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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
AMD Delays Hammer
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/13/0044234
[0]TeJarz writes "C|Net [1]reports that their next processor (Hammer)
has been rescheduled from its original Q4 release to Q1 2003. To quote
C|Net: 'The delays are occurring to accommodate the release of a new
version of Athlon with a 333MHz bus, said Crank. Current Athlons come
with a 200MHz bus and 256KB of secondary cache.' Let's hope this
doesn't get moved again."
Links
0. http://tejarz(at)bothanspy(dot)com
1. http://news.com.com/2100-1001-957757.html?tag=fd_top
The First Smiley :-)
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/12/2133216
An anonymous reader points to this excellent bit of online archaeology
-- Mike Jones' effort to [0]find the first online smiley. A bit from
the site: "After a significant effort to locate it, on September 10,
2002 the original post made by Scott Fahlman on CMU CS general bboard
was retrieved by Jeff Baird from an October 1982 backup tape of the
spice vax (cmu-750x)." Interesting methodology and a lot of work went
into the search -- shades of the [1]Dead Media Project.
Links
0. http://research.microsoft.com/~mbj/Smiley/Smiley.html
1. http://www.deadmedia.org/
User-Mode Linux Merged Into 2.5 Kernel
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/12/236213
An anonymous reader writes "With little fanfare, [0]User Mode-Linux
(UML) [1]has been merged into Linus' BitKeeper tree. The merge followed
a patch by UML author Jeff Dike, resynching UML with the 2.5.34
development kernel. From the UML homepage, User-Mode Linux provides you
with a virtual machine that offers 'a safe, secure way of running Linux
versions and Linux processes. Run buggy software, experiment with new
Linux kernels or distributions, and poke around in the internals of
Linux, all without risking your main Linux setup.'" There's more UML
resources available at the [2]community site.
Links
0. http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/
1. http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=409
2. http://usermodelinux.org/
Slashback: Segwait, Farscape, Leg-pulling
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/12/1737226
Slashback tonight with news of the Farscape backlash, an explanation
for the slight shipping delay on your hypothetical new Human
Transporter, an amusing chapter in the long and boring Nigerian spam
book (check out the passport), and some tips on getting Linux on an
Xbox. Enjoy! Update: 09/13 00:34 GMT by [0]T: And a late add as well
below with some important information for anyone intrigued by
yesterday's mention of discarded AT&T microwave towers for sale.
Links
0. http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
Electronic Voting's Fundamental Flaws
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/12/1740209
[0]phil reed writes "Given the latest fiasco in Florida's continuing
attempts to implement a decent voting system, I thought it would be
appropriate to alert Slashdot readers to the [1]work of Dr. Rebecca
Mercuri. She's been studying voting systems for many years, and has
developed [2]well-considered positions on what makes a good electronic
voting system (and what makes a bad one). Her comments on the Florida
2002 election can be found in the current [3]Risks Digest. And, if you
think that creating a computer-based voting system is easy, she
provides a [4]suggested list of questions that should be answered by
any developer." Mercuri's statement in Risks is well worth reading.
With all due respect, she is wrong in some respects: it is possible to
create a fully-verified electronic system. Start with completely open
code and thoroughly examined hardware, create an audited system for
installing the code on the hardware, and make it tamper-evident so that
you know the same code is still there when the machine reaches the
voting booths. Bootable, hologrammed, serial-numbered CD-ROMs with
individual private keys would do the trick. Mercuri is thinking in
terms of vendors selling proprietary "solutions", where she's
absolutely right: there's no way to verify that what people punch in is
what is actually recorded.
