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Thinkgeek
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
Interview With Gaël Duval of Mandrake Linux
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/10/2043236

    [0]jukal writes "[1]Open for Business's Timothy R. Butler [2]talked
    with [3]Mandrake co-founder Gaël Duval about the company's past,
    present, and future. Worth a read, clip: "GD: For one year, we had a
    so-called "World Class Management" team that left us in a very bad
    financial situation, and engaged the company in ventures (such as
    e-learning) that we should never have been involved with. But that's
    all part of our history now, so I'd prefer to not dwell too much on
    that. "" 
Links
    0. http://www.openchallenge.org/
    1. http://www.ofb.biz/
    2. http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=162
    3. http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/

Slashback: GameBand, Nexia, Lunarocks
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/09/173242

    Slashback is loaded with updates to recent (and not-recent) Slashdot
    postings. More opportunity to hot-rod your Dreamcast with an ethernet
    adapter, continuing seed-patent madness, more stolen moon rock, an
    update to Chrisd's favorite MP3 player and more, all below. 

Fin-Fet Transistors on the Horizon
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/10/2027238

    [0]MORTAR_COMBAT! writes "According to this 9 September News.com
    [1]article, IBM scientists have "manufactured a working static RAM chip
    out of so-called Fin-Fet transistors, which feature two gates, rather
    than a single one, for conducting electricity". What does this mean for
    us? 50 percent performance increases, due to increased throughput of
    electricity, and 50 percent less power usage, due to decreased
    electrical leakage. Longer battery life for laptops, lower power bills
    for server farms. Moore's law lives on. More pretty pictures [2]here." 
Links
    0. http://slashdot.org/~MORTAR_COMBAT!
    1. http://news.com.com/2100-1001-957087.html
    2. http://www.stp-gateway.de/Archiv/archiv436-e.html

How Has Post-9/11 Legislation Affected You?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/10/2028215

    [0]goldspider asks: "I hope this is received in the spirit it was
    intended in. In a recent [1]Reuters article, the Internet as a whole
    has been referred to as 'collateral damage' of the U.S.-led War on
    Terrorism, because of the perceived loss in privacy and online rights
    as a result of post-9/11 legislation. I am curious to hear about some
    specific examples of how this legislation has personally or
    professionally affected the everyday lives of Slashdot readers." 
Links
    0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
    1. 
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=581&ncid=581&e=13&u=/nm/20020905/tc_nm/france_internet_dc

HP Labs Creates Densest Memory Chips To Date
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/10/2046208

    Ruger writes "CRN has this article about [0]memory circuits 10 times
    more dense than today's silicon chips. R. Stanley Williams, director of
    Quantum Science Research at HP Labs said the high-density memory his
    team created fits inside a square micron. That's so small that 1,000 of
    the circuits could fit on the end of a strand of human hair." 
Links
    0. http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/breakingnews.asp?ArticleID=37348

Inside Ximian
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/10/1814245

    An anonymous reader writes "Linux and Main is running a story of a
    [0]visit to Ximian headquarters and a talk with Nat Friedman, Miguel de
    Icaza, and Jon Perr about GNOME2, Ximian 2, and getting Linux onto the
    corporate desktop. Interesting and funny, with lots of details about
    the place and the guys." 
Links
    0. http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=211

Mozilla Rising ... As A Platform
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/10/189213

    [0]ceswiedler writes "Salon is running a story about Mozilla's
    potential dominance as a [1]platform for application development. They
    discuss the community development centering around Mozilla, and point
    out that its cross-plaform GUI environment is 'exactly the kind of
    thing Microsoft was trying to prevent when it launched its war against
    Netscape. It didn't want Netscape around, because Netscape was becoming
    a platform.' In what might be a Salon first, they even include a
    reference to a Slashdot [2]comment by SkyShadow." 
Links
    0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
    1. http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/09/10/browser_wars/index.html
    2. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?cid=4165311&sid=38925&tid=114

New Closed Source Voting Systems Malfunction
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/10/1811256

    [0]LowellPorter writes "Miami-Dade and Broward counties are having
    [1]voting problems. After the 2000 election problems, new voting
    methods were installed including touch screen technology. Some times
    the problems were with workers not showing up, poor training, or
    mechanical problems. It doesn't look like they cleaned up the system
    there." Not all of the problems mentioned in the article are due to the
    new [2]proprietary voting machines, but many of them are. 
Links
    0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
    1. http://www.miami.com/mld/miami/4042990.htm
    2. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/20/0124232&tid=126

Attack of the Really Big Clones
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/10/178230

    An anonymous reader writes "[0]CNN reports that [1]Attack of the Clones
    is coming to an IMAX theatre near you. 50 IMAX commercial venues, and
    20-30 science museum sites will begin showing the film on November 1.
    The IMAX version is expected to add another $20M to the films current
    $300M take." 
Links
    0. http://www.cnn.com/
    1. http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/Movies/09/10/film.star.wars.reut/index.html

Toronto, The Naked City
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/10/1655200

