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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
Handling Email Overload in Congress
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/16/2240222
[0]DedHerring writes "A piece from Roll Call, a newspaper on the hill,
that describes [1]how Congressional offices are working to identify
which of the many bulk emails received are actually from constituents
of their district. Worth a read to know if the click-through online
petition you participate in is ever going to be considered by the
recipient legislator. Confirms many posts in Slashdot on this topic."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.rollcall.com/pages/news/00/2002/09/news0916g.html
Product Placement in Online Gaming
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/16/2346209
ceejayoz writes "MSNBC/Reuters has an article about [0]product
placement in 'The Sims Online'. EA has made a multimillion dollar deal
with Intel and McDonalds to include 'IntelÂs familiar jingle, its
product logo, and computers using its Pentium 4 processor' and 'a
McDonaldÂs kiosk and ... the companyÂs branded food' in the game."
Links
0. http://www.msnbc.com/news/808819.asp
Chip Makers Selling Fewer High-End CPUs
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/16/2212221
[0]Lt Wuff writes "[1]CNN has a [2]story about how the
newest/fasted/latest and greatest processors aren't selling like
[3]Intel and [4]AMD hoped. Maybe people are wising up to the fact that
you don't need the fastest processors on the market in order to open
AOL..."
Links
0. http://wuff.com
1. http://www.cnn.com/
2. http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/09/16/cheap.chips.ap/index.html
3. http://www.intel.com/
4. http://www.amd.com/
Court Addresses Legality of Shrinkwrap Licenses
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/16/2110217
[0]NullProg writes "This article here comments on a [1]legal case where
a shrink-wrap license may be binding. This a scary precedent for any
developer who has added a feature to their software already present in
a competitors version."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/09/16/020916opgripe.xml
Open Source Art?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/16/2036239
[0]gz writes "The Whitney has put online [1]an exhibit where viewers
are [2]encouraged to examine the source code of the program that
generates the art, despite the fact that the majority of viewers have
no idea what the code means. Projects use Java, C, Perl, Lingo, and
VB."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://artport.whitney.org/commissions/codedoc/index.shtml
2. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/16/arts/design/16ARTS.html
Speed Of Light Broken With Off Shelf Components
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/16/1520249
[0]jukal writes "An interesting [1]article at [2]NewScientist.com: "
Now physicists at Middle Tennessee State University have broken that
speed limit over distances of nearly 120 metres, using off-the-shelf
equipment costing just $500.", " it may be possible to use this
reflection technique to boost electrical signal speeds in computers and
telecommunications grids by more than 50 per cent. Electrons usually
travel at about two-thirds of light speed in wires, slowed down as they
bump into atoms. Hache says it may be possible to send usable
electrical signals to near light speed. ""
Links
0. http://www.openchallenge.org/
1. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992796
2. http://www.newscientist.com/
Perens Pushes "Sincere Choice" for Software
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/16/1814256
[0]jalefkowit writes "Looks like [1]Bruce Perens has found something to
keep him occupied, now that he's parted ways with [2]HP: [3]the
Register is covering his launch of a new political platform,
[4]"Sincere Choice", which he wrote to clarify the distinctions between
the values of the open-source community and the Microsoft-funded
[5]Institute for Software Choice. Sincere Choice addresses several
issues in critical to open software, including interoperability,
competition by merit, open standards, and copyright."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://perens.com/
2. http://www.hp.com/
3. http://www.theregus.com/content/4/26320.html
4. http://sincerechoice.com/
5. http://www.softwarechoice.org/
Ununoctium Wrapup
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/16/1811232
rkowen writes "Finding superheavy element 118 would have been a giant
step in the quest for the conjectured island of nuclear stability. But
now the claimed discovery is thought to have been [0]part of a pattern
of deception by one physicist that goes back to 1994." We've done
several previous stories: the [1]discovery, [2]hints of trouble,
[3]possible fraud. Between this and the [4]Schon case one might think
the physics community was full of frauds.