Links
0. http://www.slashdot.org
1. http://www.notablesoftware.com/evote.html
2. http://www.notablesoftware.com/RMstatement.html
3. ftp://ftp.sri.com/risks/risks-22.24
4. http://www.notablesoftware.com/checklists.html
Helping Computers Help Themselves
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/12/2138248
[0]Jim Posner writes "The IT world's heavy hittersÂIBM, Sun,
Microsoft, and HPÂ[1]want computers to solve their own problems.....If
you're being chased by a big snarling dog, you don't have to worry
about adjusting your heart rate or releasing a precise amount of
adrenaline. Your body automatically does it all, thanks to the
autonomic nervous system, the master-control for involuntary functions
from breathing and blood flow to salivation and digestion." I'd just be
happy with a few intelligent daemons to watch my back, like when a
program runs amuck and fills up the process list.
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/sep02/auto.html
Star Trek: Pick A Plot
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/12/174244
Vinnie_333 writes "This [0]article on the [1]New York Times sounds out
on the often repetitive plots of the 10 Star Trek films to date (this
include ST: Nemesis, coming soon). It refers to the film franchise as
'10 films with 5 plots' and lays them all out in front of you. This
does have a ring of truth. As a fan of Sci Fi (but not particularly
Star Truck), I have to admit that there are only so many unique plots
out there, and most of them have been well used by HG Well's time. Star
Trek is, after all, a genre franchise and the story lines are held back
by certain restrictions of the genre." I personally would pay
Berman/Braga et al $20 if they never have a holodeck or
time-travel-based plot ever again.
Links
0. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/08/movies/moviesspecial/08KLAW.html
1. http://www.newyorktimes.com/
Robocode Rumble: Tips From the Champs
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/12/169249
[0]Jason writes "The [1]Robocode Rumble is over and the winners have
been declared. Who are they and what are the secrets of their success?
Dana Barrow [2]talks shop with some of the mad scientists behind the
winning Javabots and with Mat Nelson, who reveals what he has planned
for Robocode 2.0. You can get the free download [3]here."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://apps.alphaworks.ibm.com/rumble/?open&t=gr,p=TheRumble
2.
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-robowrap.html?t=gr,lnxw01=RobocodeWinners
3. http://www.ibm.com/alphaworks/r/in/robocode&z=SD-gr01
"Squishy" DRM?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/12/160255
lhouk281 writes "There's an article on Wired about [0]squishy DRM.
Apparently some companies are trying to find a happy medium in
implementing DRM between the consumer and the RIAA. Good luck..."
Links
0. http://www.wired.com/news/mp3/0,1285,55006,00.html
Peer-to-Peer Cell Phones
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/12/170216
[0]AlfaNatic writes "Seems like a new company has developed the
technology to turn a cellular network [1]into a peer-to-peer network.
Soon you'll be able to share music and files off of your cell. Gotta
love it!"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2253185.stm
Freshmeat
Allin1 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96843/
Allin1 is a little dock applet for FluxBox and similar window managers
which monitors CPU load with a moving graph, memory and swap usage with
histograms, battery and power status with histogram and icons, and
ethernet/PPP interfaces with icons and histograms (linear or
logaritmic).
cipherfunk Patched Linux Kernels 2.4.19-fnk6 (2.4)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96870/
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.
CodeGuide 5.0 build 502
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96890/
CodeGuide is an IDE that detects errors in your code as you type,
offers powerful code completion features, maintains a structured view
of your program, has an integrated visual debugger, supports the latest
Java technologies, and works together with virtually all JDKs.
cvsfs 1.1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96872/
cvsfs is an attempt to let a user mount a CVS project like any file
system. It allows you to navigate and browse through a project tree. No
preparations are required on the CVS server side.
CxxTest 2.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96877/
CxxTest is a JUnit/CppUnit/xUnit-like framework for C++ that doesn't
require RTTI, member template functions, exception handling, or any
external libraries (including memory management, file/console I/O, or
graphics libraries). It is distributed entirely as a set of header
files which makes it extremely portable and usable.
dbf 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96871/
dbf is an easy-to-use command line tool to show and convert the content
of dBASE 3 files. It reads dBASE databases and prints the content to
the screen or converts it to comma-separated files which can be opened
in Excel, StarOffice, and most other spread sheets. It can also be used
to show some statistics about the content.