    PunWork writes "In an effort to promote wireless network security,
    Toronto consulting firm IpEverywhere (pun intended) has published a
    [0]map of downtown Toronto, showing the location of both encrypted and
    unencrypted ('naked') wireless networks. Is this going to help spread
    awareness, or is this just going to encourage people to abuse the
    (apparently) ignorant? The Toronto Star has a [1]story about the map
    and the consulting firm here." 
Links
    0. http://www.nakedwireless.ca/
    1. 
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1026145015373&call_page=TS_Business&call_pageid=968350072197&call_pagepath=Business/News&col=969048863851




Freshmeat
cdmp3 0.3.0 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96669/

    cdmp3 uses cdparanoia to extract single tracks or even a whole CD, and
    converts them into MP3s on-the-fly. It attempts to retrieve the artist
    and title via CDDB. 

Client-side implementation of IEEE 802.1x 0.12 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96665/

    Client-side implementation of IEEE 802.1x is an implementation of the
    'client' half of IEEE 802.1x, which describes a port-based access
    control system for wired or wireless ethernet. It will authenticate a
    given machine and allow it to transmit ethernet frames through a port
    (or possibly an access point). It supports MD5 challenges and TLSv1. 

Coldtags suite 1.05 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96658/

    The Coldtags suite is a collection of custom JSP tags that provides 90+
    custom JSP tags for common programming tasks faced by JSP developers.
    It also includes custom tags similar to the Web controls in the .NET
    framework. 

Flight Gear 0.8.0 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96682/

    The Flight Gear Flight Simulator project is a free, open-source,
    multi-platform, cooperative flight sim development project. Source code
    for the entire project is available and licensed under the GPL. The
    Flight Gear project is working to create a sophisticated flight
    simulator framework for the development and pursuit of interesting
    flight simulator ideas. We are developing a good basic sim that can be
    expanded and improved upon by anyone interested in contributing. 

gaim 0.59.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96650/

    Gaim is a GTK-based messenger application. Gaim is NOT endorsed by or
    affiliated with AOL. It is actively being developed and supports many
    common features of other clients, including many unique features. It
    also supports multiple protocols, including AIM (Oscar and TOC), ICQ,
    IRC, Yahoo!, MSN Messenger, Jabber, Napster, and Zephyr. 

Gangplank conferencing system 1.0.0.beta.5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96651/

    Gangplank is a Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) system (or
    "chat server") which supports real-time communication between
    users, currently using a text-based user interface. It runs as an
    Internet server which implements the standard telnet protocol, so no
    special client program is necessary for users. Server-side processing
    provides input editing/history and terminal- handling features over the
    telnet connection for standard ANSI terminals. This code has been in
    production use on a private server since early 1993. This
    single-process server is fast, efficient and stable. 

Graphical certification authority 0.2.4 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96671/

    Graphical certification authority is an interface for managing RSA keys
    and certificates, and the creation and signing of PKCS#10 requests. It
    uses the OpenSSL library and a Berkeley DB for key and certificate
    storage. It supports importing and exporting keys and PEM DER PKCS8
    certificates, signing and revoking of PEM DER PKCS12, and the selection
    of x509v3 extensions. A tree view of certificates is presented. 

Hackedbox 0.7.3 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96649/

    Hackedbox is a stripped down version of Blackbox, the X11 window
    manager. The tool bar and slit have been removed, as the goal of
    Hackedbox is to be a small "feature-set" window manager with
    no bloat. There are no plans to add any functionality, only bugfixes
    and speed enhancements whenever possible. 

JProfiler 2.1 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96667/

    JProfiler is a fully dynamic profiler based on the Java virtual machine
    profiling interface (JVMPI). It is targeted at J2EE and J2SE
    applications, and features CPU profiling, memory profiling, thread
    profiling, and VM telemetry information. 

LaNewsFactory 0.8.2 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96672/

    LaNewsFactory is a PHP news and forum engine for Web sites. It requires
    no database software, and uses XML files to store news. It provides
    forums, news system behaviors, topics, moderation, several
    authentication levels, threaded comments, search capacity, HTML
    template support, Web admin, and internationalization (11 languages). 

Launch Pad 1.0.0 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96656/

    Launch Pad is a Bash script designed for newcomers to Linux or variants
    that provides a menu-driven interface for all the features they may
    need. It is hoped that it will eventually evolve into a shell in its
    own right. 

libtour 0.1 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96644/

    libtour is a generic tournament processing library. The results of a
    sporting tournament can be defined in the Scheme programming language
    and given to the library as input. A CLI application is provided as a
    reference client implementation. 

MailScanner 3.22-13 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96660/

    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. 

mldonkey 1.99 beta 4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96648/

    MLDonkey is a clone for the eDonkey 2000 network, a network with more
    than 100000 users, specialized for transferring big files like videos.
    Current version of MLdonkey is a daemon that can be accessed through
    telnet (for commands), HTTP (for Web pages), and a nice GTK GUI. It is
    written in Objective-Caml and released in binaries for many Unix
    platforms (Linux/i386, Linux/alpha, Linux/ppc, FreeBSD, Digital Unix,
    Mac OS X). Support for accessing several networks, such as Direct
    Connect, Open Napster, Gnutella, and Soulseek is under development. 