Links
0. http://www.aip.org/pt/vol-55/iss-9/p15.html
1. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/06/09/1432209&tid=134
2. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/07/28/1631209&tid=134
3. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/15/1833214&tid=134
4. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/16/120248&tid=98
Microsoft Planning Digital Restrictions Server
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/16/1641237
[0]Jon James writes "Microsoft is pushing further into digital rights
management with a [1]plan for a DRM server due to go into beta testing
later this year, eWeek is reporting. Microsoft has already applied for
a patent for a DRM operating system but would not say if the DRM server
would be based on this. In an interview last week with eWeek, Jim
Allchin, Microsoft's group vice president for platforms, said a DRM
server is but one of three server infrastructure applications coming
next year."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,536995,00.asp
More on GM's New Fuel Cell Cars
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/16/167246
[0]Whispers_in_the_dark writes "Scientific American has an article
about GM's [1]approach to fuel cell based vehicles of the future. It
appears that GM wants to build a common fuel cell based drive-by-wire
chassis that it will mount the body panels, control systems, and
passenger compartments. This would provide a great deal of flexibility
and upgradability to the cars of the future. GM has even [2]more
details."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] minus poet
1.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00034FE5-BA99-1D80-90FB809EC5880000&catID=4
2.
http://gm.com/company/gmability/environment/products/adv_tech/autonomy1_010702.html
Freshmeat
abcm2ps 3.1.7 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97286/
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.
aInvisiclue 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97203/
aInvisiclue is a small program to decode the Infocom Invisiclues. It
won't translate the whole files as you should only translate one hint
at a time, but it is very easy to cut and paste. The encoding is very
simple: A => B, B => C, ..., Z => A.
atool 0.21.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97294/
atool is a script for managing file archives of various types (tar,
tar+gzip, zip, etc). The main command is probably 'aunpack' which
extracts files from an archive. It overcomes the dreaded "multiple
files in archive root" problem by first extracting to a unique
subdirectory, and then moving back the files if possible. aunpack also
prevents local files from being overwritten by mistake. Other commands
provided are apack (for creating archives), als (for listing files in
archives), and acat (for extracting files to stdout).
Automated Password Generator 2.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97266/
Automated Password Generator is a set of tools for random password
generation including a standalone password generator, an RFC972
password generation server, and a Perl client for the password
generation server. These feature a built-in X9.17 random number
generator, and 35 modes of password generation, including pronounceable
password generation.
Avalon 1.1 (LogKit)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97240/
Avalon is Apache's Java Server Framework project. It is separated into
six subprojects: Framework, Excalibur, LogKit, Cornerstone, Phoenix,
and Apps. Its purpose is to simplify server side programming for
Java-based projects. It formalizes several best practices and patterns
for server side programming. Framework describes the interfaces and
contracts for the component-based architecture. Excalibur provides a
number of useful components and utilities. LogKit is a logging
implementation. Cornerstone is a group of reusable server components
and services. Phoenix is an enterprise container implementation that
uses all of the other subprojects to automatically deploy and manage
one or more componentized servers. Apps is a home for several
Phoenix-compatible server applications and reusable components (like
FtpServer).
Balsa 2.0.2 (GNOME 2 Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97241/
Balsa is a Gnome e-mail client supporting POP3, IMAP, and local mail
delivery. It can be compiled with multi-threading support for faster
response, and can do nifty things like read your GnomeCard address
book, use LDAP, and render HTML mail.
Balsa 1.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97226/
Balsa is a Gnome e-mail client supporting POP3, IMAP, and local mail
delivery. It can be compiled with multi-threading support for faster
response, and can do nifty things like read your GnomeCard address
book, use LDAP, and render HTML mail.
Bitflux Editor 0.20020916
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97275/
Bitflux Editor is a browser-based WYSIWYG XML editor which is written
in JavaScript and uses XML, XSLT, and CSS for rendering. It is usable
with any XML document and features tables, lists, images, special
chars, clipboard, undo/redo, and easy customization.
BitlBee 0.71
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97243/
BitlBee emulates an IRC server. Everything that is said on this server
is forwarded to users on the MSN/ICQ/Jabber networks, and responses are
returned as well.
Browseable Online Backup System 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97284/
Browseable Online Backup System (BOBS) is a complete online backup
system. It uses large disks for storing backups and lets users browse
the files using a Web browser. It handles some special files like
AppleDouble and icon files.
camserv 0.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97246/
Camserv is an extremely modular program for streaming video from your
Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and BSDi machine to Web clients. Filters can be
added for text on the displayed window and for anything else one wants
to add. It's also very portable because of the modularity of the camera
plugin modules, and includes a relay agent which allows the stream to
be run more easily on low-bandwidth connections, masqueraded machines,
and less-powerful machines. The relay agent can be connected to another
relay agent for endless mirroring and paths.
