other text mode browsers offer, plus a couple of extras.
Features include multi-windowing, JavaScript, a nice user interface,
and an option of evolving to a "full-blown" graphical
browser.
pipemeter 0.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96355/
pipemeter is a command line utility that displays the speed and, if
possible, progress, of data moving from its input to its output.
portfwd 0.26rc2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96344/
portfwd is a small user-level daemon which forwards incoming TCP
connections and/or UDP packets to remote hosts. Multiple forwarders can
be specified in a flexible configuration file. There is support for FTP
forwarding and transparent proxy.
RPG1 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96343/
RPG1 is a console role playing game written in Perl. It features
graphics provided by the ANSI::Color module, an inventory, a magic
system, food depletion, killing, getting killed, and a library system.
wcd 3.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96362/
WCD is a directory changer for DOS and Unix. Another NCD (Norton Change
Directory) clone. This program jumps to a (sub)directory anywhere in
the directory-tree. The directory to jump to can be given by only the
first characters or an expression with wildcards.
World-Wide Exptools 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96278/
World-Wide Exptools is a large collection of tools with source and
binaries. Automatic updates are possible using the Not-So-Bad-
Distribution (NSBD) tool. It is a subset of the very popular
distribution of tools used at Lucent and Bell Labs.
Slashcode
Slash or other weblog on school server?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/09/08/0514220
I'm a college student building a site for a student organization. We
were given a directory on the server which allows cgi scripts and has
perl installed, but that is about it. No sql database. Not even cron
jobs can be run in this space. I want to use what I've got, which is
perl and the ability to write text files, and run a weblog with nice
looking threaded discussions and user info pages. From what I can tell,
Slash needs not only cgi and sql, but also several other parts of the
server which are even less likely to be provided on a school account.
Is there an easy way to adapt Slash to my tight constraints? If not,
can anyone recommend a good alternative? That is, a well-used,
well-tested blog application that uses text files instead of a backend
database? Fingers are crossed.
Zoo2
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/09/06/174240
Zoo2, which is the friends and foe system, is now running on Slashcode,
UsePerl, and Slashdot. This allows one to not only mark friends and
foes, but to see second level relationships like friends of friends and
foes of friends. There are still bits and pieces to the interface to
happen but the base code is complete. Check it out from CVS If you
login you can see the additional URL's for zoo in the lefthand menu
bar.
The Bookiejoint is back for 2002
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/09/05/0451223
The Bookiejoint is back for another season of pro football picks! The
Bookiejoint is an online game that's beat-the-spread. It's based on
Slash, and it's free to anyone who wants to take a shot at the glory of
winning it all. Sign up before the regular season starts at
http://bookiejoint.org/!
Sectional Topic Icon Spreads?
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/09/04/0557202
I like the way slash puts the most recent topic icons at the top right
of the front page. What I don't like is that the ones for the front
page ("articles") are the ones that show up on every section. Even if
none of those topics are eligible to be used in that section. Is there
some way to get the topic icons on sections to reflect what's actually
showing on the front page of that section rather than what is on the
front page?
Passing variables to templates through Story
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/09/03/1534246
I have only been playing with SlashCode for the last couple of days
and am afraid that my theme is already getting me into a lot of
trouble. I decided that it would be neat if the heading for the
stories/boxes on the page where different colors. I do not want random
colors I want the colors to go in a specific order which I just set in
an array in the .pl files in htdocs for now. When you click read more
and view the story in article.pl I want to the corresponding title box
etc. on this page to match the color that the story was on the main
page. I have this pretty well working now however the only way that I
can find to do it is very sloppy at best. I have been pulling the
functions such as displayStory() from the module and including it in a
.pl file that I am calling with require from these scripts. The only
thing that I change in these functions is the hash that is being passed
to slashDisplay() in order to pass the variable on to the template
file. I know that it would be slightly better doing this with modules
and overriding these functions to add in that variable but even so
upgrading my theme for the next version of slashcode still seems like
it would be hell. I am wondering if the functionality could be added so
that with functions such as displayStory() or displayLink() would take
a hashref that would have the values I want to pass along to the
template? I know what I am doing is kind of odd and won't be done often
but it seems that it may often be valuable to pass special variables
along to the templates that change each iteration through a loop (such
as the loop in index.pl of the slashcode template).
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
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