Openwall Linux kernel patch 2.2.21-ow2 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96659/

    The Openwall Linux kernel patch is a collection of security
    "hardening" features for the Linux kernel. In addition to the
    new features, some versions of the patch contain various security
    fixes. The "hardening" features of the patch, while not a
    complete method of protection, provide an extra layer of security
    against the easier ways to exploit certain classes of vulnerabilities
    and/or reduce the impact of those vulnerabilities. The patch can also
    add a little bit more privacy to the system by restricting access to
    parts of /proc so that users may not see what others are doing. 

Phaser 2.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96680/

    Phaser was written to make CD burning under Linux a lot easier when
    done from the console. The program asks a series of questions, and uses
    the answers to set up devices, create images, and burn them to CD.
    Phaser uses the cdrecord package to do the real work. 

PhpLabware 0.10 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96645/

    PhpLabware is a database system with features similar to Filemaker and
    Access, but is completely Web-based. Relational databases can be
    defined through the Web interface and extended with PHP plugin code.
    User and group access is regulated at the record level. It uses ADOdb
    as an abstraction layer and works with both MySQL and PostgreSQL. 

Prelude Library 0.8.3 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96662/

    The Prelude Library is a collection of generic functions providing
    communication between the Prelude Hybrid IDS suite's components. It
    provides a convenient interface for sending alerts to Prelude Manager
    with transparent SSL, failover and replication support, asynchronous
    events and timer interfaces, an abstracted configuration API (hooking
    at the commandline, the configuration line, or wide configuration,
    available from the Manager), and a generic plugin API. It allows you to
    easily turn your favorite security program into a Prelude sensor. 

Prelude Manager 0.8.5 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96663/

    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. 

Ptarmigan Media Parser for XML 0.1 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96647/

    Ptarmigan Media Parser for XML is a SAX event generator that produces
    schema- conforming XML content from the metadata found in media files
    and streams. It supports ID3v1, ID3v2, Vorbis/Ogg, FLAC, WMA, and
    playlists (M3U, PLS, ASX, and B4S). 

RadioK 0.4 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96654/

    Radiok is a KDE interface for bttv cards. 

rda 0.2b 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96666/

    RDA is a computer forensics tool to remotely acquire data. Usually disk
    cloning or disk/partition imaging means one has to move the disk onto
    another system, and things are more complicated if its a laptop disk.
    The alternative provided by rda is to boot the data source machine with
    a minimal Linux system from a floppy or CD, and simply run rda. Some of
    the options provided are data transfer verification with MD5 and/or
    CRC32 checksums, skipping read errors, and spanning over multiple
    files. 

spasm anti-spam milter 0.26 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96646/

    The spasm anti-spam milter is a spam filter for sendmail 8.12+ (with
    libmilter support). Current features include logging of rejected spam,
    fully virtualised settings for domains, individual whitelists, and over
    two dozen blacklist filters which can be set individually on a
    per-domain or per-email address basis (including local blacklist, rDNS
    resolution, HELO/EHLO verification, envelope sender address
    verification, numerous DNS-based lists, whitelist-only mode,
    tagging-only mode, and auto-blacklisting features). 

Turtle Firewall 1.14 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96676/

    A firewall configuration project based on Linux 2.4.x and iptables. It
    has a web interface with an intuitive Webmin module. 

Virtual Mail ManaGer Interface 0.03 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96674/

    Virtual Mail ManaGer Interface (vmmi) is a Web-based PHP interface to
    VMailMgr. It allows you to manage multiple independent mailboxes on a
    domain, each with their own passwords, quota rules, and expiry dates. 

WIMS 3.20 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96653/

    WIMS (WWW Interactive Mathematics Server) is a CGI Web application
    designed to host interactive mathematical educational activities such
    as exercises, computational math, and graphing tools. It features
    automatic score processing with strong anti-cheating mechanisms,
    virtual classes allowing teachers to guide/control student works,
    online exercise creation, animated graphics, a message board allowing
    inline mathematical formulas, and more. It can also be easily used for
    education within other disciplines. 

xmlclitools 1.31 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96664/

    xmlclitools provides four command-line tools for searching, modifying,
    and formating XML data. The tools are designed to work in conjunction
    with standard *nix utilities such as grep, sort, and shell scripts. 




Slashcode
Daylight Savings Time
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/09/10/1915232

    I run a (relatively) large internal Slash site at my company. The user
    base is pretty far flung, with people accessing and posting from the
    western, central and eastern US timezones, as well as overseas
    (BST/GMT). I did manage to get everyone to set up their timezones
    appropriately once user accounts are created. The problem is long term
    maintenance of these zones, as daylight savings time comes and goes.
    How do other sites with geographically diverse readerships deal with
    the DST problem? Is there a script I can run, or am I missing something
    here? 

Machinists
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/09/09/0529215

    slash site for and about machinists. Still new and a little rough
    though. http://www.netwhit.net 

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. 




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