ChkTeX 1.05
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97230/
ChkTeX finds syntax and typographical errors in LaTeX text.
Code striker 1.5.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97293/
Codestriker is a Perl CGI script that is used for performing code
reviews in a collaborative fashion, as opposed to using patches sent in
unstructured emails. Authors create code review topics, and the
nominated reviewers are automatically notified by email. Reviewers can
view the proposed diff in plain text mode, coloured-diff mode, and can
also view the original and new files that comprise the review in their
entirety when Codestriker is linked with CVS. Comments are made on a
per-line basis, and comments submitted by the other reviewers can be
viewed as they are created. Emails are sent to the appropriate parties
when comments are created. The author is free to submit comments
against the review comments. The end result is a structured set of
review comments instead of a pile of unstructured emails. Codestriker
also features the ability to search over existing topics in a variety
of ways.
cWriter 1.8.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97264/
cWriter is a Web-based collaborative writer. Its goal is to facilitate
working on a document online and collaborating with peers. It includes
tools like a calendar, a file repository, user permissions fixed per
document, a bookmark database, and more. cWriter can also be used as an
intranet freeform tool.
DB Prism 2.0.0-beta (2.x.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97251/
DB Prism is an open source framework to generate dynamic XML from a
database. Unlike other technologies, such as Apache XSP or Oracle XSQL
servlet, DB Prism generates the dynamic XML inside the database,
transforming it into an active database. An active database means that
you use the database engine not only to execute SQL statements, but to
directly return a complex XML representation of the data stored inside
as well.
dbf 0.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97228/
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.
EasyTAG 0.24 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97276/
EasyTAG is an utility for viewing and editing tags for MP3, MP2, FLAC
and Ogg files. It features a simple and attractive GTK+ interface.
EchoPoint 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97277/
The EchoPoint project provides a rich collection of Web components
which seamlessly integrate with the Echo Web Framework.
ELOG Electronic Web Logbook 2.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97273/
ELOG Electronic Web Logbook is an electronic logbook with a Web
interface. It can be used to maintain personal or shared logbooks, with
the ability to add attachments to logbook pages. Logbook entries can be
categorized with user-defined classes, and queried using filters on
these classes. Automatic email notifications can be generated on new
entries based on the classes. The ELOG server is a small stand-alone C
program, which runs under Linux and Windows. The logbooks are saved in
plain ASCII files for easy and fast access.
eqlplus 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97270/
Eqlplus is a Linux modem combining strategy based on IP masquerading
and eql. Modern browsers typically open many simultaneous HTTP
TCP-based connections to fetch text and images from remote servers. TCP
multiplexing distributes these simultaneous connections across several
active links, thereby increasing the apparent bandwidth to the Web
user. Eqlplus is currently under development and has been recently
updated for Kernel 2.4.19.
FVWM 2.4.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97239/
FVWM is a multiple large virtual desktop window manager originally
derived from twm. FVWM is intended to have a small memory footprint and
a rich feature set, be extremely customizable and extendable and have a
high degree of Motif mwm compatibility. FVWM is highly extensible
through its module interface.
getID3() 1.4.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97260/
getID3() is a PHP4 script that extracts useful information from MP3s
and other multimedia file formats. It reads and parses (to varying
degrees) ID3 tags, MPEG-audio information (bitrate, sampling frequency,
etc., along with support for CBR and both VBR methods), Lyrics3 v1
& v2, Ogg Vorbis comment tags, Ogg Vorbis bitrate, playtime,
frequency, etc., Windows Media (ASF, WMA, WMV) format info &
comments, WAV audio information (bitrate, sampling frequency, etc.) and
AVI audio/video information (codecs, bitrates, frame sizes, etc.) from
RIFFs, MPEG-1 video frame size, bitrate, aspect ratio, etc., MIDI, ZIP,
JPG, PNG, and GIF. It writes ID3v1, ID3v1.1, ID3v2.3, and ID3v2.4 tags.
gGo 0.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97222/
gGo is a Go board and SGF editor and client for the Internet Go Server.
Go is an ancient board game, very common in Japan, China, and Korea.
gGo was formerly named qGo for Java.
Grutatxt 0.7.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97223/
Grutatxt is a plain text to HTML converter. It successfully converts
subtle text markup to lists, bold, italics, tables, and headings to
their corresponding HTML tags without having to write unreadable source
text files.