Digital Audio Database 0.1.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96803/
DAD (Digital Audio Database), part of the DAVE/DINA project, is a
Web-based audio-manager. Only MP3 is currently supported, but other
formats will follow. You can import audio with the Perl-scripts
provided in the package. These scripts can run on the command-line or
via a browser. It also features user management, playlist management,
and many other features to create random playlists based on certain
paramaters. DAD sends its playlists to your favorite player to listen
to the music.
distcc 0.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96889/
distcc is a program that distributes compilation of C code across
several machines on a network. It does not require machines to share a
filesystem, have synchronized clocks, or to have the same libraries or
header files installed.
filtergen 0.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96886/
filtergen takes a high-level langauge and compiles it into packet
filtering rules for a variety of packet filters. Iptables, ipchains,
and ipfilter backends are available.
Freeciv 1.13.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96879/
Freeciv is a multiuser reimplementation for Unix/X of the famous
Microprose game of Civilization. By default, the game is an improved
Civ II, but this can be customized; modpacks for near-100%
compatibility with Civ I and Civ II are included. Multiuser gameplay is
real-time: in each turn, all human players move concurrently. The game
is designed to remain fairly playable even on poor network connections.
Freeciv can also be played on standalone machines, and its AI players
are a good challenge for beginners. The source code comes with the
server, two X clients, and non-X clients for MS Windows and Amiga.
Freeciv is released under the GNU General Public License. It is
maintained by an international team of coders and enthusiasts, and is
easily one of the most fun and addictive network games out there.
Gnono 0.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96880/
Gnono is a card game for GNOME 1.x. This is a re-write for GNOME of the
Windows card game WUNO, which was never released. It is loosely based
on the card game UNO, and plays mostly by the same rules. It currently
supports one human and one AI player.
Java Conduit Manager 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96876/
The Java Conduit Manager is a Java application for installing and
uninstalling Java conduits to the Palm Hotsync manager. Featured
conduits are the XML Java conduits for the basic Palm pilot
applications (addressbook, todolist, memopad, and datebook). These
conduits perform a full mirror synchronisation between the handheld and
the desktop, saving the information in XML files.
jGnash 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96882/
jGnash is a personal finance application written in Java. A JVM of 1.4
or greater is required. jGnash supports basic account types and simple
investment accounts at this time. jGnash has support for split
transactions, nested accounts, and currencies. jGnash can import QIF
files excluding investment accounts and transactions. Data is stored in
an XML format so it is easy to manipulate and read the data external to
the program.
Kover 2.8.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96892/
Kover is a WYSIWYG CD cover printer. You have the ability to enter
title, contents, set colors for background, text, embed images, and
more. You can even stream title and tracks from CDDB into this little
app. CDDB access via proxy is supported.
Links 2.1pre3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96887/
Links is graphics and text mode WWW browser, similar to Lynx. It
displays tables, frames, downloads on background, uses HTTP/1.1
keepalive connections, and features Javascript. In graphics mode it
displays PNG, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, and XBM pictures, runs external bindings
on other types, and features anti-aliased font, smooth image zooming,
48-bit dithering, and gamma and aspect ratio correction.
MiniXML 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96883/
MiniXML provides a simple API for generating and parsing XML. Its
advantages are ease-of-use and the fact that no additional libraries
are required. The set of PHP classes allows developers to access XML
data and create valid XML output with a tree-based hierarchy of
elements.
Mozilla 1.2alpha (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96869/
Mozilla is a Web browser that is being developed by the Free Software
Community with the cooperation and support of Netscape. The current
Mozilla is a completely new software based on the "NGLayout"
layout engine and runs on almost all current operating systems.