Gwenview 0.15.0pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97235/
Gwenview is a simple image viewer for KDE. Image loading is done by the
Qt library (so it supports all image formats your Qt installation
supports). It features a folder tree window and a file list and
thumbnail window to provide easy navigation in your file hierarchy and
uses docked windows, allowing you to alter the layout in any way you
want.
Ideogramic UML 2.3.3 (Free Version)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97297/
Ideogramic UML is a software development tool targeted towards software
engineers that develop object-oriented software (e.g., with Java and
C++). It supports the use of modeling with a diagramming tool that is
fast and powerful, and that supports creativity and flexibility.
Moreover, it uniquely adapts to your work enviroment with various
versions that support both traditional work at the desktop,
collaborative work around electronic whiteboards, and mobile work on
Tablet PCs.
iNet Factory 3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97244/
iNet Factory is a robust suite of TCP/IP networking components for the
Java platform. They provide all the tools necessary to quickly develop
network-capable Java applications with minimum coding effort. Included
are components for finger, FTP, HTTP, SMTP, POP3, MIME, NNTP, nslookup,
rexec, rlogin, rsh, telnet, whois, and other frequently-used protocols.
IRC Services 5.0pre12 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97271/
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.
J-Alice 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97263/
J-Alice is an advanced AI chatbot with a powerful matching engine. It
also features an IRC mode, HTTP server mode, and a few other ways of
interacting with people.
Java Serialization for XML 1.0.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97292/
Java Serialization for XML (JSX) enables all objects to be written and
read as XML, using Java's standard Serialization API. Objects from your
present application version can be migrated to the next version,
despite class evolution, by processing the XML with XSLT, SAX, DOM, or
JDOM. Unlike java.beans.XMLEncoder/Decoder, JAXB, and Castor, JSX works
for all objects.
jGnash 0.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97247/
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.
John the Ripper 1.6.32 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97231/
John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for
many flavors of Unix (11 are officially supported, not counting
different architectures), DOS, Win32, and BeOS. Its primary purpose is
to detect weak Unix passwords, but a number of other hash types are
supported as well.
JXFire 0.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97229/
JXFire is a Multi-User Dungeon game written in Java. It is intended to
be protocol-compatible with Crossfire, another popular MUD game.
KMyIRC 0.2.6 (Alpha)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97278/
KMyIRC is an attempt to provide an IRC client for KDE which is
high-quality and easy to use, but not bloated. It was created because
it was felt that the other KDE-based IRC clients were either not
user-friendly or burdened with features that are not useful to the
average IRC user.
libevent 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97225/
The libevent API provides a mechanism to execute a callback function
when a specific event occurs on a file descriptor or after a timeout
has been reached. It is meant to replace the asynchronous event loop
found in event-driven network servers.
Linux Virtual Server 1.1.0 (IPVS for kernel 2.5)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97204/
The Linux Virtual Server Project is an Open Source project to cluster
many real servers together into a highly available, high-performance
virtual server. The LVS handles connections from clients and passes
them on the the real servers (so-called Layer 4 switching) and can
virtualize almost any TCP or UDP service, like HTTP, HTTPS, NNTP, FTP,
DNS, ssh, POP3, IMAP4, SMTP, etc. It is fully transparent to the client
accessing the virtual service.
LiquidClassifiedsXML 0.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97258/
LiquidClassifiedsXML is a PHP-Nuke and PostNuke compatible client for a
classified ad Web service. All ads are pooled in a centralized database
so that many small Web sites can combine their marketing power to have,
in effect, the classified ad system of a large Web site.
Logtalk 2.14.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97285/
Logtalk is an open source object-oriented extension to the Prolog
programming language. Integrating logic programming with
object-oriented and event-driven programming, it is compatible in most
Prolog compilers.
LUFS Userland Filesystem 0.6.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97289/
LUFS is a hybrid userspace filesystem framework supporting an
indefinite number of filesystems (localfs, sshfs, ftpfs, httpfs,
socketfs, freenetfs, and nutellafs) transparently for any application.
It can be regarded as doing the same job as the VFS (virtual filesystem
switch) in the kernel: it is a switch, distributing the filesystem
calls to its supported filesystems. However, LUFS filesystems are
implemented in userspace. This would be a drawback for local
filesystems where the access speed is important, but proves to be a
huge advantage for networked filesystems where the userland flexibility
is most important.
McPics 0.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97287/
McPics is a small, simple image gallery. It produces very clean, very
organized, and fully valid XHTML 1.0 and CSS2. It uses a bash script
and ImageMagick to create thumbnails.
MZiq 0.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97261/
MZiq is a Perl frontend for mpg123. Its main feature is the deployment
of Perl's regular expressions for ease of playlist creation. It also
supports other miscellaneous helping options like nice, caching, and
the ability to read its options and patterns from a file.
Nagios 1.0b6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97265/
Nagios is a daemon written in C that is designed to monitor networked
hosts and services. It has the ability to notify contacts (via email,
pager or other methods) when problems arise and are resolved. Host and
service checks are performed by external "plugins", making it
easy to write custom checks in your language of choice. Several CGIs
are included in order to allow you to view the current and historical
status via a Web browser, and a WAP interface is also provided to allow
you to acknowlege problems and disable notifications from an
internet-ready cellphone.
nefu 0.8.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97249/
nefu (network fidelity utility) is a Unix daemon that monitors services
over the network. It uses a "no false alarms" fault
verification algorithm, and understands network dependancies.
Natively-monitored protocols include ICMP echo (ping), DNS, HTTP, POP,
NTP, IMAP, SMTP, and LDAP, as well as having facilities to execute
external programs. Status pages are available via finger or the Web.
Null Webmail 0.6.4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97268/
Null Webmail is a simple yet powerful POP3/SMTP Webmail CGI written in
C. It's small, fast, complete, and a breeze to install and use.
ogmtools 0.922
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97291/
The ogmtools allow users to display information about (ogminfo),
extract streams from (ogmdemux), and merge several streams into
(ogmmerge) Ogg files. Supported stream types include video streams from
AVIs or Ogg files and Vorbis audio from Ogg files. The resulting files
can be played back with mplayer or with the OggDS Direct Show filters
under Windows.
OpenOffice.org Quickstarter 1.0 RC2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97280/
OpenOffice.org Quickstarter is a small application that runs in the KDE
SystemTray. It is used to quickly start the different OpenOffice.org
modules without having to go through the K-Menu. Instead of just
starting of applications, you can also select multiple files in the
usual opendialog provided by KDE to open them in OpenOffice.org, use a
history of recently opened files, configure the app to do one of the
above described functions on a simple double click, and use the app to
keep a hidden instance of OpenOffice.org in memory to achieve much
shorter startup times of the OpenOffice.org modules.
PFAedit 0.0.2002.09.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97236/
PFAedit is a PostScript font editor that lets you create your own
PostScript, TrueType, OpenType, cid-keyed and Bitmap (bdf) fonts, or
edit existing ones. It also lets you convert one format to another.
poEdit 1.1.10 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97250/
poEdit is cross-platform gettext catalogs (.po files) editor. It is
built with the wxWindows toolkit. It aims to provide a convenient way
of editing gettext catalogs with features such as fuzzy and
untranslated records highlighting, whitespaces highlighting, references
browser, and header editing, and can also be used to create new
catalogs or update existing catalogs from source code by a single
click.
Python/XML 0.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97281/
The Python XML package contains parsers, SAX and DOM interfaces, sample
programs, and documentation. It is currently in beta.
QtMyAdmin 0.4.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97288/
QtMyAdmin is a tool intended to handle the administration of MySQL. It
allows users to create/drop databases, create/alter/drop tables, manage
users and privileges, dump databases, and edit data.
RPG1 0.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97254/
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.
schedutils 0.0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97238/
The Linux scheduler utilities take advantage of the scheduler family of
syscalls that Linux implements across various kernels. These system
calls implement interfaces for scheduler-related parameters such as CPU
affinity and real-time attributes. The standard UNIX utilities do not
provide support for these interfaces, thus this package. The programs
that are included in this package are chrt, irqset, lsrt, and taskset.
Together with nice and renice (not included), they allow full control
of process scheduling parameters.