Mozilla's user interface is written on top of NGLayout using XUL and
JavaScript. The Mozilla project only develops and tests the source code
for other projects / companies to use. Netscape 6 (the Web browser from
Netscape) and Beonex Communicator (an open-source project to make a
Mozilla for end-users) are directly based on Mozilla. Many other
projects use/embed Mozilla's rendering engine (e.g., Galeon).
MP3 Album Organicer 0.3.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96873/
MP3 Album Organicer lets you add your large collection of MP3s to a
database, not by the name of the album in the ID3 tag, but by the name
of the album folder. It also adds the tracks in the album to the
database, by the filename and by the artist/track from the ID3 tag. You
can search for albums, artists, tracks, etc. It zips the albums on
demand to allow people to download them easily. There are all kinds of
statistics and some more functions.
Muttprint 0.63a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96888/
Muttprint formats the printing of Mutt and other mail clients like
XFMail or PINE to be like the printing of Netscape Messenger. It can
print a little penguin on the first page and a headline on every page.
nWorks 0.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96878/
nWorks is a Web-based network management system (NMS). It allows you to
view device status, creates graphs, and produces various kinds of
reports from data gathered through SNMP polling. It is written in PHP4,
uses MySQL as a backend database, and uses rrdtool to generate graphs.
PHP Mortgage Calculator 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96891/
PHP Mortgage Calculator is an online application that can be used to
figure out the complete breakdown of a home mortgage loan, including
priciple, interest, and amortization of the loan. The calculator
factors in PMI (Private Mortgage Insurance) for loans where less than
20% is put as a down payment. Also taken into consideration are the
town property taxes, and their effect on the total monthly mortgage
payment.
PostgreSQL Session Handler for PHP 1.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96866/
PostgreSQL Session Handler for PHP is a custom session save handler for
PHP4 that uses PostgreSQL as the session cache. This allows multiple
Web servers to share a common session storage container, and is useful
for allowing Web users to move between machines while maintaining their
session state.
Scheme Scribe 1.0d
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96881/
SCRIBE is a text processor. Even if it is a general purpose tool, it
best suits the writing of technical documents such as web pages or
technical reports, API documentations, etc. At first glance, it looks
like a mark-up language a la HTML, so there is no need for computer
programming skills to use it. A second look reveals that it is actually
a true programming language, based on Scheme, provided with high-level
features (such as objects, higher order functions, regular and
syntactic parsing, etc.).
unalign traps for AXP 1.0.0-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96847/
A utility used on the DEC Alpha to find unaligned memory traps.
Web Performance Trainer 2.5b3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96868/
Web Performance Trainer is a load, stress, and performance testing tool
for Web servers. It simulates thousands of individual users hitting a
server at connection speeds between 14.4Kb/s and LAN speeds. It
supports URL rewriting, dynamic form data, multiple servers, and
unusual port numbers. Statistics are collected at multiple levels, from
the transaction down to the individual HTTP request. Users can view,
edit, or dynamically replace hidden data such as the HTTP request and
reply headers. It runs on Linux, Solaris, Windows NT, Windows 2000, and
Windows XP.
WebgiFT 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96893/
WebgiFT is a Web based frontend to giFT, a filesharing program. WebgiFT
tries to offer the same functionality found in other giFT clients, with
minimum reloading of pages.
Webmin 1.000
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96852/
Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix.
Using any browser that supports tables and forms, you can setup user
accounts, internet services, DNS, file sharing and so on.
xbreaky 0.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/96885/
xbreaky is a breakout game for X.
Slashcode
Chemical-Engineering.com
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/09/12/0555233
A site dedicated to creating, maintaining resources for chemical
engineers or individuals working with chemical informatics. Future
development of information of chemical engineering issues: Refurbished
Chemical hardware: Company directories and contacts: Open Source
CAD/CAE chemical engineering software AMAZING! Site has sources for
industrial contacts as well as academic research, programming in the
emerging field. Please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] for further participation.
--M. Felzien
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.
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