Simple HTTP Server 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97227/
Simple is a Java framework for the development of Web services. It
provides an implementation of a HTTP/1.1 server for serving resources
such as files and directories and also provides utilities for competent
loading similar to Java Servlets. The component loading facility
provides a similar service model and life cycle to that of Java
Servlets. Designed for performance, Simple is capable of handling high
loads, virtual hosting, and multiple ports.
sinstall 0.2pre4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97248/
sinstall is an easy to use Perl script to install source packages. It
can be used to extract, build, install, and uninstall source packages,
and to save time when compiling multiple packages. It can even build
all of Linux from scratch, download and install CVS sources, and apply
patches.
Smartcard 0.1.8 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97232/
Smartcard is a utility for controlling smart cards. It can read and
write memory cards using the standard input and output channels. This
should make it useful for all kinds of automated tasks.
Source-Navigator 5.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97237/
Source-Navigator is a source code analysis tool. With it, you can edit
your source code, display relationships between classes and functions
and members, and display call trees. You can also build your projects,
either with your own makefile, or by using Source-Navigator's build
system to automatically generate a makefile. It works with the Insight
GUI interface for GDB, and supports C, C++, Java, Tcl, [incr Tcl],
FORTRAN, and COBOL, and provides an SDK so that you can write your own
parsers.
Stitch 0.8.6 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97262/
Stitch is a utility for making backups from many computers to a large
storage array. It is written completely in Python and requires SSH and
rsync be installed on the clients.
Straw 0.9.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97255/
Straw is desktop RSS aggregator for the GNOME 2.0 environment, written
in Python.
The Figaro 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97296/
The "Framework for Implicit Graph Algorithms and Representations
by OBDDs" (Figaro) automatically manages experiments with input
generator and algorithm plugins. It contains network generators and
maxflow algorithms, both explicit and implicit.
tiff2png 0.91
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97252/
This is a simple command-line utilitiy to convert images from TIFF to
PNG format. It is primarily useful in dealing with TIFF images that
contain alpha channels (transparency information), since the NetPBM
suite is (currently) ill-suited for such conversions. A few test images
are included.
VTK CISG Registration Toolkit 2.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97224/
The VTK CISG Registration Toolkit provides two voxel-based image
registration algorithms on the basis of Normalised Mutual Information
(NMI) which are incorporated in a user-friendly command-line and
graphical interface including a visualisation tool for 3D image pairs
in order to analyze registration results. It is implemented using the
VTK (Visualization Toolkit, a powerful visulization pipeline for
interactive image display. Beside the pure usage of the registration
algorithms, the software can be easily adjusted to specific enviroments
(e.g., including other image file formats) and can be modified for
specific applications.
Web Calendar 2.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97267/
Web Calendar is a powerful group calendaring and scheduling system. It
is a Web based application that makes it easy to publish and manage
calendar events on the internet. It includes an impressive set of
features, including an easy to use interface, rich functionality, and
sophisticated scheduling. It is a CGI application. It runs under your
Web server, so to use it, all you need is a browser. There is no
proprietary software that needs to be installed on the client side. Web
Calendar runs under Unix and Windows.
Web shell 1.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97269/
Wsh is a remote UNIX shell that works via HTTP. The client script
provides a shell-like prompt, encapsulating user commands into HTTP
POST requests and sending them to the server script. The server script
extracts and executes commands and returns STDOUT and STDERR output.
Features include command line history support, file upload/download,
and it can work through an HTTP proxy server.
wmDrawer 0.9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97256/
wmDrawer is a dockapp which provides a drawer (button bar) from which
applications can be launched.
wmweather+ 1.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97245/
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.
wxWindows/GTK 2.3.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97233/
wxWindows/GTK is the GTK+ port of the C++ cross-platform wxWindows GUI
library, offering classes for all common GUI controls as well as a
comprehensive set of helper classes for most common application tasks,
ranging from networking to HTML display and image manipulation. There
are also Python and Perl bindings available for the GTK and the MSW
port, and documentation available for practically all classes.
zmeter 0.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97259/
Zmeter is an RS232 serial interface program for the RadioShack 22812
(46 range) Digital Multi Meter (DMM). It requires read access to an
available serial port (specified on the command line e.g. /dev/ttyS0)
and a RadioShack DMM model number 22812. It features continuous
(default) or up to 32K samples (specified on the command line), both at
better than 3 samples per second, sample timestamping, and a man page.
zpop3d 0.8.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/97283/
zpop3d is an RFC 1939-compliant POP3 server. It features virtual
domains support, POP before SMTP, and secure mailbox updates. It runs
through tcpserver, xinetd, or the like.
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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